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The price of The Next Story ebook has fallen to $8.99. Just as promised, enough people pre-ordered it to get the price to drop. If we get another 200 pre-orders, the price will fall again (and everyone who pre-ordered will be charged this lower price). So please, if you intend to buy it, buy it now and save everyone some money!
Hymns That Keep on Going - An article from CT. “There are many ways to identify the most lasting or best loved hymns among American Protestants. But what would we find by looking at all 28 hymnals published by mainline Protestant denominations from the late 1800s to the present? Out of almost 5,000 hymns, how many would appear in all 28 hymnals?”
Free eBook - Crossway is giving away the ebook version of Steve Monsma’s Healing for a Broken World: Perspectives on Public Policy.
Exclude Visitors - I’ve always been interested in Capitol Hill’s policies regarding membership. Here Michael McKinley calls churches to protect themselves by excluding visitors (from many parts of church life).
Doing Away With Hell - Dr. Mohler has been on TV talking about hell and now he’s blogging about it as well. “The pressing question of our concern is this: Whatever happened to hell? What has happened so that we now find even some who claim to be evangelicals promoting and teaching concepts such as universalism, inclusivism, postmortem evangelism, conditional immortality, and annihilationism-when those known as evangelicals in former times were known for opposing those very proposals?”
Breaking the Bread Code - Information you need. Well, not really, but it’s good to know.
I’m Reading a Book - Bizarre. But strangely amusing. (HT)
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Comments (11)
RE: Exclude visitors
I understand the point the author is making about wanting to foster an atmosphere of mutual trust but I would think a church would come off as very unwelcoming if it did not allow visitors to small groups. Perhaps a solution would be to have both open and closed small group sessions.
For hymns, I highly recommend Red Mountain Music (www.redmountainmusic.com). They take the predominantly unknown hymns from the Gadsby hymnal and write music to them (same idea as Indelible Grace music, but better composed in my opinion). I recently downloaded their Help My Unbelief album and have greatly enjoyed it (and the Reformed influence weaved throughout the old and faithful texts). I love to hear a sermon in a song!
It’s interesting that the mainline denominations are preserving these marvelous hymns in that way, while our “more evanglical” churches do away with hymnals altogether and concentrate on the theologically-shallow “seven-elevens” and “happy-clappys.” I doubt very much that any of these latter ditties will still be around in even a fraction of the time span represented in this survey.
Where’s “Amazing Grace”?
It’s a tough call, I am currently in a small group with 5 guys total, we are trying to go through the book of Romans (after we gave up on Platt’s radical), but we have two members that do not believe Moses wrote the first five books of the Torah and Jesus preached there are many ways to heaven and it how we live our life that counts, even though no example could be give. Now I rejoice that they are with us because it requires the rest of us to sharpen our “iron” in direct the conversation and how/where else may these men voice there concerns or doubts. But at the same time it negates us from studying anything in the Bible if we have to first constantly discuss, why the Bible to begin with.
So again I am faced with walking a fine line of not being puffed up as considering myself to “be beyond that” but looking for a place or group where I can learn things like breaking down the greek, hermeneutics and stuff along those lines.
Do we classify believes like we do our education system and then have different grades of groups, that seems inherently wrong. Philip did not ask the Ethiopian to qualify himself before instructing him in the gospel.
“I’m reading a book” cracked me up!!! Love it!
“I’m Reading a Book” was probably 2:26 minutes too long.
Mike, I could understand that believing in ways other than Jesus would be a problem, but what’s the issue with believing that someone other than Moses wrote the later books of the Torah? Don’t they cover events that happened after Moses’s death anyway? (I may be wrong)
Matty you are partially correct in that Deuteronomy 33, 34 are after the death of Moses to finish the 5 books and yes therefore not written by Moses. But to believe that the rest is not written by Moses leaves us wide open to not knowing God/Jesus
There are references to “Moses wrote” in Exodus and Numbers
Then there are references Jesus makes in John 5
46 For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me; for he wrote about Me. 47 But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?”
And again in Romans 10:55 For Moses writes about the righteousness which is of the law, “The man who does those things shall live by them.”[
Now the KJV says describeth but it is the strongs word 1125 graph
Which is the same word used in Romans 16:2222 I, Tertius, who wrote this epistle, greet you in the Lord
So it is a literal write, not dictate.
Point is once we begin to deny that then Jesus/the gospels/epistles become unreliable.
Ps. I still think Red is an acceptable answer to the color of the sky
A couple of people mentioned the use of the word “pig” in the “Reading a Book” video. I apologize for that—I did not really pick up on it until those people mentioned it. I did not realize just how offensive that term is to police officers.
Mike, I can certainly understand your position, as the Sunday school class I’m in has the same dilemma. We used to major on ….things like breaking down the greek, hermeneutics and stuff along those lines. But as more and more people with more elementary understandings have joined us, our discussions have gone to the lowest common denominator. Yes, it’s a wonderful opportunity to teach these dear people, and it’s a joy to do so, but how do we “originals” keep up our mutual iron-sharpening? We could start a new class or group, but it would still be subject to the same eventual kind of change, I”m afraid.