Mark Driscoll passionately believes the church must impact culture, and rightly so. “To be in reformission, we must embed ourselves in a culture and develop friendships with lost people so that we can be informed and avoid making erroneous judgments…. As a missionary, you will need to watch television shows and movies, listen to music, [...]
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The Noncontroversial Topic of Church Music, Part Two
Posted: April 21, 2009 in "Reader's Favorites", Church Ministries, Music, Pastoral TheologyTags: Christianity Today, Folk Culture, Fundamentalist, High Culture, Liberals, Mark Driscoll, Michael Jackson, Pop Culture, Rock music, The Radical Reformission
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The Noncontroversial Topic of Church Music, Part One
Posted: April 20, 2009 in "Reader's Favorites", Church Ministries, Music, Pastoral TheologyTags: Benjamin Keach, Charles Spurgeon, Charles Wesley, Dean B. McIntyre, John Calvin, Mark Dever's Polity: Biblcial Arguments on How to Conduct Church Life, Martin Luther, Rich Warren, The Purpose Driven Church
The powerful influence of music is seen in 1 Sam. 16:14-23 when David, the greatest harpist in Israel, calmed troubled King Saul with his music. “Aristotle said, ‘Music has the power to shape character.’ Satan is clearly using music to do that today. The rock lyrics of the 1960s and 1970s shaped the values of [...]
Mark Driscoll and “Sign” Gifts
Posted: March 26, 2009 in "Reader's Favorites", The Holy SpiritTags: Exorcism, Healing, Mark Driscoll, Miracles, Sign Gifts, Tongues, Wayne Grudem
Mark Driscoll in a YouTube on the Four Lanes of the Emerging Church admitted that he agreed with Wayne Grudem that all of the spiritual gifts were operative today. What does the Scripture say? Spiritual gifts fall into two areas: Temporary sign gifts and permanent service gifts. 1 Cor. 1:22 states that the Jews require [...]
Is the Earth “Young” or “Old?”
Posted: January 17, 2009 in "Reader's Favorites", CreationTags: "Young Earth" "Old Earth" Henry Morris, Creation, Davis A. Young, evangelicals, God, Hermeneutics, Praise, science, Systematic Theology, Wayne Grudem
THERE is a debate today among evangelicals concerning the age of earth. One view is more sympathetic to scientific evidence than the other. I think the reason for different conclusions about the age of the earth, is the inclusion of the so-called evidence from science into the hermeneutics of Genesis one and two. Both “Old [...]
