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UPDATE: The Horton question is part of a larger symposium at Touchstone Magazine on “What is an evangelical?”
Michael Horton answers the question: What would you say to someone tempted to become Catholic or Orthodox?

Some of you people need an open thread so you can vent a bit. Well….this is your post.
Let’s hear your reaction to […]

UPDATE: Josh S has a good post on different views of Reformation history.
UPDATE: Someone please turn down that “whining” sound. Is it me? Or the guy fisking me? I’m really on your side, O panic stricken fans of the Reformation.
UPDATE: ***sigh*** Pastor Gary reviews the post. So….is any sincerely motivated division of Christianity worth celebrating? […]

This is an essay from 2005 that I believe has been helpful to a few parents. It was printed in Modern Reformation.
Christian parents are always on my mind and heart. I know it’s difficult parenting children when the thing we most want for them can only come into their lives, ultimately, by the grace of […]

UPDATE II: David Head at Ponder Anew has an excellent post on this development.

UPDATE: The classy Amy Welborn gives a Catholic perspective.
One of the things I like about being an evangelical is that we can just stop, no matter how big and successful we are, and say, “We’re wrong,” and it doesn’t threaten a thing […]

1) I am receiving a considerable stream of material to review that I have not agreed to review. Let me make this very clear: I will not review materials sent to me UNLESS I agree to review them prior to sending the materials to me. If you send me a book or a CD WITHOUT […]

Podcast 25. Discussing C.S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity Part 6: Politics, Sex and Marriage.
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What do you do when God answers your prayers?
I am a fairly consistent reader and user of the Book of Psalms in my devotional life and worship leadership. Along the way, I’ve noticed that many of the Psalms are prayer or report episodes of prayer in the Psalms. In many of these Psalms, the Psalmist […]

UPDATE:: John H at Confessing Evangelical is the first one in the pool. Jeremy Bouma at Novus Lumen joins in as well. Alan Creech comes through with a Catholic Bible.
UPDATE II: Here is the exact Bible I used. (Pictures at the bottom.)

I wonder if any bloggers out there would like to devote a post (and […]

UPDATE II: Some of you probably haven’t read some of my older essays on worship, found in the “Worship” section on the older essays page.

UPDATE: After having written many posts on evangelical worship and reading hundreds of other posts and comments, it’s no wonder anyone who attends a liturgical church five times in a row […]

UPDATE: C. Michael Patton extends the list and the discussion.
Someone asked me what I thought the biggest problems facing evangelicals were, and with as much as I’ve written on the subject, it was still difficult to get a short list.
THE THIRTEEN CRITICAL PROBLEMS FACING CONTEMPORARY EVANGELICALISM
1. Vast evidence of a growing doctrinal deterioration on the […]

I don’t take many opportunities to write extended descriptions of the ministry where I serve. There are several reasons for that. I don’t want to involve my ministry in any of the controversies that might be part of this blog. But I hear people talk about their churches all day long, and I have a […]

I ran this post when the link from Ben Witherington first came out. It’s one of the best discussions of the issue with Osteen that I’ve read. Worth rerunning.
God bless Ben Witherington, who takes on the THEOLOGY of Joel Osteen, particularly as it applies to the teaching of Jesus. Thank you, Dr. Witherington, for doing […]

UPDATE: Comments are closed. One commenter feels I am a hypocrite for liking Merton and criticizing Osteen. After about five rounds of this, the point has been made and there’s no reason to keep repeating it.
All Osteen. All the time.
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1Timothy 3:1 The saying is trustworthy: If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a noble task. 2 Therefore an overseer* must be above reproach, the husband of one wife,* sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, 3 not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of […]