I havent much time to blog right now, but I do just want to point you to two of the veritable gaggle of reformed charismatics we now have forming. It is interesting how the storm that is the whole charismatic debate has had an incredibly positive effect over on this side of the blogosphere divide. Over the centuries heretics served the church well by causing a coming together of Gods people and a formulation of good doctrine. Whilst I wouldn’t... Read more
Christianity Today has a lot of content about the forthcoming movie event of the year if not the decade. There is a whole load of information about Narnia and C. S. Lewis, the slightly strange Oxford don who created this masterpiece of literature and became the most popular non-evangelical scholar among evangelicals: C.S. Lewis Superstar, considers the curious path that Lewis took to gain acclaim among evangelicals. Why is Lewis more popular today than during his lifetime? Christian History &... Read more
I received this email this morning from a friend: I thought I would give you a progress report on my Bible reading . I have now completed Leviticus, and to be perfectly honest I found it a bit hard going. Here are some thoughts I would appreciate your brief comments on. The laws must have been imposssible to keep, life must have been one long round of sacrifices and ceremonies. In your opinion; which of the two is it easier... Read more
Boar’s Head Tavern: somments on the recent IMB controversy and quotes the Apostle Paul who said “‘I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you.” before making the fantastic dissent demolishing point: “If your policy ends up barring one of the Apostles, you really ought to stop and think it over…” Read more
You cannot have Christianity without miracles. You can have a watchmaker God who winds up the world and leaves it ticking slowly down to its entropy-determined increasing chaos. But you cannot have the God of the Bible. He has an annoying habit of breaking into his nice orderly world and upsetting the nice orderly way we expect things to proceed. Making things “out of nothing”, flooding the world, causing elderly women and young virgins to conceive and give birth. Parting... Read more
The Rebelution:: “In a chilling reminder of the lessons being learned from David Ludwig and Kara Borden, news broke yesterday morning that for the second time in less than a month a homeschool teen has been arrested for murder. Patrick Armstrong, a 14-year-old homeschooler from Fayette, Maine, has been charged with killing his neighbor” The Harris young men have some interesting coverage from the perspective of being homeschoolers themselves about the impact on homeschoolers of this and the other recent... Read more
Nancy Pearcy has written an article listing reasons why she believes the intelligent design movement will eventually triumph over darwinianism HTBetween Two Worlds: 1. The affirmation of design is good for science. 2. Contrary to the way it is often portrayed, ID does not thrive on ‘gaps’ in science but rather on the growth of science. 3. ID incorporates the insights of the high-tech world of information theory. 4. ID recovers the unity of truth 5. ID accords with the... Read more
Many thanks to Jacob Hantla for a link to “Google Fight”. Its time to settle a few scores the old fashioned way. Step outside gentleman. Square up. Prepare to fight. Keep it clean boys……. The fixtures 1. Reformed Charismatic vs Reformed Cessationist2. Phil Johnson vs Michael Spencer3. Jollyblogger vs Blogotional4. Joe Carter vs Hugh Hewitt5. ESV vs NIV6. Adrian Warnock vs Tim Challies Who will be the winners……? —————————————————— Stop reading now if you want to avoid the spoilers ——————————————... Read more
The other night my daughter was getting ready to go to sleep and she asked me “Dad, how long is it to Christmas?” I said, “well do you know the date today?”. She did a quick sum and said “23 days to go thats a long time….I remember last year when it was only 2 days to go and that was SUCH a long time……” For me, my advancing age makes me stop wishing my life away. There is too... Read more
The Weblog Awards are open for nominations, and I have been nominated by none other than the fabulous La Shawn Barber for the best UK blog category. If you want to have a say in who should win this category or others (there is a religious blog category) then pop over and leave a comment. It is OK to nominate a blog that has already been nominated as that tells the organisers other people like that blog. Read more
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