Moody Bible Picks Multisite Pastor as Its New President
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“Mark Jobe of Chicago’s New Life Community Church will take over a year after Bible college’s leadership shake-up.” - CToday
Knowing God's Will: An Alternative View
Reposted, with permission, from DBTS Blog.
I’ve been reading, recently and with great interest, a blog series defending what is sometimes called the “traditional view” of Christian decision-making—the view that (1) God has an “individual will” for believers and (2) that it can be “discovered.” My intent in this post is not to offer a point-by-point analysis of that series, but rather to offer a succinct statement of an alternative view, together with some hesitations I have with the “traditional” view.
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Force fathers to stay at home? A warning from Europe
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“Joanne Lipman opened the debate with her op-ed titled, ‘Want Equality? Make New Dads Stay Home.’ She highlighted the case of Humanyze, which obliges all fathers to take 12 weeks paternity leave.” - Acton
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“[T]hese scientists were described as having ‘taken control of evolution and used it for the greatest benefit to humankind’”
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“Rather than showing the ‘power of evolution,’ these Nobel winners show that intelligent design and directed effort was needed to accomplish anything beneficial to humanity.” - Ken Ham
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The Sabbath
Many people have deep convictions about the Sabbath Day. The Sabbath Day is the seventh day of the week. In Spanish, Saturday is rightly called “Sabado.”
Some think the Sabbath Day was changed to Sunday—quite a leap, in my view. Others think that the church should meet, and people should not work on Sabbath Day, so they form “Seventh Day” religions. Some Messianic Jews even believe that Christ actually arose on Saturday!
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Albert Mohler Talks the Most Pressing Issue Facing the Church; Marks 25 Years as SBTS President
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“Among the many challenges the church will face in the present and coming generations, few will equal the challenge of maintaining a steadfast commitment to biblical Christianity in the midst of an increasingly hostile environment.” - CPost
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Theology Thursday - The Idol of "Relevance"
In this excerpt from his little book Prophetic Untimeliness: A Challenge to the Idol of Relevance,1 Os Guinness puts his finger on a key issue in the conservative Christian sub-culture. His comments are even more interesting when you consider the book was published in 2003:
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Do you believe that God has led you apart from (but not contrary to) the Bible and/ or applications of wisdom?
Our discussions about Wayne Grudem’s views on New Testament (fallible) prophecy have led me to ask this question.
Some fine Christians take a pure wisdom approach to God’s leading and decision making (Decision Making and the Will of God).
Others take a very subjective approach.
I am in the middle, only occasionally “feeling” led.
Often our approaches may be colored by our personality. Perhaps people who are constantly “feeling led” tend to be more emotional than others who sense and occasional leading or have never “felt” led. Perhaps not.
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Avoiding Deep Dissatisfaction in My Job
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“I’ve noticed today there are many approaches being offered by businesses for those seeking to find deeper fulfillment and satisfaction in whatever their ‘work’ might be. With so many options available, why is it that deep satisfaction is still so illusory?” - TIFWE
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Richard Foster: Effort Is Not the Opposite of Grace
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“There’s a back and forth—there is a role that we play in our relational life with God. That role is, as Paul puts it, that we are to offer ourselves as a living sacrifice. Now, how do you do that? I’d say primarily—not exclusively, but primarily—through the classical disciplines of the spiritual life.” - CToday
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