Todd Pruitt's Posts

Todd Pruitt's Posts

Needed - A Good Doctrine of Scripture...

Todd Pruitt
Jan 21, 2010
"To me, God is..." "God told me..." "What does this verse mean to you?" "I'm into God not doctrine." "God speaks to me through the mountains." In a day when the evangelical church is saturated with intuitive, mystical, and otherwise breezy approaches to spirituality the need for a robust doctrine...

Greg Beale on Inerrancy

Todd Pruitt
Jan 20, 2010
From an interview with Greg Beale in Martin Downes' very helpful book Risking the Truth : Part 1: The Exegetical Foundations of Inerrancy Why do you believe the Bible, as originally given, is not only inspired but also inerrant? What are some of the principle exegetical foundations of inerrancy? As...

The Incredible Shrinking Pulpit

Todd Pruitt
Jan 20, 2010
From Al Mohler: Preaching has fallen on hard times. So suggests a report out of Durham University's College of Preachers. The British university's CODEC research center, which aims to explore "the interfaces between the Bible, the digital environment and contemporary culture," conducted the study...

Pro-Baby

Todd Pruitt
Jan 19, 2010
From Marvin Olasky of World Magazine : A Gallup poll in 1972 showed 66 percent of Americans opposing abortion legalization. That year Detroit newspapers heavily supported a Michigan referendum to establish abortion on demand through the first five months of pregnancy, but 61 percent of Michigan...

Worship and Reality

Todd Pruitt
Jan 19, 2010
There is spiritual danger in Paganism, and as Origen stated (and recently quoted by Pope Benedict) Paganism is defined by “Lacking feeling and reason, they are transformed into stones and wood.” In other words, Paganism flattens our perception, makes all experience virtual, dumbing down our senses...

Sunday's Sermon

Todd Pruitt
Jan 18, 2010
This week's message was part 26 in our series through Hebrews - "A Sacrifice Like No Other" (Hebrews 10:1-18). You can listen to or download the sermon HERE .

What Happens to "Moral Values" in the absence of God

Todd Pruitt
Jan 18, 2010
Chai Feldblum enjoys the sound of her own voice as she waxes on about moral values... http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/eyeblast.swf?v=GdSU6U8zSU&c1=0xACACAC&c2=0x373737&a=0&sm=0...

Do we love the church?

Todd Pruitt
Jan 18, 2010
From Reformed Forum : Christ the Center had the pleasure of interviewing Ted Kluck, author and athlete, about his recent publication, Why We Love the Church: In Praise of Institutions and Organized Religion , co-authored with Kevin DeYoung and published by Moody Press. We discussed the recent wave...

Helping Haiti (updated)

Todd Pruitt
Jan 15, 2010
If you would like to contribute to organizations that are helping those suffering in Haiti then check out the following links: Samaritan's Purse Baptist Haiti World Mission Mission to the World Food for the Hungry World Vision Cross World

Religious Liberty, the Sabbath, and the Philadelphia Eagles

Todd Pruitt
Jan 15, 2010
J. Gresham Machen the founder of Westminster Seminary did not believe the state should run the church nor did he believe that the church should run the state. Machen, one of the greatest biblical scholars of the 20th century gave us some of the most scintillating thoughts on the role of the church...