This weekend I had the pleasure of attending my friend Marilyn’s 70th birthday celebration. Her son and daughter-in-law wanted to surprise Marilyn, and they invited our whole Tuesday morning women’s Bible study group. Marilyn is truly an inspiration to me.…
It seems it might be helpful to clarify my earlier reference to preachers merely setting up virtual equivalents of themselves to carry the church into the indefinite future. Nobody, as far as I know, has yet made the suggestion –…
It seems it might be helpful to clarify my earlier reference to preachers merely setting up virtual equivalents of themselves to carry the church into the indefinite future. Nobody, as far as I know, has yet made the suggestion –…
Here is a fascinating interview with Jaron Lanier, web-insider who is now doing the Winston Smith thing. I was particularly impressed by this paragraph: Lanier has another problem with the techno-utopians, though. It’s not just that they’ve crashed the economy,…
Here is a fascinating interview with Jaron Lanier, web-insider who is now doing the Winston Smith thing. I was particularly impressed by this paragraph: Lanier has another problem with the techno-utopians, though. It’s not just that they’ve crashed the economy,…
The apostle John had seen many wonderful things in his life. He had lived alongside the Christ for three years, testifying that if all the things that Jesus did “were written one by one, I suppose that even the world…
My granddad is a retired Independent Baptist preacher. After he retired and he and my grandma were downsizing, he passed along some books from his library that he thought I would like. Although I don’t hold to the strong, dispensational…
This video has been doing the rounds over the last few days. It is difficult to tell if it is ironic or not; though ‘American Christian feminists’ makes me think the (male) Catholic priests who during my youth flooded into…
This video has been doing the rounds over the last few days. It is difficult to tell if it is ironic or not; though ‘American Christian feminists’ makes me think the (male) Catholic priests who during my youth flooded into…
The Gospel MinistryThomas FoxcroftSoli Deo Gloria (RHB), 87pp, hbkISBN 978-1-56769-061-3 This unusual but highly profitable little volume is a preacher’s own ordination sermon. It was preached in 1717 by Thomas Foxcroft as he set out to demonstrate to the congregation…
