Saturday, 4 May 2024

Between Two Worlds

Justin Taylor

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A Confession of 7 Sins on Election Day

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This is worth reading and praying, from Joe Rigney:

Our Father and God,

We acknowledge that in this election you are, as it were, holding up a mirror to America. You are showing us who we are as a nation. We may not like what we see, but the two major party candidates represent us well. Lies, corruption, selfishness, unbridled ambition, shameless sexual immorality — all committed with a high hand. That’s our nation. You are giving us the leaders that we deserve.

If you are judging our nation ..

The Theological Liberalism Behind the Conservative Biblical Proof Text for American Christian Revival

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2 Chronicles 7:14:

If my people who are called by my name,
humble themselves,
and pray
and turn from their wicked ways

then I will hear from heaven
and will forgive their sin
and heal their land.

Russell Moore comments on the widespread misunderstanding and misuse of this verse:

The fact is 2 Chronicles 7:14 isn’t talking about America or national identity or some generic sense of “revival.” To apply the verse this way is, whatever one’s political ideology, theological liberalism.

This v..

The Only Four Things You Need to Read in Response to the Hatmakers

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Back in the heyday of blogging, I probably would have tried to do a comprehensive roundup of all the responses to the evangelical controversy of the week. But with the seeming ubiquity of Facebook and Twitter, you can probably find all the “hot takes” you want from whatever writer you like.

I have to confess that I get somewhat weary of the pattern. A popular author decides to say something controversial. He or she writes a book or seeks to make a provocative video or orchestrates a softball in..

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Rosaria Butterfield pens a poignant reply to popular author Jen Hatmaker:

If this were 1999—the year that I was converted and walked away from the woman and lesbian community I loved—instead of 2016, Jen Hatmaker’s words about the holiness of LGBT relationships would have flooded into my world like a balm of Gilead. How amazing it would have been to have someone as radiant, knowledgeable, humble, kind, and funny as Jen saying out loud what my heart was shouting: Yes, I can have Jesus and my gir..

The Burial Place of Jesus Exposed for the First Time in Centuries: An Interview on What It Originally Looked Like and How We Know This Is the Right Location

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PHOTOGRAPH BY ODED BALILTY, AP FOR NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

Kristin Romey, writing for National Geographic, reports:

For the first time in centuries, scientists have exposed the original surface of what is traditionally considered the tomb of Jesus Christ. Located in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Old City of Jerusalem, the tomb has been covered by marble cladding since at least 1555 A.D., and most likely centuries earlier.

“The marble covering of the tomb has been pulled back, and we wer..

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Joshua Gibbs, writing a review of the new N.D. Wilson film, The River Thief, helpfully summarizes some of the usual problems with the genre:

The typical hero of a faith-based film measures their own satisfaction with the ending by the metric ton. If you stuck a teaspoon in the ending of the average Christian film, you’d pull it out dripping with enough sweet goo to give everyone in the world a mouthful of cavities. We don’t merely like redemption. We want redemption spelled out in letters large..

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This one-man show by British actor David Payne gives a good feel for C.S. Lewis as a man and as a thinker.

The setting is 1963 (the last year of Lewis’s life), with Lewis addressing in his home a group of writers from America. It’s an hour and a half in length:

The Triumphal Procession in Christ: How the Conquering God Reveals Himself by Leading the Apostle Paul to His Death

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“Butthanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere.”

—The Apostle Paul, c. A.D. 55/56, in 2 Corinthians 2:14 (ESV)

Scott Hafemann, reader in New Testament studies at the University of St Andrews, has a very helpful explanation on the background of the Roman triumphal procession in the ancient world, which ends up making sense of this perplexing and fascinating passage.

The triumphal procession wa..

Do You Know the Difference Between the “Active” and “Passive” Obedience of Christ?

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A common evangelical mistake is to gloss the “active obedience” of Jesus as his “sinless life,” and his “passive obedience” as his “atoning death.”

The distinction, then, is in terms of both mode and timing: Jesus was actively obedient in his living and fulfilling the law’s demand, and he was on the receiving end of the suffered he endured in his dying, which paid sin’s penalty.

But historically, that is not exactly what the terms mean—though some popular defenders of the Reformed view occasio..

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This past weekend in Minneapolis, several pastor-scholars associated with Bethlehem College & Seminary gathered to speak on the future of “Christian hedonism,” a term coined by John Piper in his 1986 book Desiring God.

In the first talk, Piper proposed a refined definition of “Christian hedonism”:

Since God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him, therefore, in everything we do, we should always be pursuing maximum satisfaction in God and striving to take as many people with ..

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