Review: Stop Asking Jesus Into Your Heart: How to Know for Sure You Are Saved
Stop Asking Jesus Into Your Heart: How to Know for Sure You Are Saved by J.D. Greear My rating: 4 of 5 stars Stop Asking Jesus Into Your Heart is pretty standard conservative evangelical Reformed Baptist material covering aspects of soteriology related to assurance. But it's well and searchingly presented, so this is a great book to hand to a young Christian. It's short and punchy, with appropriate contemporary (not worldly) feel. It also hews close to Scripture, quoting it directly,...
Kerry McGonigal Launches Preaching Blog
BJU Homiletics professor Kerry McGonigal has just launched a new blog focused on preaching. Kerry knows his stuff, and he preaches what he preaches. (You know what I mean?) So this will be a good one. Sign up right away! I'm honored to be the designer and hoster of the site. If you need a website, talk to me. Related Posts: A Must-Hear Chapel BJU Message from Kerry A 1Marks interview I did with Kerry not too long ago
BJU Releases Music Document
My alma mater has released a policy document—more like a principles document—on music. If I understand correctly, one of the major drafters of the statement appears to be my church's beloved and respected assistant music director, Peter Davis. I do see in the document one scriptural argument (regarding Galatians 5) that I have heard him use to good effect previously in personal discussion.
Doug Wilson vs. Andrew Sullivan: Must-See Debate for All Christians
How can you argue about homosexual marriage in the American public square but yet argue from Scripture—while still making appropriately couched appeals to scientific studies? Listen to Doug Wilson debating gay conservative blogger Andrew Sullivan (whose blog I used to read in the very early days of blogging; it was pretty neat to see him and hear him for the first time). I'm afraid I must agree with Peter Leithart that Wilson's reliance on the slippery-slope polygamy argument ended up being...
NIV Origin
It's excessively, almost unbearably sad to me that the story told in this video goes back 60 years. If a businessman in a hotel in the 1950s laughed out loud at the archaism of the KJV, what does it sound like to people today?