While I was preaching in Birmingham, England recently, a colleague passed on a little booklet of 32 pages by Christopher Ash entitled Listen Up!: A practical guide to listening to sermons. What a gem it is! While there are many…
Peaks and Troughs Psalm 107 celebrates the transforming power of God’s redemption in the lives of his people. The refrain throughout the psalm highlights its main theme: ‘Let them give thanks to the Lord for his unfailing love and his…
Kevin DeYoung has written a thoughtful and helpful review of Rich Stearns book The Whole in Our Gospel. DeYoung voices the very concerns I have about the book. First of all it should be said that Stearns is absolutely right…
Psalm 106 is another of the Psalms which celebrates the history of redemption, and focuses our attention on the experience of Israel, led and kept by God while on pilgrimage to the promised land. One of the reasons such psalms…
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Interesting article in the June 2010 Harvard Business Review. Prof. Uzma Khan and colleagues did a study in which they awarded a gift card to an electronics store to people who completed a word puzzle. Half the recipients earned the…
Iain Campbell has written a glowing review of Doctrine by Mark Driscoll and Gary Breshears. Not surprisingly, Campbell quibbles with a few issues (there is no such thing as a perfect book). He is cautious about Driscoll and Breshear’s views…
Fire and water. That’s what my friend went through when her Philadelphia apartment building was devastated by fire. First came the fire and the smoke. Fortunately, even though it happened in the middle of the night, there was enough…
The new direction of the Clarmont School of Theology, a United Methodist institution, demonstrates once again how theological liberalism inevitably leads to apostasy. This is one of the reasons why many of us are sticklers for detail when it comes…
You may be interested in my review of Mark Driscoll’s book on theology over at my blog here.
