Highlights from the Blogosphere

• How to Treat Your Children so That They Have Good and Right Thoughts about God March 11, 2010
  Wise advice from C.J. Mahaney to a concerned dad who fears that that the way in which he insists his kids obey him in the Lord could lead them to think of God the Father apart from love and grace: You have the privilege of introducing them to God the Father and describing the ways in which he is different from you, different from all sinful fathers, and how […]
  Justin Taylor
• Thursday review: ReJesus by Michael Frost and Alan Hirsch March 11, 2010
  A review of Michael Frost and Alan Hirsch, ReJesus: A Wild Messiah for a Missional Church, Hendrickson/Strand, 2009 . This review will also be published in a forthcoming issue of Themelios. The central thesis of ReJesus is that an institutionalized church needs to rediscover the radical example of its Messiah – we need to ‘reJesus’ the church or to return to […]
  Tim Chester
• The context of pastoral care: the gospel community March 11, 2010
  Churches often have a professional approach to pastoral care – it’s something done by a pastor or counsellor. But in Ephesians 4 Paul tells the whole Christian community in Ephesus to speak the truth to one another in love (15). The context of change is the gospel community (1-16) and the content is the gospel word (17-25). God has given us the Christian com […]
  Tim Chester
• Proclamation Trust and the Holy Spirit – EMA 2010 March 10, 2010
  The Evangelical Ministry Assembly 2010 will focus on the ministry of the Holy Spirit in the life of the preacher, with John Piper as the headline speaker and Terry Virgo also involved.Those of you who know British Church life, and particularly the history of the last few decades, will be amazed at this. To be clear, the leadership team behind the Proclamatio […]
  adrian.warnock@gmail.com (Adrian Warnock)
• Contextualization Without Compromise March 10, 2010
  On April 26-27 I will have the privilege of joining men I admire and respect at the Advance the Church conference in Durham, North Carolina. My assignment is to speak on “contextualization without compromise.” I address this very issue at length in my book Unfashionable: Making a Difference in the World by Being Different. The organizers of the conference ha […]
  Tullian Tchividjian
• Confidence to Approach God — Together March 10, 2010
  Hebrews 10:19-25 is a text I return to fairly often, especially when I am preparing myself for corporate worship. My default mode is to read “enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus” and “draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith” from an individualistic perspective. I can read those words and think primarily about the great privilege I have […]
  Dan Cruver
• On Transforming Culture March 10, 2010
  In this interview by Trevin Wax, CT managing editor Mark Galli talks about James Davison Hunter’s new book, To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World and the complexity of “transforming culture”: [Hunter] analyzes the work of everyone from Chuck Colson to James Dobson to Jim Wallis to Andy Crouch, argui […]
  Justin Taylor
• One Way a Very Public Christian Spoke March 10, 2010
  (Author: John Piper) On September 13, 1980, Charles Malik gave an address called "The Two Tasks" at the opening of the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College. He was the Lebanese Ambassador to the United States. The message was so seminal that in 2006 (his centenary) it was republished with a collection of essays built around it. What strikes us as […]
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• How Much Do I Need to Know About My Potential Spouse’s Sexual Past? My Response March 10, 2010
  Below is a “Questions and Ethics” letter I posted a while back. Here are some of your responses to this query. Below is my response to the writer. Dear Dr. Moore, I am a young single Christian woman. I made a commitment at a very young age to remain sexually chaste, and I’ve done so. I have dated other boys, but always just in groups in a very casual setting […]
  Russell D. Moore
• A Gospel Opportunity in Japan March 10, 2010
  Michael Oh and Christ Bible Seminary (for more on Oh and this ministry, see here) recently began a 90-day prayer campaign. They have a short window of opportunity to purchase a strategically placed ministry campus in downtown Nagoya, Japan. The total cost of the building will be approximately $1.2 million, down from $3.3 million two years ago. Oh would appre […]
  Mark Rogers