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I’ll push it further. The very concept of “the weekend” is unbiblical. It turns Sunday into a second Saturday. Home Depot may gain, but we lose. It turns Sunday into the day we catch up on the stuff we were too lazy or disorganized to do on Saturday. It also turns Sunday into a day to ramp up for work or school on Monday. It hollows out not only Sunday but our whole week, because it marginalizes God and church and sermons and all the other vital things that happen in our lives only when we make the vital things also the central things. If we accept the world’s concept of “the weekend,” we inevitably end up “fitting God in” rather than centering the practical reality of our every week around him. We trivialize him, even as we allow secondary things to hijack the sacred place of centrality, we live soul-exhausted lives, and then we wonder why God isn’t more real to us, why church isn’t “working” for us, why we’re grumpy, and so forth. -Ray Orlund, Jr.

November 30, 2006

John and Kevin write + Question + New IM look

John Piper and Kevin Corcoran exchange emails and Piper admits he may not have fully understood all the nuances of Corcoran’s views.

Question: John Macarthur’s new book is called “The Truth War.” Would it be accurate to call what Jesus was creating a “truth war?” Is the metaphor of “culture war” or a “truth war” reasonably accurate to the Christian Gospel?

Work continues, but the new look at Internet Monk is basically done. The new IM banner can’t be far behind.

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