Wes Hill, guest posting at Abraham Piper's microblog 22 Words, writes: I’ve never understood the phrase, “the exception that proves the rule.” An exception proves there isn’t a “rule” to begin with, right? Here was my suggestion: Ok, try this: The general rule is that...
Mark Ward
Gotta See
I hardly ever post YouTube videos, but this is amazing. Man's God-given powers are amazing. God is amazing. HT: Wes Hill
Outsourcing Prayer
"Information Age Prayer,” provides “a subscription service utilizing a computer with text-to-speech capability to incant your prayers each day.” For $3.95 a month, you get “the satisfaction of knowing that your prayers will always be said even if you wake up late, or...
Enduring Counsel from B.B. Warfield
I regularly return to this enduring counsel from B. B. Warfield—required reading for all BJU seminarians who take Systematic Theology: A minister must be learned, on pain of being utterly incompetent for his work. But before and above being learned, a minister must be...
Mark Ward’s Miracle Word-Macro Wonder
The MWMWMW is now available for free—for a limited time only (till the Internet dies, I guess). Use this macro to 1) sharpen up any Word document and 2) impress nerdy people with proper use of a) en dashes and b) em dashes. This macro replaces -- with —. It also...
Capitalism Samizdat
I read nearly everything Carl Trueman puts out; I always find his analyses helpful. And he writes very well English. And he's a nice, uh, bloke, I happen to know from personal experience. His recent review essay shows how easy it is to boast that we're not "conforming...
A TV Ramble
With all these new flat screens, they can't really call it the "idiot box" anymore. What, "idiot slate"? Just remember: the medium is the message. And if you're watching the idiot box, what does that say? I get the biggest kick out of the vision of our society painted...
Why I Believe Again
The fascinating testimony of a Christian turned atheist turned (recently) Christian who once wrote a controversial biography of C. S. Lewis: Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely...
Why I Am Writing My Dissertation, no. 2
I've already shared one blatant denial of my dissertation's thrust, courtesy of a high school Bible textbook. Here are five somewhat less blatant ones from the same book: Love is centered in the will, not the emotions; one who loves gives without reservation, for he...
Five Famous Edwards Sermons
A friend recently mentioned to me that he had to read five Jonathan Edwards sermons for class. I've been getting more into Edwards for dissertation research (and for personal enrichment and enjoyment!) over the last while, so here's what I recommended. Four are...