Phil Johnson has a great “spot-on post about Rob Bell and why “evangelical” means nothing anymore. To know the current state of the church read this one. Rarely will find someone calling someone a heretic, but I think Phil nails this one.
Prepared to say “AMAZING!”(But also take time to read the spiritual application this pastor [...]
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Around the blogs: Rob Bell, excellence, Macarthur’s latest book, etc.
Posted in The church, audio/video, discernment, the gospel, worry, worry on October 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Rape of Solomon’s Song
Posted in church, discernment on April 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
John MacArthur has published a blog series on a disturbing trend in pulpits today–inappropriate language in the pulpit. Phil Johnson dealt with this at the Shepherd’s Conference this year as well. Looks like an interesting and more than likely highly controversial series over the next few days, In the first article John writes:
The language Scripture [...]
Developing discernment
Posted in discernment on February 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
God asked young Solomon what it was that he most wanted to characterize his rule: wealth or wisdom. Solomon chose the latter, asking God to give him “an understanding mind to govern your people, that I may discern between good and evil.” Solomon, for all his faults, worked hard at developing discernment. He also pleaded [...]
Viewer Discernment advised #3
Posted in discernment, technology, tagged discernment, worldliness on January 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Last of the posts on questions by Craig Cabiness in Worldliness (edited by C. J. Mahaney).
He writes, “After reading these questions, you may get the feeling that practicing discernment is a lot of work. It can be, but it’s worth the careful deliberation because the goal is lofty: discerning what pleases the Lord!” We have [...]
Viewer Discernment Advised #2
Posted in Christian life, discernment, technology on January 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Pastor Craig Cabiness in Worldiness (edited by C. J. Mahaney) offers the following heart questions to ask as we consider our daily media intake. He says, “We need more than a rating if we’re to honor God through our viewing. We need an evalution process that takes into account our time and our motive, as [...]
Viewer discernment advised #1
Posted in discernment, technology on January 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Pastor Craig Cabiness serves the church well by providing a series of questions that will help us be discerning regarding what we watch on our TVs, DVDs and movies. I will post three separate categories of questions he suggests we ask:
Time Questions
Am I skipping or delaying something important in order to watch this now?
What are [...]
Experts in discernment
Posted in discernment, tagged challies, discernment on June 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“The truth is under attack more today than at any other time in history and this should not be surprising in a culture that so values religious freedom and tolerance. Add to such an accepting culture unparalleled speed of communication and the ability to publish books and other writings quickly and easily, and we can [...]
A little error harmless?
Posted in discernment, tagged challies, discernment on May 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It is easy to be duped into thinking that just a little error is harmless and will not matter. And yet Scripture teaches otherwise. Pastor and author Joshua Harris speaks of “half a poison pill” to describe the mindset of many Christians in which they think repeated exposure to just a little bit of evil [...]
Quotes on discernment
Posted in discernment, tagged discernment on May 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Here are some short takes from Tim Challies’ recent book on discernment.
“Discernment is a discipline, and like other disciplines such as prayer and reading the Bible, it is one that all Christians should seek to practice and should seek to practice deliberately. If we are to be a people who show our love for the [...]
Where discernment starts
Posted in discernment, tagged discernement, packer, Tozer on May 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Discernment is “the skill of understanding and applying God’s Word with the purpose of separating truth from error and right from wrong” (Tim Challies).
If the above definition is true (and I think it is), where should discernment start? I propose that it starts with how one thinks of God. A. W. Tozer [...]
