Our church, a Southern Baptist one, is considering the move to weekly Communion. We used to do it weekly, but moved away from the practice for a variety of reasons. Now, we are thinking it through again, and it looks like that will be the direction we take.
I say all this to introduce a question: Does the eating and drinking of the Lord’s Supper have a cumulative effect? (more…)
AJ Vanderhorst shares a family tradition that is at once hilarious and warming. You’d do yourself a nice thing by reading this post. Do you have family traditions like this? Familiar but distinct. Common but heavenly. Humbling but encouraging. Grounding but freeing.
Read Joel Garver on emerging church. Really. Read it. For a fuller understanding of what he’s talking about, click on the links embedded in his post.
A little catching up:
The blog has not been very busy because the rest of life has been. Inspiration has run a bit lean lately as well, so rather than saying nothing, I decided to say…well, nothing. (more…)
Darryl at DashHouse.com summarizes one of Tim Keller’s talks at the 2007 EMA conference. This point stood out:
It is necessary to draw boundaries. What really matters is how we treat the people on the other side of those boundaries. People are watching. We’re going to win the younger leaders if we are the most gracious, kind, and the least self-righteous in controversy. The truth will ultimately lose if we hold the right doctrines, but do so with nasty attitudes and a lack of love.
Read Darryl’s entire summary here. It is a worthy investment of time to read it. (more…)
R.C. Sproul taught me to think.
Warren Gage taught me to see Christ in the whole Bible. (more…)
It occurs to me that things don’t naturally integrate, they disintegrate. As surely as deterioration is the goal of physical matter, fracture and disunity is the inclination of human relationships (extending from our relationship with God to that with others and ultimately with ourselves). To borrow from Murphy, given the opportunity we’ll always fall apart, disintegrate. (more…)
RTS New Testament Prof Reggie Kidd has made a statement calling for a truce in the PCA’s civil war over New Perspective and Federal Vision theologies, saying that outside enemies need to be fought, not inside allies. Some just say no, claiming divided forces necessarily can’t be united. I’m with the Kidd.
David Bryant has written an excellent piece on The Good Life over at After Darkness Light. Read and be glad.
Also, this blog will be unattended for the next seven days. If you comment, please take care to preserve my “G” rating.
We’re celebrating Communion this coming Sunday. This quote struck me as pertinent.
“The only true church is not the hotel Church, where guests rather avoid than meet each other, but the family church, life under one roof in communion, a church that can stand tensions and quarrels.”
- Hendrik Kraemer, Dutch missiologist, 1888 - 1965
[Totally ripped off from: Tall Skinny Kiwi]
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