I have notoriously enjoyed “American Idol,” so, yes, I’m going to give it a try again, when I can. It’s lost a bit in ratings, while still being the biggest thing in television, so the producers are trying to tweak it in this 8th season
I have notoriously enjoyed “American Idol,” so, yes, I’m going to give it a try again, when I can. It’s lost a bit in ratings, while still being the biggest thing in television, so the producers are trying to tweak it in this 8th season
More from Pastor Douthwaite’s sermon on the Baptism of our Lord Sermon. He is expositing Mark 1:10: “And when he came up out of the water, immediately he saw the heavens being torn open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove”: Now that’s
As a coda to our series on the Theology of the Cross, consider this story about a church in England that removed the outdoor crucifix below because it was “too scary.” Says the story, quoting a museum curator who ended up with the sculpture, “the
The New York Times, no less, has a feature on Seattle megachurch pastor Mark Driscoll. He cusses, he preaches about sex, he is alternative, he uses hard rock music in worship; and yet he lambastes seeker-sensitive services and has been described as “seeker insensitive.” For
Here is a site of note, Big Hollywood. Here is the description by the founder, on-line entrepreneur Andrew Breitbart: On Tuesday, I launch Big Hollywood, a big group blog that will feature hundreds of the big minds from the fields of politics, journalism, entertainment and
Happy Jesus’ Baptism Day yesterday! We had another rich, rich sermon from Pastor Douthwaite. In fact, I think I’ll start a brief series on baptism this week based on excerpts from that sermon. John’s baptism is described as being a baptism of repentance for the
According to this report, the Picower Foundation, a $1 billion Florida foundation devoted to supporting “reproductive rights,” has gone under, shutting down completely because its investments were in Bernard Madoff’s ponzi scheme. The foundation was a prime funder of Planned Parenthood. So now Planned Parenthood,
Michigan congressional Democrat John Conyers is trying to derail the nomination of CNN medical reporter Sanjay Gupta, Barack Obama’s choice for Surgeon General. It turns out, Dr. Gupta confronted filmmaker Michael Moore on the “Larry King Show,” claiming that Moore had fudged the facts in
Our final installment of our consideration of Carl Trueman’s article Luther’s Theology of the Cross: This casts the problem of evil in a somewhat different light for Luther than, say, for Harold Kushner, the rabbi who wrote When Bad Things Happen to Good People. They
Chris Bryans suggests a worthy project and blog topic: I read your article “The Secular Canon” in October’s Tabletalk and was fascinated by your statement “A collection of the Great Christian Books would be worth assembling.” You’ve given me an idea – As a teacher
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