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Book Review: Religion Saves by Mark Driscoll

06.30.2009 · Posted in book reviews

Religion Saves by Mark Driscoll ISBN-10: 1433506165 ISBN-13: 9781433506161 Religion Saves should be a shocker for many people.  Subtitled “nine other misconceptions”, Religion Saves (henceforth RS) is hard-hitting, classic Driscoll. One can almost hear him preaching.  Driscoll’s personality does not ooze through this book.  It rushes through it like white water rapids.  The book is ...

Book Review: The Heresy of Orthodoxy

09.01.2010 · Posted in book reviews

The Heresy of Orthodoxy: How Contemporary Culture’s Fascination with Diversity Has Reshaped Our Understanding of Early Christianity by Andreas J. Köstenberger My rating: 5 of 5 stars Wow! That is what I must say about this book. As one who is interested in apologetics and New Testament studies, I was interested in writing a review ...

Under God: Beck’s Christian credentials scrutinized – Elizabeth Tenety

08.30.2010 · Posted in political

“Mormonism is not a Christian faith,” Focus on the Family’s Tom Minnery said during the 2008 election campaign, when GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s Mormonism became a political liability.R. Albert Mohler wrote in 2007 that he did not believe Mormons are Christians, as he found their theology “incompatible with “traditional Christian orthodoxy. “So Beck finds ...

Baptists or Christians?

08.30.2010 · Posted in misc

Too many times we Baptists try to be good Baptists.  It seems at times that being a good Baptist is more important than being a good Christian. Too often in the name of being a good Baptist we discount others, discard others, and despise others. We show little love, little compassion, and little concern for ...

Dealing with Disappointment

08.29.2010 · Posted in misc

..when we place our expectations on ANYTHING other than the character of God, we set ourselves up for disappointment. via Dealing with Disappointment. Share on Facebook ..when we place our expectations on ANYTHING other than the character of God, we set ourselves up for disappointment. via Dealing with Disappointment. Share on Facebook ...

Baptist pastor shot, killed by officer

08.28.2010 · Posted in news

A police officer doing a prowl check outside a business in Spokane Valley, Wash., Wednesday night shot and killed the owner — a Southern Baptist pastor — who apparently also was checking for suspicious activity.Details are still emerging in the case in which 74-year-old Scott Creach, owner of the Plant Farm nursery and pastor of ...

Moore to the Point by Russell D. Moore

08.27.2010 · Posted in misc

Russell Moore writes eloquently about Biloxi, Katrina, longing for home, and how God will truly bring us home again… My hometown isn’t there anymore. But then again, it never really was. The hope after Katrina is not for civil defense and architectural rebuilding. It is for that little stretch of pine-dotted coastland, and with it ...