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…
In 1734, God used the preaching of Jonathan Edwards to launch the Great Awakening in Northampton, MA. Edwards would go on to be one of the most influential Christians in American history. We rightly think of this Awakening, like all…
Lectures to my StudentsC. H. SpurgeonVarious publishers and editions Every Friday afternoon Charles Spurgeon would head down to the Pastors’ College – of all the institutions in which he was involved, the one that was perhaps dearest to his great…
It was good to be a middle aged has-been (or, perhaps more accurately, ‘never-was’) this Christmas. While I poured myself a brandy and listened at leisure to the long-awaited Celebration Day and Mark Knopfler’s new album, Privateering, I took some…
It was good to be a middle aged has-been (or, perhaps more accurately, ‘never-was’) this Christmas. While I poured myself a brandy and listened at leisure to the long-awaited Celebration Day and Mark Knopfler’s new album, Privateering, I took some…
