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Baptists, Porn, Videogames, and My Generation | Simul Blog
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March 12, 2015 /. Baptists, Porn, Videogames, and My Generation. I wrote this piece a few months ago about video games. I got really charged up by an article I read that a friend sent to me, written by Russell Moore, that was published in 2012. I decided to publish this anyway because I think it’s still valid, albeit a bit of a cheap shot on the old boy (Perhaps he is a die-hard Xbox-er now? A brilliant cultural analysis from a leading theologian:. Russell Moore, in this article from Desiring God. 8216;l...
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Truth is I Love the Church: An Anonymous Letter | Simul Blog
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February 5, 2015 /. Truth is I Love the Church: An Anonymous Letter. A friend of Simul Blog asked us to publish this. We were glad to provide a public platform for these thoughts and concerns. 8212;———. This is one of the hardest letters I’ve ever had to write. These are hard things for me to say, but I know that they are devastating for you to hear. I know because I’ve watched you unravel when we had this conversation face to face. You presented the Law to me as though keeping it were attainable. Yo...
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Five Reasons I’m Scared of Grace | Simul Blog
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November 18, 2014 /. Five Reasons I’m Scared of Grace. 1 I’m scared of grace because it’s not abstract. I can handle abstract ideas. Up there in the ether of my imagination, I’m not afraid of theological ideas. Grace, unlike abstract theology, changes things. It disorients my daily experience with myself and God and others. It blows up more than just my theological categories. 2 I’m scared of grace because it’s not what I thought it was. I thought it was another word for, you know, Jesus. I thought.
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How to Do Good Works | Simul Blog
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December 9, 2014 /. How to Do Good Works. Faith simply does good works naturally and spontaneously. It is not naive to insist on that —. One has any inkling at all of what the explosion of justification is! 8221;) One doesn’t even worry whether it is a good work or not–one just does it. And after it is over, one forgets about it completely. That is what good works are like. They are probably those works we have forgotten all about. Gerhard Forde, Justification by Faith: a Matter of Death and Life. What t...
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Human vs. Law | Simul Blog
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February 1, 2015 /. Human vs. Law. Truth is I Love the Church: An Anonymous Letter. Taboos and How to Bludgeon Outsiders. Add yours →. February 2, 2015 — 11:35 am. There’s nothing wrong with the law, it simply shows us for what we are. Nice! Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out. Grace up...
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Where God Is | Simul Blog
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February 7, 2015 /. God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the silence of a mother who has infected her child with a virus that will end both their lives. God is in the cries heard under the rubble of war. God is in the debris of wasted opportunity and lives, and God is with us if we are with them. Baptists, Porn, Videogames, and My Generation. Truth is I Love the Church: An Anonymous Letter. Add yours →. A more than Great God to look for Stepping Toes. What they...
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No Cellphones at Church | Simul Blog
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January 23, 2015 /. No Cellphones at Church. If you have a hard time being corrected by people, it is likely because you have a hard time being corrected by God. 8220;Smart” phones. What a joke of a name. I think back to when my mom used to say, “Smart is an attitude, not an electronic device.” Oh, how I wish she could address my congregation. Were published in the American Scriptural Scholarship Quarterly (ASS-Q). How could I have known it would be worse? Candy Crush helps me sleep. Yours by Glory,.
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Taboos and How to Bludgeon Outsiders | Simul Blog
https://simulblog.com/2015/01/25/how-to-bludgeon
January 25, 2015 /. Taboos and How to Bludgeon Outsiders. As a kid, we had this Christian VHS tape. It was the animated story of three young kids who travel through a fantasy land and are tempted to dishonor God in many different ways. (I now realize this was the Christian version of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Idolatry, the animated characters sought to convey, was the act of giving ourselves over to cultural taboos. Partaking – or even. Will, so much as it is. I really didn’t want to. Then i...
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Score-Keepers Anonymous | Simul Blog
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January 12, 2015 /. The human race is postively addicted to keeping records and remembering scores. What we call our “life” is, for the most part, simply the juggling of accounts in our head. And yet, if God has announced anything in Jesus, it is that he, for one, has pensioned off the bookkeeping department permanently. No Cellphones at Church. How to Do Good Works. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public).
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