As the festive season approaches, the MoS team can look back on quite a year: we started off as two incompetent and world-weary middle-aged geezers (good word for you, if you are out there, Tim B) and ended as —…
As the festive season approaches, the MoS team can look back on quite a year: we started off as two incompetent and world-weary middle-aged geezers (good word for you, if you are out there, Tim B) and ended as —…
Tim Keller – I have either heard or read Tim Keller give this illustration but haven’t been able to source it. I know that can get you into all sorts of difficulties at the moment with this but hey it’s…
CJ Mahaney (remember him!) writing in John Piper’s Festschrift ‘For the Fame of God’s name’, Crossway, p386 ”In 2007, the Washington Post organised an experiment. During the morning rush hour, world famouse violinist Joshau Bell stood incognito in the…
It’s Christmas, a time for sharing, of giving to those who do not have and helping those less fortunate and gifted than you are. It is in this spirit that I am providing 3 of my best Christmas illustrations. I’ve stolen…
On this week’s Bully Pulpit episode of the Mortification of Spin, Carl, Todd, and I discuss a Christmas plea to fathers from John Denver (where I for some reason say 6 track instead of 8 track), the incarnation, and punching…
Over at Ref21 I have posted my favorite books from this year.
Brian S. Rosner, Paul and the Law: Keeping the Commandments of God. NSBT 31; Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity, 2013, 249 pp. $24.00. The apostle Peter famously said that “in all [Paul’s] letters … there are some things … that…
Recently, I published a book titled Words in Season: On Sharing the Hope that is Within Us. It is an introduction to sharing the good news of Christ that was birthed out of a Sunday school series. The book not…
Carl Trueman and Scott McKnight agree on something! Actually, I was not surprised. Dr. McKnight has written an excellent piece on Christian publishing and recent peculiar events concerning a certain evangelebrity.
