I so appreciated Steve’s post on the continued usefulness of the “evangelical” label. Thinking about historian David Bebbington’s four-fold identificiation of an evangelical (biblicism; conversionism; cruci-centrism; activism) can be helpful…
Over the past few days, on my personal blog, I’ve been posting quotes from L. Gregory Jones and Kevin R. Armstrong’s book, Resurrecting Excellence: Shaping Faithful Christian Ministry (you can find…
One of the hardest things for me, as well as the students whom I serve, is to discern accurately our own gifts and callings. Attending to God’s own guidance in…
From Jonathan Edwards, “God Glorified in the Work of Redemption,” in The Sermons of Jonathan Edwards: A Reader, ed. Wilson H. Kimnach, et al (1999): 74-5: The redeemed have all…
I have a bad habit: I keep adding books to my growing pile beside my bed. This morning, I finished a book that wasn’t on this list: Christian Scharen’s Faith…
Our intrepid director requested that we blog about our summer reading; since I know I will either throw some of these books to the side, complete others, and start new…
The great thing about this blog is that you get to learn new words. From dictionary.com: apotheosis means “model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal.”…
This past April, my wife and I had the opportunity to enjoy the hospitality of the Westminster Seminary California community as the Westminster Student Association Lecturer. We had a wonderful…
In my morning worship, I’ve also been reading sections of Isaiah. One thing that struck me were the competing claims represented in Isaiah 46 and 47. In Isaiah 46, God…
In my morning worship today, I was in Zephaniah and 3:9 leaped out at me: “For at that time I will change the speech of the peoples to a pure…
