Mark Ward

Have Another Tilt at It

by | Sep 30, 2009 | ,

Nathan Wilson summarizes a position he obviously doesn't take: People are raped in this world, and rape is evil. Because evil exists, there must be no God. But then he shows where that position ends up: Because there is no God—no authoritative standard over...

A Truly Great Line from a Truly Great Book

by | Sep 29, 2009 | ,

I'm still thoroughly enjoying—and receiving historical instruction from—Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1859–2009. I just got through the major fight liberal-moderate president Duke McCall had in the 1950s with a group of liberal-moderate faculty. McCall won,...

Jesus and Adam Smith

by | Sep 29, 2009 | ,

From American Vision: What would Jesus have done if confronted with the new technology [of horseless carriages]? Would He have endorsed the mass production of the automobile when it was first introduced to the American public knowing that it was a polluter? Actually,...

Thrilla in Greenvilla, Round 3

by | Sep 23, 2009 | ,

I challenged my good friend Brian Collins to a public discussion: electronic books vs. paper books. I started off by listing all the stuff I'd bought from Logos and other electronic sources. (I got one moderately nasty comment that I did not post, someone marveling at...

Free Cartoon Fridays (Sep 18): “Recooperating”

by | Sep 18, 2009 |

Welcome back to Free Cartoon Friday! Check back each week for a free cartoon I failed to sell to Christian pastors' magazines in 2005! Click image for full size.https://byfaithweunderstand.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/07-recooperate.png

George vs. (?) Beckwith

by | Sep 17, 2009 | ,

I found this video deeply disturbing and disappointing. I love the gospel, and to see it obscured by a former ETS president and the author of an excellent commentary on Galatians—of all books—was a painful frustration. In the discussion, held before an audience at...

Another Note from the Tilt-A-Whirl

by | Sep 16, 2009 |

This book is just full of bons mots: The Greeks were right. Live in fear of a grinding end and a dank hereafter. Unless you know a bigger God, or better yet, are related to Him by blood. —N. D. Wilson, Notes from the Tilt-A-Whirl

BJU Seminary Retreat

by | Sep 15, 2009 | ,

The Father of lights gave a good gift to me this past weekend, a retreat to the Wilds with most of my fellow BJU Seminary students. I enjoyed the preaching, the God-honoring music, the many discussions with individual professors, the conversations with other students,...

The Thrilla in Greenvilla!

by | Sep 11, 2009 | , ,

In another vain attempt to stoke controversy and therefore grow my blog readership beyond you two, I've provoked my good friend Brian Collins to bring our long-standing fight into public view, into a blog boxing match as it were. The fight could be summarized in a few...