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My friend and colleague Bob Brady just pointed me to this post by our mutual friend Tom Ascol. It points back to this good article at ref21 by our intrepid editor. Edifying stuff. Read and learn and be encouraged.

I’ve been pondering again what is always a somewhat thorny issue: was Jesus able to sin or was he not able to sin? It arose again yesterday in a Patristics class in which we were examining the early work of…

Last week a New Jersey fisherman found a plastic bag full of letters in the surf off Atlantic City.  There were about 300 letters in the bag — some dating back to the early 1970’s — all addressed to the…

I think I’m going to sue Jeremy for defamation in his latest article on Ref21 where I think I see myself pilloried.  I may have a 32 inch waist, and he flatters me by saying I’m even an average preacher,…

In the wake of the Ted Haggard scandal, Crossway Books has granted permission for us to post an early version of C. J. Mahaney’s message to pastors, forthcoming as a chapter in the T4G book, Preaching the Cross, ed. Mark…

While driving to and from a presbytery meeting tonight, I listened to Scot McKnight’s address on the Emerging Church Movement from Westminster Theological Seminary’s Emerging Church Forum.  I highly recommend the address as a friendly introduction to the topic.  Here…

It seems to me that the blogosphere reaction to the Ted Haggard scandal is breaking two ways.  On one side are those who utterly denounce the man and see in him a glaring example of everything wrong in popular evangelicalism…

Excellent thoughts, brothers. Even though many of us didn’t look to Ted Haggard as our of our leaders or influencers, it is still an incredibly sad and shameful situation. “If one member suffers, all suffer together” (1 Cor. 12:26). I’d…

Over the past few years, I have witnessed the fall of several colleagues, some of which have had catastrophic consequences, two of whom are still serving prison sentences. In most cases, I never saw it coming. It occurs to me…

This morning in the Atlanta airport, I read a USA Today article on the Ted Haggard fiasco.  I was struck by a comment that seems to reflect much of the sentiment at his church: “This is a great moment to…