What's Behind the Social Justice Gospel-ers?
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“It’s a lesson that has been reinforced repeatedly by the cyclical rhythm of church history. … When one merges human amelioration of suffering and injustice with divine remediation of sin, inevitably the purpose and impact of the Cross and Resurrection of Jesus Christ takes a backseat.” - Pyro
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If We Lose the Meaning of “Justice,” We Lose the Gospel
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“Receiving the money you have earned is justice. Taking money that someone else has earned is injustice. Giving is something different altogether.” - Stand to Reason
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Response to the Statement on Social Justice and the Gospel
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“What it does is lay out a basic and fundamental set of principles for the discussion.” - Hohn Cho (Pyro)
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3 Bible Passages to Study with Unbelievers
By Jordan Standridge. Reposted from The Cripplegate.
As time passes, I become more and more convinced that faith comes from hearing and hearing from the Word of God.
No amount of evidence can convince someone about the truth of the Gospel. It is the Word of God, itself, that has the power to save and transform souls.
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Why the God of the Qur’an Cannot Forgive Sins
Reposted permission, from The Cripple Gate.
Almost every system or religion proposes some sort of love. From systems in the east to the west, they feature some concept of love. Both the Qur’an and the Bible do so. They both teach that God is loving. But, what do they mean by love? And, what is it about the God of the Qur’an and the God of the Bible that renders them loving? Most assertions of love remain in realm of abstract or human-to-human benevolence. How can we tangibly measure love?
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From the Archives: Reasoning Outside the Box of Human Reason
Unless you reason outside the box of human reason, you can forget about understanding the Jesus of the Bible. Only those willing and able to break the constraints of common experience and human rationalism can hope to make any sense of Jesus’ life and ministry.
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Spiritual Zombies
Last year, another investigator and I headed down to Portland, Oregon, to interview a guy in an annuity fraud case. It was a pretty good case. The guy was an insurance agent. I had a man who’d come to the Office of the Insurance Commissioner claiming the agent had swindled his parents into buying an expensive indexed annuity and lied to them about why it was such an awesome product. The guy said this insurance agent had done this to his parents twice, in the space of two years.
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Carmageddon, Eruvs, and Working for Salvation
First appeared at The Cripplegate in 2011.
Carmageddon came and went, with no serious delays or deaths attributed to the temporary pause on LA’s car-craved culture. But of special note, Carmageddon did not even disrupt LA’s elaborate eruv network.
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Two Lessons from Two Radically Different Funerals
By Jordan Standridge. Reposted from The Cripplegate.
Funerals are a gift from God. I know that sounds crazy, but they are a God-given tool to force us to reflect on the brevity of life, and how finite we are as human beings. I truly do believe that humans should attend as many funerals as possible during their lives. It is that good for your soul.
I had the privilege of attending two recently, and they could not have been more different from each other.
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