From 10ofthose.com: While Halloween can often be a time associated with ghosts, devils and darkness, this video is designed to share the good news that Jesus is the light of the world! We are making this film available for free and encourage you share it with your friends via social media as well as showing at …
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Coloring Pages for The Bible’s Big Story
The more senses we involve in an activity, the more we learn. I am delighted that Christian Focus has posted three “coloring pages” from The Bible’s Big Story. Here’s hoping these will bring tactile delight and result in deeper awareness of the world’s true story, a story of sin, promise, and triumphant redemption. We print coloring …
John Meade Reviews T. Michael Law
John Meade is doing a multi-part review of T. Michael Law’s book, When God Spoke Greek. At one level neither Law’s claims nor Meade’s response is new. At another level, these questions are constantly being re-examined, and the re-hashing of the debate can bring things into sharper focus. Like Martin Hengel and Lee Martin McDonald, T. …
Beowulf as Christian Apologetic
Douglas Wilson has translated Beowulf, and a few years back he wrote an essay for Touchstone on it: “The Anglo-Saxon Evangel: The Beowulf Poet Was a Shrewd Christian Apologist.” Though a heroic poem about pagans that never mentions Christ, Beowulf is the opposite of syncretistic compromise. It is written to highlight the treachery as a way of life that …
Edit Your Work Over and Over
Nothing makes me happier than for a student, especially one of my PhD students, to ask how he can improve his writing. It shows humility. It shows awareness of imperfection. And it promises that what I read from his screen might be, well, less painful than it would have been. I hope the PhD students …
Joe Rigney Wants You To Live Like a Narnian
Joe Rigney has a tantalizing new title, Live Like a Narnian. The table of contents did what such a thing should: made me want to read more. Here it is: 1 Deep Magic, and Deeper: Moral Law and Sacrificial Love 2 Witch’s War on Joy: Why Christmas, Feasts, and Spring’s Arrival Really Matter 3 We Will Be Who …
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Manchester’s Churchill
If you’re looking for some inspiration, to say nothing of a fascinating history lesson, an instance of one master of the English language writing about another, and an all around mind-widening read, I commend William Manchester’s biography of Winston Churchill for your reading or listening enjoyment. I’m in the first of three volumes on Audible, …
A Candle in Central Asia
This video gives insight into what real life is like for those bearing witness to the light of the world in Central Asia: Kingdom of darkness from imb connecting on Vimeo.
The Blind Boy Who Played Football, Got a PhD, and Is Now a College Professor
Some of God’s people are truly inspiring. Travis Freeman is just such a person. This good brother experienced an awful tragedy as a 12-year-old when he contracted a horrible disease that took his sight. Though it took his sight, it did not take his hope, his perseverance, or his faith in God. Travis Freeman continued …
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You’re Not Taking Her This Time
Wow. HT: Douglas Wilson
The Debt Has Been Paid
HT: The French Revolution
Death by Living Trailer
HT: Douglas Wilson. Hitchcock said a good story was life with all the boring parts taken out. That’s what N. D. Wilson summarizes in this powerful clip: I’m looking forward to reading Death by Living.
Mr. Leithart Comes to Louisville
Peter Leithart is one of the most stimulating and well-rounded scholars of the present generation. He and his wife have 10 children, and he pastors Trinity Reformed Church and teaches at New Saint Andrews College. He has written more books than I’ve had time to read, but I’ve enjoyed his introduction to the Old Testament, …
Spanish Translation of Biblical Theology and Preaching
Having translated my essay “The Center of Biblical Theology in Acts” into Spanish, Saul Sarabia Lopez has continued to serve his Spanish language compatriots, this time by translating my essay “Biblical Theology and Preaching” from the book Text Driven Preaching into Spanish. If you or someone you know operates in Spanish, please do access this and/or help …
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Expositor’s Summit at SBTS
Lloyd Jones is right: The work of preaching is the highest and the greatest and the most glorious calling to which anyone can ever be called. . . the most urgent need in the Christian Church today is true preaching; and as it is the greatest and the most urgent need in the Church, it …
The World’s Definitions of LGBTQIA
The “Tahoe Safe Alliance” provides Politically Correct definitions for all who would redefine reality and morality: Lesbian – A female- identified person who is attracted romantically, physically, or emotionally to another female-identified person. Gay – A male-identified person who is attracted romantically, physically, or emotionally to another male-identified person. Bisexual – A person who is …
How To Use “The Bible’s Big Story”: Dads, Step Up and Play the Man
Do you know what I’m trying to accomplish with The Bible’s Big Story? I want you to win the hearts of your children. I want you to win them through the time you spend with them. I want you to start when they’re so small they can’t yet climb off your lap and crawl around. I …
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Gray Havens U-Stream Concert
Thursday, September 5, 2013, at 8pm Eastern The Gray Havens will be doing a U-Stream Concert. Click this link to access it. There’s also a Facebook Event Page. You can check out their KickStarter project here. Highly recommended!
Exploring the Terrain of What Cannot Be Articulated
Marilynne Robinson puts into words exactly what I’ve felt but couldn’t articulate about a number of things in this interview (HT: Eric Schumacher). Some excerpts for your edification. On a period of questioning and doubt: “I definitely went through a period when I thought I would make the experiment of unbelief, and it lasted several months, …
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Come to (or Pray for) Plant New England
The gospel is the hope for the world. Its only hope. The church is God’s program for missions, evangelism, and discipleship. Real change comes from the new birth, which comes by the power of the Spirit and the hearing of the word. How will the word be heard unless it’s preached? How will the born …