Today I want to continue my series on the Canons of Dort with a summary of the fourth main point of doctrine (which is in reality a continuation of the third main point of doctrine): irresistible grace.
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Several months ago my wife and I got around to watching Hotel Rwanda. If you haven’t seen or heard of it, here is a synopsis: During the genocide in Rwanda in 1994 in which 800,000 men, women, and children were murdered with machetes, a manager of a hotel saves several hundred lives with nothing but his wits. It’s very moving, and I highly recommend it.
After seeing it, my wife and I were quite affected so I wanted to follow up with some reading - typically, movies stretch the truth to tell a better story, but I like to know the history. So I got the story of the UN general who was in charge of the failed peace-keeping mission (if you’ve seen the movie, the Nick Nolte character is loosely based on this general). His name is Romeo Daillaire, and his book is called Shake Hands With the Devil. He is hard on western nations, and after what he saw in Rwanda, he is right.
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NASA celebrates it’s 18th launch by publishing Hubble Telescope pictures that show galaxies colliding.
It should make us feel small. It should remind us how amazing God is. Read the rest of this entry »
In a previous post I outlined the content in the Canons of Dort first point of doctrine: unconditional election. Without regurgitating the content, I want to offer some of my own observations.
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Keep reading if you like Chuck Norris humor and need a good belly laugh. Read the rest of this entry »
“When is He going to come again?”
This is the question my six year old daughter (Abby) asked me. She followed almost immediately: “Nobody knows” with a mixed tone of contentment and impatience. Read the rest of this entry »
I have been following the “Hook-up” culture with some interest, because it is far different than the campus culture when I went to school (no, I’m not going to tell you when that was). However, I tend to prefer scholarly study over random thoughts on a subject, so I was attracted to this article because it is by a sociologist (Kathleen Bogle) who has studied the culture. There are two quotes that jumped out at me:
I’ve been working on my sermon all day and needed a break, so I did some reading about global missions, specifically BAM: Business as Mission. Read the rest of this entry »
Unlike Andrew, my jaw did not drop after reading the documents he has linked to. Having read A Common Word, the evangelical response, and John Piper’s comments, I’ve come to the conclusion that Piper is correct theologically but misses the point of A Common Word.
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