The Spin -- We're Here to Help with All Life's Question

Posted on Tuesday, March 29, 2016 by Carl Trueman on Postcards from Palookaville

Always happy to help solve life's problems, little and big.

As is well known, the Spin Team are more than happy to answer listeners' questions and here is one that came in yesterday, reprinted here with permission and commentary:

 

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6 Great Threats to the Christian Family

by Jason Helopoulos • March 29, 2016

The Christian family is a battleground. The attacks come from without and from within. 

The Christian family is under constant assault. Western hemisphere Christians have awakened to this reality in recent years as Western nations embrace everything from homosexual union as marriage, to legally forbidding parents from disciplining their own children, to restricted parental rights regarding health care. As serious as these issues remain, some of the deadliest enemies of the Christian family come from within rather than from without. Consider the following:

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The Lord's Own Easter Sermon, Part 2

By James Boice
Theme: Peter’s Sermon at Pentecost
 
This week’s lessons teach us about the wide variety of ways in which the whole Old Testament points to Jesus.
 
Scripture: Luke 24:25-27
 
Today we look at some of the texts Jesus must have used in his sermon, which we discussed yesterday. An obvious place to begin is with Peter's speech at Pentecost found in Acts 2. Peter used three texts in that message. The first was about Pentecost itself.

Today we look at some of the texts Jesus must have used in his sermon, which we discussed yesterday. An obvious place to begin is with Peter's speech at Pentecost found in Acts 2. Peter used three texts in that message. The first was about Pentecost itself. It was from Joel—the prophecy that in the last days, God was going to pour out his Spirit upon all flesh (Joel 2:28-32; see Acts 2:17-21). Peter explained that Joel's words were being fulfilled right then in the sight and hearing of the people. Then he went on to preach about Jesus.

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The Lord's Own Easter Sermon, Part 1

By James Boice
Theme: Jesus’ Resurrection Sermon  
 
This week’s lessons teach us about the wide variety of ways in which the whole Old Testament points to Jesus.
 
Scripture: Luke 24:25-27
 
One of the great accounts of the appearances of the Lord Jesus Christ to his disciples following the resurrection is his appearance to the two Emmaus disciples recorded in Luke 24.

One of the great accounts of the appearances of the Lord Jesus Christ to his disciples following the resurrection is his appearance to the two Emmaus disciples recorded in Luke 24. It is an interesting story for a number of reasons, and one is that Jesus preached a sermon on that occasion. It is referred to in verse 27: “And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself.”

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Special Bonus Edition: Desperate Theologizer

Posted on Saturday, March 26, 2016 by Aimee Byrd on Housewife Theologian

Sometimes you just can't wait the two weeks for another Bully Pulpit.

What can I say, Bishop Rickey Moore has given us a bonus. We’ve been getting some worthy submissions from Mortification of Spin listeners for the next winner of the Bully Pulpit Desperate Theologizer prize---some real contenders. But this one---this one---is time sensitive. And it’s a doozy. 
 
Thanks to "Calvinist Coulson" for bringing this Desperate Theologizer to our attention.

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The Conversion of Saint Paul, Part 5

By James Boice
Theme: “Risen, Just as He Said”
 
This week’s lessons help us to prepare for Easter by showing how Paul’s conversion provides proof for the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ.
 
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 15:3-8
 
Let’s look at the two other explanations for Paul’s conversion.  Yesterday we dismissed the first two. 
 
3. Was Paul deceived by others?
Let’s look at the two other explanations for Paul’s conversion.  Yesterday we dismissed the first two. 
 
3. Was Paul deceived by others? Lyttleton is right when he dismisses this possibility on two counts. The first is that it is impossible to think of the disciples even thinking of trying to deceive this arch enemy of the faith, whom they feared. Second, even if they had conceived the idea, it would still have been impossible for them to have done so.

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Michael Jordan or David Watts? Your Congregation Needs to Know

Posted on Thursday, March 24, 2016 by Carl Trueman on Postcards from Palookaville

The next phase of the celebrity culture?

In wake of my product placement post, a correspondent recently drew my attention to the rise of the Reformed celebrity endorsement as a most unwholesome phenomenon.  Of course, such things are not entirely new.  Book commendations are an example of such.  I have done plenty – far too many – of those.  But there is an important difference between the typical book commendation and the new type of product prom

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The Conversion of Saint Paul, Part 4

By James Boice
Theme: The Only Explanations
 
This week’s lessons help us to prepare for Easter by showing how Paul’s conversion provides proof for the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ.
 
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 15:3-8
 
According to Lyttleton there were four explanations for Paul’s claim of his own conversion.  We will look at the first two today.
 
1.
According to Lyttleton there were four explanations for Paul’s claim of his own conversion.  We will look at the first two today.
 
1. Was Paul an imposter? Paul could not have made false claims in regard to his conversion, because he lacked all motive for doing so. There could only have been two motives: either to advance himself in some way, or to gratify some personal passion or desire. But how could either of these have been true? Paul did not advance himself by his conversion, nor could he have hoped to. Exactly the opposite was the case.

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Is the Wider, Reformedish Community Sustainable?

Posted on Wednesday, March 23, 2016 by Aimee Byrd on Housewife Theologian

"Cultivating Practices That Sustain Us"

On today’s MoS podcast, Carl and I talk a little about the differences in culture when unbelievers are invited into our households and vice versa. As I’ve just started reading Christine Pohl’s, Living Into Community: Cultivating Practices That Sustain Us, I’ve been thinking even more about what unbelievers experience in our family households and in the household of God, should they ever visit. An obvious cultural difference is that we are a people of prayer.

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A Parent's Prayer

by Danielle Spencer • March 23, 2016

The longing of every Christian parent is to see their child healed of his or her sin by Christ and increase in the knowledge of God. There is planting and watering for us to do, but God must provide the life and growth. He bids us to come to Him and ask that our children would fear the Lord.

In Mark 9:24, we find the famous cry of the man who came to Jesus for healing for his son, “Lord I believe, help my unbelief!” It is the cry of a desperate parent. After years of caring for his demon-possessed child and having his hope deferred by the disciples failed attempt to drive it out, the father begged Jesus, “If you can do anything, have compassion on us and help us!” Turning this insult into an opportunity to build the faith of this father and followers, the Lord commanded him to believe and then healed the boy.

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