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I am a creationist. I am teaching my children to understand creationism. I am a potential threat to human rights and an enemy of European democracy.
Or at least that is what the Council of Europe seems to believe according to their latest resolution.
The Parliamentary Assembly is worried about the possible ill-effects of the […]
This year we have implemented a systematic approach to memorizing scripture. We have an index card box (that we call the “Treasure Box”) that holds forty or so index card dividers. The dividers are labeled as follows:
Daily
Odd day
Even day
One for each day of the week
One for each day of the month (31 in […]
A couple of quotes from a John Piper sermon I am reading:
Take care, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by […]
In light of the recent hoorah on the supposed tomb of Christ being discovered in Israel, it is good to consider how intimately the resurrection of Christ is connected to the outworking of God’s grace in our lives. We’ve arrived at the end of our “quoted review” of The Great Work of the Gospel: […]
The goodness of Good Friday was proclaimed long before that day…
Psalm 22
My wife pointed me to The Purple Cellar for an excerpt from Iain Duguid’s commentary on Numbers:
Why is it that we give in to sin and disobedience so often, even though we know what are doing is wrong? . . . The underlying dynamic that drives our sin is unbelief. . . . We have […]
Here is a link to a wonderful post that Bob Vincent authored on the Reformed-Charismatic list. This post is serving me to not think of myself, my blog, my software designs, my homeschool plans, or anything else as quite so essential to the grand plan of God…
I submit that the key to Joseph’s sanity was […]
John Piper has written a wonderful article about hearing the voice of God one morning last week…
Let me tell you about a most wonderful experience I had early Monday morning, March 19, 2007, a little after six o’clock. God actually spoke to me. There is no doubt that it was God. I heard the words […]
I remember reading a few years ago a sermon by John Piper where he reiterated some of the lessons that he learned from his father. I was moved by this sermon, and greatly encouraged in my own work of fathering my own children by looking at the example of William S. H. Piper. […]
I’ve seen quite a bit of comparison in the blogosphere between The Passion of the Christ and The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe since I posted on the subject a few weeks ago.
Today, Challies weighs in on the in-church marketing that these movies have been able to leverage:
And now the secret is out. Evangelicals […]
The best review of Rick Warren’s The Purpose Driven Life that I have found is here. The review is very fair and even handed, with many salient and Gospel-centered points of criticism. Challies also has a nice collection of chapter by chapter overviews of the book.
Bill Savage, an English professior at Northwestern University, has written a fascinating bit explaining why he doesn’t feel threatened by “red states” (i.e. conservatives, Christians, Republicans, talk radio listeners, people who like having children, etc, etc) having babies at a markedly faster rate than blue states.
His intentions with children of conservatives:
But even if this prediction […]
William Dembski has an interesting piece in his blog concerning the reluctance of Christian creationists to sit in the “big tent” of Intelligent Design. I find this ironic since the mainstream media seems to perceive of Intelligent Design as a veiled attempt by creationists to gain credibility! I also find it strange that […]
John Piper has a new release called God Is the Gospel.
Here’s the blurb:
“Gospel” means good news—but what makes the good news good? What is the goal of the gospel, without which it is no longer good? It is that Christ’s death brings sinners to God! Were it to bring us anywhere else we would be […]
C.J. Mahaney (my former senior pastor) releases his newest book this month, entitled Humility: True Greatness. My “must buy” list gets one entry deeper.
A blurb:
Be Transformed by Christ’s Example “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” - 1 Peter 5:5 A battle rages within every one of us every day. It’s […]