Grace or Karma?
Okay, sometimes Bono drives me a bit crazy. I have, however, appreciated most of U2’s music going all the way back to “Boy” and “War”. In Michael Assayas’ book Bono the author records this interview with the famous singer and…
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It’s Official: I’m Unfashionable
Tullian Tchividjian was kind to quote me in his latest book Unfashionable. Notice that at the time I was still serving as pastor of Metro East in Wichita. Here’s the quote from page 100: One of the leading ways the…
Why it may become increasingly difficult for me to vote…
Adam Nagourney from the New York Times: WASHINGTON — It was only five years ago that opposition to gay marriage was so strong that Republicans explicitly turned to the issue as a way to energize conservative voters. Yet today, as…
Hold Planned Parenthood Accountable
From Denny Burk’s blog: Lila Rose is a 20-year old college student at UCLA. She has the voice of a 14-year old, but she has an ingenious plan to expose Planned Parenthood’s serial abuse of vulnerable young girls who are…
“The Embattled Bible”
As mentioned in an earlier post, the latest issue of Themelios is out. Of particular interest to regular readers of this blog may be the review by Robert Yarbrough of four new books on the Bible. One of the books…
A Great Commission Resurgence
Dr. Danny Akin of Southeastern Baptist Seminary recently delivered an important message entitled “Axioms of a Great Commission Resurgence.” Listen to it HERE.
Themelios
The latest issue of Themelios is now available free online. Themelios is an outstanding journal dedicated to biblical and theological studies and is edited by Carl Trueman of Westminster Theological Seminary and D.A. Carson of Trinity Evangelical. I commend it…
Iconography gone very wrong
Perhaps we need to value cynicism a bit more. Okay, maybe I’m overstating just a bit in order to make a point. But anytime we invest a politician (any politician) with messianic qualities then we are headed down a very…
Sunday’s Sermon
You can listen to or download the first message in the Hebrews series “Shadows and Substance” by clicking HERE.
Audio & Video from the Gospel Coalition
Listen to or watch the main session from the Gospel Coalition by clicking HERE. The messages which were particularly helpful for me were those of Tim Keller, Phil Ryken, Ligon Duncan, and Don Carson.