Posts by Matt Recker
Dealing with Depression Head On, Part 2
A Divine Description of Depression from Psalm 143 By Matt Recker “All I have ever wanted is to find a mate. I thought being married would change my depression, but since I have been married, I am even more depressed. We tried having children, but nothing we have tried has worked out. Then I thought…
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A Divine Description of Depression from Psalm 143 Matt Recker In a recent report on how Americans view the future of our country, 76% said they do not have the confidence that our children’s generation will have it better than us. The gloom many of our citizens feel goes beyond wealth, gender, ethnicity, region, age…
Read MoreThe Ringing Call of New Evangelicalism Repeated in the New Calvinism
New Evangelicalism and New Calvinism: The Same Disaster (Part 7) Matt Recker Part 1 ♦ Part 2 ♦ Part 3 ♦ Part 4 ♦ Part 5 ♦ Part 6 ♦ This is Part 7 I have not written this series with a crow bar or baseball bat, but with a concerned heart. There is no…
Read MoreThe Gospel Coalitions Accommodation to Postmodernism in their Statements on Inerrancy
New Evangelicalism and New Calvinism: The Same Disaster, part 6 Matt Recker Part 1 ♦ Part 2 ♦ Part 3 ♦ Part 4 ♦ Part 5 ♦ This is Part 6 ♦ Part 7 In the Christian Life article, “Is Evangelical Theology Changing?” the seventh point of the New Evangelical agenda was “A re-opening of the subject of biblical inspiration.”1…
Read MoreCultural Renewal and the Social Gospel versus Evangelism
New Evangelicalism and New Calvinism: The Same Disaster, part 5 Matt Recker Part 1 ♦ Part 2 ♦ Part 3 ♦ Part 4 ♦ This is Part 5 ♦ Part 6 ♦ Part 7 I realize that many view any form of criticism of other Christians as unkind and that exposing error is culturally unpopular. I do feel a bit…
Read MorePassion Conference: It’s Danger and Lack of Passion for Truth
Matt Recker The Passion Conference was founded by Louie Giglio and Jeff Lewis in 1997 and is known for their annual gatherings of college students and young adults. Since its inception about 48 events in sixteen countries have taken place. The first Passion Conference had about 2000 attendees and the growth has been dramatic as…
Read MoreNew Calvinism: Best Sellers, Scholars and Compromise
Part 1 ♦ Part 2 ♦ Part 3 ♦ This is Part 4 ♦ Part 5 ♦ Part 6 ♦ Part 7 Matt Recker World Magazine reported recently that “Seattle’s Mars Hill Church paid a California-based marketing company at least $210,000 in 2011 and 2012 to ensure that Real Marriage, a book written by Mark Driscoll, the church’s founding pastor,…
Read MoreWhy Dispensationalism is Important
New Evangelicalism and New Calvinism: The Same Disaster: Part 3 Part 1 ♦ Part 2 ♦ This is Part 3 ♦ Part 4 ♦ Part 5 ♦ Part 6 ♦ Part 7 Matt Recker Francis Schaeffer lamented in his final book, “Accommodation, accommodation … to accommodate to the world spirit about us in our age is the most gross form…
Read MoreNew Calvinism and Continuationism
New Evangelicalism and New Calvinism: The Same Disaster: Part 2 Matt Recker Part 1 ♦ This is Part 2 ♦ Part 3 ♦ Part 4 ♦ Part 5 ♦ Part 6 ♦ Part 7 In his final book, The Great Evangelical Disaster, Francis Schaeffer, with tears, passionately pled with evangelicals of his day to repent, saying, “in the most…
Read MoreNew Evangelicalism and New Calvinism: The Same Disaster
This is Part 1 ♦ Part 2 ♦ Part 3 ♦ Part 4 ♦ Part 5 ♦ Part 6 ♦ Part 7 Matt Recker The New Calvinism is a movement that boasts groups like The Gospel Coalition (founded by D.A. Carson & Tim Keller in 2004) and Together for the Gospel (Ligon Duncan, Mark Dever, C. J. Mahaney, and…
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