Jesus is the Lord of history, and this is why we don’t need to be afraid of Twitter. Or Facebook. Or teenagers typing with their thumbs. Jesus is the Lord of history, which is why we don’t need to worry about Google making us stupid. Don’t mistake me. Google does make many of us stupid, …
Now the Month After Next
I have mentioned this web site for the Logos benefit concert before, and have promised periodic updates and introduction. Well, here is one. Tom Garfield, the superintendent of Logos, has brought his drumsticks out of retirement in order to jump into a few songs. Look under Special Guests. Jay Niemeyer, a Logos dad, is the …
Marriage Was Such a Good Idea
Wishing you all a very blessed new year. I was tired of 2010 anyway. And today is our 35th wedding anniversary, and the weather worked together with us in celebrating it. As I told Nancy this morning . . . half way to seventy!
Underlining Has Come a Long Way
The technology is getting better by the minute — just check this out. But what we really need is a program that will let us mark up other people’s Bibles. That could be edifying.
Books n’ Songs 2010
Now that 2010 just has just a day or two left in it, I thought it would be a safe time to list my top ten books and songs for the year. But I need to qualify this. These are not necessarily books or songs that were published or released this year. This was simply …
The Queen of Sheba and Disheartened Anabaptists
First, before we can do business, we have to set aside a number of popular assumptions garnered from various hymns, sermons, and Far Side cartoons. The New Jerusalem is not a figure of Heaven, the final eternal state, but is rather a glorious image of the Christian Church. This is explicit in a number of …
A Zombie Apocalypse Would be Worse
 Some sins, Paul tells us, run out in front of a man, while others bring up the rear. Some are screamingly obvious, while others are more subtle (1 Tim. 5:24). This means that in Bible-believing churches, cavorting with prostitutes, shooting out street lights, and knocking off convenience stories is generally frowned upon. But other …
Apologetics Interview
For those interested in apologetics, there is a short interview with me here.
In Praise of Christmas Cash Registers
Or, another title could be, “The Death Knell of Gnosticism.” Scriptures commend those who have the eyes to see that which is unseen. But there is more than one kind of “unseen,” and we have to make sure we are not limiting the eye of faith to just the heavenly realities. It is good for …
The Goodness of Stuff Means Merry Christmas
Christmas and falling into sin from Canon Wired on Vimeo.