The Scandal of Grace: Part II from CPX on Vimeo.
Fri 9 Jul 2010
The Scandal of Grace – Part Two
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Thu 8 Jul 2010
The Scandal of Grace – Part One
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Professor John Barclay of Durham University discusses the radical difference between grace and the idea of ‘gift’ with John Dickson. Click here for more.
The Scandal of Grace: Part I from CPX on Vimeo.
Wed 7 Jul 2010
John Mark McMillan – How He Loves: A Story
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Not surprisingly, what I’ve always responded to most with this artist is his authenticity. This article from RELEVANT magazine is well worth reading. Particularly interesting were these comments regarding social justice as an act of worship:
“McMillan also believes in seeking social justice as an act of worship. He contributed the joyous “I Dreamed There Was a Fountain” to a benefit album of the same name to support Zao, an organization providing safe drinking water and education to developing countries.
“Literally, they’re preventing wars by digging wells for people,” he says. “I thought, ‘Man, that’s the real kingdom of God.’ Doing stuff that in reality is saving people’s lives. It’s literally changing the whole world for some people. One well gives life to a thousand people.”
Tue 6 Jul 2010
Destroying the Bible…
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“Men today do not, perhaps, burn the Bible, nor does the Roman Catholic Church any longer put it on the index, as it once did. But men destroy it in the form of exegesis: they destroy it in the way they deal with it. They destroy it by not reading it as written in normal literary form, by ignoring historical-grammatical exegesis, by changing the Bible’s own perspective of itself as propositional revelation in space and time, in history, by saying that only the “spiritual” portions of the Bible have authority for us.”
… Francis A. Schaeffer (1912-1984), Death in the City, London: Inter-Varsity Press, 1969, Good News Publishers, 2002, p. 77-78
Mon 5 Jul 2010
Redemptive Art
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“Man cannot make a redemptive art, but he can make an art that communicates what he experiences of redemption as a man and what he knows of it as an artist. God in his infinite wisdom may use an art work as an instrument of redemption, but what serves or can serve that purpose is beyond the knowledge of man.”
… John W. Dixon, Jr., in Christian Faith and the Contemporary Arts, ed. Finley Eversole, New York: Abingdon Press, 1962, p. 6
Sun 4 Jul 2010
For (Too Much) Love of Country
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In the dying hours of Independence Day, I offer this link to you for your consideration. After another Fourth of July celebrated in and around the body of Christ, I am tremendously conflicted.
This is offered simply as a foil to much of what I heard today, and suspect more than a few of you (like me) are either confused or frustrated by this day of celebration.
It is not necessarily an endorsement, but rather the words of a sincere Christian leader in the midst of our (my) inner dialogue.
Sat 3 Jul 2010
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader – Trailer Revisited
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Just watched this for the first time with my family and am tremendously excited about it all over again. It does indeed (from the trailer, at least), look as if the film will divert from the book in some ways. Regardless, I’m very hopeful that this film will inject some life into the film franchise.
Thu 1 Jul 2010
2010 FIFA World Cup: United
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Thu 1 Jul 2010
theory & fact
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Masolino 1338 – 1447
Peter Heals the Crippled
fresco (255 cm tall) — 1425
[Acts 11:15-18]
“The whole point of the story of Cornelius and of the admission of the Gentiles lies in the fact that these people had not accepted what up to that moment had been considered a necessary part of the Christian teaching. The question was whether they could be admitted without accepting the teaching and undergoing the rite. It was that question which was settled by the acknowledgement that they had received the Holy Spirit… The difficulty today is that Christians acknowledge that others have the Spirit, and yet do not recognize that they ought to be, and must be—because spiritually they are—in communion with one another. Men who hold a theory of the Church which excludes from communion those whom they admit to have the Spirit of Christ simply proclaim that their theory is in flat contradiction to the spiritual fact.”
… Roland Allen (1869-1947), Pentecost and the World, London: Oxford University Press, 1917
Wed 30 Jun 2010
…the abundance of his blessings
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Rembrandt 1606-1669
Apostle Peter Kneeling
1631
oil on canvas 59x49cm
Private Collection
[a meditation on 2 Peter 1;10,11]
“Some men, not content with [Christ] alone, are borne hither and thither from one hope to another; even if they concern themselves chiefly with him, they nevertheless stray from the right way in turning some part of their thinking in another direction. Yet such distrust cannot creep in where men have once for all truly known the abundance of his blessings.”
… John Calvin (1509-1564), The Institutes of the Christian Religion, v. I [1559],
