BY FAITH WE UNDERSTAND

Proof of what is unseen.

ABOUT MARK WARD

BY FAITH WE UNDERSTAND

Proof of what is unseen.

ABOUT MARK WARD

Words of Controversial Wisdom from Someone Else Don’t Blame Me I Just Repeated It But I Do Think They Are Wise So Take Them Under Advisement and May the Lord Grant You Wisdom

Here are two arguments I took down from a conversation I had with a musically oriented older man who has significant seminary training. I offer them for your consideration; I thought they were wise: When people are dancing and acting without inhibition at a rock concert they're not dancing to a cultural association. And it's probably not primarily the text that's driving them. If someone says that the Scripture says anything about musical style, you might ask whether or not there are any...

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Obama Speaks to Poe Mill

I pray that the many black kids I love in the Poe Mill section of Greenville, SC, will hear their president's words: President Obama delivered a fiery sermon to black America on Thursday night, warning black parents that they must accept their own responsibilities by “putting away the Xbox and putting our kids to bed at a reasonable hour,” and telling black children that growing up poor is no reason to get bad grades. “No one has written your destiny for you,” he said, directing his remarks to...

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Pogue’s Productivity Secrets Revealed

My favorite tech reviewer agrees with me about how to use his e-mail inbox: I’m not a believer in the “empty your Inbox every day” philosophy; in fact, my Inbox is my To Do list, which works great. When I’ve dealt with something, I delete or file it. When I haven’t, its presence in that list reminds me that it needs doing. (I have a lot of e-mail folders. I also have a lot of “message rules” that file incoming mail automatically into appropriate folders.) The rest of his little post is worth...

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Ken Myers Says Something Wise—Not a News Flash

An insightful comment from Ken Myers of the Mars Hill Audio Journal, answering a question from the helpful Presbyterians at By Faith: By Faith: Christians often defend certain cultural resources and practices based on the logic that if God is using them, they must be good. Ken Myers: Well, I don’t think everything that happens is evidence of common grace. I have a high view of the common curse, too. The fact that God can use something doesn’t make it intrinsically valuable. God uses us all the...

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Harold Best on Evangelicalism

Harold Best, church musician, aesthetician, and no fundamentalist, in a discussion about American church music: One of these days we're going to be talking about evangelicals who were saved out of evangelicalism; and that day is probably on us right now. That quote hit me hard. It's true. It's weep-worthy.

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