Here’s the newest trailer for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. It releases December 14, 2012. I don’t know about you, but I could just about camp out in the wintry cold for this one. It looks flat-out amazing (and there are going to be three, not two, Hobbit films!). How strange that Bible-influenced stories continue to captivate a world losing its connection with the Christic narrative. It’s not that other stories don’t fascinate us; it’s that the ones that mirror... Read more
It seems to be book week at this humble blog. I’ve got a great one for you today: Kingdom Through Covenant by Steve Wellum and Peter Gentry (Crossway, 2012). If you lean toward covenant theology but are a credobaptist (practicing believer’s baptism), then this very well may be the book that defines your position. Here’s the book description: The disciplines of biblical and systematic theology join forces to investigate anew the biblical covenants and the implications of such a study... Read more
A couple of weeks ago I blogged on controversy surrounding a man named David Jang, who some claim is the leader of a group that believes he is the “Second Coming Christ.” This was reported by Christianity Today. CT has since followed up its original coverage with an article citing former followers of Jang who attest to confessing him as the “Second Coming Christ.” Here’s a snatch from the piece by Ted Olsen (a journalist for whom I have tremendous... Read more
Here’s a biography that’s just come out that is well worth your time, with the info appended from the Lifeway “New Academic” weekly email (good way to stay up on new books): Adoniram Judson: A Bicentennial Appreciation of the Pioneer American Missionary, edited by Jason G. Duesing (B&H Academic. 9781433677656. Paperback. $24.99) On February 19, 1812, Adoniram Judson, his wife Ann, and a few others set sail for the Far East from their American homeland. The launching of these missionaries by... Read more
Reuters has called Values Voters Summit, staged by the Family Research Council in Washington, DC, “a ‘must attend’ on the political calendar of any serious candidate for the Republican presidential nomination.” This year’s event started yesterday and continues through today. Heavy hitters like Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney, Bill Bennett, and Eric Cantor will speak at this year’s gathering. Some of you are aware of the passionate debate that has taken place in the blogosphere on millennials and political engagement. Folks... Read more
Tomorrow, I’m going to debate “Dad Moms” live on national radio. Here’s the info: Are Stay-at-Home Dads Violating God’s Design for Men and Women? Air Date September 12, 2012, Saturday – 8 a.m. CT, Call Live On-Air: (312) 274-9624 Stay-at-home dads: they’re becoming more common, but does this model violate God’s design for men and women? This Saturday on Up For Debate, host Julie Roys discusses the issue with “The Real Matt Daddy”—a Christian stay-at-home dad who argues fathers can serve just as well as mothers... Read more
This looks like a really helpful book: The Good Life by Trip Lee (Moody, 2012). Moody has a nice website up at which you download the book’s first chapter. Also, watch the video above to see Trip’s heart for this topic, which he rapped about in his most recent cd of the same name. This is actually a second book on the good life from Moody. Two years ago, Doug Sweeney and I had the privilege of writing on Jonathan... Read more
It’s very common in evangelicalism to either be a “thinking Christian” or a “doing Christian.” I think that these divisions are bunk. I think that thinking drives doing. Theology drives spirituality. I recently had the opportunity to say as much at Highland Baptist Church in Waco, Texas, a church featuring a thriving discipleship ministry led by my buddy (and fellow TEDS PhD grad) Doug Hankins. Here’s the link to the original talk. If you want to ponder this topic further,... Read more
There has been a great deal of conversation in the intellectuosphere about football violence. I blogged about it a little while back if you want some links by which to think and reflect on the topic. Recently, a friend sent me a link to a Martin Marty blog (an odd thing to write) from the Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion (based at the University of Chicago). It’s on the moral dilemma posed by the roughness of... Read more
I recently had the opportunity to see The Bourne Legacy, which is way better than the critics had made it sound and totally worth seeing for adults. The critics, by the way, often don’t like a movie that skews traditional, as Legacy does. It was a fantastic action film filled with the intelligent intensity you expect from the Bourne series. No, Jeremy Renner is not Matt Damon, but he’s quite convincing in his portrait of a Bourne-like character. Go see... Read more
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