Saturday, March 26, 2016

Internet Roundup: Politicized Evangelicalism, Gay Christianity, and more resources

In today's Roundup, we feature two databases of "free stuff", as well as a few specific pieces on topics of interest.

1) The Heidelblog wrote an article recently on infant baptism in the Reformed tradition and the notion that all baptism of very young children is Romanist in origin and theology.  I link to it less because I believe that my current readership believes this, but pretty much every American knows someone who does.

2) An old professor of mine linked to a very interesting article on the faiths of Republican presidential contestants this year, and what the demographics in American "evangelicalism" indicate about their support base.  While I hardly agree with all the conclusions drawn by the article (at the end, it strays into "pro-Rubio editorial" territory), my primary concern is to highlight a conclusion I think most practicing Christians could have drawn on their own, but has poll data to support it: the overwhelming burden of "evangelicals for Trump" can't be bothered to do things like regularly attend local churches.

3) Already linked on the Facebook page of my life group, I re-post here a thirty-minute sermon by Dr. John Piper on the abiding nature of the Sabbath.  Particularly relevant to the earlier post here on the Sabbath in the Reformed confessions, I was surprised, given Piper's Bapist and post-Pentecostal leanings, to have agreed with the content of Dr. Piper's message as much as I did.  While he did not use the words "single in substance, multiple in administration", his conclusions largely align with application of that principle to the cross-covenantal validity of the Sabbath.

4) Covenant Theological Seminary has a bunch of free resources that they want just an email address for (and they don't send a bunch of spam).  The majority of lectures for several of their courses are available on audio free of charge.

5) Monergism.com remains one of the most useful, and still updating, data-mines for Reformed reading online.  If you haven't visited already, now's your prompt.

6) Finally, we have a link to the (lengthy, no visuals) audio of Dr. James White's response to a talk given by pro-"Gay Christianity" presenter Matthew Vines.  As this may be the issue confronting the American church today, and Vines is representative of a wide swath of readings in the "non-traditional" camp, I highly recommend this audio response as a place to start for the bemused, confused, befuddled, or those running low on ammunition.

Hope you have a blessed Resurrection Sunday.  In addition to today's post, stay tuned for a minor glut of additional content presently in the works.

~JS

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