“Live like men who have something to live for; and preach like men to whom preaching is the highest exercise of their being” (Charles Spurgeon, An All-Round Ministry, p. 273).
One Follows His Reasoning
“If I had to choose an image to sum up our times, I would not choose from among the usual ones, such as the Nuclear Age, the Technological Society, the Age of Anxiety, the Computer Generation, the Affluent Society, or the Space Era. I would call it the Age of Noise” (Michael D. O’Brian, A …
What Would Melzar Think?
After services yesterday, I was asked a good question about my series on food. Do I believe that there was a miracle when Daniel and his three friends refused the king’s meat and wine, and came out of a ten day test healthier than the stable-fed Babylonians? The first response was the one I offered …
Mitchell, Bradford, Rouke, Peaborne and Mystic Union
The next chapter, entitled “Harmonic Convergence,” is now up and running on all eight cylinders.
Hands in Pockets, Whistling
Hart’s second section in the second half of his book depends almost entirely on good writing, a goodly dose of mysticism and lots of handwaving. Here is how that section concludes: “It is impossible for the infinite God of love directly or positively to will evil (physical or moral), even in a provisional or transitory …
Georgia On My Mind
Since the Russian tanks began to roll into Georgia, I have been mulling it over, reading about it, and wanted to offer just a few cautions. As fun as it might be to have the Russians for enemies again, right back in the psychic spot they occupied my entire childhood, the snarl over there ain’t …
Centurions As Alms-Givers
Karl Marx famously said that religion was the opiate of the masses. Although his taunt misses true religion, there are many forms of religion in the world that his arrow hits dead center. One of them would be the Pharisaism of Jesus’ day. We often miss the import of the Lord’s teaching, his cryptic sayings, …
Wanting to Outsource the Sacrifice
We have been considering the fact that God in His kindness feeds His people. And as He does so, He does this as a pattern for us to emulate and follow. The Lord offers us His broken body, and this is a figure that we imitate. It is not the case that food just appears …
Logos Bible Software
Not counting the first Texas Instruments computer-like thing, the first PC we owned was an IBM XT. It had ten megabytes of memory on the hard drive, and I recall marveling at how roomy that was. Ginormous capacity, and I thought that I would have to type pretty much forever in order fill it up. …
Imitation of Christ as a Nose of Wax
In the last chapter of the book, Boyd’s pacifism comes out in full force, and he argues for it by answering the most common questions he receives whenever he addresses the themes of this book. Although many things could be said about all this, I want to limit myself to two. First, the way Boyd …