Unsensational Supernatural Unlikely Conversion

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2013

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Todd Pruitt and Carl Trueman discuss the recent publication of Rosaria Champagne Butterfield’s Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert. Dr. Butterfield, a former Lesbian professor, came to faith in Jesus Christ through the ministry of an unassuming Reformed pastor and his family. Not only so, but she has come all the way from radical professor to home-schooling pastor’s wife in an exclusive psalm singing denomination. Free resource from the Alliance of Confessing EvangelicalsDownload the message The Conversion of Saul by Dr. James Boice. Use coupon code emezym.He watched the killing of Stephen, the first martyr. He went on to do everything he could to stamp out the newly formed Christian church. We would not expect him to become a convert a missionary and an apostle, but that is what God did. After Paul knew that Jesus was the Son of God, the first action he took was to tell others. This is exactly what everyone who wants a vital spiritual life must do. Mentioned on Unsensational Supernatural Unlikely ConversionSecret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert by Rosaria ButterfieldRegulative Principle: With Reverence and Awe by D.G. HartMetrical Psalms: http://metricalpsalms.homestead.com/Acts 29Mark DriscollConfessions of a Reformission Rev.Broad evangelicalism: Real Scandal of the Evangelical Mind, by Carl Trueman

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Mortification of Spin, your regular podcast with your host, Carl Truman, and Todd Pruitt.
0:14.0	Hello, I'm Aaron Marino from Alpha M Image Consulting, and today we're talking about skinny jeans.
0:20.0	I really love these skinny jeans.
0:21.5	Okay, where are my skinny jeans?
0:23.4	Guys, um, I can't, I can't find my skinny jeans.
0:27.1	Have you seen them anywhere?
0:28.3	And now moving on to the skinny jeans, these are a bright blue pair of skinny jeans.
0:34.1	I look so good.
0:35.5	Skinny jeans.
0:36.5	If you think that skinny jeans are not just a fashion
0:39.4	statement, but also a mission statement, you need to switch off right now. This is not the podcast
0:44.8	for you, brother. Todd, yes, want to talk today about a fascinating book came out maybe six,
0:52.1	eight months ago. It's been widely reviewed in the Christian blogosphere.
0:56.0	It's made the lady who wrote it something of a celebrity in a good sense in the Christian and reform world.
1:03.0	Secret thoughts of an unlikely convert written by a lady called Rosario, Champagne, Butterfield.
1:09.0	For those of you not familiar with this book, this is the
1:12.5	testimony, the conversion testimony of Dr. Butterfield, who prior to her conversion was an English
1:19.6	literature professor specializing in queer theory at Syracuse University, and she was a
1:27.4	committed lesbian in a lesbian relationship.
1:30.3	And this is the story of how a humble, unknown pastor in the Reform Presbyterian Church
1:35.3	of the United States reached out her in a non-polemical and loving way, engaged her as a friend,
1:42.3	had around his house for meals, got to know her, and over a period of time,
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