Idolatry: You worship what you think about?

I received my copy of Tim Keller’s new book this week and have begun to work through it.  He made a statement that has caused me to pause and reflect.  I am certain that it will not the last. In explaining a quote by Archbishop William Temple, he explains,
the true god of your heart is [...]

Younger Generation of Evangelicals and Their Mission

Former speech writer for Republican president George W. Bush, Michael Gerson claims the younger generation of Evangelical Christians are shifting away from the social engagement models of the religious right.  Gerson proposes three reasons for this shift: “a recovery of scriptural emphasis, a revolt against the tone and style of the religious right, and the [...]

Post-Denominationalism

There has been much talk lately about the current era being post-denominational. This Christianity Today article offers an alternative view:

Spiritual Life and Religious Life: A Contrast of Faith

Carl Barth, in his book The Christian Life, suggests that “the modern usage of the term ’spiritual’ has wrongly been put in embarrassing proximity to the word ‘religious.’”  By comparing the terms geistlich (spiritual) and geistig (religious), Barth concludes that at “at best [religion] can only serve the spiritual (geistlich) life of man and often [...]

The marginalized the work of the Spirit

In his work, The Word and the World, Emil Brunner said,
The Bible without Spirit is orthodoxy; Spirit without the Bible is mysticism or rationalism.  Scripture and the Holy Spirit as one – this was the conception of true revelation which was held by the reformers (90).
As a product of modernism and Christian traditions formed in [...]