These Things Are Hard
Review: Good Advice on Writing: Writers Past and Present on How to Write Well
Good Advice on Writing: Writers Past and Present on How to Write Well by William Safire My rating: 4 of 5 stars A collection of quotations on writing by all sorts of writers. Some very good thoughts here. View all my reviews
Review: Answering Jihad: A Better Way Forward
Answering Jihad: A Better Way Forward by Nabeel Qureshi My rating: 4 of 5 stars Very fine introduction to the subject of jihad. For those who believe that Islam is in need of a “reformation,” Qureshi shows that they are experiencing a “back to the sources” reformation right now — which is the cause of …
Review: The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots
The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots by Calvert Watkins My rating: 4 of 5 stars Okay, I admit it. I do read dictionaries. This dictionary of Indo-European word roots was great, although the plot did drag a little by the P’s. View all my reviews
Surveying the Text: Philemon
Introduction: In the New Testament, God highlights and empowers a new principle of identification. This identification is called koinonia or fellowship, and by it God intends to transform the world. And we are given a small glimpse in microcosm of how this is to work in the remarkable book of Philemon. The Text: “Wherefore, though …
Savior of the World #7
Introduction: The words of Christ in the twenty-fourth chapter of Matthew have caused far more consternation and confusion than they really should have. The key, as before, is to look at how the passages quoted from the Old Testament are actually used, and how the event of the first century actually unfolded. The Text: “Then …
Careful Heed
[With regard to 1 Tim. 4:16] “Yet we must not bleed out of this passage in 1 Timothy its obvious implication, that Timothy would not be that instrument of God that he could be unless he took heed to himself and then to his teaching” (Martin, What’s Wrong With Preaching Today? p. 7).
Book of the Month/April 2016
Back in the eighties, the debate over theonomy and Christian Reconstruction was a “thing.” It is still a thing, and in proof of what I say I offer the evidence that virtually no one thinks so. The day of common sense shared assumption is clean over. We live in a day when decent folks can …
Review: Tucker’s Last Stand
Tucker’s Last Stand by William F. Buckley Jr. My rating: 3 of 5 stars Kept my interest throughout, but overall, bleh. View all my reviews
And We Haven’t Even Had All Our Practices Yet
