Drawing too many conclusions from descriptive passages is hermeneutically perilous. Revelation 5 is descriptive of heavenly worship and not necessarily prescriptive of worship here on earth. There are aspects of it which are non-transferable to our gathered worship settings on…
Shortly after posting on Stephen Lungu, I received a sobering update on his work right now in Kenya. Where the following information says “AE” it is referring to African Enterprise, an evangelical ministry of word and deed that was founded…
Our father/son book group (The James Montgomery Boice Literary Society) just finished reading Out of the Black Shadows. The book tells the extraordinary story of Stephen Lungu, who was abandoned by his parents at a young age, joined a violent…
Over the last few days I have been devouring Michael Ward’s remarkable new interpretation of The Narnia Chronicles by C. S. Lewis. The book is called Planet Narnia, and it was published this month by Oxford University Press. Dr. Ward…
Holed up in the Applied Electronics Laboratory on the Stanford campus with several hundred other students, Stafford protested the secret research being done by the Defense Department to advance the Vietnam War. Though his motivations, as he admits, were at…
I wonder too if the drift to Rome isn’t caused by the dramatic loss of a sense of humour in Protestantism. Frankly, Catholic writers seem to have more fun most of the time; and humour is a great way of…
Denny Burk comments on Rick Warren’s recent appearance on The Colbert Report (). Any thoughts?
George Whitefield offered this prayer generations ago. How relevant it is for our own time. “Yea…that we shall see the great Head of the Church once more . . . raise up unto Himself certain young men whom He may…
On January 7, 1855 the 20 year old pastor of New Park Street Chapel in Southwark (London) opened his morning sermon with these words: “The highest science, the loftiest speculation, the mightiest philosophy, which can ever engage the attention of…
I have to declare my interest in this type of book up front. It is just the kind of book I like to read: puritan history, intricate debates on predestination, the subtle nuances of the lapsarian controversy (it barely occasions…
