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 in picking up this (audio) book was to gain wisdom about how to spare my own children from as many of the negative consequences of being a "PK" as possible. (I’m a P of a sort, and I have two K’s—and one on the way.) Neither...
Black English Vernacular, Linguistics, and Bible Interpretation
This is an advanced-level linguistics post for those who have actually been reading my others on the topic over the years. It may scare neophytes away, but I urge you to contact me before dismissing my argument. I apologize for the cusswords in this post, but I'll start with a playground-level justification for them: he said them first, not me; I'm just repeating them. And now a serious one: I'm afraid the cusswords are important to help make my point—a point very, very worth getting even and...
ESV Reader’s Bible 50% Off at WTS Books
The ESV Reader's Bible is now 50% off at WTS Books. Not sure how long this will last. Get one now! ESV Reader’s Bible: Hardcover Edition $14.99 ESV Reader’s Bible: Walnut TruTone Edition $22.50 ESV Reader’s Bible: Black TruTone Edition $22.50 HT: John Mark Bertrand (even though he mentions a small disagreement with me, it's still a great post)
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 genuine. This is tricky. You don't want inveterate doubters to get rebaptized, and you don't want to comfort unregenerated people by appealing to doubtful professions. I trust David and Stephanie (and my church's pastoral staff) to...
The Wrong Side of History?
I don't make a practice of reblogging stuff, especially if it's on a blog I'm guessing a lot of my readers already see. But the three quotes below, collected by Justin Taylor, were so excellent that I had to make certain to pass them on and add my two cents. The quotes have to do with one—in my opinion, increasingly common—rhetorical jab pointed at opponents of same-sex marriage, namely that we are "on the wrong side of history." First my two cents: Why should history be right? "The wrong side...