
Riding shotgun
I could not help sadly oscillating the Walker bean when I read Carl’s offer to ride shotgun to Mark Jones on the proposed debate between Jones and Tchividjian on the matter of the law and grace, and – specifically –…

I could not help sadly oscillating the Walker bean when I read Carl’s offer to ride shotgun to Mark Jones on the proposed debate between Jones and Tchividjian on the matter of the law and grace, and – specifically –…

Bart D. Ehrman, How Jesus Became God–The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee. New York: HarperOne, 2014. 404 pp., $27.99 Over the years, I have had the opportunity to review a number of Bart Ehrman’s books, including, most recently,…

I have had a change of heart. I wonder if and how it will work. Days ago, Ed Stetzer wrote a piece at Christianity Today, titled, “More Thoughts on Multicultural Church: 3 Things to Consider About Multiculturalism.” It is a…

According to Noah Webster’s An American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828, a “pew” was defined as “an enclosed seat in a church” that had been in the past “made square” (i.e. boxed in with doors for access). His dictionary…

According to Noah Webster’s An American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828, a “pew” was defined as “an enclosed seat in a church” that had been in the past “made square” (i.e. boxed in with doors for access). His dictionary…

Emily Letts, who apparently has received death threats since the release of her video, got pregnant and immediately decided she was going to have an abortion. In order to help others understand that abortion is safe and perhaps even painless,…

S.M. (Bod Alwyn) God set before me loveTo draw my soul to him,But I was bound in Satan’s chainsAnd revelled in my sin. I saw the mercy seat,Was taught the way to go;I saw that Christ had died for sin,But…

Several weeks ago a dear friend sent a lecture to me, titled, “Theology of Presence in Missions.” While I do not recall all of the details of the lecture, I was especially struck by the way in which the lecturer…

A few weeks ago I drew attention to some community pricing offers at Logos that might be of interest to Baptists. Of those, the Baptist Covenant Theology Collection has now crept over the edge and is now available (as a…

As we move now half-way through our Ten Tenets, the next tenet we want to keep in mind in our apologetic is, in some significant ways, central. So, it is fitting that it appears at the “center” of our list.…