Piper: Let’s take skydiving, for example. What you want is to experience the fullest possible exhilaration of freedom in skydiving. Let’s suppose then that you are on your way to the airport to go up for your first real jump, but your car hits a pothole on Hiawatha Avenue, you have a blowout, and run …
Here are a few good articles and blogs where I have recently left my prints. Overwhelming – An article from World Mag, giving some details of how the IMB is working in Japan to help. How to Stop a Nuclear Meltdown – Time Magazine discusses how to manage the disaster in Japan. My heart and …
Here are some interesting reads or watches from around the web. Enjoy. Translate FemSpeak – This is very funny. On a more serious note, Brian also has a post called “Not as Easy as It Looks,” where he encourages the people of God to let the text of Scripture breathe. The World Is Obsessed With …
Here are a few recommendations from around the blogosphere. Rob Bell: Universalist? – In this post, Justin Taylor interacts with Bell’s new book Love Wins, in which Bell apparently denies the biblical understanding of the doctrine of @#!*% . More about Bell’s views can be found at Joshua Harris’ recent post, “Rob Bell, @#!*% and Why …
Over the holidays, I enjoyed reading Southern Baptist Theological Seminary professor David Sill’s book Reaching and Teaching (Moody, 2010). The basic premise of the book is simple: the missionary task is more than reaching, it is also teaching. The Church should never seek to do one without the other, and when we do the enter …
Pastor Rick Warren was invited to the Desiring God national conference this year called Think: the Life of the Mind and the Love of God. I for one was glad to see Piper and Warren coming together (even though Warren could not be physically there, as you will hear on the video). But symbolically it …
I’ve been waiting for an influential person to say something like this for awhile. The wisdom of this quote needs to be deeply considered by Christians who struggle with their own political positions, and the ideologies that back them up. Thanks D.A. Carson. The sad fact is that we human beings will corrupt anything and everything we …
When God calls a man to be a pastor of His people, He is calling that man to a process. A process that involves responsibility on the part of the man called to study God’s Word, and be changed, over time, into the kind of leader God wants him to be. This is why Paul …
The Critical Mr. Get Real I found a book reviewer on Amazon yesterday who goes by the title “Mr. Get Real.” I have no idea of his true identity, though given the approach he takes to his reviews, I can understand his desire to remain anonymous. He is a deeply critical person, who apparently wishes …
At the risk of sounding a bit self-focused, I would like to tell you a little about my Wednesdays. They are different for me. Monday and Tuesday are usually very busy with church activities. Teaching homeschoolers, meeting with folks, praying, studying for sermons, visiting the nursing home, and administrative tasks usually dominate these days. Thursday …
It might be awhile before I tackle the Song of Solomon directly in my own preaching, though (no kidding), I want to. But the message of the book is critical for RIGHT NOW. No matter who you are, you need to hear the message of this great book of sexual wisdom. Dr. Platt does a …
My former pastor (and in many ways he continues to be my pastor), David Prince, has published an article at Baptist Press on the excellencies of baseball. Having just signed Noah up for his first season of Little League, reading this article brings a tear to my eye. I highly recommend it to you: FIRST-PERSON: …
