Computer-generated statistics tell me that a full fifty-percent of my blog readership is a budding lyricist. Check this out. Rich stuff based on my favorite psalm. I hear people who pay better attention to congregational song than I do say that we need to sing...
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No Popes for You
I just posted "No Popes for You" over at the BJU School of Religion blog. Check it out.
Boy Was Scrivener Wrong
I wish F.H.A. Scrivener, the editor of a version of the Textus Receptus that mimicked the textual critical choices of the King James translators, had been right when he wrote the following in 1873. I have taken the liberty of bolding every erroneous prediction. If a...
Bible Translation Tribalism
It’s been a while since I’ve been so excited about a post by Scot McKnight (um, I think this is actually a first), but he really nailed it in this post on Bible translations and tribalism. Here's an excerpt: The politics of Bible translation is a sad case of...
The Good Life and Lena Dunham
Richard Mouw* makes an interesting comment in his book on common grace: perhaps the only way to really know how well a moral theology does is to see it worked out in a group: We can fully understand the claims of a theological perspective only if we attempt to see...
Pop Culture Is Not a Culture After All
This is the greatest tragedy of all in the church's careless appropriation of popular culture: that popular culture is not really a culture after all. Historically, cultures have been mechanisms of restraint. Cultural institutions, traditions, and artifacts developed...
Chantry vs. Frame
A blog reader sent me this post some months ago, a critique of John Frame by Reformed Baptist pastor Tom Chantry (son of Walter). I'm certain Tom is a brother in Christ with whom I would share a great deal of agreement, and I had no wish to write a public critique of...
Church Music
I sometimes wonder: if "attractional" churches which use a genre of music called "bone-shaking" had their way, would the kind of music below just disappear? That would be very, very sad. The composer of that piece, Paul Mealor, wrote one of the beautiful pieces played...
You Just Have to Read This
I posted on this some time ago, but I have thought of it so often that I have to post it again: Wheaton prof Timothy Larsen's thoughts on why so many Christians feel that the teaching they received as children was simplistic. Very insightful, penetrating. A must-read...
Review: The Pastor’s Kid: Finding Your Own Faith and Identity
The Pastor's Kid: Finding Your Own Faith and Identity by Barnabas Piper My rating: 3 of 5 stars I admit I was curious to hear what the son of one of my favorite authors would say about his upbringing... But I believe I can honestly say that my most powerful motivation...
A Grace Story
David and Stephanie Heimann are valued friends to my wife and me, they are colaborers in ministry, and they are both objects of God's amazing grace. They were recently baptized after coming to understand over time that their initial professions of faith were not...
BJU School of Religion Blog
If you haven't already subscribed to the BJU School of Religion blog, I recommend it. There was one post by Mark Vowels that was especially good, and they're letting me post over there, too.