This sermon, first delivered in 2012, is a good boost around the holidays, which can often be stressful and depressing for many of us. Enjoy. To download Hope for the Holidays, please subscribe to our podcast feed. http://www.wholereason.com/wp-content/uploads/powerpress/hope_for_the_holidays.mp3Podcast: Play in new windowSubscribe: RSS
Former Christian and now atheist Cara has a blog at Think Atheist, and posted this list of questions (questions originally posted by Thomas Swan) and how she would have answered them as a Christian. I’m not sure if these answers now seem inadequate to her,...
This series is made up of the following articles: Scrupulosity 1, How Catholicism and Arminianism Obscure the Gospel and Create Neuroses Scrupulosity 2, How Sola Fide Solves the Problem Created by Works-based Theology Scrupulosity 3 – How to escape the bondage of Catholic and Arminian...
This post is part of a series. In Part 1, I introduced the idea that both Catholicism and hyper-Arminianism (hyper-Calvinism’s brother) make the deadly mistake of including works in the salvation formula, and hurt many people. Let’s dig in some more. The Descent into Scrupulosity In...
This post is part of a series. I have previously catalogued my exodus from the bondage of Arminian Holiness to the peace of Reformed Theology, and was reminded of its horrors today when listening to a recent episode of This American Life (Show 507), in...
I’m not talking about eros, I’m talking about being passionate for accomplishing something worthwhile in your life. Most of us are not – we’ve lost the idealism and energy of youth, and have accumulated emotional injuries, debts, and relationships that keep us busy, if not...
When we think of planting a church, what’s typically the first thing we may do? We typically do something like this: Start a small group bible study Start a Sunday meeting Grow a small group system in which discipleship sort of happens At the Exponential...
When we think about communicating the truths of scripture to one another, and especially to the outside world, we often focus on only one of the three modes below, and probably the easiest and least effective – that of Orthodoxy. 1. Orthodoxy Teaching orthodoxy means...
