I am taking a two week sabbatical from blogging. See you in mid-July.
Mooney
Posted by: jeffmooney | June 29, 2009
Two Week Break
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Posted by: jeffmooney | June 29, 2009
ISRAEL: CHURCH SHOWERED WITH STONES IN NORTH
Posted by: jeffmooney | June 28, 2009
Mark Talbot and Suffering
John Piper, reflecting on Mark Talbot’s 2005 talk on suffering: “Everybody knew we were hearing one of the most authentic, powerful words on suffering we’d ever heard.”
Mark is one of the most insightful people I know–a careful thinker who cares deeply about the gospel and about hurting people, and whose mind and heart is tethered to God’s word.
You can get a taste of who he is in the following video, where he briefly discusses his conversion, his accident, and his understanding of what it means to be a Christian philosopher:
Posted in Christianity, Suffering, The Cross, The Gospel | Tags: God's sovereignty, Suffering, The Gospel
Posted by: jeffmooney | June 26, 2009
If You Want to Be Relevant for Prostitutes
If you want to be relevant, say, for prostitutes, don’t watch a movie with a lot of tumbles in a brothel. Immerse yourself in the gospel, which is tailor-made for prostitutes; then watch Jesus deal with them in the Bible; then go find a prostitute and talk to her. Listen to her, not the movie. Being entertained by sin does not increase compassion for sinners.
Read the whole thing, which includes an apology for sinfully snapping at a questioner at the Advance conference, and more thoughts on TV, movies, and especially nudity.
Posted in Christianity, Church, Jesus Christ, The Cross, The Gospel, theology | Tags: evangelism, Sin, The Cross, The Gospel
Posted by: jeffmooney | June 26, 2009
Robust Weakness
Emmett Tyrrell has written a provocative article concerning Obama’s seeming paralysis concerning the extraordinarily urgent situation in Iran. He opens his article as follows.
WASHINGTON — The anti-government protests in Iran following the government’s rigged elections are doubtless a little more than the “robust debate” among Iranians that President Barack Obama welcomed during the election. Some of the debaters have been shot dead. Others have been hustled off to jail. I wonder if this is an eye-opener for our novice president.
He summarizes.
Increasingly it is apparent that we not only have a very unseasoned president in the White House but also a very weak one. At a surprisingly early point in his presidency, Obama’s program is in disarray. On healthcare he is under fire from the left and the right. His Cap-and-Trade policy is in trouble. This week the Hill reports that “Congressional Democrats are largely ignoring President Obama’s $19.8 billion in budget cuts.” His Democrats on Capitol Hill are intent on cuts that he has not asked for, some of which shave funds for his priorities.
Let the mainstream media purr on about this president’s mastery of government. My sense is that he is out of his depth. His dithering over the Iranian protests is but one bloody example.
Read the entire post here.
Posted by: jeffmooney | June 25, 2009
TURKEY: ALLEGED ‘MIDDLEMAN’ IN MALATYA MURDERS A NO-SHOW
Posted by: jeffmooney | June 25, 2009
Dr. Borger Testimony
My good friend, Todd Borger, speaks about his beautiful little girl, Anna who was killed in an accident. This is a great testimony to a father’s love and a beautiful little life devoted to Jesus.
more about “SBTS – Resources – Dr. Borger Testimony“, posted with vodpod
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Posted by: jeffmooney | June 25, 2009
The Dream Youth Pastor – A Parody
Here is a hilarious parody on the current perceptions of the “successful” youth minister. Its a little long and has a bit of a corny ending but is worth your while . . . especially if you work with students. Enjoy!
Posted in Christianity, Church, Pop Culture, humor | Tags: Church, humor
Posted by: jeffmooney | June 25, 2009
Great Quote – Keller
There are two ways to read the Bible. The one way to read the Bible is that it’s basically about you: what you have to do in order to be right with God, in which case you’ll never have a sure and certain hope, because you’ll always know you’re not quite living up. You’ll never be sure about that future. Or you can read it as all about Jesus. Every single thing is not about what you must do in order to make yourself right with God, but what he has done to make you absolutely right with God. And Jesus Christ is saying, “Unless you can read the Bible right, unless you can understand salvation by grace, you’ll never have a sure and certain hope. But once you understand it’s all about me, Jesus Christ, then you can know that you have peace. You can know that you have this future guaranteed, and you can face anything.”
Tim Keller
Posted in Bible, Biblical Languages, Biblical Studies, Biblical Theology, Christianity, Church, Hermeneutics, theology | Tags: Biblical Theology, Hermeneutics
Posted by: jeffmooney | June 23, 2009
CT and The Stoning of Soraya M.
Peter T. Chattaway writes about the upcoming movie, The Stoning of Soraya M in Christianity Today .
Timing, they say, is everything. The Stoning of Soraya M., which depicts the rigged trial and execution of an Iranian woman whose husband has grown tired of her, goes into limited release this Friday after playing at a few film festivals—and it happens to be coming out at a time when the eyes of the world are on Iran and the crackdown that has taken place there against the protestors who claim the June 12 election was rigged by the authorities.
Jim Caviezel as journalist Freidoune SahebhamHowever, when CT Movies spoke to producer Steve McEveety and co-star Jim Caviezel (who played Jesus in The Passion of the Christ) about the film, the election was still a few days away—so they never had a chance to address any of the connections that may exist between their movie and the headlines that are currently shaking the world.
They did, however, discuss how volatile the situation is in the Middle East, and how it took a lot of courage for writer-director Cyrus Nowrasteh, an American filmmaker of Persian descent, and his cast of mostly Iranian actors (including Shohreh Aghdashloo, who was Oscar-nominated for House of Sand and Fog) to make the movie that they did.
Read the entire article here.
Posted in Persecution, Women, Women's Rights | Tags: Persecution, Women's Rights
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