Trevin Wax has just reviewed Scot McKnight’s The King Jesus Gospel and has offered a thorough interaction with this creative book (with a great cover-design, I must say). After registering a number of agreements with McKnight, Trevin suggests several shortcomings. One of these involves the way McKnight conceives the story of Scripture. I’ll quote Wax [...]
Remembering 9/11: Up and In
September 10, 2011 By 2 Comments
We have heard their stories often in the previous decade. The fire fighters of New York City who streamed into the two towers of the World Trade Center to rescue the hundreds of people who were trapped in them. The names are available on nondescript web pages: Joseph Agnello, Sean Hanley, Robert Parro, William Wren. [...]
A Harvard Degree Won’t Buy More than a Sandwich
September 2, 2011 By 5 Comments
The New York Times just published a short piece entitled “Generation Limbo: Waiting it Out” by Jennifer S. Lee. The subject material will be familiar to many cultural observers, but the article underscores the difficulties many twentysomethings are having today in advancing into adulthood. Lee introduces the group: Meet the members of what might be [...]
NY Times: Readers Register Discomfort Over “Pregnancy Reduction”
August 30, 2011 By 3 Comments
Those who read about the New York Times magazine story on “pregnancy reductions” (a euphemism for the abortion of one or more gestating babies) on this and other blogs might find this graphic from the NYT interesting. It’s a bit hard to make out (click here for the link to the graphic), but it shows [...]
Paige Patterson on the Need for Personal Ministry Training
August 25, 2011 By 8 Comments
I saw this link a while back on Al Mohler’s Twitter feed and found it helpful. It’s from the Southern Baptist Texan and written by Tammi Ledbetter. The article, entitled “Patterson: Preparation for Ministry Requires Sacrifice,” includes the following helpful commentary from Southwestern Seminary president Paige Patterson: “Pastoral ministry, evangelism, missions, counseling and music are [...]
Notable Books: Help! I Can’t Get Motivated
August 24, 2011 By 3 Comments
My friend Adam Embry, an assistant pastor at Auburndale Baptist Church in Louisville, has just published a helpful booklet with DayOne Publications. It’s called Help! I Can’t Get Motivated (DayOne, 2011) and it tackles the widespread problem of sloth (to use a medieval term). This pamphlet is one of many in the Help! series from [...]
Lonely Love: Seeking Marriage Through the Internet
August 16, 2011 By 2 Comments
Is it right for Christians to find a spouse through the Internet? A recent story in the New Yorker leads to questions like this for committed evangelicals. “Looking for Someone” by Nick Paumgarten paces through the recent explosion of online dating, a phenomenon that has led to real-life marriage for many couples. One selection from [...]
Shame on Us if We Ever Neglect the Unborn
August 11, 2011 By 10 Comments
The NYT has just released a heart-rending story about “pregnancy reduction,” a euphemism for selective abortion. Read the whole story here. This is a snatch from the article, which made me sick to my stomach: As Jenny lay on the obstetrician’s examination table, she was grateful that the ultrasound tech had turned off the overhead [...]
Highly Recommended: Matthew Anderson’s “Earthen Vessels”
June 30, 2011 By Leave a Comment
I just received a copy of Earthen Vessels: Why Our Bodies Matter to Our Faith (Bethany House, 2011) by Matthew Anderson, who has a thriving blog here. I have been looking forward to this book for some time now, having had the privilege to share some thoughts on it with Matt when he was still [...]
Introducing Credo Magazine: Reformed, Baptistic, Evangelical
June 29, 2011 By 2 Comments
My friend Matthew Barrett, a May 2011 graduate of the SBTS PhD program in Systematic Theology (PhD under Bruce Ware), has just unveiled an exciting new online magazine called Credo. Those of you who are like me and love Reformation 21 will find this a similar venture, albeit from a Baptist perspective. I’m thrilled to [...]
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