A La Carte (07/10)

  • Tim Challies
  • 07/10/06
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Monday July 10, 2006

People: Justin Taylor mentions a chat with J.I. Packer and explains why Packer was never destined to be an athlete.

Interview: Everyone else is linking it, so I guess I will too. Christianity Today has an interview with Mark Driscoll. Here’s a choice quote: “The two hot theologies today are Reformed and emerging. Reformed theology offers certainty, with a masculine God who names our sin, crushes Jesus on the Cross for it, and sends us to hell if we fail to repent. Emerging theology offers obscurity, with a neutered God who would not say an unkind word to us, did not crush Jesus for our sins, and would not send anyone to hell.”

Blogging: Author Alex Chediak, who seems to take blogging very formally (which is probably a good thing), has posted an overview of the topics he’ll be covering in the days ahead.

Yuck: Have you seen the talking Jesus who welcomes you to Cross Rev Connect? He even follows your cursor around the screen. Maybe I should integrate this into my site. “Hi, this is Jesus. Welcome to Challies Dot Com…” Maybe not.

Comments (3)

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a comment from Julian • 07/10 @ 11:14am
› visit my web site.

Rats. I was really hoping I could make Jesus go cross-eyed, but it turns out he just looks straight at you when the cursor is on his nose.

At least they got the important details right, though… he speaks (computerized) English, he’s got nice, fair, wavy brown hair, white skin and blue eyes. What else could we have possibly hoped for?

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a comment from Rev. Paul T. McCain • 07/10 @ 12:32pm
› visit my web site.

And people wonder why non-Christians look at us Christians and think we are weird and creepy. Do we have to give them such a good reason like this to do so?

Re. Driscoll’s comments on Calvinism being the brand of Christianity with a masculine God who crushes Jesus for our sin. Well, last time I checked Lutheranism was a fairly manly approach to the faith too. The whole Law/Gospel and saint/sinner thing is not for wimps, even if some of my Lutheran brethren leaning left try hard to make it so.

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a comment from Logan Mauldin • 07/11 @ 10:43am
› visit my web site.

Hey, I wouldn’t make fun of that site! Keep scrolling down and you will see that it was created by God with the help of the Holy Spirit. Tim, with web design competition from God himself, I’m afraid your job is in jeopardy.