A La Carte (12/1)

  • Tim Challies
  • 12/01/09
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An Interview with Michael Horton
Over at the Ligonier blog Burk Parsons is interviewing Michael Horton (who declares that he does not read any blogs—maybe that is the secret to his productivity). Part two of the interview reveals that Horton was only a teenager when he wrote the first version of Putting Amazing Back Into Grace, a long-time favorite book of mine.
The Esse of Reformed
Michael Haykin looks at what it means to be Reformed and whether Baptists can properly qualify.
The Costs of Medical Care
Thomas Sowell: “We are incessantly being told that the cost of medical care is “too high”— either absolutely or as a growing percentage of our incomes. But nothing that is being proposed by the government is likely to lower those costs, and much that is being proposed is almost certain to increase the costs.”
Tim Keller Wants to Save Your Yuppie Soul
The New Yorker has a feature on Tim Keller. “The evangelical Christian preacher says the secular holy trinity of money, ambition, and achievement is the root of all evil. So why are so many New Yorkers flocking to him?”
Pray for Matt Chandler
Keep Matt Chandler in your prayers: “I have a small mass In my frontal lobe,” Matt Chandler, lead pastor of The Village Church in Highland Village, Texas, wrote on his Twitter feed. “[I have a date] with the neurosurgeon early next week.”

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a comment from sdechert • 12/01 @ 12:14pm

Why are Baptists so intent on being labeled “Reformed” these days? I grew up Baptist, and for 20 years never actually heard the word reformed used in conjunction with religion. In fact, they’ve distanced themselves from “Reformed” most of their history. Why the fanatical interest now?

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a comment from Cate • 12/01 @ 1:48pm

Thanks for posting the article about Redeemer. I had the privilege of visiting two church plants connected to it in Germany in the summer of 2008: Berlinprojekt and Hamburgprojekt. Berlinprojekt was a vibrant and fast-growing congregation reaching a lot of young/artistic types in (you guessed it!) Berlin, and Hamburgprojekt was just about to have their first public meeting (in a bar where I believe the pastor’s wife worked!). They are led by Germans on fire for God and the Gospel—a MUCH needed ministry over there!http://www.hamburgprojekt.de/http://www.berlinprojekt.com/

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a comment from Alex Philip • 12/01 @ 4:59pm

Thanks for linking to the article on Tim Keller. One very minor correction. The magazine that is featuring the article is called New York not the New Yorker. The New Yorker is also a popular magazine.

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a comment from Eloquorius • 12/02 @ 3:10am
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@sdechert: My view — admittedly from the outside — is that old line, KJV-toting, Baptist-with-a-capital-B was not going to survive another generation. The non-growth and attendance statistics from the SBC were writing on the wall. Also, the next generation of baptist preachers feel comparatively unbound to the past trappings of baptist tradition, and in fact are likely eschewing it. Like much of Protestantism at large, I hear from some of them (e.g., Steve McCoy types) that while they maintain the baptist-specific doctrines that distinguish them from the others, they, too, are re-discovering their past… which is, needless to say, Calvinistic and Reformed (except for that whole paedo-baptism thing).