Kingdom People

Guest Post by Robert Sagers Here, as Trevin would say, are seven links for your weekend reading: —Mark Driscoll is interviewed in Neue magazine, addressing issues from sound doctrine to mammon-olatry to guy-ism. Driscoll says that he hopes, in being sanctified, “to be less shock-jock and more Jesus-centered.” —Andy Naselli points to Edmund Clowney and [...]

Seven links for your weekend reading: 1. J.D. Greear on “small applauders”. Or “why we should seek to be large applauders and small critics” 2. Another way the internet is changing everything: “Scholars Test Web Alternative to Peer Review” 3. My friend and fellow blogger, Zach Nielsen, has recorded a jazz EP called Songs in a Minor [...]

1. From USA Today: “Forget pizza parties,” teens tell churches. 2. Commentary from Jon Nielson on the above article 3. Say goodbye to the “untouchable preachers” 4. Prop 8 Got Struck Down, Now What? 5. A Grace-Filled Engagement: The main problem with most marriages is lack of submission… to God. 6. JD Greear on the [...]

1. The gavel falls on marriage: the Proposition 8 Decision 2. Blogger Nicole Petrino-Salter asked various professionals in the Christian publishing industry about five things they would change. Read the answers she’s collected so far. (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) 3. Charles Halton has recently penned an interesting blog on biblical authorship, plagiarism and authority. [...]

1. Scot McKnight responds to the responses in Christianity Today regarding his cover story on how little theological value is in historical Jesus studies. 2. David Dockery’s summer reading list 3. Ed Stetzer on TBN? Yes, and the gospel too! 4. Jon Acuff on the differences between Mother’s Day and Father’s Day sermons 5. A [...]

Seven links for your weekend reading: 1. SBC Wrap-Up 2. The pastor’s requisite tools 3. Saint Sarah: How Sarah Palin is Reshaping the Religious Right 4. The trailer for The Voyage of the Dawn Treader 5. Spot the difference: How today’s airbrushing PC censors decided Churchill could do without his cigar 6. Being bored is [...]

Here are seven links for your weekend reading: 1. Nicholas Carr on the “superficial” mind created by the internet 2. Mishandling twenty-something males in the church 3. Martin Luther’s 8 qualities of a minister 4. Keep reading. One sentence may change your life. 5. Who tithes? The numbers may surprise you. 6. So you want [...]

Seven links for your weekend reading: 1. Is the Holy Spirit a Relativist or a Colonialist? Joe Carter points out the conflict inherent in Episcopal advocacy of homosexual bishops. 2. Ray Ortlund, Jr. with a classic post on how we can Judaize the gospel with the doctrine of justification. 3. Michael Horton reviews N.T. Wright’s [...]

Here are my seven picks for your weekend reading enjoyment: 1. Moonshine or the Kids? Nicholas Kristof reveals the heartbreaking darkness surrounding human poverty. 2. Public prayer is always subversive… 3. The Ten Best Cities for the Next Decade 4. An interview with Tullian Tchividjian on the relationship between the gospel and the law. Very [...]

My seven picks for your weekend reading enjoyment: 1. Bob Kauflin on what we can learn from the “Contemporvant Service” parody video. 2. The Gospel versus Religion: A Handy Chart 3. Al Mohler goes head to head with Ruth Gledhill on the biblical view of sexual morality. (My favorite line: There is no acknowledgment that [...]