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Archives for January 2015

Where Theology and Sports Collide

January 28, 2015 by mattperman

Today TGC has a TGCVocations interview that I did with Kurt Earl, founder of Compete4Christ. Kurt is a teacher and coach who has done incredible thinking on how the gospel applies to coaching and athletics. Check out the interview, as well as Compete4Christ, to get a taste of his thinking. And, of course, as a huge Patriots […]

Filed Under: e Work and Vocation

Learning from the Heroes of the Faith — Especially Old Princeton

January 23, 2015 by mattperman

This is an interview with Gary Steward, a good friend of mine going all the way back to seminary and author of the just released Princeton Seminary (1812 – 1929): Its Lives and Leaders. I highly commend his book for everyone! How did you get interested in Old Princeton? While I was a student at South Dakota […]

Filed Under: History

Made to Flourish: A Pastor's Network for the Common Good

January 22, 2015 by mattperman

This is a guest post by Ben Stafford, a program associate at the Kern Foundation. Ben has an incredible understanding of the relationship between faith, work, and economics, and the role pastors need to play in helping build up the church more fully in a robust biblical view of vocation. How might pastors affirm the […]

Filed Under: e Work and Vocation

MLK's Letter from a Birmingham Jail: Do We Still Believe These Things Today?

January 19, 2015 by mattperman

A few weeks ago I read Martin Luther King Jr.’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail. It’s reputation is deserved. His understanding of justice, and ability to articulate it, is absolutely incredible. Here are a few of its key portions, summarized with some headings. And then at the end I have a few reflections on whether those who […]

Filed Under: Justice

Sam Storms on Insecurity in the Pastorate

January 15, 2015 by mattperman

Sam Storms, from his post What I Wish I’d Known: Reflections on Nearly 40 Years of Pastoral Ministry: 10. I wish I’d known about the destructive effects of insecurity in a pastor. This is less because I’ve struggled with it and more due to its effect I’ve seen in others. Why is insecurity so damaging? […]

Filed Under: Church Authority

Generous Justice

January 14, 2015 by mattperman

Tiim Keller speaking on his book, Generous Justice.  In my view, this is one of the most important books anyone can read this year. This message gives a good summary of the content in 30 minutes. I love the way he starts, pointing out how “many who are concerned about justice are not concerned about justification […]

Filed Under: Justice

Christians Need History, and Christians Need Heroes: Princeton Seminary (1812-1929)

January 6, 2015 by mattperman

My friend Gary Steward has just released his book Princeton Seminary (1812-1929): Its Leaders’ Lives and Works.  It has endorsements from JI Packer, Kevin DeYoung, Justin Taylor, and others. Here’s a short description: Many of the key ideas of the modern era, and Christian responses to them, were formulated at the time of “Old Princeton.” Gary […]

Filed Under: History

The Overstatement of NT Wright

January 5, 2015 by mattperman

In the upcoming book The Lost World of Adam and Eve, NT Wright has a chapter called “Paul’s Use of Adam [in Romans 5; 1 Cor 15] is More Interested in the Effect of Sin on the Cosmos Than in the Effect of Sin on Humanity and Has Nothing to Say About Human Origins: Excursus on Paul’s […]

Filed Under: Doctrine of Man

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