Critique of House Church Ecclesiology, and other links

The posting of links does not constitute an endorsement of the sites linked, and not necessarily even agreement with the specific posts linked.

• A Critique of House Church Ecclesiology -- “The authors have seen the error of the one-man show, and trying to correct it, have foolishly gone into the other ditch – only dialogue in the church meeting.”
• A List of Sermons in the Book of Acts -- “The sermons recorded in Acts give us a window into the preaching ministries of Peter, Stephen, Philip, James, and Paul, along with the immediate impact those sermons had.”
• Higher Ed’s Biggest Gamble -- “The debate over whether or not general thinking skills, or GTS, actually exist is well traveled within a relatively small circle of researchers and thinkers, but virtually unknown outside of it.”
• How Can We Simultaneously “Submit to Every Ordinance of Man” and “Obey God Rather Than Men”? -- “We must obey the government (1) unless the government explicitly tells us to disobey God, or (2) unless the government exceeds its jurisdiction so as to speak authoritatively into a sphere regulated by another, God-instituted authority.”
• How Church Discipline Aims at Heaven -- “Church discipline is an advance warning to the erring brother of the inevitable end-time judgment against his sin.”
• I Love Christmas. And I Hate Christmas. -- “...when the Cultural Christmas invades the church it runs dangerously close to idolatry.”
• On Earth as in Heaven: A (Very) Brief Biblical Theology of Heaven -- “Heaven and earth now overlap not in a place but in a person.”
• President James A. Garfield: Educated By Free Will Baptists -- “James A. Garfield, destined to become the 20th President of the United States in 1880, was one of Samuel Dwight Bates’s pupils.”
• The Church ~ Healthy Body Life -- “In Acts the portraits of Jerusalem church life in the summary narratives are presented in an exemplary way for readers to learn from and imitate.”
• What Kind of Theologian are You? -- “The academic theologian’s work is often directed predominately to other academic theologians.”