Category Archives: Quotations

Links and Notes for April 5

Posted on April 5, 2012 by PaulVK

Peter Berger notes the death of one of the Death of God theologians. The text to the song “I Serve a Risen Savior” or “He Lives“. Interesting note on the wikipedia article how some conservative Christians have protested the hymn. … Continue reading →

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Links and Notes for April 4

Posted on April 4, 2012 by PaulVK

NYT: Puberty before 10 the new normal?  Neil de Koning on the Foolishness of God and the paucity of obvious pragmatic solutions found in Holy Week.  Review of when God Talks Back. A very interesting review of the shape of … Continue reading →

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Notes from Tim Keller’s Sermon “Joy”

Posted on April 4, 2012 by PaulVK

This was part of Keller’s series on the fruit of the Spirit entitled “Real Signs of the Spirit”. This sermon was on Joy and was preached on April 18, 2010. The text was Romans 5:1-11 Series Review: One of the … Continue reading →

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Links and Notes from March 30

Posted on March 30, 2012 by PaulVK

The Bible and Science Tim Keller white paper on science and creation from biologos. Also CT news piece on biologos conference in NYC. Perceptions of Calvinism Rachel Held Evans got corrected in her quick and dirty lumping of Calvinists with … Continue reading →

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Links and Notes from March 27

Posted on March 27, 2012 by PaulVK

Blog piece in Out of Ur by Skye Jethani about how Christian political alignment with the religious right is hurting the church.  Couple of other pieces linked in the article. One from Foriegn Affairs about why mixing religion and politics is … Continue reading →

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Links and Notes from March 23 2012

Posted on March 23, 2012 by PaulVK

Tim Keller is doing a series on http://Biologos.org . In part three he makes this important point. A plausibility structure is a ‘given’ supported by enormous social pressure. The writings of the new atheists here are important to observe because their … Continue reading →

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Tim Keller quotes BB Warfield in a sermon on miracles

Posted on March 16, 2012 by PaulVK

The sermon is entitled “Healing the Sick” an was from March 4, 2012. Great quote from BB Warfield. http://www.mbrem123.com/bible/miracle1.php WHEN OUR Lord came down to earth He drew heaven with Him. The signs which accompanied His ministry were but the trailing … Continue reading →

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The Offense of God

Posted on March 15, 2012 by PaulVK

A couple of illustration from Tim Keller’s sermon “Out of Egypt”  from Feb 19, 2012 This passage starts about minute 15. Aldous Huxley in “Ends and Means” (Tim Keller says “ways and means”) Looks like the book is about to be … Continue reading →

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March 5 links and thoughts

Posted on March 5, 2012 by PaulVK

Books and Culture is a wonderful product done by the CT people. Today I finally got a chance to read Dale Van Kley’s review of Brad Gregory’s “Unintended Reformation”. http://www.booksandculture.com/articles/2012/marapr/rotstarted.html?paging=off . My apology for the pay-wall. I like books and culture and … Continue reading →

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Dostoevsky’s Quote on the moment of eternal harmony

Posted on February 6, 2012 by PaulVK

“I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish like a pitiful mirage, like the despicable fabrication of the impotent and infinitely small Euclidean mind … Continue reading →

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