ReformCast episode 001
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What is ReformCast?
-what is reformed?
-reformed disctinctives.
Why ReformCast?
-Christians should seek dominion and transform culture
Steve Wilkins Acquittal.
-John Robbins Reports.
-People's exhibit z.
-the Counsel of Chalcedon issue including the cart on page 35.
I'd like to teach the world to....
-the dumbing down of stupid.
click here to download this episode
What is ReformCast?
-what is reformed?
-reformed disctinctives.
Why ReformCast?
-Christians should seek dominion and transform culture
Steve Wilkins Acquittal.
-John Robbins Reports.
-People's exhibit z.
-the Counsel of Chalcedon issue including the cart on page 35.
I'd like to teach the world to....
-the dumbing down of stupid.
posted by kyle dixon at 12:17 AM
5 Comments:
Enjoyed the podcast, have a comment:
Agreed completely with your take on modern christian music. Too often saying 'jesus' provides cover for bad music. However when you say something to the effect of 'Artists should use their talent to glorify God' I think you're being myopic regarding popular culture. Anything that celebrates the wonders of Gods creation is a tribute to God, even if it doesn't explicitly name God as the creator.
Monet's paintings are beautiful, and I would argue that they glorify God by showing the wonder of his creations, even though there is no explicit 'God is super!' text or imagery involved. Simliarly music and movies that involve love, and joy, and compassion, and passion are all Godly, even if they don't contain the 'Jesus is good' disclaimer which christians usually require such statements to be marked with.
This failure to see the implicit worship in popular culture puts christian entertainment in a self created ghetto. By embracing this wider culture christians could find themselves in a position to reach many more people by simply asking:
"who made these wonderous things possible"
Keep up the good work.
thanks for the comment, "anonymous."
who are you anyway? you sure do write a lot of poems and stuff.
you raise a good point, although your interpretations of my comments on glorifying God with art don't logically follow.
the question remains, "what is necessary for an artist to glorify God with their art?"
more on this in the next ReformCast.
tell your friends!
grace and peace,
kdd
Well, worship entails intent. Those who do not know the living God, who have not been endowed by Him with new life, are incapable of worship. So I assume that by "implicit worship" you mean the worship that God's people can engage in as they appreciate the beauty of the work of art that was created by a person who is personally incapable of true worship.
The scriptures tell us that even the plowing of the wicked is evil. I believe this means that even when the wicked (the unsaved, the heathen, or whatever you call them) do something that is not an actual violation of God's law, something that is in and of itself actually good, such as performing productive work like plowing... even then, their actions are evil. Why? Because they do it in the belief that they do it. Check out Isaiah 10 on this subject.
Anyway, I do agree totally that we must get out there and engage culture, and it is certainly God, the God besides whom there is no other, "who made these wonderous things possible." Just remember, as you are picking roses in the gardens of the world, stay away from those thorns.
Grace and Peace
Your "take" on things is thought-provoking.
I appreciate the comments on Steve Wilkins and his presbytery's lack of discipline, which is a sad, sad commentary on the state of some parts of the church today.
We need to realize that all truth and beauty are of God whether "Jesus" is tacked on by the artist or not.
Keep up the good work. I wish more people of my generation (folks in their sixties and above) had people to help them with podcasts and new technology so this information wouldn't just be reaching younger listeners.
Your initial podcast provided a lot of thought provoking comments. Since you mentioned the baptism issue relative to the Federalists, perhaps you could present the reformed/covental view of infant baptism in a future reformcast.
Keep the thoughts coming!!
jpd
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