Denny Burk Responds
With bad news on the horizon….I am taking this opportunity to post before the storm. In the interests of showing that I am happy to receive “push-back” on articles, here is Denny Burk responding to my post, A Plea For Realism.…
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Sharing the Gospel is Inconvenient
As I was walking from the restaurant to my car, I had one gospel tract in my pocket. I had purposed to give it to someone in route to my vehicle. Literally, that was my plan. I wanted to place…
Those Suffering Domestic Violence
The month of October has been designated Domestic Violence Awareness Month. The goal of this month is to raise public awareness about domestic violence and to educate communities and individuals on how to recognize, prevent, and respond to domestic violence.…
Those Suffering Domestic Violence
The month of October has been designated Domestic Violence Awareness Month. The goal of this month is to raise public awareness about domestic violence and to educate communities and individuals on how to recognize, prevent, and respond to domestic violence.…
Why I Baptize Babies
Part 2 of 2 (see part 1 on “Why I Pour” here). As a pastor, who has many baptistic families in his church (who are fine Christians, dear friends, and those I commune with at the table), there are several…
All New Mortification of Spin Website
The Mortification of Spin podcast has been airing for a year and a half, attracting tens of thousands of listeners each week. And while there are some issues and certain episodes that we are asked to avoid, remove, or apologize…
“Theism raises the ceiling on our hopes for happiness”
Today Justin Taylor posted one of my favorite sections from C. S. Lewis’s sermon, “The Weight of Glory.” In that sermon, Lewis speaks eloquently about the “desire for our own far-off country”–the desire for heaven. I worry that much contemporary…
Just Add Water (Epilogue)
Now that we have spread out into part 5 of a 4-part series, there’s a question I did not answer last time because it was much more serious than the other questions which have been added to this discussion by…
Art for Pleasure’s Sake: Calvin on Gen. 4.21
It’s well known that Calvin frowned upon religious images in churches and the use of musical instruments to accompany singing in the corporate worship of God. Religious artwork in churches served, he believed, to distract worshipers from those “pictures” of…
Why I Pour (When Baptizing)
Here is the first of two posts: “Why I Pour” & “Why I Baptize Babies.” They are both roughly 900 words each. Should we only baptize by immersion, the full submersion of the body under water? Should we argue that…