Is There Anybody Out There?: A Journey from Despair to Hope by Mez McConnell My rating: 4 of 5 stars I thoroughly enjoyed watching God's amazing grace change this drug-addicted burglar and all-around street tough. I listened to him give his testimony in an interview...
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The Pay-Off of a New Bible Format
The point of my somewhat tongue-in-cheek "Bible Typography Manifesto" is to encourage better and more healthy Bible reading practices by rethinking the format in which we encounter God's word. To that end, I'm reading a book by Christopher Smith called After Chapters...
An Amazing Testimony from the Author of a Must-Read Book
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Isn’t It Ironic, Don’t You Think?*
Last week or so I was driving somewhere and listening to an ad on the radio, an ad that (like those Geico commercials [TV, 2007*] with the Pierce Brosnan look-a-like) was intentionally ironic, self-referential. That is, it made fun of itself, pretending to be a non-ad...
Kevin Bauder on Love and Worship
Worship can be summed up in a single word: love. What else could love mean except to recognize the ultimate value of a thing, to delight and take pleasure in it, and to give one’s self to it in loyal trust? To worship a thing is to love it. Consequently, it is neither...
Review: The Hole in Our Holiness: Filling the Gap between Gospel Passion and the Pursuit of Godliness
The Hole in Our Holiness: Filling the Gap between Gospel Passion and the Pursuit of Godliness by Kevin DeYoung My rating: 4 of 5 stars J. I. Packer recently said in an interview with Desiring God, There are writers who think that simply by crisp, orthodox formulations...
Vote for Me!
Today I opened the New York Times to find a little article by Notre Dame philosophy prof Gary Gutting on "What Work Is Really For." At the beginning of his piece, I read, We applaud people for their work ethic, judge our economy by its productivity and even honor work...
Seven ABCs of Child Discipline from The Shepherd Leader at Home
"The seven ABC’s of discipline" from The Shepherd Leader at Home: Ask the Lord for wisdom. Be sure the line has been crossed. Confront and clarify. Deliver the promised consequences. Explain additional consequences of the action. Forgive completely. Graciously restore...
Review: The Shepherd Leader at Home: Knowing, Leading, Protecting, and Providing for Your Family
The Shepherd Leader at Home: Knowing, Leading, Protecting, and Providing for Your Family by Timothy Z. Witmer My rating: 3 of 5 stars Timothy Witmer, professor of practical theology at Westminster Seminary, is best known for his book The Shepherd Leader: Achieving...
Calvin on “You must be born again”
By the term born again He means not the amendment of a part but the renewal of the whole nature. Hence it follows that there is nothing in us that is not defective.
Simple Carson Quote
I worry about ministries that focus just on correcting everyone. What I hope to do in all my writing is to promote the truth and proclaim it positively. When we correct, we do it because we think that the glory of God is being diminished. Part of a positive...