Dec
01
2009
Worth a Look 12.01.09
Last month, Collin Hansen’s article in Christianity Today on evangelicals and Catholics quoted Taylor Marshall, the former Protestant who says he became Catholic after reading N.T. Wright. I published the full response from Wright regarding Protestant-Catholic relations. Now, Marshall has responded, asking Wright ten questions about how his view differs from that of the Council of Trent. At times, Marshall tries to argue the Catholic position by using Wright’s words. Other times, he counters Wright’s words by making a Catholic apologetic against Wright’s Protestant positions. Here’s a taste:
I would like to point out that I am not simply an isolated “this person” who “needed a change.”… If Anglicanism can provide a Christianity that is “sacramental, transformational, communal, and eschatological,” then why are these Anglicans so deeply dissatisfied with Anglicanism? Would Wright also say that their “jump to Rome” is “very odd”?
From The New Yorker’s profile of Tim Keller:
It’s a Sunday evening at Redeemer Presbyterian Church, and the pews are full. Redeemer is a conservative Evangelical Christian congregation, but the parishioners don’t fit the easy Bible Belt stereotypes. They are a cross-section of yuppie Manhattanites…
Ed Stetzer on “preaching that sticks“:
If you want your sermon to stick, you must pull back the curtain to reveal who God is, who we are and what He really wants. It is too easy for preachers to slip into becoming moral teachers–religious instructors who pass out rules for spiritual living without pulling back the curtain on God and ourselves; pulling back that curtain is what our people need the most!
Come King Jesus! Deliver us from EU bureaucrats, from hypocrites in the religious right, and idiots in the religious left. Save us from Obama, Palin, any political leaders, and ourselves. We know that we are not the One we are waiting for, because if we were there would be no hope at all.