Psalm singing is experiencing a renaissance. A national worship conference being held this year is entitled “Rediscovering the Psalms”. Websites are providing resources for people who would like to learn more about psalm singing. Churches are making strategic plans to…
I was thinking this afternoon about the profound words that we sang at Metro East yesterday: Oh fearful saints new courage take,The clouds that you no dreadAre big with mercy and will breakWith blessing on your head.Judge not the Lord…
“The Death of the Grown-Up: How America’s Arrested Development is Bringing Down Wester Civilization” by Diana West272 p.St. Martin’s PressReviewed by David Jones “Forever Young” sang the ever-aging Rod Stewart (and – it should be noted – Bob Dylan in…
A critical interactive review continued… Chapter Two – Keller now moves on from the objection of the exclusivity of Christianity to the age-old problem of suffering. It seems as though, whenever there is a large disaster, the media always manage…
It is one of best-known facts of Bible; yet it is shrouded in mystery. Its details are rehearsed every year in preaching, reading and song; yet they defy our comprehension. The virgin birth – or, more accurately, the virginal conception…
Well, who would have thought that it would be Pope Benedict XVI who provided one of the strangest `only in America, folks’ moments of recent years. Yet it is undoubtedly true that he has done so. Benedict is, of…
Well, who would have thought that it would be Pope Benedict XVI who provided one of the strangest `only in America, folks’ moments of recent years. Yet it is undoubtedly true that he has done so. Benedict is, of…
The great thing about this blog is that you get to learn new words. From dictionary.com: apotheosis means “model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal.” I typically abominate learning new words, but this one seems…
Over the past week I have had the opportunity to review advance proofs of the ESV Study Bible that is planned for publication in October of 2008. Although I have not participated in this project, I have watched it unfold…
