Monthly Archives: February 2010

Rick Warren plays the Pharisee card

Friday, 26 February 2010 – 9:05 pm

Rick Warren, CEO of Saddleback Church, yesterday played the Pharisee card. He wrote: ‘It drives Pharisees nuts to watch God keep blessing ministries they ridicule & despise.God’s sovereignty is often humorous.’ What’s the Pharisee card? Good question.

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Legalism and licence

Friday, 26 February 2010 – 7:10 pm

Which of these two statements is true? We are never permitted to sin. We cannot avoid sinning. Both of these assertions appear in an excellent article by Todd Wilken (of the Issues, Etc radio programme). Todd writes: They seem so different. One person lives his life striving for moral perfection. The other person doesn’t try [...]

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What is a sermon for, and is it right for us to judge a poor one?

Monday, 22 February 2010 – 5:17 pm

My friend James kindly posted some thoughts in response to my How to diagnose a sermon article. That article gave a three-step diagnostic (courtesy of the Issues, Etc. radio programme) for reviewing sermons. You can read his comments in full on that article, but his three main points were: That I seemed to be ‘casting [...]

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Luther’s Small Catechism on the Ten Commandments: Introduction

Thursday, 18 February 2010 – 12:22 am

In times past, many Christians used to educate their children and new converts in the basics of the Christian faith by way of catechisms. Some still do. The rest of us might want to give the idea some serious thought, for our times are not so very different from those in which Luther found himself:

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