Jordan B. Cooper's Blog, page 26
June 6, 2016
A Christian Newsletter that you Should all Subscribe to
I was recently asked to do the layout for our Synod’s bimonthly magazine titled The Evangel. I gave our layout editor, who just recently got married, a break this month. My wife is the content editor for the magazine as well. This is the official newsletter of the American Association of Lutheran Churches. In it, [Read More...]
May 31, 2016
Heartfelt Spiritual Counsel for “Fabulous Internet Supervillain” Milo Yiannopoulos
Post by Nathan Rinne I recently watched a couple of interviews (here and here) the ever controversial Breitbart journalist Milo Yiannopoulos did with “Duck Dynasty” patriarch Phil Robertson about his new movie “Torchbearer”. According to an article from the same Breitbart news, the film’s “thesis” is that “sin has become mainstream in Western culture, which [Read More...]
May 27, 2016
The Gospel Reading (A Guide to the Liturgy)
On today’s program, I continued our discussion of the Lutheran liturgy. On this episode, we talked about the Gospel reading, Gospel books, processionals, and debates about who should read Scripture in a church service and present children’s sermons. Here is the program.
May 23, 2016
Is Martin Luther’s Sola Scriptura Our Sola Scriptura?
Post by Nathan Rinne Adam Hamilton is the senior pastor of the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, Kansas, “one of the fastest growing, most highly visible churches in the country” (see here). He is the author of several popular books, and in his book When Christians Get it Wrong, he writes that [Read More...]
May 19, 2016
This Week’s Podcast on Baptized into Christ
On today’s program, Lisa Cooper was a guest host, as she interviewed Jordan about his new book Baptized into Christ: A Guide to the Christian Life. They talked about the distinction between law and gospel, baptism, the two kinds of righteousness, and many other important topics. Here is the program. You can buy the book [Read More...]
May 17, 2016
My New Book, “Baptized into Christ,” is Now Available
What has God called me to do? How do I love my neighbor? What is my identity? How does the Christian faith impact my daily life? These are among the many questions answered in this book. Throughout this work, Jordan Cooper writes about the essential aspects of how to live as God’s child. He [Read More...]
May 10, 2016
A Short Selection from my Upcoming Book: Baptized Into Christ
God’s Solution: The Gospel The law is not God’s final word to us. He did not give us a law to condemn us only to leave us in that state of condemnation. Rather, he gave us the law to diagnose our problem so that we might then search for the remedy. God could not have [Read More...]
The Mormon Doctrine of God
On today’s program, I discussed the Mormon doctrine of God, and its differences with Christian orthodox Trinitarianism. I talked about monotheism vs. polytheism, exaltation to Godhood, theosis, Brigham Young’s Adam-God theory, and many other important issues. Here is the program
Intelligent Public Discourse on Transgenderism – Able to Moderate the Current “Bathroom Battle”?
Post by Nathan Rinne If you are a serious Christian – or even if you aren’t – and you feel like you could use a good primer on the issues transgenderism presents, I wrote this article for you. And… I even revised my initial draft with the help of an article by David Blankenhorn about [Read More...]
May 6, 2016
Problems with Mormonism: The Doctrine of God
Perhaps the most basic assumption of Christian theology is the contention that there is an ontological distinction between God and man. Divinity and humanity are of two essentially different kinds. This conviction underlies, not only Christianity, but Islam, Judaism, and other monotheistic faiths. That such a distinction exists is so basic to most theological systems [Read More...]
