Stop Asking Jesus Into Your Heart: How to Know for Sure You Are Saved by J.D. Greear My rating: 4 of 5 stars Stop Asking Jesus Into Your Heart is pretty standard conservative evangelical Reformed Baptist material covering aspects of soteriology related to assurance....
Mark Ward
Kerry McGonigal Launches Preaching Blog
BJU Homiletics professor Kerry McGonigal has just launched a new blog focused on preaching. Kerry knows his stuff, and he preaches what he preaches. (You know what I mean?) So this will be a good one. Sign up right away! I'm honored to be the designer and hoster of...
BJU Releases Music Document
My alma mater has released a policy document—more like a principles document—on music. If I understand correctly, one of the major drafters of the statement appears to be my church's beloved and respected assistant music director, Peter Davis. I do see in the document...
Doug Wilson vs. Andrew Sullivan: Must-See Debate for All Christians
How can you argue about homosexual marriage in the American public square but yet argue from Scripture—while still making appropriately couched appeals to scientific studies? Listen to Doug Wilson debating gay conservative blogger Andrew Sullivan (whose blog I used to...
NIV Origin
It's excessively, almost unbearably sad to me that the story told in this video goes back 60 years. If a businessman in a hotel in the 1950s laughed out loud at the archaism of the KJV, what does it sound like to people today?
Review: The Real Scandal of the Evangelical Mind
The Real Scandal of the Evangelical Mind by Carl Trueman My rating: 3 of 5 stars I never miss a blog post from Carl Trueman. I’ve also enjoyed several of his books (Republocrat, Histories and Fallacies, The Creedal Imperative). So when Moody released a tiny Trueman...
The KJV and Deaf Ministry
A friend of mine is involved in deaf ministry. He told me that for his congregation, the KJV was very tough to follow. He gave one example that made me laugh out loud. How would an ASL speaker sign the following sentence, speaking of the father of the prodigal son?...
Jim Elliott
One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime.
Racism and Homophobia
Alarmists have been warning about coming American persecution of Christians—or exaggerating existing persecution—for a long time. It's a staple of those (supposedly type-written) fundraising letters sent out by parachurch groups. I've always been impatient and...
Review: Books of the Bible-NIV
Books of the Bible-NIV by Anonymous My rating: 4 of 5 stars The first thing people notice when I show them this Bible goes like this: "There are no verses!" Second thing: "There are no chapters!" Then I get an evaluation. Actual quotes: "Cool!" or "This is not a step...