So I’ve had the pleasure of pod-chatting with Carl Trueman and Todd Pruitt on Mortification of Spin (I believe it will air next Wednesday). Amazingly, they have asked me back. I think they just like West Virginia biker bars. And now…
Holiness knows no do-overs. When I meet my Creator, I cannot call a mulligan. Good is pure, or it is not good. The minute we look to anything else other than God for good, we have turned from holiness and…
Five years ago, I had something to say. In fact, I thought there were others like me who wanted to cut through the small talk and discuss serious questions and theological implications. My motivation to write a book was to…
Derek Webb put out a song back on his Mockingbird album that I think about often. It is called “A New Law” and it opens like this: Don’t teach me about politics and government just tell me who to vote…
Like I’ve said before, Matt and I are approaching a whole new level of parenting. The questions now aren’t about when to potty train or whether or not to allow them to ride the bus. In a couple of weeks…
Funny story: My good friend Dana asked for this book, Drinking with Calvin and Luther!, for her birthday. It was not available through Amazon directly, so I had to go through the publisher. The book took forever to come, and…
Simonetta Carr, Anselm of Canterbury (Reformation Heritage Books, 2013) Simonetta Carr has a delightful way of writing children’s books that parents are just as interested in reading themselves. She has done it again with another from the Christian Biographies for…
My brother, Luke, has a mixed martial arts academy. He wrote an interesting article yesterday that I wanted to interact with called “The Art of Fighting Without Fighting.” He begins with a scene from a Bruce Lee movie: While on…
Parenting has reached a new level of difficulty for Matt and me. I accepted the role of assigning the reading assignments for our children this summer. For my 8-year-old son, it was pretty easy. His second grade teacher finished off…
Last week we loaded up the Traverse and headed to Corolla beach in the Outer Banks. We joined my dad, step-mom, and my twin 13-year-old brothers, my brother and his family, and my sister and her family in a big…
