George vs. (?) Beckwith
I found this video deeply disturbing and disappointing. I love the gospel, and to see it obscured by a former ETS president and the author of an excellent commentary on Galatians—of all books—was a painful frustration. In the discussion, held before an audience at Wheaton College, Timothy George, a Southern Baptist ecumenist, talks with Frances Beckwith, the ETS president who reverted to Roman Catholism three years ago. In Galatians 2, Paul describes how he opposed Peter (yes, that Peter)...
Another Note from the Tilt-A-Whirl
This book is just full of bons mots: The Greeks were right. Live in fear of a grinding end and a dank hereafter. Unless you know a bigger God, or better yet, are related to Him by blood. —N. D. Wilson, Notes from the Tilt-A-Whirl
BJU Seminary Retreat
The Father of lights gave a good gift to me this past weekend, a retreat to the Wilds with most of my fellow BJU Seminary students. I enjoyed the preaching, the God-honoring music, the many discussions with individual professors, the conversations with other students, the faculty testimonies, and even the Q&A session (something I often find myself dreading in similar gatherings). Dr. Hankins, president of the Seminary, did a fine job of corralling the Q&A, trying to keep it on track...
The Thrilla in Greenvilla!
In another vain attempt to stoke controversy and therefore grow my blog readership beyond you two, I've provoked my good friend Brian Collins to bring our long-standing fight into public view, into a blog boxing match as it were. The fight could be summarized in a few ways: print vs. pixels, analog vs. digital, Gutenberg vs. Gates (no, Jobs!). To introduce this series of pugilistic blog jabs, I'm going to merely list some of the facts. I'll ask Brian to do the same on his blog. In this corner,...
Free Cartoon Fridays (Sep 11): “Family Devotions in the Home of a True Expositor”
Welcome back to Free Cartoon Friday! Check back each week for a free cartoon I failed to sell to Christian pastors' magazines in 2005! Click image for full size. Any real cartoonists out there who are willing to put my ideas in more appealing visual form and sell them?