September 2013

Housewife Theologan winners

Winners of the Housewife Theologian book give away have been announced. Visit Saved by Grace, Theologian by Default for the list of winners.

Bully Pulpit: Gobbledygook

Posted On Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Listen in as Carl Trueman and Todd Pruitt take to the Bully Pulpit. On this week’s Pulpit they discuss the means and goals of preaching. What role does evangelism play in preaching? How do Jesus and the Apostles teach men to preach? Today, many preachers give their congregations gobbledygook instead of solid, biblical meat each week. The Bible confronts us in our sinful state before God, and preachers need to bring that confrontation in through their sermons by turning their own pulpits into Bully Pulpits.

Listen in as Carl Trueman and Todd Pruitt take to the Bully Pulpit.  On this week’s Pulpit they discuss the means and goals of preaching.  What role does evangelism play in preaching?  How do Jesus and the Apostles teach men to preach?  Today, many preachers give their congregations gobbledygook instead of solid, biblical meat each week.  The Bible confronts us in our sinful state before God, and preachers need to bring that conf

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Spin on your drive

"On a lengthy drive between engagements yesterday, the 'Mortification of Spin' both edified and help the time pass. My thanks to Carl and Todd for your work in putting this together."

Guy Prentiss Waters, PhD
Professor of New Testament
Reformed Theological Seminary

Trivial Fascinations

Posted On Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Section: 
Mortification

Dr. Stephen Nichols, Research Professor of Christianity and Culture at Lancaster Bible College, stops by the “studio” once again to talk with Carl and Todd. After a rocky start they get to the point of discussion: the overwhelming cultural fascination with youth. The gang explains how the fixation our culture places on the young and pretty is idolatrous. And this idolatry has seeped into the church. How are we to respond? What is the Bible’s antidote for a youth-driven church? What do 80s rock stars and blues music have to do with anything? Listen to the Mortification of Spin to find out!

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Bully Pulpit: Unabashed Self Promotion

Posted On Wednesday, September 11, 2013
Section: 
Mortification

Carl from his pulpit and Todd from his heavily armed bunker kick off a new Mortification of Spin series, The Bully Pulpit. In this first episode, in light of a recent hypersexualized musical performance, Todd asks if the church has any credibility on sexual ethics and decency? Or does an unabashed desire for self promotion lie behind such public sexual escapades? Are pastors guilty of the same behavior when they promote themselves or their latest book in the pulpit or on Facebook? We need to be careful not to erode the boundary of what is appropriate for the public sphere and what is a appropriate for the private sphere or we are just as guilty as the pornographers.

Carl from his pulpit and Todd from his heavily armed bunker kick off a new Mortification of Spin series, The Bully Pulpit. In this first episode, in light of a recent hypersexualized musical performance,  Todd asks if the church has any credibility on sexual ethics and decency? Or does an unabashed desire for self promotion lie behind such public sexual escapades?

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Calming Liturgical Heartburn

Posted On Wednesday, September 04, 2013
Section: 
Mortification

If you get heartburn over the mention of the word "liturgy," you may find some proverbial antacid in the thoughtful conversation between our hosts on this episode of The Mortification of Spin. In fact, Carl and Todd remind us that our churches are all liturgical in one way or another - the question is whether we are basing the order and structure of our worship on Scripture or whether we're simply, shall we say, flying by the seat of our pants. Can the seat of our pants sufficiently guide us in corporate worship that is Christ-centered? If you've never opened The Book of Common Prayer, buckle up and listen in...you're bound to learn quite a bit from this helpful podcast.

If you get heartburn over the mention of the word "liturgy," you may find some proverbial antacid in the thoughtful conversation between our hosts on this episode of The Mortification of Spin.

The Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals is member supported and operates only by your faithful support. Thank you.