Comments on: Paul on Civic Virtue … And Your Credit Card Debt

By: Will

Will — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 05:34:07 +0000

Hi Reggie. It’s interesting that the Japanese have been a very frugal and great at saving money. But in recent years have copied the Wests propensity to borrow. An old statistic was that Japanese saved 15% of their income. Even now the kids I teach over here are actually afraid to spend money, they feel safer holding on to it. Their parents are starting to take out huge loans. The hard working Japanese christians are amazingly faithful in tithes and super generous with offerings. I imagine a Christian Japan would be an awesome financial giant.

By: In Light of the Gospel » Blog Archive » Reggie Kidd on the Pastoral Epistles

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:46:01 +0000

[...] Reggie Kidd, professor of New Testament at Reformed Theological Seminary, has been a great help to me in the study of the Pastoral Epistles. Dr. Kidd recently posted some thoughts on the Pastoral Epistles and our current cultural situation at his blog. He also provided further thoughts with this post: “Paul to Titus: On Christians in the Public Square.” His conclusion: After reading Paul’s profound letter to Titus, I feel like I grew up on Crete myself. In many respects I guess I have. I pray that I and my fellow citizens of the City of God will know how to resist the latent irreligion and bent to injustice and dissolution that both surrounds us and has inevitably shaped us. I pray we may be marked — in the public square as well as in our homes and churches and quiet time closets — by sobriety, justice, and godliness. [...]

By: bruce

bruce — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 23:08:56 +0000

definitely check out reggie’s article on titus. we had it in class form and I still reap personal and pastoral mileage for his insights! what an encouragement titus is to those planting churches in the cultural trenches.