Category 1517

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Political Discource and the 9th Commandment

Some of you will be overjoyed by this post thinking that it represents the dawning of change in my political perspective (which it does not). Others of you will get angry, having the same thought. So, here goes… Over at…

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Questions science cannot answer…

What is moral? What is good? What gives value to life? What makes any life valuable? I could go on but those are questions that science is hopeless to answer. Don’t misunderstand. I am profoundly grateful for competent scientists. Every…

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Excellent prices on excellent commentaries

The Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament is an outstanding series. For a limited time WTSBookstore is running a great special on these volumes. The newest volume on Ephesians by Frank Thielman is now available for only $24.74 (45%…

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A Painful Necessity

Thanks to Ray Ortlund for posting this: “None are more exposed to slanders and insults than godly teachers. This comes not only from the difficulty of their duties, which are so great that sometimes they sink under them, or stagger…

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The sterility and bleakness of evolution

Al Mohler calls our attention to a USA Today article by Michael Shermer. Shermer, the publisher of Skeptic Magazine is an enthusiastic atheist and, therefore, evolutionist. In the article referred to by Mohler, Shermer seeks to explain how such deep…

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Miscellanies

Justin Taylor – Assessing the New Perspective on PaulAl Mohler – Should Christians Practice Yoga?Andy Naselli – D.A. Carson Audio“Doom and Gloom” or A premill. dispensationalist writes a songEvangel – The Self-Obsessed Frank Schaeffer

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New Books…

A few new titles I am particularly interested in… City of Man: Religion and Politics in the New Era Republocrat: Confessions of a Liberal Conservative Ephesians (BECNT) 40 Questions About Christians and Biblical Law

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A few days at the beach…

My family and I were away most of last week. I performed a wedding ceremony at a beautiful baptist church on Cape Cod. We were blessed to stay in a home with a great view of the ocean. It was…

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Not friends after all?

Jerry Coyne of the University of Chicago, a scientist and former believer has finally settled the debate between science and Christianity. It seems that the two cannot be friends after all. Of course Dr. Coyne’s presupposition is that religious faith…