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Manhattan Declaration: The Church as Prophet

November 30th, 2009

We are a kingdom of priests [like Ezekiel] who are occasionally called to be prophets [also like Ezekiel]. I think this is what happened with the Manhattan declaration. Good for us. I signed it, I hope you do to.

Young Students committing to Read the Bible

November 6th, 2009

Several young disciples committed to read through the whole Bible in the coming months in various ways which really pleased me.

3 will read through it beginning with the smallest books
1 is going to read a book a day beginning with Ephesians and Colossians
1 is simply going to read it through cover to cover
2 are writing it out longhand beginning with Genesis
1 is writing it out beginning with Matthew
1 is listening to it on mP3
2 are going to read it aloud 30 minutes per day

What a joy to see young blooming disciples.

Calvin College and the Cultural drift

November 2nd, 2009

Christianity Today chronicled the recent discussions at Calvin College concerning various sexual behaviors. It struck me that orthodox Christian colleges are now facing the kinds of questions that other Universities and colleges faced a couple of decades back. I remembered my sojourn at Gordon Conwell a few years back and something Francis Schaeffer said about cultural lag. Basically the church lags the culture by a couple of decades. You see this in many things. I recently looked at a few old clips of Italian movies from the ’60′s, ’70′s, and 80′s. All of the dismal topics explored there are now being explored in the church and in the states in our contemporary milieu. Cultural lag exists and Calvin College is now experiencing it.

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