The three people with rights to post here are all going to be pretty busy for the next couple of weeks, so be warned, things will be quiet here.
So much time and so little to do. Wait a minute. Strike that. Reverse it.
Check out these video interviews from the Gospel Coalition. I’ve not had a chance to watch all of them, but I did manage to see a couple.
Ah, what wonderful words of life flow from their lips! I beg of the Lord that when I’m Carson or Piper’s age, my love, gratitude, and zeal [...]
It’s that time of year again.
She told us how, once Joseph Smith had visited the Hill Cumorah at Moroni’s prompting and dug up the golden plates on which the Book of Mormon was written, he had hidden them from the greedy people of Palmyra in various spots around the house. He had listened to the [...]
See if you can figure out what’s funny about this post.
A few well known poems turned into limericks.
The laws of software development.
From D.A. Carson:
The name Bethel means “house of God.” I wonder how many churches, houses, Bible colleges and seminaries, Christian shelters, and other institutions have chosen this name to grace their signs and their letterheads.
Yet the event that gave rise to the name (Gen. 28) was a mixed bag. There is Jacob, scurrying across [...]
I preached yesterday morning for the second of three weeks at Grace Community Bible Church, if you’re interested. Only 45 minutes, if you can believe that.
Team Pyro gives Steven A. Kreloff a chance to ask the question, “is ‘Messianic Judaism’ a good idea?” I cannot tell you how very much I agree with this.
James Gibson asks why God doesn’t perfectly sanctify Christians upon conversion? After all, wouldn’t that be better for Christians as well as the rest of the world? James and Greg Welty hash it out while Steve Hays similarly weighs in with his own thoughts. And Paul Manata ends the discussion with a [...]
Of course, the Bible teaches that honesty and truthfulness are virtues to be sought after. And of course Christ himself is the way, the truth, and the life. So truthfulness is fundamental to Christianity and the Christian.
However, does this then imply that it is always wrong to tell a lie? Or that [...]
The following is the January 25th entry of D.A. Carson’s For the Love of God (vol. 1):
The parable of the sheep and the goats (Matt. 25:31-46) focuses attention on the hungry, the thirsty, the naked, the sick, and those in prison. It speaks volumes to us in a culture where the poor, the wretched, and [...]
Yesterday I started a three-week stint of pulpit supply at my church. The first sermon is up (and I think that overall I have improved a lot since last year, just so you know, but I’m still pretty far from where I want to be).
A tiny receipt for a Babylonian temple payment may confirm a minor detail in Jeremiah, and rekindles the debate as to the historical accuracy of the Bible. Also see the comments for the usual internet idiocy, ramping all the way up to full-on British-Israelism. Is there a variant of Godwin’s Law that says [...]
I do strange things sometimes to keep my brain from turning into mush when I have to concentrate a lot on something.
Cut and paste this into Emacs (21.3 or later) and evaluate it to see what I mean. This is something to answer the question, “What comes next in the series 1, 11, 21, [...]
Jeremy Pierce critiques Michael Ruse’s SEP article on creationism.
Kris Lundgaard — whom I admire for his missionary work, helpful distillations of Puritan books for the body of Christ, and of course his ever contemplative voice in a generation besot with anything but the desire to slow down and reflect on, as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry put it, “l’essentiel [qui] est invisible pour les yeux” [...]
Confessions of a Linux fan.
Not sure to what extent this list is accurate.
The Boston Globe’s selection of the top 50 SF shows of all-time:
Star Trek: The Original Series
Battlestar Galactica (2004)
Star Trek: The Next Generation
The X-Files
Babylon 5
Stargate SG-1
The Twilight Zone
Doctor Who
Mystery Science Theater 3000
Sliders
Lost
Xena: Warrior Princess
The Outer Limits
Star Trek: Voyager
Logan’s Run
Flash Gordon
Firefly
V
Dark Angel
The Hitchhiker
Quantum Leap
Andromeda
Tales from the Crypt
Wonder Woman
The Jetsons
Stargate: Atlantis
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Adventures of Superman
The Six Million [...]
We’ve been waiting seven months, but finally, the time has come.
Doctor Who starts again tonight on SciFi in the US, with the 2006 Christmas special “The Runaway Bride.” This is immediately followed with the first official episode of the new season, “Smith and Jones.”
Some of you may have Vulcan ears in your bedrooms, or [...]
If you wondered how that whole Jesus Family Tomb thing was going, look no further than the View from Jerusalem, which has violently converted the whole ossuary fiasco into billions of tiny little pieces and is now jumping up and down on each one of them, individually. By the time they’re done, there won’t [...]
In a recent post, John Mark Reynolds makes several noteworthy points about Ron Paul, his followers, libertarianism, isolationism, and a couple of other things. HT: Steve Hays.
Another great post at Doulogos on sin in the believer’s life: “When scripture instructs the believer to walk by the Spirit as the means by which we overcome the lusts of the flesh it isn’t some empty slogan - it is life from death.” This post is the crux of the matter, as [...]
