There’s a wonderful interview with Don Carson over at ligonier. Lots of useful stuff including learning how Carson was called to the ministry. At the end he’s asked about preparing our children for college (university) and leaving home in general. Carson nails one particular aspect: First, the home should encourage vigorous Christian understanding. The most [...]
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A fascinating and, I think, uncontestable list from John Ortberg Both President Obama and Governor Romney have had to repeatedly address their views about an itinerant rabbi who lived 2000 years ago. But why does anyone care? Yale historian Jeroslav Pelikan wrote, “Regardless of what anyone may personally think or believe about him, Jesus of [...]
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brilliant Let’s say we want to reform a religion in a new direction. We look for a founder who we can claim fits the kind of profile everyone is expecting. This leader, this messiah, is most likely to be a successful warrior, a general who wins battles of God’s own side. We can’t find one, [...]
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I’ve gotten a bit of leverage out of my “Answering Dawkins” material in recent weeks. One of the arguments that people are engaging with is that of morality, and the consistent basis (or lack of it) for the New Atheists’ moral claims. Here’s a similar line pushed really well by Doug Wilson in the Collision [...]
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Outreach Media have put up a great website in the run-up the Global Atheist Convention soon to be held here in Australia (again). Doubting Dawkins is a very full set of challenges to Richard Dawkins. Far more substantial than the trainwreck that was Cardinal George Pell on ABC’s Q&A last night (but more of that [...]
View PostHave just spent the first day at Oxygen, a great big conference here in Sydney for pastors and others in ministry. Here's what the great and the good of Sydney evangelicalism/Anglicanism (and some squit at the end) thought about it… Oxygen Day 1 from Sydneyanglicans.net on Vimeo. The day started with John Piper setting out [...]
View PostPerhaps, over the past few days, you've picked up the news that here in Sydney we're going to have another religious billboard campaign: CHRISTIANS in Sydney will have their core beliefs challenged by provocative advertisements due to appear on billboards and buses in the next month. The ads, paid for by an Islamic group called [...]
View PostUtterly brilliant. Everything you wanted to say about that nonsense pop-atheist line about Christianity being all made up by Paul… why did no-one tell me about Lutheran Satire earlier?
View PostVery very delayed from last year, we’ve dug out the audio of our “Answering the Atheists” session in May of 2010. Some visitors from Sydney Atheists came to last year’s PubChurch and then wrote to me with some detailed attacks upon the historicity of the New Testament. We thought that would be an excellent means of talking to church about the [...]
View PostAgain, I'm indebted to Phil Ritchie - here he gives us a great video from CPX in Sydney where they interviewed Dr John Lennox. Lennox's observations are equally relevant here in Sydney, where the interview took place. There is a curious historical selectivity about the New Atheists – they are incredibly reluctant to properly engage with [...]
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