In the very first month of this blog's existence, I posted some detailed sermon notes from a particularly helpful message (and that's saying something) that my beloved pastor, Mark Minnick, had preached to his congregation. With his permission, I turned those notes...
Mark Ward
Benjamin B. Warfield, The Right of Systematic Theology (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1897), 83-84.
We not only have no desire to deny, we rather wish to proclaim, the great truth involved in the watchword of the greatest of the fathers and schoolmen, Credo ut intelligam ["I believe in order to understand"], and adopted by the Reformers in the maxim of Fides...
One of the Best “Hidden” Features on Every Mac
File > New Window File > Edit > Transform > Flip Vertical Object > Insert Special Character > Symbol > Trademark Symbol Are you tired, run down, listless? Or have you ever had to find these or similar nested menu items and spent fruitless minutes...
An Insight from Lesslie Newbigin
I laughed out loud at the bolded portion below. This shows some real insight. Recently I have heard on several occasions Christians accusing one another, either of too much certainty, or of too little. We are all familiar with both accusations. There is, on the one...
R.C. Sproul Jr. (Tabletalk March 2013, p. 28; bit.ly/Vj0KA9)
Today there is no suggestive music anymore, because "suggestive" implies a measure of subtlety.
Review: White Noise
White Noise by Don DeLillo My rating: 4 of 5 stars I am not smart enough nor skilled enough in literary criticism to explain why this book merits four stars. I did feel while reading that I was in the presence of a truly superior intellect. But I'm gonna try to say...
Review: Date Your Wife
Date Your Wife by Justin Buzzard My rating: 3 of 5 stars A book of its gospel-centered time, and I think that's mostly pretty much all good. But not completely. Like those dramatic, one-sentence paragraphs. I'm about to issue a Protestant fatwa against those. And I...
*The 1,000th Post Mega-Prize Giveaway!*
I have reached post 1,000 on my blog! A lot of those thousand posts are little things like links and quotes, but a lot of them are dense with prose I created myself, as bloggers do, using an old-fashioned recipe of 2 parts keyboard and 3 parts research opinions coming...
Kenneth L. Woodward, Longtime Catholic Journalist for Newsweek, Reflecting on the Changes Brought by Vatican II (First Things, “Reflections on the Revolution in Rome,” Feb 2013, p. 30)
In place of my much-loved Latin hymns and chants, the new liturgists bade us sing old Reformation anthems like "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God." I could not bring myself to join in when the chosen hymn was "Amazing Grace"—in fact, I still refuse to do so. It's a lovely...
Natural Law
A growing (?) number of conservative evangelicals are becoming aware of natural law arguments in the public square. These arguments are attractive because We know from experience that bringing up the Bible directly in public debates won't likely get us anywhere. The...