Lunch break. (uploaded with Streamzoo.com)
How To Read The Bible by NT Wright
Josh Tillman is no longer a part of Fleet Foxes after their Tokyo show, according to this post on his Tumblr. Read more about it here, via Pitchfork.
noooooooo
senior recital? heck yeah
Jefferson's response to Kevin DeYoung
“I just wanted to say I really appreciate your article man. It hit me hard. I’ll even be honest and say I agree 100%. God has been working with me in the last 6 months on loving Jesus AND loving his church. For the first few years of walking with Jesus (started in ’08) I had a warped/poor paradigm…
Humility
Why I Hate Religion but Love Jesus
Well worth your time.
This is kinda unbiblical… Jesus inno.way hates religion. He didn’t come to abolish it, He came to fulfill it. Jesus doesn’t hate religion. He hates the sin that can take place in religion, but the issue is not the Religion itself, its man’s idolatrous heart.
Jesus and the Law are not mutually exclusive! The Law is good!!! The Law shows us we are sinful and that we need a Savior! They work together in the realm of our redemption.
To say Jesus and law are opposite ends.of the spectrum is a misconception and a misinterpretation of the Gospel
This is why I can’t take Bill Johnson seriously. Now he’s just making up his own theology. This is nonsense.
Yikes!
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Umm…what? The verses he references are talking about after regeneration. At that point God has changed our heart desires to align with His, as long as sanctification is present. To say our will not Gods will is to present inherent good in man. But Romans says none are righteous. Gods grace in us is righteous..but our own will is sinful and wicked.
It’s a special day. I was chosen by a wand! #conducting #harrypotter (uploaded with Streamzoo.com)
Tim Keller on Stories
Recommended reading
So it has been 3 years since I started building my theological library and started picking the brains of great minds of the Christian faith. I figured it would be cool to list some of my favorites as some recommended reading… These are the top 20 theological books that I consider must reads:
- Counterfeit Gods - Tim Keller
- Desiring God - John Piper
- The Gospel Driven Life - Mike Horton
- Knowing God - JI Packer
- Big God - Britt Merrick
- The Everlasting Man - GK Chesterton
- The Divine Conspiracy - Dallas Willard
- Jesus+Nothing=Everything - Tullian Tchividjian
- When I Don’t Desire God - John Piper
- Generous Justice - Tim Keller
- Weight of Glory - CS Lewis
- The Good News We Almost Forgot - Kevin DeYoung
- Surprised by Hope - NT Wright
- The Bruised Reed - Richard Sibbes
- The Reason for God - Tim Keller
- Institutes of Christian Religion - John Calvin
- Preaching and Preachers - Martyn Lloyd Jones
- A Grief Observed - CS Lewis
- Putting Amazing Back into Grace - Mike Horton
- The Mortification of Sin - John Owen
These are some of my favorite books of all time.
In my next post I want to list my favorite fiction books.
Happy reading
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Too many evangelicals have only two “speeds” in their understanding of the Bible—things that are essential and things that are unimportant. This only-2-gears condition lets us ignore many things in the Bible that, though not essential for salvation, are important.
Mark Dever
umm….yes??
Lisa Gungor Killin it
this book is absolutely brilliant… it’s a must read
Everyone needs to read this book. Here are some of the highlights I’ve read so far:
“God does everything through people who understand they’re nothing. And God does nothing through those who think they’re everything.” -John Wood
EVERYTHING:
“Deeply and sincerely, we want to live larger than we do, and with an epic, sweeping perspective. We crave a full acceptance and favor, we crave a lasting affection and approval, we crave meaning and purpose, and we crave a freedom from our limitations and restrictions and failures. Whatever security, happiness, relief, affirmation, meaning, and sense of purpose we are privileged enough to experience- it still isn’t enough. Something within us hungers for what we don’t yet have.” -p. 26-27
“The everything we crave is so vast, so comprehensive, so deep, so high, that it extends even this far— to God himself.” p. 28
NOTHING:
“Whatever indications of restlessness you did discover, at whatever level, I believe the reason for its being there is this: we are trying to find our rest in something smaller than Jesus.” p. 36
“We habitually look to something or someone smaller than Jesus for the things we crave and need. And none of it is ever large enough to fill the void.” p. 40
“All idolatry heads us down this path to no-nameness. And Jesus’s story reminds us that far from being some vague, painless, amorphous existence, that ultimate condition of nothingness is acutely painful in every way. Inwardly and outwardly, it brings anguish and torment. That’s the tragic destiny Jesus wants us to connect with idolatry in our understanding of it.” p. 43
JESUS:
“Nothing can give us that superior satisfaction in God better than a clearer focus on Jesus and his greatness. When we are captured and captivated by who Jesus is, we will be empowered and equipped to resist the constant temptations to settle for anything less.” p. 63
“The gospel is the only thing big enough to satisfy our deepest, eternal longings— both now and forever. And were it not for that gospel, the everythingness of Christ would remain only a distant, unreachable nothing to us.” p. 77
“The Gospel represents both the nature of Christian growth and the basis for it. Whatever progress we make in our Christian lives— whatever going onward, whatever pressing forward— the direction will always be deeper into the Gospel, not apart from it, or aside from it. Growth in the Christian life is the process of receiving Christ’s ‘it is finished’ into new and deeper parts of our being every day, and it happens as the Holy Spirit daily carries God’s good work of justification into our regions of unbelief— what one writer calls our ‘unevangelized territories.’” p. 78
-Tullian Tchividjian
