Archive for August 2014
Is it Time for Christians to Step Back from Professional Sports?
Don Johnson My enjoyment of professional sports goes back a long way – close to fifty years. My American friends might find it amusing that my interest was first piqued by a really forgettable era in my local Canadian Football League team, but I can remember daily scanning our local paper for every bit of…
Read MorePassion Conference: It’s Danger and Lack of Passion for Truth
Matt Recker The Passion Conference was founded by Louie Giglio and Jeff Lewis in 1997 and is known for their annual gatherings of college students and young adults. Since its inception about 48 events in sixteen countries have taken place. The first Passion Conference had about 2000 attendees and the growth has been dramatic as…
Read MoreSacrifice or Privilege?
Mark Batory When missionaries are mentioned, the image often evoked is that of men and women who have made the ultimate sacrifice of family and friends and end up having to endure the toils of a difficult, lonely, deprived life in some remote corner of the world. Regrettably, many of today’s Christians view missionary service…
Read MoreEclectica: Acts 29 || Driscoll news
This edition of The Eclectic Web is a quick collection of links related to breaking news regarding the action of the Acts 29 network expulsion of Mark Driscoll from its membership. While Acts 29 and Driscoll are not connected with us in any way, many who read our material also read and/or are influenced by…
Read MoreA Biblical Foundation for Music
Doug Bachorik Throughout the history of God’s people there have come times when a person, a church, or a group of churches must throw off some practice established by previous generations. Many reasons justify such a step, the primary one being a lack of Scriptural authority for said practice. The church is always bettered—indeed, revived—when…
Read MoreNew Calvinism: Best Sellers, Scholars and Compromise
Part 1 ♦ Part 2 ♦ Part 3 ♦ This is Part 4 ♦ Part 5 ♦ Part 6 ♦ Part 7 Matt Recker World Magazine reported recently that “Seattle’s Mars Hill Church paid a California-based marketing company at least $210,000 in 2011 and 2012 to ensure that Real Marriage, a book written by Mark Driscoll, the church’s founding pastor,…
Read MoreWas the Serpent a Real Serpent?
Brian Collins Orthodoxy is challenged on many points. One point of interest is the question of the reality of the serpent in the Garden of Eden, indeed the reality of the whole account. On the point of the serpent, Brian Collins offers us the following contrasting views, and offers a sober and Biblical conclusion:
Read MoreWhere Does Error Come From?
Clay Nuttall For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. (II Timothy 4:3,4) One does not have to struggle to discover…
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