Blog Archive
for February, 2007
New Wine in Blue Suede Shoes? Christianity and Pop Culture
— Wednesday, February 28th, 2007 —
Keep Reading...Jonah Yancey Moore
— Tuesday, February 20th, 2007 —
Last night after the plenary session of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee meeting in Nashville, I had a call from my wife Maria, believing herself to be in the beginnings of labor pains…even though she was three weeks or so from the due date. She was right. I darted up Interstate 65 as fast as sanctification and technology would allow. After a long night, our son Jonah Yancey Moore was born at 9:30 this morning.
As is appropriate for coastal Mississippians, our son was born on Mardi Gras. He is the fourth of four boys, and will meet his three brethren in a few minutes. We are grateful to a Father God for bringing this child safely to us.
Above all things, though we pray that this young Jonah would be a godly man, valiant and loving and passionate for Christ Jesus. We prayed for his coming, and we prayed for his safety. Now we’ll pray every day for years that he will know, in the fullness of time and by the power of the Spirit, what his namesake learned: that God delivers His anointed from the belly of death itself. We pray that He will look away from himself and to Another.
We pray he’ll one day confess with brokenness and gladness, “Behold, One greater than Jonah is here” (Matt 12:41).
Keep Reading...Babies Without Names
— Sunday, February 18th, 2007 —
In a truly stomach-turning report, CNN notes that a bag containing the skeletal remains of at least six babies was found on the grounds of a Christian missionary hospital in India. CNN notes that the bones could be from stillborn babies who were not buried properly, or they could be the remains of sex-selection feticides or infanticides.
This is hardly an Indian-specific problem. Would that we could blame such things on a “backward” civilization bereft of “progress” and “Enlightenment.” India is a rapidly industrializing country, a nuclear power with a cultural heritage and a Hollywood commerce that is surpassed only by our own. In the United States of America, the only reason we so rarely find such bones is not because of our moral “progress.” It is instead because our abortuaries have the technical “progress” to grind the babies to more unrecognizable bits. There should be a sadness here. We don’t know the sexes of these babies, and we certainly don’t know their names. There are no birth certificates or death certificates, no identifiable next of kin, no gravestone.
They were never named, and were disposed of with a cruel efficiency.
Keep Reading...Counseling and the Authority of Christ: Question and Answer Session
— Friday, February 16th, 2007 —
Keep Reading...Walk Unlike an Egyptian
— Saturday, February 10th, 2007 —
You’ll find a new feature here on the site: links to mp3 audio of an ongoing series of Bible teaching entitled “Exit Strategy: The Gospel of Jesus in the Book of Exodus.” The series will also be accessible via podcast starting Monday. The series emerges from my Sunday morning Bible study at Ninth and O Baptist Church here in Louisville, Kentucky.
The Exodus account isn’t someone else’s story. It is the story of our ancestors, the people through whom we have our Christ. And, even more importantly, the Exodus account typifies the journey we have already made, through the waters of the wrath of God into the promised inheritance at the right hand of God, and the journey we are currently making, through the wilderness of this present darkness to the promised Kingdom of our Christ.
Keep Reading...Robert P. George @ Southern Seminary
— Friday, February 9th, 2007 —
Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University, delivered the Norton Lectures at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary yesterday and today. The lectures dealt with issues ranging from embryo ethics to marriage to judicial usurpation of American democracy. The question and answer sessions were valuable as well with Professor George fielding and answering questions from Southern Seminary students on issues ranging from sexual morality to pastoral response to infertility.
You can access Professor George’s three lectures online here.
Professor George, a member of the President’s Council on Bioethics, is in the thick of virtually every legal and cultural struggle of significance to Christians today. He is also the nation’s preeminent natural law theorist. His lectures at Southern Seminary were well-received, and have provoked a flurry of hallway conversations, which is always a good sign.
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