Your Best Links Now – 3/24/14

Osteenification and What it Portends by Hank Hanegraaff

“But here’s the problem. Behind Osteenian self-affirmations—I am anointed, I am prosperous, My God is a ‘supersizing God’—there lies a darker hue. Behind the smile is a robust emphasis on all that is negative.”



The Trinity in the Old Testament

Fred Sanders highlights the thinking of Geehardus Vos in tracing the presence of the Trinity in the Old Testament.

Lesbian Asks a Church to Stone Her

Church insists Jesus would stone gay people. So a gay person asks the church to stone her. “We’ll get back to you on that,” the essentially say. I say, “Good for her.” It is sad that it is just as often that churches deny the grace in the gospel as it is that gay folks deny the law that necessitates the gospel.

Codes Still Uncracked

These ciphers still confound anybody who tries to make sense of them. This article, from a site focused on research into identifying the infamous Zodiac Killer of the San Francisco area in the 70′s, highlights developments in cracking the difficult ciphers left by the murderer, only the first of which was ever translated, as well as the apparently impossible MIT Timelock Puzzle.



The Kind of Pastor I Want to Be by Matt Redmond

“If I’ve learned anything over the past few years, its the difference between ministering to people with a theology of glory instead of a theology of the cross . . .”

The Most Amazing “Wheel of Fortune” Solve in the Show’s History