When Will Justin Taylor Notice? – Via Old Life Blog
When Will Justin Taylor Notice? By D. G. HART | Published: DECEMBER 24, 2009 Actually, even if Taylor doesn’t, for the Gospel Coalition Michael Pohlman does notice, and holds open the possibility that multi-site churches may be a fulfilment of the Great Commission. Still, the blog watch on Tim Keller has been remarkably silent about the feature story in USA Today about multi-site churches […]
Dr. Michael Horton on Multi-site Churches
Popes, Populism, or Presbyteries? Evaluating the Multi-Site Church Sep.30, 2011 by Dr. Michael Horton With the rise of multi-site church planting even among the more discerning evangelical ministries, raising an objection at this point is a little like giving away Cinnabons at a health convention. A real party killer. So I for one am really glad that […]
The Fractured Pastor and Multisite Churches via Historia Salutis
The Fractured Pastor and Multisite Churches The pastor has been fractured today. I do not mean a particular pastor, particularly. Rather, what I have in mind is the office of the pastor itself. For example, it is all too common place – even in more traditional, confessional Reformed churches – to have a pastor of […]
A Question About Redeemer’s Multi-Site Model via Heidelblog
A Question About Redeemer’s Multi-Site Model In response to a December article in USA Today on multi-site churches, in which Redeemer Presbyterian (NYC) was featured, Tim Keller offered abrief clarification of Redeemer’s version of the multi-site model. As part of that explanation he articulated a premise that strikes me as something that should be controversial among Presbyterian folk but […]
What’s so uncool about cool churches? – via The Gospel Side Blog
What’s so uncool about cool churches? Unintended Consequences: How the “relevant” church and segregating youth is killing Christianity. I recently spent six-months doing a rotation as a hospital chaplain. One day I received a page (Yes, hospitals actually still use pagers). Chaplains are generally called to the rooms of people who look ill: People gray with […]
Celebrating Celebrity Law-Breakers – via Old Life Blog
Celebrating Celebrity Law-Breakers By D. G. HART | Published: APRIL 13, 2012 It may seem like an easy shot, but for a group of Christians who think of themselves as and talk about being Reformed, the blatant disregard of one of the most characteristic marks of Reformed devotion is breathtaking. The Co-Allies have done it again and failed to […]
Why Calvinism Is More than Five Points and Why the Young and Co-Allies Need to Know – via Old Life Blog
Why Calvinism Is More than Five Points and Why the Young and Co-Allies Need to Know By D. G. HART | Published: MARCH 23, 2012 In my daily update from Google Alerts on Calvinism came a link to an Emergent dude (“minister” seems to be the wrong term) who comments on the recent further shenanigans at Mark Driscoll’s network (“church” seems […]
Elephant Turd in the Punch Bowl
I decided to let the dust settle and read the responses from the Elephant Room 2 Conference before I commented on the conference. First let me point you to these: Dr. Carl Trueman @ Reformation 21 [Search for Elephant Room or TD Jakes, there are several articles there] James White’s The Dividing Line Podcast – […]
Mark Driscoll, the Trinity, and W. G. T. Shedd via The Ruling Elder Blog
Mark Driscoll, the Trinity, and W. G. T. Shedd by Seth Stark Last week, Mark Driscoll “interviewed” TD Jakes during the Elephant Room 2 conference. Of course, one of the topics Driscoll asked Jakes about was Jakes’ view of the Trinity. Driscoll has caught some heat for not asking better questions of Jakes, and Jakes […]
Review of Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe - via New Horizons
Reblogged from Pilgrimage to Geneva: New Horizons Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe Mark Driscoll and Gerry Breshears Reviewed by OPC Pastor Brenton Ferry. Mark Driscoll and Gerry Breshears are coauthors of Vintage Jesus (2008), Death by Love (2008), Vintage Church (2009), and now Doctrine. Breshears is on the faculty at Western Seminary, where Driscoll was […]
Dr. Carl Trueman on No Compromise Radio
Good interview with Dr. Carl Trueman. Dr. Trueman discusses the problems with Para-church Ministries, Mega-Churches, Multi-site Churches, Independent Churches, James MacDonald and the Elephant Room Conference. Carl Trueman is a Professor of Historical Theology and Church History at Westminster Theological Seminary, and is Pastor Mike’s guest on today’s NoCo. Mike asks Carl to summarize the recent topics […]
Are We Required to Attend Church on Sunday? via The White Horse Inn Blog
Are We Required to Attend Church on Sunday? by Dr. Michael Horton The very fact that we have to address this question, even in evangelical circles, demonstrates the true measure of the church’s worldliness. It is not a superstitious attachment to days, but respect for the Lord’s generous service to us, that gives us one […]
Popes, Populism, or Presbyteries? Evaluating the Multi-Site Church – via White Horse Inn Blog
Popes, Populism, or Presbyteries? Evaluating the Multi-Site Church by Dr. Michael Horton With the rise of multi-site church planting even among the more discerning evangelical ministries, raising an objection at this point is a little like giving away Cinnabons at a health convention. A real party killer. So I for one am really glad that […]
Review of Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe – via New Horizons
New Horizons Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe Mark Driscoll and Gerry Breshears Reviewed by OPC Pastor Brenton Ferry. Mark Driscoll and Gerry Breshears are coauthors of Vintage Jesus (2008), Death by Love (2008), Vintage Church (2009), and now Doctrine. Breshears is on the faculty at Western Seminary, where Driscoll was trained. Driscoll is cofounder and […]
Pied Pipered?
Pied Pipered? When I was surfing the Internet on Monday, I read the sad news that was blazing on the blogosphere that the Federal Vision has found another foothold in the PCA as the Siouxlands Presbytery of the PCA exonerated Federal Visionist Greg Lawrence. What did come as a surprise to me was that the […]
Is the Reformation nearly over? Perhaps, but maybe not for the reason you think, —- via Ref 21 Blog
Is the Reformation nearly over? Perhaps, but maybe not for the reason you think, by Carl Trueman Time was that the megachurch was not highly thought of by those who claimed the name Reformed or looked to the Reformation for their historical inspiration. This was consistent with two basic concerns which […]
Echo Chamber? – via Old Life Blog
Echo Chamber? September 21st, 2011 by D. G. Hart Thanks to the Viking I see that Tim Keller has some posts about polemics (forthcoming) over at the Gospel Coalition and that Justin Taylor has aggregated part of Keller. I do go to TGC’s sites periodically and so would have likely seen these without the Viking’s […]
TV Church – Dr. W. Robert Godfrey – via WSCAL.EDU
TV Church Dr. W. Robert Godfrey What is the “electronic church”? If you turn on your TV, you will find a variety of religious broadcasting, from Roman Catholic masses to traditional Presbyterian services to charismatic talk shows. Some of these programs are rather amateurish local broadcasts of local worship services. Others are sophisticated and expensive […]
Trueman on Protestant Urbanism – via Old Life Blog
Trueman on Protestant Urbanism July 12th, 2011 by Darryl G. Hart Like the moth drawn to the candle flame, I will once again comment on the apparent discrepancies of Carl Trueman, the Lord Protector of Westminster Seminary, whom I hope will not do to me what happened to Charles I. What has to be striking […]
