Tag Archives: Internet Monk

Quote of the Week – Spencer on Death and Apologetics

Posted on February 18, 2010 by Andrew J. Nicewander| 490 Comments

The are a lot of different kinds of Good News, but there is little good news in “My argument scored more points than you argument.” But the news that “Christ is risen!” really is Good News for one kind of person: The person who is dying.

If Christianity is not a dying word to dying men, it is not the message of the Bible that gives hope now.

- Michael Spencer , On Real Apologetics

If you can, pray for Michael. He’s having a rough go at it with some pretty nasty cancer.

Also, as he’s now without a job and could use the financial help, you can donate to him at the link below:

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Posted in Quote of the Week

Tagged Apologetics, Cancer, Dying, Internet Monk, Michael Spencer

Some Thoughts (from others) about SBC 2009

Posted on June 23, 2009 by Andrew J. Nicewander| 432 Comments

Below are some links to some thoughts from the SBC 2009.

Of interest is the list of things that Michael Spencer notes over at Internet Monk. Of those, item #6 stands out:

“The patient teaching of the Gospel and church-centered theology by the Founders Ministries and 9Marks has paid off in more fruit than can be put in a basket. Hundreds and hundreds of young people, hungry to hear how to build a Gospel centered, God honoring, missionary focused church. It is astonishing. It may not be revival, but it is a solid outcome that will make a huge difference for a small number of churches.”

Nothing effects change (in terms of human understanding) than faithful, patient, plodding, grinding, constant persistence. Now, may the change that has been effected by Founders and IX Marks be Spirit-directed, Christ-focused and God-honoring.

More thoughts:

Tom Ascol (Overall Reflections HERE)

Daniel Akin

SBC Voices

Tim Brister (10 Highlights) (10 Lowlights)

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Posted in Some Thoughts

Tagged 9Marks, Baptist, Founders, Great Commission Resurgence, Internet Monk, Reformation, SBC

Funny Monday – Ignatius

Posted on March 15, 2009 by Andrew J. Nicewander| 24 Comments

This has become one of my new favorite videos ever. You laugh so that you don’t cry (or, if you’re like me, you cry BECAUSE you’re laughing so hard).

Ignatius from travis hawkins on Vimeo.

HT: Internet Monk

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Posted in Funny Monday, Humor, Videos

Tagged Humor, Ignatius, Internet Monk, Sad

Quote of the Week – Mark Galli on the “Evangelical Collapse”

Posted on March 13, 2009 by Andrew J. Nicewander| 32 Comments

What I will do, to my dying day, is work with anyone who knows he was lost but now is found, whose Bible is worn because she repeatedly looks there for God to speak, who finds the Cross the most meaningful of symbols, for whom the Resurrection is not just a doctrine but a power, and who wants nothing more than to find new and creative ways to share the evangel of Jesus in word and deed. I’ll work with these people no matter what scholars decide to call them.

For now they are called evangelicals, and I suspect that in one form or another, they’ll be around for some time.
-Mark Galli, “On the Lasting Evangelical Survival”

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Posted in Evangelicalism, Quote of the Week

Tagged Evangelical Collapse, Evangelicalism, Internet Monk, Mark Galli, The Gospel

The Internet Monk on Making Evangelicalism Better

Posted on December 14, 2008 by Andrew J. Nicewander| 537 Comments

The Internet Monk has a very interesting post on the questions: “What would make for a much better evangelicalism?”

Points 1, 6, and 10 are intriguing, to say the least.

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Posted in Evangelicalism

Tagged Evangelicalism, Internet Monk

ZING

Posted on November 25, 2008 by Andrew J. Nicewander| 536 Comments

Michael Spencer on Ed Young‘s recent 7-Day Sex Challenge:

“Dear Ed Young Jr. “

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Tagged Ed Young, Internet Monk, Zing

iMonk and “Evangelism Won’t Cure It”

Posted on September 18, 2008 by Andrew J. Nicewander| 612 Comments

The Internet Monk has a very interesting post on Southern Baptists and our denominational emphasis on evangelism.

Here are a couple of lines regarding baptism.

I’m part of a denomination that regularly baptizes five, six and seven year olds, then has the nerve to point at infant baptizing Christians and criticize them.

I’m part of a denomination that has rebaptized and rebaptized and rebaptized, again and again. And counted each one somewhere.

The whole post can be found here.

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Posted in Evangelism, Quotes

Tagged Baptism, Evangelism, Internet Monk, Southern Baptists