Archives for September 2013

15 September 2013 — 10 AM Worship

15 September 2013 — 3 PM Worship

David Murray asks:

Is there any greater help to interpreting and understanding the Bible than a deep sense of one’s own sin?

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Barry York writes:

We have been promoting happily David Murray’s book, Jesus on Every Page, as it is such a clear presentation of how we can see Jesus throughout all of Old Testament literature as the Lord said we could (Luke 22:44; John 5:39). Could it also be true that we can find “the church on every page” in the Old Testament, or at least the church on almost every page?

I believe so. [KEEP READING]

One of my seminary classmates, Glenn Davies, writes:

In recent days a number of strange claims have been made about slavery and shellfish in the Bible.

The line normally goes something like this: although the Bible prohibits God’s people from eating shellfish and also endorses slavery, we can disregard these ethical instructions because we have come of age and can see things differently — indeed, more clearly — with our advanced knowledge and superior wisdom concerning what is right and wrong. Therefore, when it comes to novel concepts such as redefining marriage to include two persons of the same sex, we can simply abandon the teaching of the Bible, and in particular, even the teaching of Jesus, on the grounds that the Bible has been superseded by the moral insights of the twenty-first century.

This confused way of handling the Bible springs from an ignorance of the Bible’s own narrative. [KEEP READING]

If you get heartburn over the mention of the word “liturgy,” you may find some proverbial antacid in the thoughtful conversation on this episode of The Mortification of Spin. In fact, Carl Trueman and Todd Pruitt remind us that our churches are all liturgical in one way or another — the question is whether we are basing the order and structure of our worship on Scripture or whether we’re simply, shall we say, flying by the seat of our pants. Can the seat of our pants sufficiently guide us in corporate worship that is Christ-centred? If you’ve never opened The Book of Common Prayer, buckle up and listen in…you’re bound to learn quite a bit from this helpful podcast.