I discovered HM Magazine in the early ’00s when I was listening to a lot of bands like P.O.D, Pillar and .rod Laver. Bands such as these were featured on the cover of the magazine so I picked it up, and I have been hooked ever since.
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Music: HM Magazine celebrates 25th anniversary in print
W hen comedian Stephen Colbert brought his act to Capitol Hill last month and stole the spotlight with his satirical shtick, no one was more surprised than lawmakers. “You run your show,” House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers scolded him, “we run the committee.”
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Behind right-wing funnyman, a quiet faith
I recently attended John Piper’s Desiring God gathering in Minneapolis, and yes, the Reformed crowd there was pretty alive and well, and the crowd seemed particularly young for a conference.
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The Economist discovers Calvinists
Before we discuss a new story about problems at President Obama’s faith-based office, a bit of context. While funding of religious non-profits did not begin with President Bush, he really took that ball and ran with it. he created the first White House office of Faith-based Initiatives.
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Obama’s faith-based office criticized
In my last post , I went over the idea that “[After baptism] all our sins past are forgiving us, we are now covered by grace so that when we do sin we are forgiven.” It became quite clear that within Armstrongism, grace and forgiveness are earned through a partial keeping of the Old Covenant law. This is not what you’ll read in the literature, but in practice it becomes obvious. This time I would like to move forward and address the idea that law-keeping = loving Jesus
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If You Love Me, Keep My Commandments
I’m not a sailor, but when I lived in Hong Kong some years ago, I did go sailing often enough with friends who had a boat to learn what tacking is. Tacking refers to a series of zig zag movements that allow forward progress of the boat along the water where one would not be able to sail directly into the wind
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“Tacking” Toward the Truth
By comparison with Christianity, coverage of other world faiths is static and limited. Coverage of Islam in textbooks is similar to Hinduism, Buddhism and Judaism in its focus on early origins rather than change over time.
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Religious Bias in US Textbooks?
Oneindia Divine Mother Everywhere-Recall During Durga Puja Oneindia Universal oneness is the essence of Hinduism .
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Divine Mother Everywhere-Recall During Durga Puja – Oneindia
Yesterday I scratched the surface of Relevance Theory in respect to preaching. Let’s look at it a bit more (accepting that there is so much that could be written if we were to really do justice to the theory, as well as to preaching). To reject the need for relevance is naïve. Actually, those who reject the need for relevance and simply preach the Word in a more scholarly and abstract way are still relevant to their listeners. The problem is that the relevance is much weaker. For example, people listen because they have a perceived need to hear a sermon in church, or a fleshly sense of the need to be pressured religiously (or even, that enduring under the sound of biblical teaching is somehow healthy in and of itself, like uncomfortable spiritual callisthenics). The solution to a self-centred pragmatic applicationalism is not to resist relevance and application. Rather it is to see two stages to the solution, rather than one. At one level listeners are distracted and discouraged and perhaps even self-concerned. Offering relevance in a message so that they listen and engage is simply wisdom in action. As I start a message I can assume that the listeners are distracted and not fully engaged. As I demonstrate the relevance of the speaker, the message and the text, early on in the message, I am motivating listening. As I surface a need from the text that stirs interest in the listener, I am motivating engagement. But my message won’t simply meet a felt need. Rather, that is the entrance, the first level of relevance.
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Revisiting Relevance
A massive global evangelical gathering known as the Lausanne Congress will begin Oct. 16 in Cape Town, South Africa. But it looks likely to take place without the participation of 230 Chinese delegates.
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Beijing Blocks Travelers To Christian Conference