Monthly Archives: August 2008

Wade’s Back

hadn’t realized that Wade Burleson was blogging again. Because he had stopped blogging after his resignation as IMB trustee earlier this spring, I dropped him from my reader. Well, he’s back, fighting the good fight, or at least fighting. This … Continue reading

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Baptist Hymnal, 2008

I heard it was in the works late last  year, so Monday I was surprised to read so soon that the new 2008 edition of the Baptist Hymnal was out. I don’t know why, but I figured that it would … Continue reading

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Sitting or Doing?

ow this may offend some of you Praise-n-Worship brothers, but think about it before you write it off as an old crank who dislikes contemporary worship styles. This illustration was not totally my idea. I have to tip my hat … Continue reading

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Truth or Error

ometimes the force of a quotation is delivered as much by who made it as what it was they said. Here is a good example. “With music one can seduce men to every error—and every truth.” —Friedrich Nietszche My lands, … Continue reading

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Two Godly Men—Kindred Spirits

thought for some time, trying to arrive at a catchy title to this post, describing the meeting between Mark Driscoll and J.I. Packer; something like “Beauty and the Beast,” or “The Prince and the Pauper,” but I couldn’t find anything … Continue reading

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The Bride of Christ

hat kind of bride are you? The whole question of “lordship” plagued our debates for some time as we asked if there was such a thing as a minimalist view of conversion? “We said the prayer and that’s it.” Yet … Continue reading

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