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“If you want to be relevant, say, for prostitutes, don’t watch a movie with a lot of tumbles in a brothel.”
Written on 25 Jun, 2009 at 17:13 in News & Reviews | viewed 74 times and users have made 0 comments so far
John Piper offers some excellent counsel regarded how we should view TV and movies and whether we need to immerse ourselves in pop culture in order to contextualize. I think relevance in preaching hangs very little on watching movies, and I... (Continue reading)
A Well-Known Calvinist Repudiates the Charismaticism and Worldly Worship of “New Calvinism.”
Written on 9 Jun, 2009 at 13:10 in Articles on Theology, Articles on Worship, Featured | viewed 1,358 times and users have made 61 comments so far
“The new Calvinists constantly extol the Puritans, but they do not want to worship or live as they did. One of the vaunted new conferences is called Resolved, after Jonathan Edwards’ famous youthful Resolutions (seventy searching undertakings). But the... (Continue reading)
More on Driscoll
Written on 28 May, 2009 at 16:33 in News & Reviews | viewed 119 times and users have made 1 comment so far
Chris Anderson weighs in on what is a very well-crafted critique of Mark Driscoll, and Dave Doran adds a few more observations. His observation about Driscoll being a Calvinistic Finney is spot on. I had the same thought as I posted... (Continue reading)
“Since there is not one explicit mention of a reproductive body part or sexual act in Song of Solomon, no credible commentator on the Song would ever make such a claim about that book.”
Written on 17 Apr, 2009 at 8:06 in News & Reviews | viewed 112 times and users have made 1 comment so far
MacArthur’s final installment on Driscoll and the Song of Solomon. Particularly interesting closing: Yes, I did inform John Piper and C. J. Mahaney of my concerns about this material several weeks ago. I itemized all of these issues in much more thorough... (Continue reading)
“To interpret beautiful poetry by translating it into scurrilous soft-porn is to corrupt the most fundamental intent of the text.”
Written on 16 Apr, 2009 at 8:09 in News & Reviews | viewed 67 times and users have made 0 comments so far
MacArthur’s third installment on the Song of Solomon. When a speaker deliberately arouses lusts that cannot possibly be righteously fulfilled in unmarried college students, or when his personal illustrations fail to guard the privacy and honor of his own wife, that... (Continue reading)
“It’s frankly hard to think of a more appalling misuse of Scripture than turning the Song of Solomon into soft porn.”
Written on 15 Apr, 2009 at 10:18 in News & Reviews | viewed 56 times and users have made 0 comments so far
Part 2 of John MacArthur’s treatment of The Song of Solomon against Driscoll’s typical eisegesis. Song of Solomon is incredibly beautiful precisely because it is so carefully veiled. It is a perfect description of the wonderful, tender, intimate discovery that God... (Continue reading)
“Scripture never stoops to the lurid level of contemporary sex education.”
Written on 14 Apr, 2009 at 12:15 in News & Reviews | viewed 101 times and users have made 0 comments so far
John MacArthur takes on Driscoll in “The Rape of Solomon’s Song.” Mark Driscoll has boldly led the parade down this carnal path. He is by far the best-known and most prolific popular proponent of handling the Song of Solomon that way.... (Continue reading)
It’s all about . . . Numbers
Written on 13 Apr, 2009 at 12:48 in News & Reviews | viewed 83 times and users have made 0 comments so far
Latest Tweet from Mars Hill: Easter at Mars Hill: 10,500 attended, offerings good and over 325 baptisms. First time ever over 10K. Great day. Now, Mars Hill Church is starting Mars Hill Global, an effort to see Mars Hill Church grow into a... (Continue reading)
“Even if you were saved 13 seconds ago . . . come and get baptized on Easter Sunday!”
Written on 12 Apr, 2009 at 22:12 in News & Reviews | viewed 230 times and users have made 1 comment so far
Pastor Mark Driscoll, at the final Mars Hill Easter Service. According to a recent Tweet, they’re shooting for 200 baptisms today. “We’ll have some pastors and leaders up front, they’ll ask you a few questions, and you can get baptized right... (Continue reading)
Christ’s Death is Not A Horror Movie
Written on 9 Apr, 2009 at 15:29 in Featured, News & Reviews | viewed 137 times and users have made 0 comments so far
Creepy music. Bloody hands. A gruesome hanging. Bloody spurting from a wound. Heavy breathing. A trailer for Friday the 13th? No. The promo video for Mars Hill Church’s Good Friday Service(s). Watch the video with care. It’s pretty creepy. Certainly the death of our Lord... (Continue reading)
