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November: What you might have missed

December 1, 2010 in Life, Theology as Life with 0 Comments

In case you forgot about the internet last month, here is what you might have missed:

Most read posts and topics in November:

On the right to vote…
On the new NIV…
Tim Keller on Pastors and Study…
On Veterans Day and Suicide…
On 7 years (dating + marriage) with Vivien…

Interesting Google searches that brought visitors here:

“tyson guthrie twitter”
“doctors and pastors”
“why the church is important”

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It might just cost you something

December 1, 2010 in Current Events, Life, Theology, Theology as Life with 1 Comment

Yesterday I came across this article in the Boston Globe which mentioned that several public school districts in the Boston area are considering removing religious holidays (Good Friday, Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashana) from their calendar, opting instead to hold classes on those days.

This would be great for at least two reasons:

Many Christians who oppose this change would realize that they rarely actually do anything religious from 7:30am-2:30pm on Good Friday. I’m all for extra days off from school, but don’t pretend that your reasons for wanting those days off are noble.
Christians who do observe Good Friday during the day, and require time away from school in order to do so will have to count the cost of taking an unexcused day off.

Anything that exposes hypocrisy in our hearts and causes us to pay a price for our convictions is for our good and our eventual joy.

Thoughts?

Tim Keller to Pastors: Study Well for your People

November 10, 2010 in Seminary, Theology, Theology as Life with 3 Comments

In reading through Dr. Tim Keller’s White Paper on Creation, Evolution and Christian Laypeople (available free here) I came across this quote from the introduction. What a great reminder to Pastors to study well for their people:

In short, if I as a pastor want to help both believers and inquirers to relate science and faith coherently, I must read the works of scientists, exegetes, philosophers, and theologians and then interpret them for my people. Someone might counter that this is too great a burden to put on pastors, that instead they should simply refer their laypeople to the works of scholars. But if pastors are not ‘up to the job’ of distilling and understanding the writings of scholars in various disciplines, how will our laypeople do it?

How much of a Pastor’s time should be spent studying and reading scholarly works?