Winter 2014/15
Newsletter
Our
Doctrinal Core
By
J. Paul Nyquist, President of Moody Bible Institute
Theology
is not a popular topic today. Compared to other trendy subjects, basic doctrine
draws few fans. Yet life, as it unfolds on a daily basis, is intensely
theological. You live what you believe. A. W. Tozer captured it well when he
said, “What comes to our minds when we think about God is the most important
thing about us” (“The Knowledge of the Holy,” p. 7). (read more)
Amazing
What We Don't Know
By Leith Anderson, NAE President
The Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) surveyed 2,500 randomly chosen Americans about our country, and the majority flunked the 33-question test. Twice as many knew that Paula Abdul was a judge on “American Idol” than knew that the quote “government of the people, by the people, for the people” was said by Abraham Lincoln in the Gettysburg Address. Forty-three percent of those who hold elected office don’t know that the Electoral College elects the President. One fifth of them think it “trains those aspiring to higher office” or “was established to supervise the first televised presidential debates.” (read more)
By Leith Anderson, NAE President
The Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) surveyed 2,500 randomly chosen Americans about our country, and the majority flunked the 33-question test. Twice as many knew that Paula Abdul was a judge on “American Idol” than knew that the quote “government of the people, by the people, for the people” was said by Abraham Lincoln in the Gettysburg Address. Forty-three percent of those who hold elected office don’t know that the Electoral College elects the President. One fifth of them think it “trains those aspiring to higher office” or “was established to supervise the first televised presidential debates.” (read more)
Soundtrack
of Evangelicalism
How our Music Reflects & Defines our Tradition
How our Music Reflects & Defines our Tradition
By
David Neff, Past Editor-in-Chief of Christianity
Today
Every
new Christian movement has its soundtrack. The Reformation had the hymns of
Luther and Walter as well as the psalms of Marot and Bourgeois. The
18th-century Pietists had Zinzendorf’s songs and, as Pietism spread to the
English-speaking world, the hymns of Charles Wesley. The 19th-century revivals
had the gospel songs of Sankey and Bliss. And African American slaves developed
their own songs focused on biblical stories of liberation and
deliverance. (read more)
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