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Sorry I haven't posted anything this week but I've been absolutely  Read More

I've just read, re-read and re-re-read Steve Addison's amazing little book "Movements that Change the World" (visit his web site here).  It's a dangerous book. (As a completely random aside, did you know that there's a fabulous pie shop in B'more called "Dangerously Delicious." Their t-shirt has a pie and cross bones motif that looks like this) OK, back to the book.  It's dangerously delicious.  Addison's thesis is that movements… Read More

Tamdiu discendum est, quamdiu vivas - We should learn as long as we may live  – Seneca. Lifelong learners are deeply inquisitive.  They’re committed to continually seeing reality more and more accurately.  They live continually in learning mode.  They never “arrive.”  They’re always in process.  They are acutely aware of their ignorance, their incompetence, and their need for growth.  They constantly… Read More

David Ulin, book editor at the LA Times, has an intriguing article about the effects of blogging and twittering on our ability to read.  Here's an excerpt: "Reading is an act of contemplation, perhaps the only act in which we allow ourselves to merge with the consciousness of another… Read More

Owen Strachen writes: What you find on many websites is some kind of description like this: “I love reformed theology, U2, anything by Steven Soderbergh, and a fresh cup of joe.”  Or maybe: “My interests are theology, issues of social justice, Beastie Boys, and an Americano from (fill in neighborhood coffee shop here).”  Or perhaps: “Can’t resist a good Bonhoeffer quotation, Edwardsean philosophy, and a venti mocha with light whip.”

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When John Chrysostom (ca. 347-407) was brought before the empress Eudoxia, she threatened him with banishment if he insisted on his Christian independence as a preacher. "You cannot banish me, for this world is my Father's house." "But I will kill you," said the empress. "No, you cannot, for my life is hid with Christ in God," said John.… Read More

This is really good stuff from "Between Two Worlds." Trevin Wax In recent years, I have noticed a tendency in some Reformed circles for Calvinists to bristle at the very mention of Jesus dying for the sins of the world or at an evangelist’s call to choose Christ. Other Calvinists can’t stomach the song, “I Have Decided to Follow Jesus.” After all, they might say, doesn’t this type of language mislead people into thinking they can decide for Christ… Read More

Spend five worth-while minutes via video with scholar D. A. Carson on the topic of the Bible's inerrancy here.  Read More

Pastor Perry Noble challenges husbands to ask their wives these questions, and for these reasons:

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