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Tullian Tchividjian Should Tell Tim Keller to Read Aquinas
Tim Keller and DA Carson, leaders of the Gospel Coalition, recently and unceremoniously booted a fellow member, the high-profile grandson of Billy Graham, Tullian Tchividjian. The offense? Heresy. As a...
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Why Worship is Better than Mary Kay
A folktale about worship goes thusly: Once there was a rich man who fell in love with a maiden, who was beautiful in form and more beautiful still in character. The sight of her brought him much joy...
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You Don’t Exist (Until Jesus Takes the Righthand Seat)
On the liturgical calendar, this Sunday was Ascension Sunday. Seen narratively/historically, the Ascension shows the promises of the Christmas carols to have been true: God has made Jesus King. He’s...
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Joel Osteen is Right, You Should Pray for that Parking Space
For all the crap I give Joel Osteen for his toothy grin, his Dapper Dan hair, his swarmy, snake-oil salvation sales pitch and his dilution of the Gospel to the basest of our American prosperity-driven...
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It’s Absurd to Think You Can Defy God
My friend Morgan Guyton points out: ‘when Paul uses the term haeretikos in Titus 3:10 that gets translated into our term “heretic,” the problem with the person he’s describing is not the incorrectness...
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Is God Still the Creator If the World Doesn’t Exist?
I’ve become convinced that its important for the Church to inoculate our young people with a healthy dose of catechesis before we ship them off to college, just enough so that when they first hear...
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Nietzsche was Right: God Cannot Love Us
One of the things our youth have conveyed to our new youth director is their desire for catechesis before college. Training before we ship them off to college, just enough so that when they first hear...
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Sorry Calvinists, God Can’t Do Whatever God Wants
I’ve become convinced that its important for the Church to inoculate our young people with a healthy dose of catechesis before we ship them off to college, just enough so that when they first hear...
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How You Most Often Break the 5th Commandment
To all those who greet the headlines of innocents killed in Palestine and Christians murdered in Iraq with a collective yawn, the late Dominican philosopher Herbert McCabe has this caution: You’re...
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Aren’t All Religions Just Different Paths to the Same Goal?
I’ve become convinced that its important for the Church to inoculate our young people with a healthy dose of catechesis before we ship them off to college, just enough so that when they first hear...
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Is satan real?
I’ve become convinced that its important for the Church to inoculate our young people with a healthy dose of catechesis before we ship them off to college, just enough so that when they first hear...
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How Our Comments about Ferguson Violate the 1st Commandment
For proof that ordination does not confer upon the priest a shiny, new ontological status, you need look no further than the clergy group pages on Facebook. Over the past week I’ve had more than a few...
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Ken Ham is Wasting his Time: Adam was Not the First Human
I’ve become convinced that its important for the Church to inoculate our young people with a healthy dose of catechesis before we ship them off to college, just enough so that when they first hear...
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What Do Our Prayers Sound Like to God?
From the button down mind of Rev. Jason Micheli… We continued our sermon series on the Holy Spirit this past weekend with a look at Paul’s claim in Romans 8 that ‘we do not know how to pray as we...
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Victoria Osteen is Right, Your Worship Doesn’t Make God Happy
Anyone who’s known me for about a fruit fly’s lifespan knows that I feel about Joel Osteen the way I do genocide, testicular cancer and Verizon wireless. His toothy grin, his Dapper Dan hair, his...
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Do We Believe in Predestination?
I’ve been working on writing a catechism, a distillation of the faith into concise questions and answers with brief supporting scriptures that could be the starting point for a conversation. Cancer has...
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Freedom is Free
I’ve been working on writing a catechism, a distillation of the faith into concise questions and answers with brief supporting scriptures that could be the starting point for a conversation. Cancer has...
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What I Need to Hear
6/30/15 If NASA’s recent photos of Pluto caused you to feel optimistic about the human capacity for advancement, then you need only wait for the elevator at my oncologist’s office complex to be...
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Does Christmas Need the Cross?
For the past year, I’ve been working on writing a catechism, a distillation of the faith into concise questions and answers with brief supporting scriptures that could be the starting point for a...
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Ash Wednesday for Average Sinners
Here’s my sermon from Ash Wednesday. You can listen to below, in the sidebar to the right, or download the Tamed Cynic app here. Psalm 51 Maybe its the last dregs of chemo brain, but am I the only one...
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