Round the Sphere Again: Five

Symptoms
Five spiritual symptoms that are commonly misdiagnosed:

1. Remorse misdiagnosed as repentance.
2. Selfish ambition misdiagnosed as God’s direction.
3. Rebellion misdiagnosed as spiritual drought.
4. Attendance misdianosed as holiness.
5. Discipline misdiagnosed as persecution.

 Read the explanations of these points at The Cripplegate.

Reasons
Five good reasons not to tweet the sermon:

1. Tweeting suggests that the sermon is as much for the global church as the local church.
2. Tweeting changes your focus from yourself to others.
3. Tweeting reduces a sermon to it’s tweetability. 
4. Tweeting is two-way.
5. Tweeting distracts people around you. 

Read the whole post at Challies.com.

This Week in Housekeeping

I’ve recently updated these Theological Term posts.

canon of scripture

• Added links to two excellent things I saw recently: Definitions of the Term Canon (pdf) and How Did the New Testament Canon Develop? (video) by Michael J. Kruger.  

biblical hermeneutics

• Fixed the link to D. A. Carson’s Must I Learn How to Interpret the Bible?

regeneration

• Added related terms conversion, justification, monergism, saving faith, synergism.
• Fixed formatting issues.

A Catechism for Girls and Boys

Part III: Questions about Salvation

73. Q. What is meant by the atonement?
       A. The atonement consists of Christ’s satisfying divine justice, by his sufferings and death, in the place of sinners.

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