Tag: Worldliness

• 7 Principles for Conduct

  “The chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy him forever.” C.J. Mahaney has compiled the following questions and relevant scripture passages to help in determining whether or not a particular activity is glorifying to God.  I find these to be very helpful questions. 1. Does it present a temptation to sin? Romans…

  Dennis Griffith

  March 8, 2013

  Christian Life, Reformed Spirituality, Spiritual Formation

  C.J. Mahaney, Glorifying God, Soli Deo Gloria, Wisdom, Worldliness

• Rapture Ready

  OUCH!  Yesterday I started reading Daniel Radosh’s Rapture Ready!: Adventures In The Parallel Universe Of Christian Pop-Culture.  It is an outsiders observations of the Christian subculture.  And the author really nails his intended target. Back in my younger, athletic playing, days from time to time I would take a hit right on a muscle that would somehow simultaneously make me…

  Dennis Griffith

  May 5, 2009

  Books, Cultural Issues

  Christian Fundamentalism, Christian Junk, Christian Pop Culture, Christian Subculture, Daniel Radosh, Evangelicalism, Fundamentalists, Pop Culture, Rapture Ready, Sub Culture, Worldliness

• Worldliness in Prespective

  I recently finished reading the short book Worldliness, edited by C.J. Mahaney.  Each chapter is written by different men from the Sovereign Grace family.  I found it very insightful and practical.  I appreciate that the writers did not merely resort to the worn out separatist “Us vs. The World” rhetoric.  Instead they wrestled intelligently, theologically,…

  Dennis Griffith

  April 9, 2009

  Books, Spiritual Formation

  9 Marks, Books, C.J. Mahaney, Christian Life, Jonathan Leeman, sanctification, Sovereign Grace Ministries, Worldliness