Tag Archive for 'Gospel'

Driscoll’s Got ‘Em On the Run

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Micah Holtzinger
on March 31, 2009
in Apologetics, Culture, Ecclesiology and Gospel
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I’ve been absent for a while, and I hope the content of this post doesn’t make you think I’ve lost it. Last week Mark Driscoll was on Nightline with three others discussing the reality/existance of Satan. I didn’t count, but my guess is that he gave the gospel no less than 3 times and pointed to Jesus as the remedy for evil at least a dozen times.

Mark rocked ‘em! This will take about an hour of your life, but it is well worth it.   WATCH

Don’t Waste Your Pulpit

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Micah Holtzinger
on February 5, 2009
in Ecclesiology and Hermenutics
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Piper on Prosperity Gospel

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Micah Holtzinger
on February 4, 2009
in Ecclesiology
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Where’s The Protest?

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Mike Holtzinger
on January 23, 2009
in Theology 101 and Uncategorized
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protestAs I was growing up I was raised as a Roman Catholic.  As I remember there were two basic groups… Catholics and Protestants.  While that was a gross over simplification, the point was clear.  There is a group out there that protested basic Catholic theology. They called them Protestants.  Now that I am an evangelical I wonder what happened to the protest against a gospel that is no Gospel at all (Galatians 1:6-9)?

You’re probably asking, ” what are you talking about?”  Shortly after I entered the ministry some 35 years ago I found out that the vast majority of evangelical pastors where willing to give not only the Catholic Church a pass but anyone who claims the name of Christ without ever asking for precision in definitions.  The common mantra I still hear is; “so-and-so loves the Lord.”  It’s a cliché with no meaning.  At least no meaning that is supportable by the Word of God (John 10:27; 14:21; 15:14).  Just, what exactly does it mean that a person “loves the Lord.?”  The late Francis Schaeffer once observed that “the meaning of the word Christian has been reduced to practically nothing…. Because the word Christian as a symbol has been made to mean so little, it has come to mean everything and nothing” (The Mark of the Christian [Downers Grove, Ill: InterVarsity, 1970].  Note the date of the quote.  Things certainly have not improved.  Because we lack precision in defining the Gospel, the Gospel has become anything a person wants it to be.
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