Against the overwhelming weight and seriousness of the Bible, much of the church is choosing, at this very moment, to become more light and shallow and entertainment-oriented, and therefore successful in its irrelevance to massive suffering and evil. The popular God of fun-church is simply too small and too affable to hold a hurricane in [...]
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The Popular God of Fun-Church
Posted in Christ and Culture, John Piper, contextualization, irrelevance, suffering on August 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Culture Wars
Posted in Christ and Culture, Timothy Keller on July 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The culture wars are taking a toll. Emotions and rhetoric are intense, even hysterical. Those who believe in God and Christianity are out to “impose their beliefs on the rest of us” and “turn back the clock” to a less enlightened time. Those who don’t believe are “enemies of truth” and “purveyors of relativism and [...]
Ethical Ghosts and Skeletons
Posted in Carl Henry, Christ and Culture, Suffiency of Scripture, Word of God on February 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Biblical truth, trans-cultural as it is, has an indispensable message for contemporary culture. It addresses modern learning, ethics, economic and political concerns, and all the idolatries of our polytheistic society. It proclaims the gospel to a generation that is intellectually uncapped, morally un-zippered, and volitionally uncurbed. Those who consider the latest fads permanently will of [...]
