must read meade

My cousin’s husband Meade just started a blog. You need to add it to your RSS readers. I lived with Meade and Amy during my first year of seminary (I’ve blogged about the experience here). I had never listened to a sermon by Tim Keller until Meade told me about him. Needless to say, the rest is history. Meade and Amy also broke me out of my comfortable, abstract theological shell and opened my eyes to social justice, missional living, and urban ministry. Living with Meade, Amy, Manny, and Aderyn was simply amazing.

Meade is the Associate Pastor at Faith Community Church in Brookhaven, PA (right next to Chester, PA). He graduated from Philadelphia Biblical University and he is one class away from finishing his M.Div. at Biblical Seminary. Why should you read his blog? Thanks for asking.

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sign of the apocalypse?

What’s a bigger sign of the apocalypse than Mark Driscoll co-writing a book on the sovereignty of God with Rob Bell, Greg Beale writing a positive review of a book by Peter Enns, or an Orthodox Presbyterian minister reading N. T. Wright for his monthly book club?

How about the Pope praising Martin Luther!

Well, it’s time to bust out your prophecy charts and prepare for the rapture. Apparently Pope Benedict XVI (hereafter B16) is studying the writings of Martin Luther and is going to present them publicly this September. His projected conclusion: Luther wasn’t as bad as Catholic theologians have made him out to be. As Protestant theologians and church historians have long pointed out, it was not Luther’s Read the rest of this entry »