NPR: Teens can’t control impulses and make rapid, smart decisions like adults can — but why? Research into how the human brain develops helps explain. In a teenager, the frontal lobe of the brain, which controls decision-making, is built but not fully insulated — so signals move slowly. “Teenagers are not as readily able to access their frontal lobe to say, ‘Oh, I better not do this,’ ” Dr. Frances Jensen tells Fresh Air‘s Terry Gross…. “We have a natural insulation... Read more
Source: Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird, is to publish her second novel, Go Set a Watchman this summer, a work which the reclusive writer had believed lost for decades, and in which her beloved character Scout will be seen as an adult. The shock news will delight the 88-year-old’s millions of fans, who have waited for a second novel from Lee since 1960, when she released her debut, To Kill a Mockingbird, the tale of racism in... Read more
I saw this first on FB and then was pointed to the website. What to say?! Rank Title Author ISBN Publisher Pub Date List $ Award 1 JESUS CALLING-Hardcover SARAH YOUNG 9781591451884 THOMAS NELSON PUBLISHERS Oct. 2004 15.99 2 HEAVEN IS FOR REAL-Paperback TODD BURPO 9780849946158 THOMAS NELSON PUBLISHERS Nov. 2010 16.99 3 HEAVEN IS FOR REAL-Movie Edition TODD BURPO 9780849922077 THOMAS NELSON PUBLISHERS Mar. 2014 16.99 4 THE FIVE LOVE LANGUAGES GARY CHAPMAN 9780802473158 MOODY PUBLISHERS Jan. 2010 14.99 5 FOUR BLOOD MOONS... Read more
Last week I posted a response to the question: Do we need to read the whole Bible? While it isn’t necessary for every Christian to read every section of the Bible, it is important that teachers, preachers, and other leaders are immersed in the entire sweep of scripture, and this includes the boring and the apparently inscrutable parts. One reason I find this important is that a more complete understanding of Scripture helps to put many of the concerns raised... Read more
Sometime back I posted a review of Thomas Bergler’s The Juvenilization of American Christianity, and opined that it was short on proposals — we now have his proposals in From Here to Maturity: Overcoming the Juvenilization of American Christianity (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2014). Image Let’s get this conversation going again by recalling what Bergler means by juvenilization: Beginning in the 1930s and 1940s, three factors combined to create the juvenilization of American Christianity. First, new and more powerful youth cultures created distance between... Read more
This fella, Carey Nieuwhof, says we need more entrepreneurs and fewer shepherds. Oh not we don’t! I realize I might be opening up a controversial conversation. But I think it has to be said. And I hope you’ll hear me out. If the church is going to reverse some trends and maximize potential, we need more entrepreneurial pastors, not more shepherds. There’s too much at stake to ignore this conversation…. But would you ever have heard about Jesus if a... Read more
This fella says politicians and pastors have the same “skill set” — oh not they’re not the same! Try reading some New Testament. Hundreds of pastors flocked to the Baton Rouge River Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, last Friday to gather resources, ideas and strategies surrounding how they can successfully run for political office in 2016. The faith leaders assembled for the Issachar Training Event, which was organized by the American Renewal Project, an organization that is working toward bringing 1,000 preachers into... Read more
I’ll put it in theological terms first: if your eschatology gets skewed, your present follows along. Or. as NT Wright puts it, “Wrong future, wrong present.” I’m speaking of his new book Simply Good News. Oddly enough, many today who want to get the present right are totally ignoring — claiming at times it is all speculative — an eschatology. NT Wright might point to the irony of somehow getting the present right while getting the future wrong. They wouldn’t be... Read more
TGC chose to republish a video with D.A. Carson, Tim Keller and John Piper about their beliefs about the roles of women and courage to hold true to the Bible and critique of the lack of courage on the part of those who don’t hold those views. That seems a fair description. Because they reposted their video I thought it would be good to repost Krish Kandiah’s original response to that video. Before we get to his response I want... Read more
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