The Church As Apologetic
Truths Undergirding the Church as Apologetic The two key truths undergirding the book are gospel and community. Gospel is the revealed...
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Shawn Young
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Liturgical Creatures?
James K. A. Smith Baker Academic: 2009 According to Smith, we are desiring creatures more than we are thinking animals. What we love...
Shawn Young
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Parish Model and the PCA
In my earlier post “Connoisseurs of Churches” I quoted C. S. Lewis’ Screwtape Letters. In the passage I quoted, Screwtape (the mentor...
Shawn Young
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Connoisseurs of Churches
Trends that C.S. Lewis discerned about seventy years ago seem to have reached maturity in our day. While he often seems prophetic in that...
Shawn Young
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Is Corporate Worship Dispensable?
In worship God calls his people into his presence so that he can cleanse their hearts, renew their love for him, and refresh their vision...
Shawn Young
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Why We Need Christian Liturgy
We believe we can achieve dominance through science and technology. Religion may be helpful for private life, but it cannot deal with the...
Shawn Young
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Becoming vs. Belonging?
As a church we have a growing sense of calling to see God use us to draw people to Himself. We’re earnestly praying and seeking Him in...
Shawn Young
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What Churches Must Learn From Penn State
Whether you like Mohler or not, I think he is spot on when it comes to this blog post about what churches must learn from the Penn State...
Shawn Young
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The Future of Megachurches?
The Aquila Report recently linked an article by Skye Jethani exploring the future of megachurches. Jethani does not write as an adversary...
Shawn Young
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Calvin on the Efficacy of the Lord's Supper
To summarize: our souls are fed by the flesh and blood of Christ in the same way that bread and wine keep and sustain physical life….Even...
Shawn Young
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How Nice Becomes Insidious
Although Creasy Dean is sympathetic to the motivation to be nice, particularly in a pluralistic context, she rightly concludes it is...
Shawn Young
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The Problem in Ministering to Youth
I’ve only read the first chapter of Almost Christian so far, but oh what a first chapter it is. I have quibbles/questions with a few...
Shawn Young
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Church Analogies That Fall Short
Dr. VanDrunen identifies a couple of popular analogies used to convey the importance of the church. One analogy is that going to church...
Shawn Young
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Attitudes Toward Church: Some Pitfalls
Shane Lems has a recent post that I found quite useful in thinking about the church, and I hope you will too. Those of you who know me,...
Shawn Young
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Leadership as Obligated Reponsibility for Others
“Through the instructions he gives to the new minister at Crete, as well as to those Titus will appoint as church leaders, Paul cautions...
Shawn Young
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The Politics of Abortion?
Dr. Brian Lee has written about the church’s involvement in the political debate concerning abortion (HT: the Heidelblog). I said a...
Shawn Young
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Reformed Worship (Part 4)
Hart and Muether point out that there is no contradiction between whether God is pleased by our worship, and how we as worshipers are...
Shawn Young
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Reformed Worship? (Part 3)
Good liturgy necessarily arises out of a proper understanding of the church. But what is a good Reformed liturgy? “It is a liturgy that...
Shawn Young
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The Big Reformed Tent of the PCA
For those of you who have read Tim Keller’s paper (or if you haven’t read it, you can find it here) presented in his discussion at...
Shawn Young
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Individualism Negating the Individual
Carl Trueman's latest essay is over at Reformation21. I was interested in his point particularly as it informs our worship, and closely...
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