Month: July 2012

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WHEN THE LIGHTS GO OUT – PLAY HARDER.
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“God is most glorified in us, when we are most satisfied in him.”  This most famous quote from John Piper has served the church well over the past thirty years.  It has propelled people into missions, giving them the desire to see the nations declare the glory of God.  It has reoriented people’s theology, causing them to think in a more God-centered way and not a man-centered way.  And it has helped people read their Bibles better, once again leading them to read from a more God-centered perspective and less of a man-centered perspective.  I, however, wonder if many people have not misunderstood this famous quote.  I know that I have.  Not in a conscious way —Where I did not understand its meaning, but in the assumptions that I brought to my thinking about the quote.   Continue reading “RETHINKING JOHN PIPER’S MOST FAMOUS STATEMENT | @DESIRINGGOD”

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WHEN THE LIGHTS GO OUT – PLAY HARDER.
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Relevant Magazine has an excellent article discussing the relationship between faith and reason in apologetics.  The article concludes:

So while apologetics affirms that faith is more than reason, involving trust and relationship, it is not less than reason. Apologetics does not surrender faith on the altar of cultural reasoning or relevance. Rather, it seeks to show that the longings (and rebellion) of humanity as expressed in culture point to our great need for the salvation that only comes by grace through faith in Christ alone. Faith is what grounds apologetics. It trusts that the Bible tells us the truth about God, our condition apart from Him and the way to experience redemption.

Continue reading “FAITH, REASON, AND APOLOGETICS: ARE THEY COMPATIBLE? | @RELEVANT”

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WHEN THE LIGHTS GO OUT – PLAY HARDER.
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We saw in the first part of this series that in this passage the Apostle Paul is seeking to teach believers what it means to walk in the Spirit.  He accomplishes this task by first showing them what a life lived in the flesh looks like.  In verse 16 Paul tells his readers that if they live by the Spirit, then they will not gratify the desires of the flesh.  Why? He answers that in the next verse when he writes, “For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh.  For these are opposed to each other, in order to keep you from doing what you want to do (v. 17 ESV).”  Paul makes it very clear that a life lived by the Spirit and a life lived by the flesh are antithetical to each other. Continue reading “GALATIANS 5:16-26, PART 2”