Month March 2007

John Piper has posted a very moving journal entry from the other night, recounting the death of his father. I encourage everyone to read it. He has also posted an obituary of his dad.

A new edition of the 9 Marks Newsletter is now online [also available in PDF]. Here’s an introduction from editor Jonathan Leeman:

Here’s one Wall Street Journal op-ed piece that Carl may agree with.

It seems that every year at the PCRT, something is said that focuses the entire conference.  Last year it was Sinclair Ferguson’s insistence that our goal is not merely “to know the truth of God’s Word, but to know the…

I just returned from the first installment of this year’s Philadelphia Conference on Reformed Theology, at Immanuel Baptist Church in Sacramento, CA.  It was another classic PCRT!  There were so many highlights, all of them resulting from the Spirit’s presence…

Listening to Janis Joplin the other day, I was struck by two things.  First, my eleven year old son (who had never, to my knowledge, heard Joplin) commented as he heard the first bars of `Me and Bobby McGee’ that…

My wife and I went to see the Wilberforce movie last (it had all the feel of a Baptist Prayer Meeting inside the theater with folks wearing suits and ties and the average age, well, my age!). It was hugely enjoyable,…

The tiresome story of the “Tomb of Jesus” rolls on, proving once again the eagerness with which unbelief will grasp at anything to believe a lie. Informed responses can be found at the following sites:  Andreas Kostenberger, Ben Witherington, Darrell…