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> Interesting links I've found lately
Mohler Reviews John R. Franke’s New Book, Manifold Witness
Posted On Wednesday, 04 Nov 2009 By David Westerfield. Under Reviews, Theology Tags: Albert Mohler, Blog, critique, emergent, Emerging, emerging church, John R. Franke, Manifold Witness, Plurality of Truth, Postmodernism, reformed, Relativism, review, Western Christianity
Is Truth Really Plural? Postmodernism in Full Flower - Albert Mohler (A Review of John R. Franke's new book, Manifold Witness)
UPDATE (11/05/2009):
Once again, as the case has been time and again, I agree with many of the critiques and assessments of the emerging/emergent movement concerning where modern American, Western ... Read More
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American Patriot’s Bible – Words Cannot Describe II
Posted On Tuesday, 18 Aug 2009 By David Westerfield. Under Christian Culture, Reviews, Theology Tags: American Dream, American Patriot’s Bible, bible, Christian Culture, evangelicalism, Nationalism, review, Scripture
America has a rich history rooted in the Christian faith, drawing many principles from Scripture. And while this is true, it does not lend us the conclusion that America was a "Christian nation," even at our founding. Such an assumption is absurd and presents a misguided interpretation of history and ... Read More
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American Patriot’s Bible – Words Cannot Describe
Posted On Monday, 17 Aug 2009 By David Westerfield. Under Christian Culture, Reviews, Theology Tags: American Dream, American Patriot's Bible, Christian Culture, evangelicalism, Nationalism, review, Scripture
American Patriot's Bible: combining God's infallible Word with the idolatry of American nationalism.
If there is anything that really gets my blood boiling, it is any piece of merchandise or any program or movement that holds up the idea that being an American equals being a converted, born-again Christian, something plaguing ... Read More
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The Shack – A Review
Posted On Friday, 19 Jun 2009 By David Westerfield. Under Christian Culture, Culture, Reviews, Theology Tags: Penal Substitution, review, substitutionary atonement, The Shack, Trinity, William P. Young
There are so many reviews that have done a fine job of explaining the pros and cons of this book that I don't feel I need to go into this for very long.
First, I'll just say that after reading it, the picture of God's sovereignty and reasons for ordaining that ... Read More
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Liberating a Captive Church – The Foreword to Christless Christianity
Posted On Thursday, 30 Apr 2009 By David Westerfield. Under Christian Culture, Philosophy of Ministry, Reviews, Theology Tags: book, Christless Christianity, contemporary Christianity, critique, evangelicalism, michael horton, Monergism Books, review, solution
Here we are in the North American church—conservative or liberal, evangelical or mainline, Protestant or Catholic, emergent or otherwise—cranking along just fine, thank you. So we’re busy downsizing, becoming culturally relevant, reaching out, drawing in, making disciples, managing the machinery, utilizing biblical principles, celebrating recovery, user-friendly, techno savvy, finding the ... Read More
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Shack Author William P. Young Explicitly Denies Penal Substitution (MP3)
Posted On Tuesday, 10 Mar 2009 By David Westerfield. Under Audio, Christian Culture, Personal, Reviews, Theology Tags: Audio, Denial, Heresy, Interview, MP3, Penal Substitution, review, The Shack, William P. Young, William Young
Interview conducted by Kendall Adams with William P. Young, author of The Shack: http://rock-life.com/files/shakcomp.mp3
(To hear the specific denial, fast-forward 16 minutes into the audio)
I realize many people have a love affair with The Shack. I know some of those very people. They find it to have really given them a ... Read More
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Since When Did Sesame Street Go Ghetto?
Posted On Monday, 09 Feb 2009 By David Westerfield. Under Apologetics, Culture, Reviews, Theology Tags: children's education, Christian review, review, secularism, secularization, sesame street, worldview
I used to love this show growing up. It was very influential in my early developmental years. I loved all the characters and the songs and it used to be a defining time during the weekdays when I knew my dad was coming home from work. Needless to say, I ... Read More
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Windows 7 Beta – An Initial Review
Posted On Saturday, 10 Jan 2009 By David Westerfield. Under Reviews, Technology Tags: advantages, beta, disadvantages, file, networking, review, system, windows, windows 7
With permission, this is an email I received from a co-worker named Nathan Abbott, who sent me a quick run down of the improvements and drawbacks to Windows 7 Beta after testing it this morning. Sounds like there are still some things Microsoft needs to improve, like the TCP/IP network ... Read More
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The ‘I Am Second’ Campaign – A Review
Posted On Sunday, 21 Dec 2008 By David Westerfield. Under Christian Culture, Culture, Philosophy of Ministry, Reviews, Theology Tags: calvinist, Christian Culture, evangelicalism, fad, gimmicks, I am second, iamsecond.com, perspective, reformed, review
Updated 4/16/2009:
Since I originally wrote this, I have become less leery of what the campaign is trying to do. My church is one of the churches to contact and we preach the Gospel. So, all that to say that though I still have some legitimate concerns concerning methodology, I'm not ... Read More
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Thoughts on Piper’s Book, The Future of Justification – A Partial Review
Posted On Tuesday, 02 Dec 2008 By David Westerfield. Under Apologetics, Reviews, Theology Tags: Future of Justification, John Piper, n.t. wright, review
In the past, just doing a cursory reading of some of N.T. Wright's statements on justification, I thought that I could at least grasp a basic concept of his understanding of this centrally important piece of the Gospel message. Then I picked up Piper's book. Now I'm even more confused ... Read More
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