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“Well Acts” and the Loss of Sin

Much armchair and professional psychoanalyzing has gone on about the Major Hasan’s murderous rampage at Fort Hood. What seems to be lost in the hunt for a motive is the reality of human sin fueled by a wicked ideology. Al…

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I am my biggest problem

From Paul Tripp: I must face the fact that my greatest need is not environmental. My greatest need does not derive from the fact that the brokenness of the Fall fractures every situation, every relationship, and every context. Yes, all…

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13 Books on the Doctrine of God

Keith Mathison from Ligonier Ministries has recommended 13 books on the doctrine of God. Check out the list HERE. I would add to that excellent list a few titles that are a bit more accessable to the lay person:Knowing God…

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Ehrman’s Errors

In the latest issue of Themelios, Darrel Bock reviews Bart Ehrman’s latest attack on the Bible, Jesus, Interrupted. Bart Ehrman’s Jesus, Interrupted by his own admission says nothing new. It packages what scholars have been saying about issues in the…

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Cormac McCarthy

There are few writers I enjoy reading as much as Cormac McCarthy. I began reading McCarthy when I picked up a copy of Blood Meridian a year or so after I graduated from University. I was hooked. McCarthy was interviewed…

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Who Made God?

Tim Challies has given an enthusiastic recommendation to Who Made God? by scholar Edgar Andrews. Why should the Devil get all the good scientists? It sometimes seems that way, doesn’t it? We hear of scientists like Stephen Hawking and Richard…

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Great Gift Idea

It is my wife’s birthday. To celebrate the day, a friend from church took her out to eat and do a little shopping. What struck me as a particularly good gift was the prayer journal that she presented to my…