N. T. Wright and “I’m just a passin’ through”
(I warned you that the present implications of a future physical resurrection might become a theme on this blog.) N. T. Wright's Surprised by Hope has been a stimulating read for me through the first 100 pages. I'm still waiting for him to build a bridge from point A (the physical is inherently good both because of God's creation and God's coming recreation) to point B (let's all adopt some liberal political causes). Truly, I would like help understanding whether or not the goodness of God's...
John Frame on Seminary
John Frame is a very helpful conservative theologian who is one of two on my short list of theologians I want to focus my reading in as time allows. Check out this video of his thoughts on seminary. Full Dr. John Frame Interview from GoingtoSeminary.com on Vimeo.
Evangelism
I have been active in various forms of evangelism for many years now, but most of my activity has been focused on the lower-income kids populating the many depressed neighborhoods around my church. I've preached the gospel many dozens of times to groups of lost kids from 2 to 60. I did it again last night at our church's Cola Wars outreach. I've also shared the gospel personally hundreds of times. And yet—with the possible exception of two or three of my campers at the Wilds nine years ago—no...
Music You Should Try
I love music. I love choral music, especially. I love a cappella choral music, especially especially. And you should like it, too. It's so pure: only God-given instruments. Ah... the pleasure of a rich chord composed by a master musician and sung by a world-class choir! You'll get that at least somewhere in all of the following CDs—sometimes on every track. Pärt is one of my very favorites. "Dopo la Vittoria" is beautiful on this CD, a Grammy winner, incidentally. And here he goes again....
Zondervan and Nelson Foisting Mistranslations of the Bible onto an Unsuspecting Public?
It follows. If you really believe the quite common arguments from gay would-be Christians (may God truly have mercy on them), then someone is guilty of foisting harmful mistranslations of the Bible onto the public. The man named in the news item below is only following these arguments to their logical conclusion. He appears to really believe what he's saying. A gay man has sued Zondervan and Thomas Nelson, two Christian publishing houses, for publishing Bible translations that refer to...