Jul
21
2011
or The Systemic Power of Leadership
Everything you know about leadership is wrong.
The five-fold Covenant pattern is found throughout the Bible. Those who claim that Deuteronomy’s shape was borrowed from other Ancient Near East cultures need to explain how it could then be found not only in the Ten Commandments, but in the shape of every story going back to Genesis 1. Their theorizing is the result of their deluded, naturalistic worldview, and Christian scholars suck it right up.
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Jul
20
2011
Grace Agenda Conference Trailer from Canon Wired on Vimeo.
This looks like good medicine. Guess I will have to settle for the MP3s again. You know Doug and Mark. Ben preaches at Doug’s church and his messages are simple yet profound. They really stick with you. I’ve read Nate Wilson but not heard him speak. I hear he’s also very good.
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Jul
19
2011
Biblical chronology isn’t always easy, but it provides the answers to many questions we have concerning Bible prophecy. James Jordan shows how crucial the book of Esther is for our understanding of Bible history:
The book of Esther is one of the most neglected of the books of the Bible. To be sure, sermons are preached on it, and commentaries have occasionally been written on it, but almost without exception Esther has been interpreted in isolation from the rest of Biblical history, chronology, and theology. Even many conservative commentators tend to view the events in Esther as minor occurrences that have been inflated in the narrative in order to make the point of the book. This is because they make the wrong assumptions about the dates of these events, and because they do not understand the importance of the events in Esther to the progress of revelation and redemption.
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Jul
18
2011
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A fulfilled Covenant is a house where Law and Grace miraculously dwell together as they do in God.
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Jul
17
2011
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From The Power in Persuasion: An Interview with N.D. Wilson and Doug Wilson
How has our postmodern society affected the way we think about rhetoric and persuasion?
Postmodernism is really nothing new. It is just ancient sophistry in a rented tux. Lots of mouth and no muscle. But what we say in the book most directly collides with both modernism and its wee post when we discuss the nature of proof. Skip papa modernism’s crusade for humanistic omniscience and you skip postmodernism’s adolescent daddy issues.
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Jul
16
2011
God loves fractals. He (Father) speaks (Spirit) the Word (Son) and everything He creates is made in the image of the Triune, three distinct, yet indivisible, named parts working as one.
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2 comments | tags: Edwin Friedman, Fractals, Most Holy Place, Noah, Tabernacle | posted in Biblical Theology, Creation, Quotes
Jul
16
2011
More on baptism. Jane Dunsworth has posted some well-thought-out strikes and I figure it’s worth posting my parries here.
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Jul
15
2011
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Jul
14
2011
“…falling headlong, he burst open in the middle…”
Todd Robinson commented:
“I’ve enjoyed your particular brand of orthodox preterism. Working through Acts recently, I began to wonder what Michael Bull’s take on Acts 1:11 and 3:19-21 would be… Thanks for any insight.”
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2 comments | tags: Abraham, Acts, AD70, Ascension, Atonement, Herod, Judas, Pentecost, Peter, Peter Leithart, Preterism, Urim and Thummim | posted in Against Hyperpreterism, Bible Matrix, Biblical Theology, The Last Days, The Restoration Era
Jul
13
2011
Does Christ’s exhortation to His disciples in John 15 to remain in Him allow for the possibility of unregenerate New Covenant members?
Doug Wilson writes:
“For many Christians, [John 15:1-6] is a ‘problem passage.’ We want Christ to use a different figure. We want Him to be the Marble Box, with us as the individual marbles. When we are saved, we are put into the Marble Box, and we had better watch it, or we might find ourselves taken out of the Marble Box, losing our salvation. Or, if we know that salvation is not a possession of ours, which we could lose, we want the Marble Box to have a great big lock on it, and to be full of elect, non-loseable marbles” (To a Thousand Generations, p. 84).
We agree that the truly elect cannot be lost. We also agree that not all of the Old Covenant people were truly elect. But can we import this “not all Israel are Israel” into the New Covenant order?
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3 comments | tags: Baptism, Doug Wilson, Feasts, John Bunyan, Paul, Romans, Tabernacles | posted in Biblical Theology, The Last Days