Sunday, 28 April 2024

Between Two Worlds

Justin Taylor

Blog can be found on:

http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/justintaylor/

5 Practical Steps Creative Professionals Can Take to Protect Themselves

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Alliance Defending Freedom has a very helpful and attractive booklet for creative professionals that can be downloaded for free at CreateFreely.org.

If you are a creative professional, they include this helpful checklist of things you should do to protect your religious liberty to carry out your vocation in ways that do not compromise or contradict your faith convictions.

Include a statement of faith and religious purpose in your bylaws or corporate policies to provide clear evidence of your r..

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This is a thoughtful, careful, and important talk from Andrew Wilson of Kings Church in Eastbourne in the UK:

Andrew is asking the question here: “How should we respond to people whose experience of their gender doesn’t fit with their biological sex? Or who have taken measures to change it? Or whose biological sex is unclear? What does love look like?”

He looks at Matthew 19:1-12. As the Pharisees seek to trap Jesus, he makes two crucial points relevant to this discussion: (1) Verse..

Why J.D. Greear Is Withdrawing His Name from Contention for the Presidency of the Southern Baptist Convention

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J. D. Greear, pastor of The Summit Church in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, writes:

Yesterday the messengers of the Southern Baptist Convention voted for president of the SBC. And then, because it was too close to call, they voted again. That was too close, too. So this morning, we were all prepared to vote a third time.

That third vote won’t happen, because the third vote won’t be necessary. I’m withdrawing my name from contention, and pledging my full support to Pastor Steve Gaines.

Steve ..

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I love the ministry of Bifrost Arts. One of their burdens is to help the church learn to lament like Jesus.

For example, here is a liturgy they have written:

Leader: The peace of the Lord be with you.

People: And also with you.

Leader: The Lord scatters His enemies; they are blown away as smoke, melted as wax before the fire. But the righteous will rejoice before Him. The Lord is Father to the fatherless and the defender of widows. He leads the prisoners out with singing.

People: Glory be t..

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Seventy-five years ago (June 8, 1941) C.S. Lewis ascended the pulpit at the University Church of St Mary the Virgin in Oxford and delivered “The Weight of Glory,” one of the most insightful sermons of the twentieth century.

At the new Evangelical History blog I will give a historical overview of that presentation—with photographs—and some of the influence that it has had as a subsequent publication. I look at who drove him to the sermon, the weather outside, who attended the sermon, how long it..

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As a follow-up to the post on Tozer vs. Lewis on the most important thing about us, here is a thought from J. I. Packer:

What matters supremely, therefore, is not, in the last analysis, the fact that I know God, but the larger fact which underlies it—the fact that he knows me. I am graven on the palms of his hands [Isa. 49:16]. I am never out of his mind. All my knowledge of him depends on his sustained initiative in knowing me. I know him because he first knew me, and continues to know me. He ..

Introducing the New Evangelical History Blog with Thomas Kidd

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I am happy to announce a new blog venture at The Gospel Coalition entitled “Evangelical History,” which will be run by Thomas Kidd and me.

You can go over to the new blog and read Dr. Kidd’s introductory post. He writes:

What do we mean by “evangelical history”? Justin and I both have broad interests in the history of evangelical Christianity, and the history of Christianity, so those will be a major focus here. But we’re also interested in a Christian view of all kinds of history: political, ..

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What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.

The history of mankind will probably show that no people has ever risen above its religion, and man’s spiritual history will positively demonstrate that no religion has ever been greater than its idea of God. Worship is pure or base as the worshiper entertains high or low thoughts of God.

For this reason the gravest question before the Church is always God Himself, and the most portentous fact..

What If “Iron Sharpening Iron” in the Book of Proverbs Is Actually Something to Avoid?

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That’s the question raised by Ron Giese in the latest issue of the Journal of Biblical Literature: Ronald L. Giese Jr., “‘Iron Sharpens Iron’ as a Negative Image: Challenging the Common Interpretation of Proverbs 27:17,” JBL 135, no. 1 (Spring 2016): 61-76.

Here is a portion of the abstract:

Proverbs 27:17, “Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens the face his neighbor,” is almost universally seen as positive. Some view this maxim as an example of “tough love,” others as a rewording of a vers..

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