Now with WordPress!
Well, that was a lovely headache. Now that it’s over, though, I kinda like the new backend!
Welcome to the WordPress version of Second Mouse… hopefully I’m not the only one who will prefer it!
Archive for December, 2005
That’s it!
I’m sick of Blogger hanging up on me during republishing! I’m moving to WordPress!
We Will Die To Make Him Known
John Piper sends out once a week or so what’s basically an e-mail devotional, called Fresh Words. The one I got today is titled, “Enemies of the Cross and How to Respond to Them,” and I highly recommend it.
Anyway, toward the end of it (yes, I’m spoiling the ending!) Piper says this:
“My greatest longing in response to this enmity is that Christians walk in the way of the cross. Yes, militant Islam is big and threatening. It may even be the true Quranic Islam. There are alarmists whose whole tone seems to awaken political and even militant responses from Christians. My concern is that as the church we distance ourselves from this kind of response and focus on the truth that we will never spread the Christian faith by the sword. Some Muslims may kill to spread their faith. Some Christians have. But it is not the way of Christ. It is not the way of the cross.”
Amen! I’ve also got a new candidate for my e-mail signature: “We will die to make [Christ] known. But we will not kill to make him known.”
Chris Rice Blogs!
Yep, Mr. “Cartoon Song” has a blog now — it’s called Deep Enough to Blog. I think it’s cool.
Nicole and I got some early Christmas money, and one of the things we got was his latest album, Amusing. He seems to be leaving folk behind for more of a jazzy sound… and listening to this album, one would think the guy’s become attached… but you never know with the man who writes about lazy flies and angel feathers.
Reformed and Charismatic: Apostolic Continuance
Hmm… here’s where I step out of the crowd, wearing a gigantic target on my back.
I would like to preface this by pointing out that I, at present, hold nothing in particular as bearing the weight of Scripture beyond the 66 Old and New Testament books.
That said, I have a question for continuationists: Who says the canon is closed until Christ’s return, and on what authority did they say it?
I’m all for wanting to create some distance between my group and “the heretics,” but I think we argue for the completion of the Canon for the same reason cessationists argue for the ceasing of prophecy, healings and tongues: we’re scared of being stereotyped with “the weirdos.”
If there is a convincing argument for the closing of the canon, I’ve never heard it.
