“SIN”

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. – Romans 6:23

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Is God Better Than Sex?

New 9Marks eJournal (May/June 2008)

The new 9Marks eJournal is now available. Click here for the PDF version. Below is the index of articles.

9Marks has provided a helpful resource focusing on what it means to live the Christian life together within the midst of community in the local church.

Living as a Church:

• Class I: Introduction
• Class II: Church Membership
• Class III: Preaching
• Class IV: Corporate Prayer
• Class V: Church Government
• Class VI: Fellowship
• Class VII: Discontentment
• Class VIII: Church Leadership
• Class IX: Church Discipline
• Class X: Encouragement
• Class XI: Serving and Giving
• Class XII: Worship
• Class XIII: Corporate Evangelism

Journal Index:

• Living As A Church
  A short class on living together as a local church.
• God Helps Those Who Help Themselves?
  Roles & Responsibilities in the Process of Conversion
• The Living Church: Convictions of a Life Long Pastor
  Reviewed by Jonathan Leeman
• The Hip Hop Church
  Reviewed by Thabiti Anyabwile
• The Market-Driven Church
  Reviewed by Mike McKinley
• They Like Jesus But Not the Church
  Reviewed by Kevin McFadden
• The Irresistible Revolution
  Reviewed by Shane Walker

Helm on Piper and the Need for Theological Distinctions

Prompted by John Piper’s The Future of Justification Paul Helm has recently written on justification and the need to observe theological distinctions. Click here to read the whole. This is one of three analyses that he will be posting.

Excerpt:

John Piper’s book The Future of Justification (Crossway, 2007) is a great thing. If you have not read it, then you must. It is a clear, passionate, informed, pared down, thoroughly documented, careful expose of the Bishop of Durham’s views on justification. It certainly needs no support in this task from Helm’s Deep.

But one or two things in the book deserve underlining, and in one case developing. In this Analysis I do some underlining, in the next two , ‘Baxter’s Soup and Wright’s Soap’, and ‘Aspirational Theology’, some developing.

In this Analysis I shall try to do two things.

The first is to draw attention to what I believe is one of the most significant methodological points that Piper makes, but one which may, in the flurry of interest about justification, and the dust raised by it, get overlooked. The second thing is to underline what Piper says about the ambiguity of some of Bishop Wright’s language about imputation and justification. What both of these have in common is that Piper shows us the need to observe theological distinctions.