2019-07-01T23:09:48-04:00

I just heard from Crossway that they are running a special promotion of my book God at Work:  Your Christian Vocation in All of Life.  You can buy the e-book on Amazon for a mere $3.99. This is the book that explores the key concepts of

2019-06-27T00:03:09-04:00

Notice that today’s political discourse no longer consists much of rational argument, attempts at persuasion, or intellectual analysis.  Instead, it consists largely of social pressure, attempts to make people want to belong to a socially-approved group, appealing to social status, shaming non-conformists, and signaling in-group attitudes.

2019-06-28T14:24:37-04:00

  Right now, Joe Biden leads the polls by big margins.  Biden is favored by 32% of primary voters, with Sanders in second place with 16.9%.  Biden also leads President Trump, with polls showing him favored by 49.4% of the electorate compared to 40.5% favoring

2019-06-26T22:05:05-04:00

I’m still in Australia, with a 15 hour time difference, so I’m not watching the two debates in which 20 Democratic presidential candidates will be contending with each other.  I invite you to discuss the debates here, at this post, in the comments. Do you

2019-06-25T06:47:06-04:00

A British court had ruled that a mentally-handicapped woman must get an abortion.  Even though the woman wanted to keep her baby.  Even though the woman’s mother, who has custody decisions over her, wanted her to have the baby and volunteered to raise him or

2019-06-23T06:52:14-04:00

Today, June 25, is the 489th anniversary of the presentation of the Augsburg Confession, which sets forth the definitive teachings of Lutheran theology. This is very much a lay document, having been written not by Luther but by the great classical Renaissance scholar Philipp Melanchthon,

2019-06-22T05:23:29-04:00

The Peace Cross in Bladensburg, Maryland, is a 40-foot cross erected by local residents and the American Legion as a memorial to Americans who died in World War I.  Today it stands on a highway median owned by a state commission.  The American Humanist Association

2019-06-20T07:44:14-04:00

We just got back from the Outback.  Of the many strange and quirky marvels we saw, the one that haunts me the most is the Dog Fence, also known as the Dingo Fence. Dingoes are voracious predators that can wreak havoc with sheep.  My son-in-law

2019-06-19T01:56:15-04:00

We Christians often speak of non-believers as “lost.”  That is no metaphor today.  For all of the technology that makes our lives easier and more pleasant, many of us–non-believers but probably some believers as well–feel that their lives and existence itself are meaningless. I came

2019-06-12T07:04:45-04:00

The Barna Research Group, in conjunction with Abilene Christian University, has published a study entitled  Christians at Work.  It demonstrates that Christians’ awareness of the doctrine of vocation seems to have grown considerably over the past few years.  But I’m not sure the researchers or the


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