Nov
13
2009
Trevin's Seven
1. Ray Ortlund, Jr’s Gospel Manifesto
O desolate evangelicalism, what do you mean by your stylish fads and restless search for ever new “relevance”? Why are you so insecure that you long for the world’s approving recognition? They despise everything you hold dear! “All things to all men” is no license to cater to the whims of the consumer. Christ alone is Lord. Or have you yourself forgotten his majesty? And why are you so boastful of your numbers and dollars? How poor you really are! Come back to the gospel. Come back to the wellspring of true joy and life and power. Sanctify Christ again as Lord in your hearts.
2. Ed Stetzer’s research on cohabitation
Among young adults who had attended a Protestant church regularly in high school, cohabitation is almost twice as likely among those who stop attending church regularly between ages 18 and 22 compared to those who stay in church.
3. Doug Baker on the ominous future of the SBC
“Were the moderates right?” The sheer posing of such a question sent a collective gasp across Alumni Chapel. During a recent panel discussion when Southern Seminary President R. Albert Mohler, Jr., uttered these words in a place where moderates once dominated one of the world’s largest seminaries, it was not as though such a theory was not without a plausible grounding. Some 20 years earlier Bill Leonard, a notable moderate who once served on the faculty of Southern Seminary, predicted that once the conservatives took control of the SBC’s massive infrastructure, they would soon turn on one another.
4. Al Mohler lists reasons he is optimistic regarding the younger generation of pastors.
The younger you go in the Southern Baptist Convention, the more conviction you discover. There is reason for great hope.
5. Christianity Today looks at the new Christmas CDs coming out this year.
6. Russ Moore on what the church can learn from Sesame Street
7. Abby Johnson, former Planned Parenthood leader, goes on The O’Reilly Factor