The Blog Of Dysfunction

From my feed reader, goodies for today.

Over at Cerulean Sanctum Dan issues a “myths about christianity” challenge. I like these. Hopefully some good articleas and studies will come out of the post. It’s also a good list to reflect upon to see if we have been guilty of any of these.

• Christians are more intolerant of other people than non-Christian
• Christianity causes more problems in the world than any other religion.

Kristin Chesemore writes at Girl Talk about trusting god about marriage and quotes some beautiful stuff by  jerry bridges. It is  different from a typical article on the topic  and gives insight even  for those like me, who are not looking to get married, about  our walk in faith in general.

Did I really believe what I had been taught from Scripture about God’s sovereignty? Did I trust God that He had a perfect plan for my life? Was I confident that He would reveal His will to me, in His good time?

“God in His infinite wisdom knows exactly what adversity we need to grow more and more into the likeness of His Son.  He not only knows what we need but when we need it and how best to bring it to pass in our lives.  He is the perfect teacher or coach.  His discipline is always exactly suited for our needs.  He never over trains us by allowing too much adversity in our lives.”  Page 122

Douglas Groothuis  shares a special kind of new year resolution; a one of refusals.

1. I refuse to waste time on trivia: that means 95% of popular culture. Instead, I will center on study, teaching, preaching, writing, and mentoring.
8. I refuse to waste time on small talk. Instead, I will endeavor to make all my words count for eternity.
9. I refuse to speak in cliche’s or outworn adjectives (”awesome,” “cool,” etc.). Instead I will try to find the right word for the right thought. Or say nothing.
10. I refuse to pose. Instead, I will live.

Difficult stuff.

Joe carter does a insightful post on the morality argument. The comments are a treasure trove so don’t miss them.

Scott McKnight on Is Christianity credible 1, 2. Again, the comments have some good thought so read through them.

That’s it for now.

ciao

schizo

PS: Nice title for the post eh?