HT to Joel Hunter at the BHT for linking these: Reading the Bible Like A Grown-Up Child by Calvin Seerveld Reading the Bible: The Story and Finding Our Place in it. by Dr. Gideon Strauss With no disrespect to good hermeneutics, sometimes we need to be able to simply and prayerfully engage the texts of [...]
Today I discovered the Reformed Catholicism web site, thanks to a post from Joel Hunter over at the BHT. On their sidebar, there’s a link to a 2002 article from the Center for Cultural Leadership that really helped me define what it is about Calvinism that concerns me. In essence, the author defines Calvinists in [...]
Andrew Jones tells it like it is for his emerging bretheren in the US. (HT Michael Spencer.) There has been much criticism of the emerging church among reformed Calvinist bloggers, much of which is unfounded. Andrew is calling on us to stand up for the Truth, or else run the risk of letting our detractors [...]
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To my friends in the Emerging Church: reformed, orthodox, or liberal; to my Calvinist and Arminian friends; to my Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant friends, please consider the following: Galatians 5:19-26 (ESV) 19 Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, [...]
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I’ve been reading Celtic Daily Prayer from the Northumbria Community, and this verse from Jeremiah was one on which they drew inspiration, and as I read it, and read the wider context in Jeremiah, it touched my spirit, so I spent some time thinking about it and meditating on it before God. Jeremiah 6:16a (ESV) [...]
Thus says the Lord: “Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls.” From Jeremiah 6:16 (ESV) Welcome to Ars Gratia. This site represents the ongoing theological journey of Jason Blair. In coming days, you will be [...]