Todd Pruitt's Posts

Todd Pruitt's Posts

Church Planting and a good Episcopal church

Todd Pruitt
Mar 28, 2009
Falls Church , one of the oldest churches in the country is also solidly evangelical. After having been a blessed thorn in the side of its liberal overseers Falls Church finally broke with the American Episcopal church to come under the umbrella of the conservative African communion. Nationally...

What Will It Profit a Man...

Todd Pruitt
Mar 27, 2009
...if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?

Ehrman Redux

Todd Pruitt
Mar 27, 2009
Darrel Bock is weighing in on Bart Ehrman's newest hit piece on Jesus and the Bible, Jesus, Interrupted . Bart Ehrman's Jesus, Interrupted by his own admission says nothing new. It packages what scholars have been saying for two decades. Since he learned the historical critical method in place of...

"Ancient Word, Changing Worlds" (2)

Todd Pruitt
Mar 26, 2009
The opening words of the introduction of Ancient Word, Changing Worlds is a quote by Mark Twain that, sadly, would be voiced (perhaps more diplomatically) by many so-called evangelicals in our own day. "It is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-...

Music Break, courtesy The Office

Todd Pruitt
Mar 26, 2009
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOCsXFKrxJw&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcf...

Shall we go the way of Europe?

Todd Pruitt
Mar 26, 2009
Charles Murray has written a thougtful essay on America's seeming drift toward a European model of social democracy. Murray's contention is that "the European model...drains too much of the life from life." The stuff of life — the elemental events surrounding birth, death, raising children,...

Does Satan Exist?

Todd Pruitt
Mar 26, 2009
That was the topic of last night's Nightline Face-off. The discussion included universalist Carlton Pearson, New Age guru Depak Chopra, Evangelical Mark Driscoll, and, yes, a former stripper. Check out the video teaser HERE .

"The Essential Craft"

Todd Pruitt
Mar 26, 2009
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94lW6Y4tBXs&hl=en&fs=1]

Does the Bible fit together?

Todd Pruitt
Mar 26, 2009
Dr. Vern Poythress of Westminster Theological Seminary has written as well as anyone on the unity of the Bible. The following is from a recent article: How does the Bible as a whole fit together? The events recorded in the Bible took place over a span of thousands of years and in several different...

Modern Reformation Reviews "The Shack"

Todd Pruitt
Mar 24, 2009
"The shack is William Paul Young's metaphor for the heart housed by hurts, lies, and secrets. His aim in the story is to offer an approachable God of relationality and love through whom his protagonist can make sense of tragedies, failures, and disappointments. However, there is another task...