Nick Ng was the winner of the Christian Manifesto book giveaway. I made a list of everyone who entered, and then I randomized that list at Random.org. Nick came out on top. Thanks to everyone who participated. I hope to do another book giveaway in the not-too-distant...
Mark Ward
Book Giveaway Ends Today, Tuesday
You have till tonight (Tuesday) to enter to win a free book, Francis Schaeffer's A Christian Manifesto? Click here to take the quick survey.
God Uses PHAT Christians
I once heard a sermon titled "God uses PHAT Christians." The preacher's acronym spelled out the following: Pure Humble Available Teachable/Trained Now don't try to guess who preached this sermon. I don't know. I keep a "bad sermons" file—simply because I want wild...
Thanksgiving
Last night my church had its annual Thanksgiving praise service. It's an open mike night, and I headed joyfully to the front to deliver this thanksgiving: I would like to give thanks to the Lord for giving me his favor in the form of a beautiful, godly new wife,...
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Want to win a free copy of Francis Schaeffer's book, A Christian Manifesto? Click here to take a blog survey. (If the popup link above doesn't work, try this link.) You must take the survey by the Tuesday after Thanksgiving to have a chance to win. One winner will be...
Never Forget. You’re Reminded.
This kind of insight is the real reason I read the New York Times. I actually don't read the politics much. For American audiences a Holocaust movie is now more or less equivalent to a western or a combat picture or a sword-and-sandals epic—part of a genre that has...
Op-Ed Columnist – Obama and the War on Brains – NYTimes.com
Oh, Kristof! I've always liked you! Why do you have to think like so? An intellectual is a person interested in ideas and comfortable with complexity. Intellectuals read the classics, even when no one is looking, because they appreciate the lessons of Sophocles and...
BJU Statement on Racism
I applaud Bob Jones University, my alma mater, for stating this clearly in a statement released today: Bob Jones University has existed since 1927 as a private Christian institution of higher learning for the purpose of helping young men and women cultivate a biblical...
Yay!
My ship has come in! BibleWorks 8 is coming!
King James Quiz!
A few weeks ago a fundamentalist pastor I deeply respect told his congregation that the King James Version is an "impediment to many if not most of the Lord’s people in really understanding many passages of Scripture." (I leave his name out only so as not to create...