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We went so long without publishing a show that iTunes was right on the cusp of delisting us. I finally got a chance to log into a machine with iTunes on it and managed to find us in iTunes.

So, if you have an iTunes account, go find Theology Rocks and vote for us. (Lots of stars, now!)

I just realized that although Facebook is picking up the feed from this site, it's not displaying the media player for the podcast, and it's not displaying links to download the podcast, AND it's not giving people a link to the post or the site here.

Here's the link to last week's MP3 for the podcast: http://www.opendiscipleship.org/audio/download/287/Theology_...

Here's a link to OpenDiscipleship.org.

I'll have to add that info to my template, I guess.

I had already listened to a lecture series which Dr. Nash gave with this book as the text for the course. I'm glad I read the book. I'm actually considering re-listening to the lectures now.

I've seen notes for Mere Christianity where the whole book was covered in four weeks. I've done a study with one group in which we took one chapter per week (which means it takes almost an entire year to get through the book once you figure in Holidays and other interruptions). I thought we could force the book through at a run in 8 weeks....

Oh, my... I'm still thinking about what to think about this. I know people (lots of people) who believe this, but have not formalized it like the Abecedarians, and taken it to it's logical conclussion:

Abecedarians

I just finished Kingdom Triangle: Recover the Christian Mind, Renovate the Soul, Restore the Spirit's Power by J.P. Moreland.

This is a powerful book. Much has been made of The Shack, which I haven't read, but I know to be pretty pathetic post modernistic tripe. Sadly, books like Kingdom Triangle go unread by our Church leadership.

[Yeah, I'll read The Shack so that I can say I've read it, but I can know on authority that I don't need to read it to know what it is.]

"Some things are just better left unsaid... "

I think about this a lot. When we leave those things unsaid, we leave others in error. Sometimes we leave them in life-threatening error.

... the scandal of the evangelical mind is that there is not much of an evangelical mind.... Despite dynamic success at a popular level, modern American evangelicals have failed notably in sustaining serious intellectual life. They have nourished millions of believers in the simple verities of the gospel but have largely abandoned the universities, the arts and other realms of "high" culture.... The historical situation is ... curious. Modern evangelicals are the spiritual descendants of leaders and movements distinguished by probing, creative, fruitful attention to the mind.

Arianism is back, along with various other denials of the deity of Christ. I know for certain (testimony from their own mouths) that we have not less than two people in our Church who deny trinitarian theology. My own parents deny the truth of the Trinity! This essay is succinct, and informs that discussion.

Must We Believe Jesus is God?

My copy of J.P. Moreland's Kingdom Triangle was at the house when I got home last night. It's been on my reading list for a while.... since it came out, I guess.