Those Who Eat Organic Still Die

Courtesy of Marc Hays, from the book The Authenticity Hoax. 

Seminary Update: Winter Classes and Their Books

I am finishing a class this Fall with Southern Seminary on "The Sermon on the Mount" with Dr. Jonathan Pennington. I opted for only one class this Fall, since I had bigger fish to fry (a wedding, a honeymoon, new marriage to cultivate).

This Winter I will be taking two classes. Winter terms are shorter and therefore more concentrated. After these two classes are completed I will have only three classes remaining, allowing me to graduate this Spring!

The two classes and their reading lists are as follows.

Christian Ethics and Human Sexuality- Dr. Russell Moore

Dr. Moore is the Dean of the School of Theology, and is Senior Pastor at Highview Baptist Church. See http://www.russellmoore.com/

1. The Meaning of Sex: Christian Ethics and the Moral Life, Dennis Hollinger

http://www.amazon.com/Meaning-Sex-Christian-Ethics-Moral/dp/0801035716/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1353788765&sr=1-1&keywords=the+meaning+of+sex+christian+ethics+and+the+moral+life

2. God, Marriage, and Family: Rebuilding the Biblical Foundation, Andreas Kostenberger and David Jones

http://www.amazon.com/God-Marriage-Family-Second-Rebuilding/dp/1433503646/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1353788765&sr=1-2&keywords=the+meaning+of+sex+christian+ethics+and+the+moral+life

3. Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community: Eight Essays, Wendell Berry

http://www.amazon.com/Sex-Economy-Freedom-Community-Essays/dp/0679756515/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1353789146&sr=1-1&keywords=Sex%2C+Economy%2C+and

4. Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body, John Paul II

http://www.amazon.com/Man-Woman-He-Created-Them/dp/0819874213/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1353789269&sr=1-1&keywords=John+Paul+ii

5. Southern Baptist Sexual Revolutionaries: Cultural Accommodation, Spiritual Conflict and the Baptist Vision of the Family- Dr. Russell Moore,

http://moodle.sbts.edu/file.php/14845/RDM_-_SWJT_-_Southern_Baptist_Sexual_Revolutionaries.pdf


History of the Baptists- Dr. Shawn Wright

Dr. Wright is an elder at Clifton Baptist Church, and a personal friend of Chris, Tiffany, Jared, and Maggie.

1.  Polity: Biblical Arguments on How to Conduct Church Life, Mark E. Dever, ed.

http://www.9marks.org/files/Polity.pdf

2. A History of the Baptists, Robert G. Torbet

http://www.amazon.com/History-Baptists-Robert-G-Torbet/dp/0817000747/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1353790000&sr=1-1&keywords=A+History+of+the+Baptists

3. Democratic Religion: Freedom, Authority, and Church Discipline in the Baptist South, 1785-1900, Gregory Wills

http://www.amazon.com/Democratic-Religion-Authority-Discipline-1785-1900/dp/0195160991/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1353790175&sr=1-1&keywords=Democratic+Religion%3A+Freedom%2C+Authority+and+Church+Discipline+in+the+Baptist+South%2C+1785-1900

4. Baptist Confessions of Faith, William Lumpkin

http://www.amazon.com/Baptist-Confessions-Faith-William-Lumpkin/dp/081700016X/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1353790538&sr=1-2&keywords=Baptist+Confessions+of+Faith%2C+William+Lumpkin

Jesus' Wife is Dead

Almost two months since my last post, this seemed to be an appropriate place to pick back up. Peter Williams of Tyndale House at Cambridge University writes about the latest on the manuscript of Jesus' alleged wife.

http://www.e-n.org.uk/6060-Jesus%27s-wife-found-dead.htm

Did Jesus Have a Wife?

Al Mohler analyzes the new papyrus discovery by Karen King of Harvard Divinity School.

http://www.albertmohler.com/2012/09/20/the-gospel-of-jesuss-wife-when-sensationalism-masquerades-as-scholarship/

Spending the Night Together Behind a Locked Door!

"You’re both going to experience something in a couple weeks—and you know what I’m talking about. After the wedding, you’ll check in at the hotel, maybe even feeling a little naughty. After all, the two of you are going to spend the entire night together. In bed! Behind a locked door!"

Kevin Leman, Sheet Music

The Pure in Heart Shall See God

Reading material from my Sermon on the Mount class. This is from Charles Quarles' commentary on "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God."

“Will see God” looks forward to that time when Jesus’ disciples will behold God in all of His glory and majesty. The words are not to be interpreted figuratively or mystically as if they referred to special insight into God’s person and nature or to a visionary experience. Nor should the promise be reduced to a sentimental level as if it referred to seeing God in the kindnesses of others. Although the early disciples saw God incarnate in the person of Jesus especially in events like the transfiguration, this promise like most of the others accompanying the Beatitudes anticipates eschatological fulfillment. In the new earth and the new heavens Jesus’ disciples will literally see God. 

OT figures longed for this great privilege. Moses came closest to experiencing it when he was placed in the cleft of the rock and allowed to behold the aftereffects of God’s radiance. However, even Moses was warned, “No one can see my face and live.” God’s presence is surrounded by unapproachable light (1 Tim 6: 16), a glory so great that sinners who attempt to look at it are destroyed by it. The new Moses promised His followers what even the old Moses could not experience. When believers are resurrected and glorified and every trace of sin is removed from them, they will have unhindered fellowship with God even to the extent of seeing Him. Those who “seek the face of the God of Jacob” (Ps 24: 6) will see Him at last.

Charles L. Quarles, Sermon On The Mount: Restoring Christ's Message to the Modern Church 

Life is Cheap in Norway: C.S. Lewis on the Sentence of Anders Breivik

John Piper has a helpful article dealing with Norway's sentence of a man who killed 77 people to only 21 years in prison.

http://www.desiringgod.org/blog/posts/life-is-cheap-in-norway-c-s-lewis-on-the-sentence-of-anders-breivik