Calvin Cake
Hardly a day goes by that someone doesn’t ask for suggestions on how to make an appropriate cake to celebrate Calvin’s birthday. Finally, we have the answer: HT: Z
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Glorious Body, Radiant Bride
There are few things that are more precious to Christ and yet more neglected by his people than the church and what the Bible has to say about it. It is his body and bride and he shed his blood…
Who Would Jesus Smack Down?
This is the title of Molly Worthen’s article on Seattle’s Mark Driscoll in last Sunday’s New York Times Magazine. It was hard to tell what Ms. Worthen disliked more: Driscoll’s masculinity or Driscoll’s Calvinism. To her credit, though, Worthen played…
Jesu, Lover of my soul — patch???
I see from the endorsements on Michael Haykin’s new book on Christian lovers that a whole bunch of hardline macho fundamentalists have suddenly put down their .45s and machetes and got in touch with their feminine sides at last. What…
To see ourselves as others see us…
I’ve just been reading Frank Schaeffer’s memoir, Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as one of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of it Back (Carrol and Graf, 2007). …
Calvin blog resumes Monday
The Calvin blog resumes on Monday with Sinclair Ferguson’s comments on the opening five chapters of Book I.
Classical Music
Last week, after ten or so years of wanting one, I finally bought a Bose Wave Music System. When I got it out of the box and tested it with various CDs, I have to admit that it just felt,…
Join Derek Thomas for a Webcast on “Blogging the Institutes” – Today at 1:00pm EST
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Preaching Workshop at Tenth
Phil is out of the country and asked me to post this: Tenth Presbyterian Church is hosting its 4th annual Workshop on Biblical Exposition, February 4 to 6, on the theme of Apocalyptic Literature. The workshop is sponsored…
Why Are There Never Enough Parking Spaces at the Prostate Clinic?
One of the modern shibboleths of the evangelical church, particularly the evangelical church in the West, is that of culture. One must be interested in culture, or one is simply irrelevant. Books and organizations abound on Christian approaches to various…