A Little Theological Humor (Very Little)
Joe: Do you believe in infant baptism? Bob: Believe in it?! Why, I’ve seen it done!
Global Warming and ADD
Do you believe in global climate change? Is it a serious threat to world health and peace foisted on us by a century and a half of greedy robber barons, or is it an emperor’s-new-clothes fruit of left-wing self-hatred? How about ADD? Is it an excuse for permissive parenting and for the overuse of electronic babysitters, or is it a genetic predisposition some children can do nothing about without medication? Now let’s stop, and let me ask another question. Answer honestly. Are you qualified to...
Dissertation Update
These are my official due dates for the dissertation. All are Fridays: Defense Draft—March 11 (five copies, spiral bound) by 5 p.m. Dissertation Defense—March 25, two weeks later. Records Office Draft—April 1. Registrar's Draft—April 15. I will need God’s grace to get through, and I’ve already seen a lot of that grace in the helpful reactions of my committee members. Helpful means that they are not one whit afraid to tell me when they think I’m out to lunch (and let me tell you, I’ve been...
Mark Minnick—Preserving the Truth Conference Plenary Session, 10 am
These notes are a little late, too, but since the sermon is available for free here I felt that posting the notes now wouldn’t hurt. J.C. Ryle has said that those who are not true Christians have always refused to come out of the world. And some prominent evangelicals are saying this of evangelicalism. It was when we were dead in our trespasses and sins that we walked in accordance with the world. But Christ "gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil...
What Is the Chief End of Man?
Not to have one’s life organized in view of some end is a mark of much folly. —Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, 1241 (translated by Jonathan Barnes)