If you care about the future of Protestant fundamentalism—if you think its principles, at least, are worth saving—then you must read every post by Kevin Bauder in this comment thread. No offense to the other posters (I particularly enjoyed this one, from a young...
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Mount Calvary Baptist Church Memory Verses: Armory for Victory
For my own use as well as yours, here are the memory verses my precious home church has used for several years. Psalm 119:128—My Opinion of God's Word Numbers 23:19—God Will Do As He Has Said Matthew 4:4—Obeying God's Words More Necessary Than Eating Daniel 4:35—God's...
Review: After Chapters & Verses: Engaging the Bible in the Coming Generations
After Chapters & Verses: Engaging the Bible in the Coming Generations by Christopher R. Smith My rating: 4 of 5 stars I hope to write a publishable review of this book in the future. I’ll just take this Goodreads/blogging opportunity to offer some of my favorite...
Greenville Just Misses Top-Ten Spot for Bible-Minded Cities
If Barna hadn't paired us up with those crunchy leftists in Asheville, we would have been number 1, I know it! Check out the full list of Bible-Minded Cities. Looking at the obvious trends on the list reminds me of a book I heard about on NPR, The Big Sort: Why the...
Review: Is There Anybody Out There?: A Journey from Despair to Hope
Is There Anybody Out There?: A Journey from Despair to Hope by Mez McConnell My rating: 4 of 5 stars I thoroughly enjoyed watching God's amazing grace change this drug-addicted burglar and all-around street tough. I listened to him give his testimony in an interview...
The Pay-Off of a New Bible Format
The point of my somewhat tongue-in-cheek "Bible Typography Manifesto" is to encourage better and more healthy Bible reading practices by rethinking the format in which we encounter God's word. To that end, I'm reading a book by Christopher Smith called After Chapters...
The Proper Order of Aesop’s Fables
For the last four years, the Bible and theology department at Wheaton College in Illinois has studied the biblical and theological literacy of incoming freshmen. These students are intellectually ambitious and spiritually passionate. They represent almost every...
Review: Dangerous Calling: Confronting the Unique Challenges of Pastoral Ministry
Dangerous Calling: Confronting the Unique Challenges of Pastoral Ministry by Paul David Tripp My rating: 3 of 5 stars I liked this book for pastors (I'm sort of a pastor). I really did. It's an excellent book. But it gets three stars because, searching my heart of...
Review: Are We Together? A Protestant Analyzes Roman Catholicism
Are We Together? A Protestant Analyzes Roman Catholicism by R.C. Sproul Sproul begins his book with utter clarity: in the debate between Roman Catholicism and evangelical, Reformation Protestantism, the gospel itself is at stake. It takes him just a page and half to...
Top 50 Biblioblogs for November 2012
I just checked out again the Biblioblog top 50—the 50 biblical studies-related blogs that had the most hits in the past month. That includes a pretty big bunch of blogs, nearly 600 from across the theological (and even atheistical) spectrum. So why are there...
Review: A Brighter Witness: Conversations on the Christian and the Arts
A Brighter Witness: Conversations on the Christian and the Arts by Dwight Gustafson My rating: 3 of 5 stars I love Dr. Gustafson's choral (and other) compositions. I've sung them in German in Germany and in Polish in Poland. I've sung under Dr. Gus' baton as the great...
Kevin Bauder on Love and Worship
Worship can be summed up in a single word: love. What else could love mean except to recognize the ultimate value of a thing, to delight and take pleasure in it, and to give one’s self to it in loyal trust? To worship a thing is to love it. Consequently, it is neither...