Posted on April 10, 2009 by mattmo865
Experience the Passion of Christ — in 140-character bursts. In a marriage of Christian tradition and digital technology, Wall Street’s Trinity Church is using the micro-blogging service Twitter to perform the story of Jesus Christ.
The main characters will tweet the Passion play for three hours beginning at noon on Good Friday. The feed also [...]
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Posted on April 9, 2009 by mattmo865
Why do most Christians refer to the day of Christ’s resurrection, when His victory over death, hell and the grave was won and his atoning sacrifice was shown to be sufficient to remove God’s wrath and the penalty of sin, with a name that comes from pagan goddess worship?
“The true meaning and definition of the [...]
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Posted on April 1, 2009 by mattmo865
And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
Colossians 3:17, ESV
Stephen Altrogge, at The Blazing Center, has a thoughtful post on using Facebook wisely for the glory of God. He approaches the subject in terms of three categories: relationship [...]
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Posted on March 17, 2009 by mattmo865
Josh Brahm provides detailed documentation of how the media got it wrong – again.
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Posted on March 12, 2009 by mattmo865
An article in Time magazine covers 10 Ideas Changing the World Right Now, and I bet you’re going to be surprised at #3: “The New Calvinism”. The article gives shout-outs to John Piper, Mark Driscoll, and Albert Mohler as examples of the growing evangelical Calvinist movement. David Crowder and Colin Hansen are also mentioned. [...]
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Posted on March 2, 2009 by mattmo865
President Obama has announced plans to rescind the “conscience rule”, which protects healthcare workers from losing their jobs if they decline to perform “treatments” that violate their personal, moral, or religious beliefs. More specifically, it protects those who do not want to participate in “treatments” that destroy unborn human life.
This is no surprise to anyone [...]
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Posted on February 27, 2009 by mattmo865
Yesterday would have been Johnny Cash’s 77th birthday. In an essay from 2005, Russell D. Moore comments on Johnny Cash’s unique influence on the “MTV generation”, that still lives on after his death. He writes:
“Cash always seemed to connect. When other Christian celebrities tried to down-play sin and condemnation in favor of upbeat [...]
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