This is a good kids book carefully showing how Old Testament stories point to Christ and how New Testament stories fulfill the Old Testament ones. And rightnow it's two bucks for Kindle (though you'll want to read it on an iPad or Kindle Fire, not a grayscale Kindle).
Mark Ward
The New Blog Title
It just didn't work. After 3.5 years. βλογάπη as a blog name, I mean. People who don't know Greek understandably had no idea what was going on (I originally assumed only people who knew Greek would care to read the blog). People who did know Greek didn't always...
Review: Cold-Case Christianity: A Homicide Detective Investigates the Claims of the Gospels
Cold-Case Christianity: A Homicide Detective Investigates the Claims of the Gospels by J. Warner Wallace My rating: 3 of 5 stars UPDATE: This book is currently free for Kindle. Caveat I could tell by reading the promo material for Cold-Case Christianity that this book...
Bryan Chapell, Christ-Centered Preaching (290)
A difficulty with much biographical preaching ... is that it typically fails to honor the care that the Bible takes to tarnish almost every patriarch or saint within its pages. Without blushing, the Bible honestly presents the human frailties of its most significant...
Excerpt from DeYoung’s Hole in Our Holiness
This entire excerpt from Kevin DeYoung's excellent book The Hole in Our Holiness is freely available online, and I found it uniquely valuable. You can buy the book here and read my review of it here. THE MEDICINE FOR OUR MOTIVATION an excerpt from The Hole in our...
The Poor Man’s Mac Hardware and Software List
A reader named "A. Naselli" e-mailed me the following: Suggestion: write a blog post reflecting on this one. In particular, do you agree with his take on Apple products and programs? "A. Naselli" was pointing to a blog post by uber-blogger (and former Thomas Nelson...
The Darwinist Mob
I've blogged about Thomas Nagel a bit before. I have not read his Mind and Cosmos, but I've read a good deal about it, and I've found the conversation fascinating and, more importantly, important! Here's the latest summing up of the controversy, from an excellent...
Review: The Liberal Arts: A Student’s Guide
The Liberal Arts: A Student's Guide by Gene C. Fant Jr. My rating: 2 of 5 stars Sometimes I skip to the end of a book review when I'm reading it in a rush. I think I'll try that while writing one: don't buy this book. Get Al Wolters' Creation Regained instead. Now on...
An Excellent BJU Chapel Message
My valued friend and one-time interview guest, BJU preaching instructor Kerry McGonigal, preached a great message in BJU chapel today. He used the whole book of 1 Peter to argue for a particular kind of response to our culture's intolerance of Christianity. I would...
Ethan Watters in Must-Read Article about WEIRD Westerners (http://bit.ly/12Ei6M3)
A modern liberal arts education gives lots of lip service to the idea of cultural diversity. It’s generally agreed that all of us see the world in ways that are sometimes socially and culturally constructed, that pluralism is good, and that ethnocentrism is bad. But...