by Bret Capranica | May 19, 2005 | Miscellaneous
The referenced link will show you a real time map not of tremors that have already taken place in California, but of poetential tremors. Now there is one more page to read when checking the forecast for the day. See also the article: Scientists Unveil Earthquake...
by Bret Capranica | May 18, 2005 | Blogging
Phil Johnson, editor for John MacArthur’s major books (and my wife’s former boss), will begin blogging on June 1. I’m adding his blogspot to my links now in great anticipation.
by Bret Capranica | May 18, 2005 | Culture, General Theology
The Weekly Standard article referenced was written by David Gelernter, a senior fellow in Jewish Thought at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem. He laments the lack of the public schools’ acknowledgement of how much of early American history is saturated with biblical references. The article is a good read. However, if the Bible is properly undertood, I’m not sure even the Weekly Standard would want to elevate it in public dialogue and give it a prominent place in our public education system. If the Bible is the record of God bringing ultimate glory to Himself by saving sin-saturated people through the life, atonement and resurrection of Jesus Christ alone (Ephesians 2:1-10), would this satisfy the moralism many conservative American commentators seek to press the Bible into? The Bible is not primarily about theocentric ethics. The Bible is primarily about God’s elevation of Himself through Jesus Christ and changing people from Christ-denying sinners into a population who proclaim His excellencies through salvation in Jesus Christ (1 Peter 2:9-12). Even our Christian ethics have as their central aim the glory and supremacy of God through the person of Jesus Christ. Is this really the message Mr. Gelernter wants the American youth to know, embrace and spread? I’m up for...
by Bret Capranica | May 17, 2005 | Catholicism
For an interesting evaluation of more trends of Protestants ignoring orthodoxy and sliding toward embracing Catholic dogma, see Albert Mohler’s blog from Tuesday, May 17, 2005 entitled: “Anglicans and Roman Catholics Together-On...
by Bret Capranica | May 17, 2005 | Ecclesiology, Seeker-Sensitive
What is it that current contemporary-driven churches lack in their approach to worship? Let me allow a friend of mine who is currently converting to Catholicism give her evaluation after attending both a Baptist contemporary service and her new-found Catholic service. Her blog reveals her opinion of the differences: Dual Church Going. While I have a number of issues of disagreement regarding the Catholic Church’s view of salvation and all of the trappings associated with their sacerdotalism, I find it interesting that a young adult who is seriously seeking a relationship with Christ finds the missing link in the contemporary church to be “reverence for God” and “truth” as the basis of the worship. While I have a number of disagreements with my friend and her take on what “truth” consists and whether or not the ritual of the Catholic system is actually biblically reverencing God, I nonetheless respect her evaluation. I have long believed that the contemporary drive in many churches has less to do with God than it does with man-centered marketing. How telling that a former Baptist is looking for God-centeredness and finds less of it in the contemporary service she attended and more in the theologically errant system of Catholicism. I have addressed a number of these concerns in a sermon (and series of sermons) entitled Heaven Help Our Worship – Part 1 and Part...
