Odds and Ends

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.

CRPC Statement on Knox, Gage

Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church has published its statement concerning the recent suspension of Dr. Warren Gage, Associate Professor at Knox Theological Seminary.

Read it here.

Tim Keller, An Incomprehensible God, Hard Knox and The End of Time

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.

Theological Jackassery

R.C. Sproul taught me to think.

Warren Gage taught me to see Christ in the whole Bible.

Gage, Knox and Grace

A few years ago a friend gave me a short stacks of CDs and said, “You may find this interesting.” I took them appreciatively and placed them on my desk at home where they sat for a few weeks. Finding the time to listen to one CD can be a real struggle - finding the time to listen to eight seemed an impossibility. One night my wife and I managed to settle the house a bit early so I asked if she would mind if we listened to one of the messages. Four hours later, having listening to four of the discs and tired because of the late hour, we were asking ourselves and each other, Why haven’t we ever seen this before? Why hasn’t anyone ever taught us this? The CDs were a presentation given at Knox Theological Seminary several years ago on the relationship between the books of John and Revelation of the New Testament. It was, as I recall, Drs. Warren Gage and Fowler White doing the bulk of the presenting.

Controversy

Warren Gage, Knox Seminary, R.C. Sproul, N.T. Wright, John Piper, Brian McLaren, Doug Pagitt, John MacArthur, Emerging Church, New Perspectives on Paul, Federal Vision.

I post this as an experiment to see how my stats counter registers it. My hypothesis is that it will go nutty. Controversy sells.

I read this today: “The blogosphere is the friend of information but the enemy of thought,” (Alan Jacobs in Books & Culture.) (cited here).

I’ll report the results in a couple of days (although my guess is that the findings will generate far fewer visits). C’est la vie.

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