Results tagged “idolatry”
Book Review - "Counterfeit Gods" by Tim Keller (10/20/09 - 19 Comments)
Tim Keller knows how to tell a Bible story. Like The Prodigal God before it, his latest book, Counterfeit Gods is built around them. And every time I read one of those stories, I feel like I am hearing it for the first time. I find myself lost in the story, anticipating how it could, how it might, end. In the back of my mind I know exactly how it will turn out, but somehow...
Idolatry New and Old (07/08/09 - 48 Comments)
A little while ago my friend Ian loaned me the PBS DVD series The Story of India This six-part series, which runs about six hours, simply tells the story of India from ancient times until roughly the time of Indian Independence. It is a good documentary, even if the host's excessive exuberance toward all things Indian is a little bit hard to take after a while. "Oh, isn't that wonderful! Fantastic! Remarkable! Unbelievable! Stupendous!" As...
You Are the Treasure That I Seek (06/09/09 - 8 Comments)
I spent a few minutes yesterday reading about the new iPhone--the iPhone 3G S. It sounds spectacular. With every generation of the phone the wizards at Apple get one step closer to what people wanted the iPhone to be from the outset--an amazing, innovative, gizmo that does so many things so well. Watching the videos, reading the descriptions, I can feel my heart begin to long for that phone. I know that if I don't...