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Man, I’m grateful for the mention from @Douthat60 in his latest @TheFP column, a characteristically sharp analysis which is worth your time to read in full.
Unlocked link:
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Replying to @EnoughLight @wordsofthislife
John Nelson Darby - Ecclesiastical No. 1 Vol. 1
CH Mackintosh - Notes on the Penteteuch (I'm going to count this as one)
William Kelly - Lectures on the 2nd Coming & Kingdom of Christ
John Nelson Darby - The Gospel and the Church According to Scripture
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I’m praying for a renewed CT that embodies the vision and spirit of its original editor in chief, Carl Henry, with application toward the 21st century’s unique challenges. It’s an important institution.
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A student of mine directed me to this podcast with @DemarsSean and @danielghummel. Great questions, great answers, great tone. A fair, nuanced historical perspective on the history of dispensationalism. I highly recommend it. Two very minor quibbles:
1) My “Fathers on the Future” book doesn’t intend to place any system of dispensationalism in the early church. My own lay-friendly account of the history of dispensationalism in my chapter in “Dispensationalism and the History of Redemption” makes it clear that the stable pattern of doctrines and interpretations that make up Dispensationalism only coalesce in the nineteenth century. As far as eschatology goes, earliest fathers are actually premillennial, futurist, and take many elements quite literally, and their view of the assumption of the church is not as clear as various advocates of any modern view wish it was.
2) At times in the interview there appears to be some equivocation between “historicist premillennialism” and “historic premillennialism.” These aren’t the same thing. Historicism is a view of Revelation as a kind of charitable map through church history as its prophecies progressively unfold, as opposed to, say, preterism and futurism. Historic premillennialism is the claim that the non-dispensational view of premillennialism is not the same as that of the early church, though the earliest premillennialists appear to have been primarily futurist in their view of Revelation (though, like most throughout church history, they expected the end was near).
Besides these minor tweaks, which are very, very minor, I appreciated the @RoomForNuance_ discussion.
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Thanks to @ReadBakerBooks and Brad East for an advanced copy of what I believe is a sorely needed book for pastors. I’ve been looking forward to this since learning of it and am eager to talk about it with Brad when I’m done.
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Reads with Ravi@readswithraviOct 19
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James Clear on the power of daily habits:
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I’m in love with this sentence:
“Never underestimate a person who practices self-education in their free time.”
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Spiritual leaders must have both theological alertness and relational warmth. They also need theological warmth and relational alertness.
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“Not everything that is important or true can be said simply.” -@j_amesmarriott, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘋𝘢𝘳𝘬 𝘈𝘨𝘦𝘴
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In May 1968 I was a hippy Marxist and I supported the Paris riots by leftists. Roger Scruton was there at the time and rejected the left. 3 years later I followed suit and rejected it as well. See link below:
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What we see going on in Europe is without doubt going to be seen increasingly in Australia and America (it already is, in fact). Ted Cruz is not ignorant of what is happening: “We are witnessing Islamists right now burning Paris because Europe has committed cultural suicide. We should look to France as foreshadowing for what America faces if we don’t stop this here. We are fighting to save our nation.”
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It took many centuries to build Western civilisation. It is now being torn down in a matter of days. As Will and Ariel Durant in The Lessons of History wrote: “Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew; if the transmission should be interrupted for one century, civilization would die, and we should be savages again.” Or as Roger Scruton correctly observed: “Good things are easily destroyed, but not easily created… The work of destruction is quick, easy and exhilarating; the work of creation is slow, laborious and dull. That is one of the lessons of the twentieth century.”
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Don't let anyone shame you for standing up for the essentials of the faith.
"If the foundations are destroyed,
What can the righteous do?"
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I'm baffled by what's happening at @CTmagazine. The layoffs, change of leadership and now this?
If you're going to publicly question a public figure's sexuality, especially someone who's passed, you better have solid evidence as a basis for it. CT didn't. Then, publishing, removing and republishing. 🤦🏻♀️ This certainly does not inspire trust in either the new or old guard.
roysreport.com/christianity-…
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In Christ alone, my hope is found
He is my light, my strength, my song
This Cornerstone, this solid ground
Firm through the fiercest drought and storm
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France is in flames and Europe is falling. At times like this I always think of these powerful words by Francis Schaeffer penned in 1984:
Do not take this lightly! It is a horrible thing for a man like myself to look back and see my country and my culture go down the drain in my own lifetime. It is a horrible thing that sixty years ago you could move across this country and almost everyone, even non-Christians, would have known what the gospel was. A horrible thing that fifty to sixty years ago our culture was built on the Christian consensus, and now this is no longer the case. Once again I would refer to Romans 1:21, 22: “although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools.”


























