Joe: Do you believe in infant baptism? Bob: Believe in it?! Why, I’ve seen it done!
Mark Ward
Global Warming and ADD
Do you believe in global climate change? Is it a serious threat to world health and peace foisted on us by a century and a half of greedy robber barons, or is it an emperor’s-new-clothes fruit of left-wing self-hatred? How about ADD? Is it an excuse for permissive...
Dissertation Update
These are my official due dates for the dissertation. All are Fridays: Defense Draft—March 11 (five copies, spiral bound) by 5 p.m. Dissertation Defense—March 25, two weeks later. Records Office Draft—April 1. Registrar's Draft—April 15. I will need God’s grace to get...
Mark Minnick—Preserving the Truth Conference Plenary Session, 10 am
These notes are a little late, too, but since the sermon is available for free here I felt that posting the notes now wouldn’t hurt. J.C. Ryle has said that those who are not true Christians have always refused to come out of the world. And some prominent evangelicals...
What Is the Chief End of Man?
Not to have one’s life organized in view of some end is a mark of much folly. —Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, 1241 (translated by Jonathan Barnes)
Kevin Bauder—A Fundamentalism Worth Saving Takes the Human Condition Seriously
I know this is a bit late, but the breaks were so short at the Preserving the Truth Conference that I had a hard time getting to the gym to post my updates. And then I let this sit… Anyway, here are my notes from one of Kevin Bauder’s plenary sessions, the one at 9 am...
NPR on Abortion
Husbands and wives have their compromises. I get speakers in the bathroom so I can listen to NPR in the shower, and she gets… love. I mean, she’d get it anyway, but still. So I’m listening to NPR this morning and a blog post pops into my head—because of this story....
Yes! Yes! Yes!
I ran across this in my Theological Journal Library in Logos a few weeks ago, and I literally laughed with delight. Maybe you'd have to be living in the country I live in right now (Dissertationastan) to find this as perfectly glorious as I did, but perhaps people in...
Lane Dennis, the ESV, and the Internet Age
Once upon a time, I was preaching as a special youth speaker in a church in the South. It was my fourth or fifth time there. The pastor was KJV-Only, and I knew this, so I converted all the ESV quotations in my sermon to KJV quotations. I was preaching from my...
Paul: The Reepicheep of Christian Evangelism
I do love Paul's personality. Bold and persuasive but full of tender affection—and a Reepicheep streak! When they heard this they were enraged and were crying out, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!” So the city was filled with the confusion, and they rushed together...