Is It OK to Be Angry at God? Denny Burk Says 'Never'
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“The Psalms, he said, model how human beings ought to interact with God and how to access hope in times of suffering.” CPost
Texas adopts 'compromise' language on evolution
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“The Texas State Board of Education has approved streamlined science standards for grades K-12 in a move that placated both conservative and progressive constituencies concerned with the teaching of evolution in Texas public schools.” BPNews
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The Gospels Are Not Enough
I have heard it from theologically liberal theologians. I have heard it from supposedly conservative pastors (usually those with no theological training). I have heard it from lost people and immature believers: “We don’t follow Paul or Moses, we follow Jesus. All we need is the Gospels.”
Such a viewpoint stands in contrast to that of the Apostle Paul, who taught,
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work. (ESV, 2 Tim. 3:16-17, emphasis added)
According to Paul, all Scripture is inspired, and all Scripture is profitable. We are to teach it all, use it all for correcting and training. We need all Scripture to be “complete” and “equipped.”
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Memories of 1950s/1960s American Evangelical Culture
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Beware of Mistress Sentimentality and Her Little Brother Hype
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“The difference between godly emotion and sentiment is tricky, that is why I needed to write this post. Sentimentality takes the will captive to do her bidding. Whereas, healthy emotion and feeling are servants to the intellect and will.”
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Five Ways to Beat Bitterness: #4 - Act
Read the series so far.
Elijah sits under the juniper and bemoans the failure, unfairness, and pointlessness of his years of work (1 Kings 19:10). Jonah sits under his gourd and broods over his unwanted success (and God’s unwelcome mercy!) in Nineveh (Jonah 4:1-11). Job sits among his “friends” and agonizes physically, emotionally, and spiritually (Job 2:8, 13).
Then there’s Peter. What was he doing between his denial of Jesus, with its resulting bitter regret (Matt. 26:75), and his decision to “go fishing”?
It probably involved a lot of sitting.
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Kentucky Gov. Signs Bill Allowing Elective Bible Courses in Public Schools
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“Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin recently signed a bill into law that authorizes public school boards to allow schools to offer elective Bible literacy courses and provides state guidance to help establish such classes”
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Earth Day 2017 and the Anti-Scientific ‘March for Science’
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“[S]ound science is based on evidence and not climate scaremongering. … doesn’t work by consensus… tests theories and predictions against observations of the real world…doesn’t intimidate dissenters, manipulate data, attack critics, or play lackey to politics.”
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Back to the garden: How the Gospel redeems our work
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“From the very beginning, God set humans to work. That original design was soon to be tainted by the destruction of sin, but that by no means marked the story’s end.”
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