Rob Moll, author of “The Art of Dying,” dies in 100 foot fall on Mt. Rainier
“Saying goodbye requires a willingness to die. One cannot be ready to enter eternity while fighting tooth and nail to keep out of it.” — Rob Moll
- IVP: Rob Moll, author and editor, dies at 41
- A goodbye to a man who taught us how to look at death
- “There are so many other things that take our attention. So much noise. So many tweets and viral videos and Facebook feuds. So many worries. So much time spent on our phones, checking our statuses. So much to do. So little time to think about the end of life. And then one of our friends is gone and death takes over. All the noise grinds to a halt. All the busyness is over.”
- BOOK: The Art of Dying
- “We need not accept death; it is evil. But, when God calls us home, we do need to be willing, like Jesus in the garden, to take the cup given to us.”
Rob Moll: Dying Well
- “The Christian tradition of dying well offers a kind of hope that doesn’t depend on medical cures, but rather spiritual and relational preparation, just the kind of death, polls show, that people wish for. Christianity may still be efficacious.”
Fr. Paul Scalia’s Funeral Homily for his father, Justice Antonin Scalia
RNS: (LIBERAL) Faith groups urge State Department to abolish new ‘unalienable’ rights commission
- “…this is in actuality an effort to provide intellectual top cover to what is really an exercise in circumscribing the rights of gay people and laying the foundation for a particular position within the abortion wars.”
CT: Pew’s Religious Literacy Survey: American’s who know religion best hold worse views of Evangelicals
- “While few in the US can parse Protestant theology or define the prosperity gospel, evangelicals were among the top-performing faith groups in a religious literacy quiz, ranking after Jews, atheists, and agnostics and above other Christian affiliations and religious nones.”
CT: Ligonier Ministries State of Theology Survey reveals “a surprising number of evangelicals affirm heretical beliefs”
CT: Evangelicals “favorite heresies” as revealed in Ligonier’s 2018 State of Theology Survey
Jerry Falwell, Jr. to CNN: “I’m a college president and lawyer.” Implies he’s NOT a “Christian leader.”
- VIDEO
- WP: As a Liberty graduate, I am troubled by Jerry Falwell Jr.’s treatment of Russell Moore
- ARCHIVE: Tells Christian Pastor David Platt to “grow a pair”
John MacArthur: “Evangelicals of our generation seem pathologically addicted to the sin of desiring the praise of men.”
Pete Wehner: The Deepening Crisis in Evangelical Christianity
Jerry Tweets: “I have never been a minister. UVA-trained lawyer and commercial real estate developer…” Boasts about accomplishments.
Hoppin’ and a-boppin’ and singing his song
All the little birds on Jaybird Street
Love to hear the robin go tweet-tweet-tweet
Because, of course, only ministers, and not lawyers and commercial real estate developers who profess to be Christians, are required to behave like Christ.
“Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.” [Colossians 4:6]
Oh. Wait. I’m sorry. Jerry, Jr is a lawyer and a commercial real estate developer and a college president and NOT a Christian leader or a minister, so the Bible doesn’t apply to him. Sorry for the confusion.
Absolutely, Paul. Death, thanatology, etc. are where the “rubber meets the road” for the practicing Christian.
Regarding the most excellent Pastor Begg, I was disappointed to learn that the Apostle Peter did not actually miraculously speak the exact lyrics of the Beatles song Yellow Submarine, as I learned several weeks ago from him…
All those critical nitpickers of Begg’s freewheeling linguistic style and creative vocabularizations ought to “get a life”. And in that new reborn life they should study the self-described strategy of Paul, in Corinthians 9.
“To those with the Law, I became like them, spoke to their Jewish understandings.
To those without the Law, I became like them.. spoke fluent Pagan Jive and Jazz; in sum I have become all things to all men, so that by all possible means I might save some.…” (loosely paraphrased, Begg-style).
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