The Miserable Middle Aged Git Rebellion against virtual friendings, updates of the `I’m sitting at home updating my Facebook’ level of stimulation, and all-round timewasting grows. Check out the following Newsweek article just brought to my attention by Allen Mickle…
The Miserable Middle Aged Git Rebellion against virtual friendings, updates of the `I’m sitting at home updating my Facebook’ level of stimulation, and all-round timewasting grows. Check out the following Newsweek article just brought to my attention by Allen Mickle…
The newest title to flow from the prolific John Piper concerns the doctrine of the regeneration or the new birth. I am very excited about this. There have been precious few books on this profoundly important topic. Here are a…
In section 6 Calvin shows that God often dispenses and administers his goodness to us through his angels. Do we each have a guardian angel (section 7)? Calvin doesn’t know. He does know from Scripture that the protection of an…
The New York Times reports on the return of indulgences to the Church of Rome: In recent months, dioceses around the world have been offering Catholics a spiritual benefit that fell out of favor decades ago — the indulgence, a…
RAP aka Reformed Academic Press have come of age and have announced a brand new website here. Among the titles RAP publish are works by Terry Johnson, Richard Gaffin, Herman Witsius and William Beveridge.
Over at Boundless Jonathan Dodson writes: The phone rang. It was our worship leader. With trembling speech he said: “Hey man, it’s an emergency. I made a huge mistake.” Within minutes I was dealing with a broken worship leader, a…
We now move into chapter 14, on creation of the world and man (sections 1-2), the role of angels (sections 3-12) and demons (sections 13-19), and the lessons we should learn (sections 20-22). Today we look at the first five…
I have been doing some work on the glory of God recently and came across this quote from Augustine in The City of God. It’s lengthy, but worthwhile to ponder. It seems that the question of where glory resides, or…
Ted Haggard who spent much of his ministry rallying support for conservative political causes now instructs the ignorant masses that the political right is getting it wrong. Says the newly insightful Haggard:“Just as the church made a horrible mistake several…
