The M’Cheyne daily Bible reading calendar
For those who use, or want to use, the M’Cheyne Bible reading plan, here’s a helpful site with various formats to print, view, or receive online.
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9Marks on Corporate Prayer
The latest 9Marks newsletter–is it still a “newsletter” when it’s 46 pages–is now available online. You can read it as a PDF or on their webpage.
The Golden Compass – Snoresville
Well, it turns out that the much-ballyhooed Golden Compass is a crashing bore. I finally got around to seeing it last night. There were three other people in the theater. Several things struck me. 1. Yes, the movie’s production quality…
Paying a price on the Women’s Issue
Our good friend, Stafford Carson — formerly Academic Dean at Westminster Theological Seminary and now minister of the First Presbyterian Church in Portadown, Northern Ireland — has made the headlines over Christmas by refusing to allow a female minister to…
Confessions of a Bog-Standard Evangelical
Recently, a fellow historian at another Christian institution commented to me about the growing number of Presbyterian prophets who make their reputations on the back of bashing evangelicalism, while at the same time being dependent upon the publishing houses and…
Confessions of a Bog-Standard Evangelical
Recently, a fellow historian at another Christian institution commented to me about the growing number of Presbyterian prophets who make their reputations on the back of bashing evangelicalism, while at the same time being dependent upon the publishing houses and…
We’ll Have to Pray to Make It
I was delighted by our church’s recent decision to increase our budget by something like 23% for coming fiscal year. Now, there is some context for this. The 2007 budget involved a scaling back, as the church began the year…
Merry Christmas
Some good theological reflections here from David Mathis: Advent and the Incarnation Jesus Is Fully Human What Is the Hypostatic Union? The Virgin Birth
Another good reason why I could never become Catholic
I could never be a member of any club that would have Tony Blair as a member:
His Story
History is (of course) an essential category to use in describing the Bible. The Bible has a narrative structure. What kind of narrative is it? A theologically-annotated one (see previous post). Also, an historical one. It is not enough to…