"The Lord Loves Football, Too"
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The NY Times looks at the Glory for Christ Football League, comprised of several home educated students in Georgia.
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"God and Science Don't Mix"
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Scientist Laurence Krauss in the Wall Street Journal
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"He was everything our culture worships; and yet he was obviously desperately unhappy, tortured, afraid and alone."
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Andrew Sullivan on the death of Michael Jackson
HT: Justin Taylor
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GARBC Conference '09 - Day 4
This is becoming a tougher task each evening! So much to share; so little time for sharing!
Tonight’s liveblog will be legendarily short.
Go read the tweets on Dr. Bauder’s address on the New Jerusalem. I have rarely found myself enthralled
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Why staying married is a good idea
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Scot McKnight: “I’d urge more pastors not only to preach on the permanence of marriage and need to stay married, but to think through the comprehensive significance and pragmatic value of staying married.”
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"...(W)omen who have high views of modesty should also have equally high views of lines of authority and high views of the golden rule."
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A very helpful perspective from Nancy Wilson
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Confessions of a Recovering Legalist
Editor’s Note: This article is reprinted by permission from Getting Somewhere.
Hi, I’m Brent. And I am a recovering legalist. I’m looking for a support group for people like me.
I grew up in a Christian home, had parents who loved me and loved God. I went to church every Sunday, learned all the stories, gave my offerings—even went off to a Christian college. And I loved God—and I still do. But I had a problem— legalism. I didn’t know it was a problem, at least not for a long time.
I was addicted to “the list.” The list was made up of all the things that you were supposed to do and not supposed to do if you wanted to keep God happy with you. Most of the things on the list were good things—some of them even came right out of the Bible. But some of them didn’t. They were passed along to me from several sources, but mostly from the traditions of the church. Since I am not much of a rebel by nature, I had no problem with keeping the list. The problem was what the list did to my Christianity. It became way too much about performance, and not enough about reality. And “spirituality” became more of an issue of conformity than obedience.
And the list led to “the line.” The line was somewhere on the list. When a person kept enough of the list to make it to the line, he could feel good about himself, and about his supposed relationship with God. By measuring up to the line, a person could feel like he was good with God. And he could also feel like he was better than others. Think of it as spiritual arrogance.
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GARBC Conference '09 - Day 3
And many church members think this is a vacation?!
Tonight, I’m on overload, and I need sleep more than you need to hear what I have to say.
So here is a brief synopsis of Wednesday at GARBC 2009:
1) Dr. John Hartog III’s workshop on leadership was excellent. He rocketed through
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