Tim Keller on Strong Rationalism

“Strong rationalism assumes that it is possible to achieve ‘the view from nowhere,’ a position of almost complete objectivity, but virtually all philosophers today agree that is impossible. We come to every individual evaluation with all sorts of experiences and background beliefs that strongly influence our thinking and the way our reason works. [...]

Tim Keller: No Objective, Universal Consensus

“There is no objective, universal consensus about what…it means to be happy and fully human.”
–Tim Keller, The Reason For God pg.18

Mark Driscoll: Christians Should Be Fun To Hang Out With

“Maybe the true mark of a Christian is someone you would eat chicken wings with, and shoot pool with or throw darts with or go to the game with, not just if they could exegete the Greek text and beat you in Bible jeopardy like some Sunday School jerk.  Maybe the true mark of a [...]

Why Read Until Your Eyes Are Sore?

Because the world has been rescued by three words:

“It is written”

Cornelius Plantinga: Questions Are OK

“It’s no disgrace to have more questions than answers. It’s not even surprising. There is much we don’t know about the world, and much we don’t know about the meaning of Scripture.”
– Cornelius Plantinga, President, Calvin Theological Seminary, Engaging God’s World pg. 169

Dallas Willard: Jesus’ Message Not Religious

“The strongest impression on my mind has always been the person and teachings of Jesus Christ… I’ve never moved away from the basic project of “knowing Him and making Him known.” This is not a particularly religious project; it’s a human need. It is out of love of my neighbor, as well as [...]

Choose Your Own Adventure

“It can be proved by the Torah, the Prophets and the other sacred writings, that man is led along the road he wishes to follow.”
– Makkot, 10b

Buechner on the Bible

“The Bible is not first of all a book of moral truth. I would call it instead a book of truth about the way life is. Those strange old scriptures present life as having been ordered in a certain way, with certain laws as inextricably built into it as the law of gravity [...]

Thinking Through the Big Picture

I’ve been thinking through the big picture of the bible and wrote down some stuff from books that I’ve been reading, and also from Adam Ellis’ summary on these blogs. Ellis’ words are in bold.
WHO ARE WE?
We are the people of God, created in his image. That image is distorted by the Fall but is [...]

G.K. Chesterton’s Preface

“It is the purpose of the writer to attempt an explanation, not of whether the Christian Faith can be believed, but of how he has personally come to believe it.”
–G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy