Tuesday August 21, 2007 Regeneration T-ShirtThe crew at Monergism Books just unveiled a great new t-shirt on the theme of regeneration. Calvin & Hobbes, Message & MediumAt Scriptorium Fred Sanders has a great article entitled “What You Can Learn from Calvin and Hobbes about the Message and the Medium.” It’s a must read! Security and…
Delighting in God’s sovereignty, even through affliction. I typically post a new book review here every Tuesday morning. But because I was so excited by the book I planned on reviewing this week, I thought I would break with tradition and post this review a day early. Polishing God’s Monuments was an unexpected surprise. A…
Monday August 20, 2007 On The MovePaul reviews On the Move, a short book by Bono, saying “the fundamental problem in Bono’s speech/book is this: it preaches a Christless, works-salvation.” No Room at the InnThose who insist upon holding up Canadian health care as the solution to America’s health care crisis may wish to read…
Just helping a brother figure out Facebook. Josh Harris needs help with Facebook. In fact, he has resorted to begging for friends. It’s kind of sad, really. So I thought I would try to help a friend out with this Facebook Survey. Now Facebook is kind of a neat phenomenon. I’m not convinced it has…
The sovereignty of God in the storm. Thabiti Anyabwile, his family and his church are facing down a hurricane. A recent post at his blog is titled What Do You Think About God When Calamity Strikes? and in this post he makes reference to another recent tragedy and two different responses to it. When the…
A review of Brian “Head” Welch’s Bestselling Autobiography. Claims of celebrity conversions to Christianity are quite common, but so often it seems that the conversions are followed by no lifestyle changes, the most common external proof of a true heart change. So often we hear of the conversions and then see no convincing reason that…
Friday August 17, 2007 Eternity LostMatt Schmucker provides six reasons that the idea of eternity has been largely lost to Christians. Church Won’t Hold Funeral for Gay ManA Texas church is causing controversy by not allowing its facilities to be used for the funeral of a gay man. The church’s statement is available here. Breakfast…
Yesterday I proposed Read the Classics Together–choosing a classic Christian book and reading it in tandem, returning here once a week or so for a bit of discussion. This method, I thought, could provide the accountability many of us need to make our way through some of the classics of the faith. Based on the…
Just thinking seriously about hell presses on my soul and presses upon my heart. I find it difficult to think about hell. Though I know that hell is real and that God means for us to know at least something about it, I find it hard to read about it and to ponder it. I’m…
Thursday August 16, 2007 Mark Dever Joins the Baptism DebateMark Dever has joined the discussion on baptism that previously just involved John Piper and Wayne Grudem. His thesis: “Baptism SHOULD be required for church membership.” A Biography of C.J. MahaneyTimmy Brister points to an online video biography of C.J. Mahaney that “was produced to commemorate…
If you’re like me there are probably quite a few books that you wish you had read and yet, for some reason, you still haven’t. There are classics kicking around your desk that you’ve been meaning to pick up, but to this point you’ve never actually taken the time to read them. Or perhaps you’ve…
Trusting our instruments rather than our sight or instincts. A few months ago I was watching a program called “Mayday,” which I believe is actually several other shows all rolled into one and branded for a Canadian audience. It is a show about disasters, and most notably, plane crashes. It sounds morbid, I admit, but…
Wednesday August 15, 2007 Movabletype 4.0Bloggers using the Movabletype platform (or considering using it) may be interested to know that version 4.0 has launched and is now available (and looking good!). How Chicks HatchThis little video caught my attention yesterday. I think I prefer to believe that my meat arrives at the table through a…
Excerpted from Jim Andrew’s Polishing God’s Monuments. When the Lord’s ways do not neatly conform to our pat little paradigms of what seems (to our fallible minds) right and just, and good and faithful, it says something about human nature that usually the first thought that comes to mind is that something is wrong with…
Timothy Paul Jones responds to the fallacies of Bart Ehrman’s “Misquoting Jesus.” Bart Ehrman’s Misquoting Jesus was a surprise bestseller. Released in late 2005, it quickly climbed its way onto the bestseller lists–an interesting feat for a book dealing with textual criticism. Ehrman is a renowned New Testament scholar and chairs the Department of Religious…
Tuesday August 14, 2007 Derek Webb InterviewTony Kummer of Said at Southern blog recently interviewed Derek Webb and has posted the audio at the blog as a podcast. Is The Bible Relevant to Archeology?Ray Fowler points to a short but interesting video interviewing five biblical archaeologists on site in Israel. In Christ AloneChristianity Today has…
Second Life and cheating in a virtual world. Friday’s edition of the Wall Street Journal featured an article about Second Life, a popular online digital world. It is inhabited by people like you and me, but people who take on a new identity–a second life. It is, by all accounts, an engaging experience. This is…
Monday August 13, 2007 Is Singleness a Sin?Lydia posts part two of a series on this topic. “Is singleness a sin? Not according to Paul. And not according to Jesus. In fact, Jesus clearly stated that choosing to be single for kingdom purposes is a good and blessed option.” If God is Sovereign, Why Pray?Pulpit…
I wanted to take some space on this blog to make mention of what looks like a really interesting conference. The Expositors’ Conference (October 1-2) is hosted by Christ Fellowship Baptist Church (in Mobile, Alabama), the church pastored by Steve Lawson. The conference is targeted squarely at pastors, and especially those who value expository preaching…
Chaos reigns. I’m down here just a little ways out of Chattanooga where, in just a few hours, my little sister Grace is going to get married. It is hot. Deathly hot. Even the Atlantans seem to be reeling from it. People have gathered from far and wide. Members of our family have travelled in…