I want to thank you all for your kind invitation to address a recent dust-up in the blogosphere. It is not often that I get to discuss things like this. Thabiti wrote a good article here, which elicited boatloads of comments, and so he followed it up with more here. Jonathan Merritt thought that the …
Book of the Month/September
So this is a book that I really did not expect to be reviewing as my book of the month selection, but life is funny. Mind & Cosmos is subtitled “Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False.” When a book with this kind of subtitle comes out, written by a philosopher …
Uriah Drunk and David Sober
Introduction God has established David as a great king in a newly created Israel. This is the account of a new fall, marring that new creation. In this chapter, David commits adultery, followed up with murder. His subsequent attempts at a bungled cover-up resulted in one of the best known stories of human history. So …
Always Put Yourself First
We are all coming to this Table for grace. We come together, but we also come individually. The meaning of communing together is seen when all of us do something individually. We give you bread, and you eat it. We give you a cup and you drink it. At the same time, all over the …
Noisily Approaching for Years
When we confess our sins, as we ought to do, we sometimes make the mistake of starting with the sin and ending with the repentance. It is good to confess your sins, of course, but it is also good to review the game film afterwards to analyze how you got in the position of being …
A Wireless Kingdom
In conversation with a friend this morning, a thought came to mind that I thought I would pass on. We were talking about the world in which things like twerking and Miley Cyrus can happen — the realm of pop culture and all the bubbles floating around it. And every bubble that floats by right …
Grace Agenda Early Registration . . .
Just a quick reminder that early registration for the Grace Agenda ends Saturday, August 31. Check it out here.
Really Chintzy
“One of the most pernicious forms of Sabbath-breaking is this: ‘Once every seven days God expects us to get chintzy for Him'” (For a Glory and a Covering, p 130).
Because I Am Important?
“Yet why preach sixty minutes of exegetical data if your audience cannot understand most of what you are saying” (Hughes, Exegetical Preaching With Word Pictures, p. 77).
Syrian Just War, or Just War in Syria?
The Syria thing is such a mess that it appears to fit right in. And so let me say just a few things that might indicate why I might say something like that, and to help everyone feel right at home. It is the Middle East, after all. Traditional just war theory contains two fundamental …