Good morning. Grace and peace to you.
(Yesterday on the blog: Life Without Romans 8:28)
On Coffee-Sipping in the Sanctuary
I guess John Piper recently caused a bit of a brouhaha when he tweeted about sipping coffee in the church sanctuary. Here he explains what he meant and why he sees coffee as a relatively inconsequential symptom of something bigger. “Let me try to get right to the heart of the matter. The heart of the matter is not coffee in the sanctuary. That’s only a symptom, and there are lots of other symptoms of what I’m concerned about.”
I think a lot of people will identify with Melissa’s thoughts about aging peacefully. “Here, in the middle of a department store, my eyes filled with tears, and I was embarrassed. Embarrassed that I cared so much that I’m never going to wear a dress like that again in my life. I was embarrassed that I haven’t transcended these ideas of what it is to be a woman, that I haven’t devoted more of my mind and my heart to purely spiritual endeavors instead of physical ones.”
How ‘Evangelical’ Are Iowa’s Evangelicals?
I’m glad Thomas Kidd asks and
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