I would like to drive as much traffic as I can to this review of the new IVP book, The End of Sexual Identity. The book is by Jenell Paris, and is reviewed by Peter Jones. The sooner we understand that every worldview has a sexual expression, and that every sexual act is a disrobed …
Quite a Few Words to Look Up
“Many Christians have come to baptistic conclusions because they simply took a Bible and a concordance, and then looked up every incident of baptism in the New Testament. This is objectionable, not because they studied they pasages concerned with baptism, but because they did not look up all the passages that addressed parents, children, generations, …
Brain Snakes
And the Frankish magi and sayers of sooth approached the emperor, and said not to be afraid of this serpent of YHWH. For the word and rod of the wise man had become a great serpent before the emperor. “Lo,” they said, “do we not have brain snakes every bit as large as this one?” …
Three Camels and the Needle
In Luke 11, Jesus gives us a truly odd juxtaposition — until we learn to think of generational bloodguilt more biblically than we usually do. Jesus says that one generation killed the prophets, and a subsequent generation builds a tomb for that same prophet (Luke 11:47). According to carnal calculus, building a tomb of honor …
Thanks for the Thanks
The most appropriate way to begin a review of a book like this is by giving thanks for it. The Gift of Thanks is more a collection of micro-arguments and discursive observations on various aspects of gratitude than it is a sustained argument from front to back, and yet the end result is extremely satisfying. …
The Second Ebenezer
INTRODUCTION:The reformation we see here in this passage was slow in coming, and did not last very long. But at the same time, it was real. Reformations are messy, and cannot be understood by the tidy-minded. As we live in a time that is desperate for real reformation, there are many things for us to …
Acting Like There Will Be Leftovers
One of the characteristics of a Jesus meal is the astonishing level of leftovers. In the feeding of the five thousand, there were 12 baskets of leftovers (Mk. 8:19). In the miracle of the four thousand, there were 7 baskets of leftovers (Matt. 16:10). We see this foreshadowed in the miracle of Elijah’s as well. …
Learning to Sing Sea Water
One of the things we should notice in Scripture is the close association of the music of the people of God and the nations of men. There is a regular appeal, throughout Scripture, asking the nations to hear us when we sing. The music of the saints, rightly done, is universal and evangelistic. The music …
Big Doings at the Nuart
If you are in the Moscow area tomorrow night (that would be Saturday, May 14, 2011, for those of you reading this in the archives three years from now), I would like to invite you to the Nuart Theater to watch the DVD of the Logos Benefit Concert. That video has now been edited, courtesy …
Sojourning in Hate
Jim Wallis of Sojourners magazine, a leftist evangelical outfit, got into a bit of a spot when the magazine declined to take an ad designed to help churches and clergy become more gay affirming. The pickle is described here, and Wallis explains himself here. The explanation offered by Wallis is a verbal attempt to build …