Hope and Healing
Now that we have defined domestic abuse, provided a sketch of the suffering victims live with, and briefly explored the manipulative and complex world of abusers, we are in a better position to take a look at how the Bible…
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The Briarpatch Gospel
Shayne Wheeler. The Briarpatch Gospel: Fearlessly Following Jesus Into the Thorny Places. Tyndale Momentum, 2013. iii + 257 pp. $14.99. Shayne Wheeler has written a wonderfully challenging, encouraging, and deeply personal work of pastoral theology. The Briarpatch Gospel challenges believers…
The Briarpatch Gospel
Shayne Wheeler. The Briarpatch Gospel: Fearlessly Following Jesus Into the Thorny Places. Tyndale Momentum, 2013. iii + 257 pp. $14.99. Shayne Wheeler has written a wonderfully challenging, encouraging, and deeply personal work of pastoral theology. The Briarpatch Gospel challenges believers…
Unrelated but Note-worthy
1. Since I have been vocal when I disagree with him, let me commend Mark Jones’ most recent blog post here at Ref21 as good medicine. I’ll resume the merciless beatings of P&R theology at some point in the future;…
“…Where Everybody Knows Your Name”
Things have been pretty crazy at the new bar Todd, Carl, and I didn’t realize just how busy we would be with all the new frequenters. You know what they say, bartending involves counseling skills. And not to name any…
In Haste
This week's podcast is up, in which the Ref Pack talk about the greatest Reformer of them all. Further, anyone interested in catching a live videocast of a recording of the show, when we will be interviewing Dr Kent Hughes…
Are you Evil and Pernicious?
“FOR TO THIS YOU HAVE BEEN CALLED, BECAUSE CHRIST ALSO SUFFERED FOR YOU, LEAVING YOU AN EXAMPLE, SO THAT YOU MIGHT FOLLOW IN HIS STEPS.” –1 PETER 2:21 In the broader Reformed world there are some who seem to have…
Why Abraham Was Right: A Reply to Rachel Held Evans
It is grievous to see how brazen the progressive evangelical movement has become in assailing not merely the inerrantist view of Scripture but now even Scripture itself. The most recent installment comes from Rachel Held Evans in a post titled,…
I’m actually grateful for Scott’s response to my rejoinder for two reasons: the first is that it’s both loving and serious to respond when one is seen to be at fault for something and one is not — because it…
Chaput on the Significance of Gay Marriage
Yesterday, Jon Master and I headed north to New York to hear Roman Catholic Archbishop of Philadelphia, Charles Chaput, deliver the 2014 Erasmus Lecture, ‘Strangers in a Strange Land.’ As a Protestant, I was interested to hear first-hand a Roman…