"From Disapproval to Delight"
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Marvin Olasky on the changing Evangelical attitude toward Hollywood:
"I don't find much that I recognize as Christian in the religious right."
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NPR interviews Randall Balmer, author of Thy Kingdom Come: How the Religious Right Distorts the Faith and Threatens America.
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Announcing the Latest Blogroll Additions
Allow me to introduce the latest additions to the SharperIron Blogroll. We trust you will find their contributions of interest and edification.
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Making Disciples (Part 2 of 2)
Note: This two-part article is a chapter from the book Teach As He Taught by Robert Delnay. Published by Moody Press in 1987, the chapter is reprinted by permission.
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"An unwillingness to confront churches in our association ... is far more threatening to the ... GARBC than continuing to associate with Cedarville."
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“An unwillingness to confront churches in our association who are actively participating in … a theologically pragmatic and anthropocentric Purpose-Driven model of ministry is far more threatening to the … GARBC than continuing to associate with Cedarville.”
Ken fields notes that the GARBC has A Fundamental Problem
Ken fields notes that the GARBC has A Fundamental Problem
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Chuck Smith, Jr. Distances himself from Dad's views, Calvary Chapel
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Chuck Smith Jr. in his own words in the comments of TallSkinnyKiwi:
“Calvary Chapel, as I perceive it is:
Fundamentalist—I am not
Dispensationalist—I am not
Anti-intellectualist (like the warning about not anything written by emergent leaders)—I am not
Primitivist—I am not”
“Calvary Chapel, as I perceive it is:
Fundamentalist—I am not
Dispensationalist—I am not
Anti-intellectualist (like the warning about not anything written by emergent leaders)—I am not
Primitivist—I am not”
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Social Conservatives are right, again?
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That is what Dennis Byrne is saying.
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FBF 86th Annual Fellowship Reflections (Part 5 of 5)
Paul Chappell picked a theme for this “special twentieth anniversary conference” – “panta iskhuo en to endunamounti me Christo,” very fitting for a church family characterized by a position of using only the King James Version of the Bible, especially when the eclectic text (NU) replaces “Christ” with “Him” in Philippians 4:13.
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Making Disciples (Part 1 of 2)
Note: This two-part article is a chapter from the book Teach As He Taught by Robert Delnay. Published by Moody Press in 1987, the chapter is reprinted by permission.
So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.
—Luke 14:33
The goal of our teaching is to make disciples. To make disciples we must make demands. A veteran missionary was explaining his success in planting several churches: “We have not been afraid to make demands on our converts.” Nor was Jesus.
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Calvary Chapel Discontinues Purpose Driven, Reject Emerging
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“Both Purpose Driven and the emerging church promote contemplative spirituality, which is a belief system that is contrary to biblical Christianity. Popular authors such as Richard Foster, Brian McLaren, Rick Warren, Henri Nouwen, Brennan Manning and many others teach contemplative spirituality (also known as spiritual formation).”
Story Here.
Story Here.
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