Check out THIS POST by Russell Moore on “the cosmic lostness of a fatherless life.” He comments on the book A Wolf at the Table by Augusten Burroughs. It’s a bit creepy but profound nevertheless. Moore writes: Recently I came…
Earlier today I was talking with one of the guys on staff about Leading With A Limp by Dan Allender. I read it a year ago or so and it made a pretty deep impact on the way I think…
Today I’m back to work with a full two days of faculty workshop, followed by classes starting next week. Summer’s over, in other words. It’s a good time to reflect on what got done, what got left undone, and what…
Check out this helpful post from Al Mohler on Saturday evening’s civil forum at Saddleback. “With the press pushing the event as a “new face” for American evangelicals, I was not overly hopeful. Given the hype, I was positively unhopeful.…
Some books never lose their relevance. Here is one that could have been written yesterday: Christianity and Liberalism by J. Gresham Machen. You can get this classic now for just $6.50. It is a book I highly recommend. During the…
I just saw on the internet that Shawn Johnson, the American female gymnist, finally won her gold medal, on the balance beam. For me, the highlight of the Olympics was not Michael Phelps, great as that was. I thought the…
Check out some of the new links in the “Bible and Theology” section of this blog. Among the new links are:Best CommentariesNew Testament GatewayReligion Online
I must confess that I watched the Saddleback forum with Senators McCain and Obama rather reluctantly. I am not a fan of most politicians and televised “debates” are usually not debates at all. But the Saddleback forum was different. Rather…
Check out this article by Al Mohler on the diminishing belief in hell among evangelicals. “Undoubtedly, much of this can be traced to currents in the larger culture, where non-judgmentalism, a therapeutic view of life, and a thoroughly modern view…
At Saturday evening’s Saddleback forum Senator Obama asserted that under George Bush abortions in the U.S. have not declined. Actually, abortions in the U.S. are at their lowest rate in decades. Check out this story from U.S. News and World…
