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Are we prepared to send our daughters into battle?
The combination of male cowardice and political correctness is a deadly one. Now comes news that President Obama has lifted the restrictions from women serving in combat. Please take time to Read John Piper’s clear article on this regrettable decision.…
Justification Reconsidered
Stephen Westerholm. Justification Reconsidered: Rethinking a Pauline Theme. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2013. pp. viii + 104. $15.00, paperback. Stephen Westerholm, professor at McMaster University, has long been known in critical scholarship for upholding the “Lutheran” Paul (his term) against all…
The Quest for Rest in Augustine’s Confessions
Augustine’s Confessions is one of the great classics of Christian historical theological literature.(1) It is admired for its beauty of composition, its sophisticated literary construction, and its vivid and honest recollections of the life of its author. Some scholars would…
The Quest for Rest in Augustine’s Confessions
Augustine’s Confessions is one of the great classics of Christian historical theological literature.(1) It is admired for its beauty of composition, its sophisticated literary construction, and its vivid and honest recollections of the life of its author. Some scholars would…
Your Real Self-Image
Be true to yourself. Follow your dreams. Search deep inside for the real you. This is confusing stuff! Sure, these sentiments sound nice, but they are so subjective that you never know when you have arrived at your actual self.…
Can a Mormon Sing at the SBC?
Carl gets the finder’s fee for pointing me to the following post. It seems that a certain well known CCM group from the 90’s is going to be performing at a conference hosted by the Southern Baptist Convention. The only…
A Precious Commodity
Matt and I were recently watching an episode of the show Elementary. In it, Sherlock Holmes is struggling with some new-found feelings of personal responsibility. Sherlock is a recovering drug addict, so his sponsor noticed that he was going through…
Calvinism makes the NY Times
Mark Oppenheimer over at the New York Times has written an interesting little article on the revival of Calvinism in recent years. Having been Southern Baptist until recently, I was particularly interested in the fact that the article focuses much…