Jesus Christ: The Best of Both Worlds

Two weeks ago, Don Carson was at my church as our guest speaker for our Fall Family Conference. I was overheard, at one point, referring to his messages as the theological equivalent of a foot-rub.” Indeed it was. Dr. Carson gave us a three-part lecture called “Making Sense of Suffering” which was as enjoyable as [...]

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Deconstructing worldview for epistemologigal cheaters…like me.

Here’s the funny thing about worldview: Everybody has one, but it’s not the one they say they have.
Mark Driscoll reminded me of this in “Radical Reformission”, saying that people usually act in contradiction to the worldview they profess.
This fact is at the heart of how we as Christians use worldview as a tool for evangelism. [...]

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Where is this whole thing going, anyway?

I remember a few years ago when Don Carson come to my church for a conference. I had recently read his book “The Gagging of God”, David Wells’ books “No Place for Truth” and “God in the Wasteland.”, and Ian Murray’s “Evangelicalism Divided”. My head was buzzing with my new-found understanding of worldview history and [...]

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Hear ye! Hear ye!

In case you want to hear how badly I botched Don Carson’s story, quoted below in “He who makes the game makes the rules.”, follow the link below:
Don Carson – Omaha Bible Church, 2002
It is the third of the three messages, dated 10/4/2002.

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He who makes the game makes the rules.

I had the opportunity over the last two weeks to fill in as teacher for our adult’s Sunday school evangelism class. We were discussing the major elements of the gospel, and to my pleasure I saw that the curriculum called for a discussion of the role of creation in the gospel. Creation is a critical [...]

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Pray it like you mean it.

Just a few thoughts on prayer. Prayer is an intensely personal practice. At least it should be. In a lot of ways, no-one can really tell you how you ought to pray. D.A. Carson, author of “A Call to Spiritual Reformation” and all-around uber-genius, says quite a bit on what the content of our prayer [...]

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