Monthly Archives: May 2012
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Book of the Month: Radical Together
David Platt is best known for his book Radical. If you’ve read it, you know it’s incredibly hard-hitting, convicting, challenging, and inspiring....
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Apologetics Requires Compassion
While I advocate defending the faith, which will sometimes mean arguing for God and his truth, we have to be very careful about the way we interact...
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Why We Can’t Argue People to Christ
In my previous post, I said that since God’s truth is true, we can and should defend it against those who would call it a lie. We should argue...
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Why We Should Argue for Christ
The truth of Christianity is worth defending. Francis Schaeffer, Nancy Pearcey, and others have sounded a warning call, alerting us to the reality...
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The End of Christians & Violence
This is the 7th (actually, the 8th) post on Christians and violence, and for better or worse, it’ll be the last. We’ve covered lots of different...
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The Church Is a Mystery: Refreshing Worship
The mission of the church was given by Jesus in Matthew 28: go and make disciples of all nations. So it is always refreshing to be in a church...
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Christians & Violence, Part 6
We’ve been considering the relationship between Christians and violence, and in this post, I’m going to do what many people never think of...
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Christians & Violence, Part 5.5
I’m not sure how many have followed the interaction between Adam F(inlay) and I from the first blog, but I thought it would be good to follow...
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Christians & Violence, Part 5
Okay ya’ll, this is the post many of you who have been following the discussion have been waiting for. In the previous 4 posts, I’ve argued...
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The Church Is a Mystery: Come As You Are
The beauty and the glory of the gospel is that the offer of salvation is extended to everyone. Race or culture, language or skin color, wealthy...