One Eternal Day

"O’er all those wide extended plains / Shines one eternal day;
     "There God the Son forever reigns / And scatters night away."

Thursday, June 7, 2007

The "gospel" of health and wealth

John Piper on a false gospel:
Source: Desiring God: America's Ugly Exported "Gospel"
Posted by Standfast at 3:47 PM
Email ThisBlogThis!Share to XShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest
Labels: Health and Wealth, Theology

No comments:

New comments are not allowed.

Newer Post Older Post Home
Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

About "One Eternal Day"


The title, "One Eternal Day," is from the hymn "On Jordan's Stormy Banks I Stand" [1787] by Samuel Stennett, a prominent English Sabbatarian Baptist. A verse from that hymn refers to the rest believers will enjoy in the "promised land."

"One Eternal Day" will usually call attention to the work of others. This is my chance to pass along things that I enjoyed, profited from, or that say well what I wish I'd said.

I am a Baptist, a member of a church affiliated with Seventh Day Baptists, and some posts will reflect that identification.

“He who marries the spirit of the age will soon find himself a widower.” Dean Inge

Standfast:

My photo
Standfast
"I thought we had an honest man upon the Road, and therefore should have his Company by and by." "If you thought not amiss" said Standfast "how happy am I, but if I be not as I should, I alone must bear it."
View my complete profile

Search One Eternal Day

Popular Posts

  • "Quiet time"?
    From several years ago, excerpts from "Is It Time to Quit ‘Quiet Time’?" (likely behind a paywall). The problem isn't actuall...
  • SDB History: Nathanael Bailey
    Nathanael Bailey ?-1742 Nathanael Bailey Nathan Bailey was an English schoolmaster, philologist and lexicographer. His Universal E...
  • "But like a child at home"
    Challies , quoting from Brett McCracken's The Wisdom of Sleep : As we lie down to sleep, we give our mental anxieties and physical exhau...
  • In old Missouri
    My paternal grandfather, Rev. James L. Skaggs, was born near Springfield, Missouri, on May 26, 1878. That's where he grew up before com...
  • "Forget yourself"
    Carlos Carvalho is President of the University of Austin , a very young institution admitting its first class in 2024. It is tuition-free, ...
  • "He almost deserved it"
    I am making slow but regular progress through The Chronicles of Narnia and have just begun reading The Voyage of the Dawn Treader . Eustace ...
  • Five cups a day...
    Good news! Perhaps my healthiest beverage: There is good news for coffee drinkers: Up to five cups of the brew a day are safe for most adul...
  • A firm foundation
    I've been going through a filing cabinet and being reminded of things I haven't thought about for some time. In 1993, I served as Pr...
  • "At a particular time and in a specific place"
    Yesterday I quoted from Paul Johnson's Modern Times . Johnson was an historian, a graduate of Oxford, a student of C.S. Lewis , and a C...
  • Fairness
     Re-posted   "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut: THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren't only equ...

Links

  • Anecdotal Evidence
    'Consulting Other Understandings' - Dr. Johnson in *The Adventurer* on August 28, 1753: “. . . I shall, therefore, venture to inculcate to my ingenious contemporaries, the necessity of read...
    1 day ago
  • Anxious Bench
    Forging The Chymical Wedding - I have been posting about the mind-stretching Renaissance works in which enterprising scholars discovered, created, or forged scriptures to justify their r...
    2 days ago
  • Canon Fodder
    Do the Gospels Contain Eyewitness Testimony? An Overlooked Aspect of the Debate - As Greco-Roman biographies, we should not be surprised that the Gospel authors would want to include eyewitness testimony. After all, the principle that ...
    1 month ago
  • Fusion
    Washington, the Father and the Master - American Patriarch: The Life of George Washington, by H.W. Brands (Doubleday, 640 pp., $40.00) No founder has loomed larger, or stranger, over American cul...
    3 weeks ago
  • Mere Orthodoxy
    “To Shew the Truth Of the Evangelical Historie”: The Apologetics of Nathaniel Lardner - Lardner treated skeptical questions seriously and respectfully, and unlike many previous Christian apologists, he never resorted to invective or denigratio...
    1 day ago
  • Tim Challies
    Weekend A La Carte (August 29) - Weekend A La Carte: An unbelieving child / Nothing is original / The most measured woman / Blind, deaf, dumb / Your recommendations / An overlooked argumen...
    8 hours ago

Subjects:

  • Abortion (131)
  • Advent and Christmas (255)
  • Alan Jacobs (129)
  • Apologetics (87)
  • Ayn Rand (16)
  • Baptism (35)
  • Baptist (184)
  • Belief (640)
  • Bible (399)
  • Bob Dylan (58)
  • Books (1368)
  • C.S. Lewis (609)
  • Cartoon (63)
  • Children's Literature (211)
  • Christian Living (746)
  • Christian Year (179)
  • Church History (514)
  • Churchill (47)
  • Dorothy L. Sayers (130)
  • Edmund Burke (73)
  • Education (351)
  • Eugenics (31)
  • Fiction (556)
  • G.K. Chesterton (196)
  • Grace and Salvation (555)
  • Growing up (337)
  • Health and Wealth (178)
  • Humor (158)
  • Hymns (310)
  • Inklings (577)
  • J.R.R. Tolkien (214)
  • John Buchan (48)
  • Kevin DeYoung (135)
  • Kipling (29)
  • Lent and Easter (212)
  • Lincoln (103)
  • Milton College (14)
  • Movies (129)
  • Musical Performance (301)
  • Mysteries and Thrillers (341)
  • National Holiday (190)
  • P.G. Wodehouse (36)
  • Political Thought (328)
  • Popular Culture (520)
  • Prayer (307)
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams (57)
  • Religion and Politics (1435)
  • Religious Liberty (198)
  • Robert Louis Stevenson (38)
  • Sabbath (102)
  • Sabbath Recorder (52)
  • Samuel Johnson (99)
  • Science and Faith (186)
  • SDB History (124)
  • Sermon (37)
  • Seventh Day Baptist (189)
  • T.S. Eliot (42)
  • Thanksgiving (28)
  • The Church (634)
  • Theology (545)
  • W.H. Auden (29)
  • William Cowper (33)
  • Worship (542)

Blog Archive

  • ►  2026 (112)
    • ►  August (15)
    • ►  July (16)
    • ►  June (16)
    • ►  May (17)
    • ►  April (10)
    • ►  March (9)
    • ►  February (11)
    • ►  January (18)
  • ►  2025 (142)
    • ►  December (15)
    • ►  November (10)
    • ►  October (11)
    • ►  September (13)
    • ►  August (8)
    • ►  July (9)
    • ►  June (11)
    • ►  May (10)
    • ►  April (16)
    • ►  March (13)
    • ►  February (16)
    • ►  January (10)
  • ►  2024 (201)
    • ►  December (19)
    • ►  November (10)
    • ►  October (13)
    • ►  September (11)
    • ►  August (13)
    • ►  July (15)
    • ►  June (15)
    • ►  May (18)
    • ►  April (20)
    • ►  March (26)
    • ►  February (20)
    • ►  January (21)
  • ►  2023 (271)
    • ►  December (24)
    • ►  November (19)
    • ►  October (26)
    • ►  September (19)
    • ►  August (23)
    • ►  July (20)
    • ►  June (29)
    • ►  May (26)
    • ►  April (22)
    • ►  March (23)
    • ►  February (18)
    • ►  January (22)
  • ►  2022 (294)
    • ►  December (32)
    • ►  November (22)
    • ►  October (21)
    • ►  September (28)
    • ►  August (27)
    • ►  July (28)
    • ►  June (29)
    • ►  May (23)
    • ►  April (23)
    • ►  March (27)
    • ►  February (17)
    • ►  January (17)
  • ►  2021 (182)
    • ►  December (27)
    • ►  November (13)
    • ►  October (16)
    • ►  September (13)
    • ►  August (6)
    • ►  July (18)
    • ►  June (13)
    • ►  May (11)
    • ►  April (18)
    • ►  March (14)
    • ►  February (15)
    • ►  January (18)
  • ►  2020 (308)
    • ►  December (36)
    • ►  November (24)
    • ►  October (30)
    • ►  September (17)
    • ►  August (29)
    • ►  July (25)
    • ►  June (18)
    • ►  May (30)
    • ►  April (31)
    • ►  March (25)
    • ►  February (16)
    • ►  January (27)
  • ►  2019 (288)
    • ►  December (32)
    • ►  November (17)
    • ►  October (25)
    • ►  September (20)
    • ►  August (18)
    • ►  July (22)
    • ►  June (16)
    • ►  May (27)
    • ►  April (26)
    • ►  March (32)
    • ►  February (25)
    • ►  January (28)
  • ►  2018 (317)
    • ►  December (30)
    • ►  November (25)
    • ►  October (28)
    • ►  September (27)
    • ►  August (37)
    • ►  July (26)
    • ►  June (23)
    • ►  May (20)
    • ►  April (26)
    • ►  March (24)
    • ►  February (21)
    • ►  January (30)
  • ►  2017 (259)
    • ►  December (23)
    • ►  November (23)
    • ►  October (28)
    • ►  September (17)
    • ►  August (21)
    • ►  July (25)
    • ►  June (26)
    • ►  May (21)
    • ►  April (23)
    • ►  March (18)
    • ►  February (15)
    • ►  January (19)
  • ►  2016 (273)
    • ►  December (20)
    • ►  November (14)
    • ►  October (26)
    • ►  September (31)
    • ►  August (30)
    • ►  July (23)
    • ►  June (21)
    • ►  May (22)
    • ►  April (24)
    • ►  March (22)
    • ►  February (20)
    • ►  January (20)
  • ►  2015 (291)
    • ►  December (29)
    • ►  November (27)
    • ►  October (23)
    • ►  September (22)
    • ►  August (17)
    • ►  July (25)
    • ►  June (31)
    • ►  May (26)
    • ►  April (26)
    • ►  March (22)
    • ►  February (20)
    • ►  January (23)
  • ►  2014 (324)
    • ►  December (31)
    • ►  November (22)
    • ►  October (26)
    • ►  September (16)
    • ►  August (32)
    • ►  July (35)
    • ►  June (32)
    • ►  May (33)
    • ►  April (29)
    • ►  March (22)
    • ►  February (19)
    • ►  January (27)
  • ►  2013 (398)
    • ►  December (30)
    • ►  November (27)
    • ►  October (29)
    • ►  September (23)
    • ►  August (43)
    • ►  July (31)
    • ►  June (34)
    • ►  May (35)
    • ►  April (36)
    • ►  March (49)
    • ►  February (31)
    • ►  January (30)
  • ►  2012 (507)
    • ►  December (35)
    • ►  November (46)
    • ►  October (44)
    • ►  September (44)
    • ►  August (42)
    • ►  July (50)
    • ►  June (41)
    • ►  May (48)
    • ►  April (40)
    • ►  March (43)
    • ►  February (40)
    • ►  January (34)
  • ►  2011 (483)
    • ►  December (34)
    • ►  November (30)
    • ►  October (39)
    • ►  September (39)
    • ►  August (55)
    • ►  July (41)
    • ►  June (44)
    • ►  May (44)
    • ►  April (44)
    • ►  March (44)
    • ►  February (32)
    • ►  January (37)
  • ►  2010 (496)
    • ►  December (38)
    • ►  November (32)
    • ►  October (24)
    • ►  September (38)
    • ►  August (55)
    • ►  July (35)
    • ►  June (56)
    • ►  May (44)
    • ►  April (42)
    • ►  March (46)
    • ►  February (36)
    • ►  January (50)
  • ►  2009 (561)
    • ►  December (29)
    • ►  November (45)
    • ►  October (60)
    • ►  September (54)
    • ►  August (59)
    • ►  July (29)
    • ►  June (39)
    • ►  May (50)
    • ►  April (54)
    • ►  March (56)
    • ►  February (42)
    • ►  January (44)
  • ►  2008 (453)
    • ►  December (45)
    • ►  November (26)
    • ►  October (26)
    • ►  September (27)
    • ►  August (25)
    • ►  July (33)
    • ►  June (33)
    • ►  May (50)
    • ►  April (47)
    • ►  March (49)
    • ►  February (54)
    • ►  January (38)
  • ▼  2007 (782)
    • ►  December (46)
    • ►  November (52)
    • ►  October (74)
    • ►  September (67)
    • ►  August (104)
    • ►  July (68)
    • ▼  June (77)
      • The Gospel Coalition
      • Harry Potter and Wicca
      • This blog is for adults only
      • Mormons and orthodoxy
      • Light conversation and the Word of God
      • Emerging Church?
      • Workshops at the upcoming SDB Conference
      • The Seventh Day Baptist General Conference 2007
      • The irrelevance of relevant preaching
      • Comeback for Liberal Theology?
      • Discrimination
      • The Gospel Coalition
      • Using "Allah" for God
      • Despot chic
      • Where'd all these Calvinists come from?
      • Rumors of Glory: Waiting for Harry
      • Lord Have Mercy
      • What is a Healthy Church?
      • Freedom from religion has a bad day
      • Fight for a better America
      • Legislating morality
      • "The fear of the Lord...."
      • "I will love Him. I will serve Him. I will glorify...
      • What actually happened made all the difference
      • "What liberal media?"
      • Legalism
      • Forget reinvention
      • "The mind is a muscle"
      • Overheated Rhetoric
      • July/August 2007 Sabbath Recorder Online
      • "Everyone has a story. My cat has a story. So what?"
      • Tying the knot
      • The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
      • Good stuff
      • Religious liberty
      • Politics
      • Infuriating phrases
      • Atheists v. Faithful
      • "Only God can build up Zion"
      • "head and heart, reason and faith"
      • "Everything else is postmodern chatter.”
      • Artificially extended childhood
      • "When people stop believing in God ..."
      • "I am Who I am"
      • Children see, children do
      • Ruth Bell Graham died today
      • The "wall of separation"
      • Seeing "the historic and living Jesus"
      • When Christians argue
      • Fred Thompson
      • More Bible tools
      • Presidential politics
      • god is not Great by Christopher Hitchens: A Response
      • Summer Reading II
      • Emergent
      • The congregation as unaccountable consumers
      • Summer Reading
      • The wrong direction
      • The actual historical Jesus
      • The "gospel" of health and wealth
      • Free tools for Bible reading
      • "Where Is God When It Hurts?"
      • "...by the righteousness of our cause..."
      • "The Baptist Way"
      • "Faith on Unchanging Terms"
      • The treason of the intellectuals
      • Amazing grace
      • Seventh Day Baptists and the BJC - Final Thoughts
      • Faith and Reason
      • "The Mission of the Trinity"
      • Weddings
      • Classic sermons
      • "Hitchens vs. Hitchens"
      • Lark News
      • American Idol
      • "Is Christianity good for the world?" Final instal...
      • Preparing for the Sabbath
    • ►  May (60)
    • ►  April (62)
    • ►  March (44)
    • ►  February (60)
    • ►  January (68)
  • ►  2006 (191)
    • ►  December (51)
    • ►  November (46)
    • ►  October (39)
    • ►  September (35)
    • ►  August (20)
And night will be no more. They will need no light of lamp or sun,
For the Lord God will be their light, and they will reign forever and ever.

Revelation 22
Powered by Blogger.