Ever since Augustine penned the classic City of God, City of Man, the Church has wrestled with the question of how to be the Church in the world. Throughout the ages, the pendulum swings along a predictable trajectory. At one…
Once again, author and biblical counselor Martha Peace (along with pastor John Crotts) has delivered up a resource that is worth close examination, this time for Christian couples. Tying the Knot Tighter: Because Marriage Lasts a Lifetime could be useful…
One, two, three, four… ten…twenty…twenty-eight! As I sit to write this review, I find myself surrounded by a great cloud of worldview books. Twenty-eight to be painstakingly exact! Some of these books claim to help one “build a Christian worldview,”…
“In the midst of this breathtaking praise of creation, the speechless paean of the cosmos to its Creator, the Christian faith dares to affirm that a creature, Homo sapiens, is given a singular calling: not simply to acknowledge the cosmic…
I have to admit that I am pretty skeptical when it comes to “Christian” films. Too often, films producers major on the “Christian” part and leave the art of good filmmaking and story behind. Too often they are cheesy, sappy,…
If you’re looking for something theologically deep, this is not it. Instead, what we have here is John Stott dreaming of what he desires the church to reflect. The occasion was the 150th anniversary of the dedication of one of…
The Golden Compass is this holiday season’s uber-expensive (try $180 million) family-friendly fantasy epic. No doubt, the movie is attracting a lot of attention (and has been for the past year leading up to its release) due to what we…
When Bart’s Ehrman’s Misquoting Jesus hit the shelves, the media went nuts. There were NPR interviews, appearances on John Stewart’s The Daily Show and the Diane Rehm Show, plus praise from the Washington Post and The Dallas Morning News. The…
What the Bible Says About Marriage really is what the Bible says about marriage! Though Selvaggio limits the scope of his study to the Song of Songs and what that book has to say about marriage, romantic love, and sex,…
The dust that can be seen swirling in the distance is the aftereffects of Richard A. Muller’s scholarly avalanche. He has marshaled mountains of historical evidence to bury the various twentieth century agenda-driven “Calvin against the Calvinist” schemes devised to…
