All-Star Friday

Here’s a quick round-up of posts from around the web that have piqued my interest this week.

18 March 2008

War is Boring - A quick gloss as to the issues facing the replacement of our current fleet and getting the US Navy up to the planned 313 ships.

The Blazing Center - We’ve all sat there, thinking about box scores when we should be paying attention to the sermon… Stephen Altrogge gives some good and clear tactics when approaching this coming message on the Lord’s Day. I find it very hard to listen with humility and listen critically at the same time, I appreciate his comments

19 January 2008

Ben Witherington - He brings an excellent and trained eye to Deepak Chopra’s new book, The Third Jesus, he has said all I wanted to say and in a manner far better than I could say it!

Jesus did not, and does not come to take us to a higher spiritual plane, so that we might better get in touch with the little bit of God that is in us all or our own God-consciousness. Indeed, he seeks to lead us to have a relationship with the God he called Abba who is wholly other, and who urges us to recognize the Creator Creature distinction. We are not God, nor is God inherently in us or a part of our being. The end result of navel gazing is that we may well get more in touch with ‘our inner child’, but we do not get more in touch with the ‘outer’ God who created the universe and all that is in it. The former sort of spirituality is a form of narcissism, or at its worse, self- worship. The latter form of spirituality reinforces the Creator/creature distinction and leads to worship of the one true God.

Thank you brother Ben, ἀμήν!

20 March 2008

The Thomas Watson Blog - Highlights events surrounding the discussion of covenant children

21 March 2008

The Riddleblog - Kim posts an excellent meditation for today, Good Friday (in the western church), and is well worth looking at a couple of times throughout the day if you are so inclined.

—–Side Notes:

Covenant Blog has been kind enough to post explanations of both Maundy Thursday and Good Friday (which they get from the Society of Saint John the Evangelist.

Also, this is my first time attending a church that does not change its worship to reflect the liturgical year. I’m still trying to figure out what I think of it… perhaps I’ll try and address it in a post when I can do so thoughtfully.

edit: Ecto seems to have mangled this every time I post it, hopefully I’ve gotten the kinks out. Apologies if you saw it and it looked mangled, it was!