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Archives for May 2011

John Piper Interviews Rick Warren on Doctrine — And Thoughts on the Significance of Their Relationship

May 27, 2011 by mattperman

The video of John Piper interviewing Rick Warren is now online. Here’s some of what John Piper had to say about it at the Desiring God blog: The nature of the interview is mainly doctrinal. I read Rick’s The Purpose Driven Life with great care. I brought 20 pages of quotes and questions to the […]

Filed Under: 1 Theology, Personal Effectiveness

Frontline Missions

May 25, 2011 by mattperman

Andy Naselli posts about 4 DVDs from Frontline Missions that have deeply impacted and challenged he and his wife. I’m looking forward to watching them myself at his recommendation. Here are two endorsements of the videos: Are you afraid to open your eyes and see death and destruction in the world? Dispatches from the Front […]

Filed Under: Missions

JI Packer on the Problem of Unanswered Prayer

May 23, 2011 by mattperman

JI Packer, in Knowing Christianity: We need not be discouraged by the problem of supposedly unanswered prayer. I say “supposedly” because I challenge the supposition. While God has not bound himself to hear unbelievers’ prayers, his promises to answer the prayers of his own children are categorical and inclusive. It must then be wrong to […]

Filed Under: Prayer

Updating Edward's Teaching on Heavenly Rewards

May 11, 2011 by mattperman

Recently I’ve been thinking a bit more about Edwards teaching on heavenly rewards. Briefly, Edwards teaches, as the Bible seems to (Luke 19:13-19; 2 Corinthians 4:17-18; Ephesians 6:8), that there are degrees of rewards in the new heavens and new earth. But this will not be the cause of any unhappiness, for it doesn’t mean […]

Filed Under: Personal Effectiveness, The New World

Christianity is a Religion of Joy, Not Prohibitions

May 9, 2011 by mattperman

William Wilberforce, in A Practical View of Christianity: My grand objection to the religious system still held by many who declare themselves orthodox Churchmen…is, that it tends to render Christianity so much a system of prohibitions rather than of privilege and hopes, and thus the injunction to rejoice, so strongly enforced in the NT, is […]

Filed Under: Christian Freedom, Sanctification

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