The Daily Docket 4/24/14

The Me Time Myth— This article is very beneficial.  I’m beginning to see some who are divorcing Chrsitian responsibility and ministry from their family. “Me Time isn’t the glorious missing piece in our lives. Life actually isn’t all about us, as some would have us believe. Our time belongs to God, to our children and …

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The Daily Docket 4/23/14

Bart Ehrman’s Latest Book— This is a good article on the premise behind Ehrman’s latest book, and all of his books. Ehrman begins with the premise that the New Testament isn’t reliable. “Ehrman’s explanation for how Jesus’ divinity evolved is pretty implausible without his fundamental premise that the New Testament was not written by eyewitnesses” …

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Bible Study Tools: A Study Bible

Through his careful research and later book, The Shape of Faith To Come, Brad Waggoner and his research team identified daily Bible study as the number one indicator of Christian maturity.  If you want to grow in Christ, it seems, the best way to do that is to spend time with him in his Word.  Paul admonished …

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The Daily Docket

My Kid is Not Calling—  “So, let’s stop throwing around “calling” when we really mean “life stage” or “career.” It’s not that calling cannot align with these things, but if we carelessly slap “calling” on any and every circumstance, we risk overlooking the unique purposes written into our beings.” God, the Gospel, and the Gay …

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Monday Musings

You are not what you want.  You are who you are.  And that’s defined by the Word of God. It might be that God frees your appetite from whatever it’s drawn toward, but usually he instead enables you to fight it.  This might go on for forty days, for forty years, for an entire lifetime.  That’s all right.  There must be room then in our churches for a genuine bearing of one another’s burdens when it comes to the appetites.  Pretending the appetites are instantly nullified by conversion is a rejection of what God has told us–that we are still in the war zone.

–Russell Moore, Tempted and Tried

The Final Days of Jesus

If you have a new revelation from the scriptures, you are probably wrong.  I’m not sure who said that to me first, but it is true.  If you believe you have a new revelation, you are wrong in at least one of two ways.  Either your revelation is not new at all or it is …

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Is Jesus Calling, or is Your Refrigerator Running?

As a kid I remember hearing the rumors of others doing prank calls (emphasis here on others, the fifth amendment is my right).  Caller ID has made prank calling more difficult, but one of the all time favorites for prank calling was the classic, “Is your refrigerator running?” bit.  In the days before caller ID, …

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Your Pastor Knows You Best

I don’t know Andy Schmidt, but I think I like him already.  here’s a quote from his recent article, Platt Wasn’t Enough For My Church: Are Piper, Chan, and Platt better preachers than me? Yes! By far! Can they preach the gospel better than me? Probably. However, those faithful men know and care for their …

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Why This Issue Is Different

Homosexuality isn’t the only sin in the world. But I know of no Christian leader or Christian community promoting theft or championing idolatry as a special blessing from God. It is not an overstatement to say solemnizing same-sex intercourse is in danger of leading people to hell. The same is not true when it comes to sorting out the millennium.  In tolerating the doctrine which affirms homosexual behavior, we are tolerating a doctrine which leads people farther from God, not closer. This is not the mission Jesus gave us when he told us to teach the nations all that he has commanded.

–Kevin DeYoung in Why Is This Issue Different?

A Biblical Worldview or a Worldly View of the Bible

I like this definition of biblical worldview: A Christian worldview or a biblical worldview refers to the framework of ideas and beliefs, derived from the Bible, through which a Christian individual, group or culture interprets the world and interacts with it.  A biblical worldview necessarily involves application of the whole Bible and not merely the parts that …

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