Last night my wife took a picture off our east deck (with her phone), and that pic is posted below. She put it up on her blog, and I wanted to do the same here, because it illustrates a point I have often wondered about. Why is it that nature photography is so limited, in …
Obama Rides a Dragon While Waving His Cowboy Hat
The second section of Hunter’s book To Change the World begins with a very short chapter, so I will consider it and the following chapter together. I want to begin by differing with what I believe to be a premature assessment, one that I commented on earlier. “As we have seen, though, Christians have embraced …
As Godly as it Might Look to Some
“The upshot is that not everything ‘righteous’ is all that good. Not everything ‘sinful’ is all that bad. Only a fool jumps to pious and edifying conclusions” (Joy at the End of the Tether, p. 78).
A Potent Place
“Indeed, if you preach well, a great deal of counseling, and even church discipline, goes on from the pulpit” (Wagner, Tongues Aflame, p. 298).
Telling the World that Jesus Won
The devil went down. No, the devil didn’t go down to Georgia, he just went down.
The Kettle Drummer in the Back
The flotilla fiasco, as it is now being called, provides us with a textbook case of how nations get themselves into wars. The run-up to wars is frequently not a matter of clearly defined and contrary objectives from two hostile powers, but rather a muddled, tangled mess. Nations usually don’t march quick-step to war, but …
Think!
The 2010 Desiring God National conference is dedicated to the theme of Think, on the life of the mind and the love of God. The slate of speakers looks like a lot of fun, and if you go here and scroll down to the seminar speakers at the bottom, you will discover an additional fun …
Tiny Little Souls and Tight Little Shoes
“What does it mean to be overly righteous? Of course God is perfectly righteous; this does not mean He has taken it to an extreme. Clearly Solomon here is not addressing genuine piety, righteousness, or wisdom. He is speaking of what all too often passes for it. So what does this mean? Not to put …
Imperfect Students of an Imperfect Book
“You must study your congregation with the same diligence you use in searching the Scriptures” (Wagner, Tongues Aflame, p. 289).
Grace at Corinth
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) The Basket Case Chronicles #2 “I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ; That in every thing ye are enriched by him, in all utterance, and in all knowledge; Even as …