The Wall Street Journal weighs in on why even feminists should be opposed to skimpy clothes for teenage girls. All of which brings me to a question: Why do so many of us not only permit our teenage daughters to dress like this—like prostitutes, if we’re being honest with ourselves—but pay for them to do …
I feel bad when I have to give a book a bad review. I don’t feel too bad if I perceive it to be harmful to the Christian community, but I do feel bad when the book is not necessarily harmful, it’s just painful. I feel bad because I know that an author somewhere spent …
About a year ago I received Luke: The Gospel of Amazement from the Biblical Imagination Series by IVP Books and yesterday I received the latest installment in this series, Mark: The Gospel of Passion. Michael Card wrote these and there are books on Matthew and John forthcoming in the next couple of years. Honestly, when …
Trying to grow in your faith? Here is some great counsel, I prayed for faith, and though that some day Faith would come down and strike me like lightning. But faith did not seem to come. One day I read in the tenth chapter of Romans, ‘Now faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the …
Today, a new story about The Navy Seals is in the news. Apparently, a group of US Special forces that includes members of Naval Special Warfare Development Group (formerly known as SEAL Team Six that killed Bin Laden) performed a daring rescue of Jessica Buchanan and Poul Thisted, two aid workers in Somalia during the …
Some ministers in the pulpit feel robbed of an authoritative message. Much modern theology offers them little more than holy hunches, and they suspect that the sophisticates in the pew place more faith in science texts than in preaching texts. For some preachers, therefore, fads in communication become more alluring than the message…In spite of …
The minister should preach as if he felt that although the congregation own the church, and have bought the pews, they have not bought him. His soul is worth no more than any other man’s, but it is all he has, and he cannot be expected to sell it for a salary. The terms are …
Nothing is more needed among preachers today than that we should have the courage to shake ourselves free from the thousand and one trivialities in which we are asked to waste our time and strength, and resolutely return to the apostolic ideal which made necessary the office of the pastorate. (We must resolve that) we …
Danny Akin has put together an expanded and updated list of books for building your theological library. This thing is a beast at 47 pages long, but we are all indebted to Dr. Akin for his diligence in this. I appreciate the quote below from his website. Books are to the minister of the gospel …
New software can tell if you are mean and ugly. Facial recognition, of course, is being used for everything from photo tagging to law enforcement and computer logins these days. This software takes the practice a step further in a high-tech continuation of research aimed at connectingfacial shape and features to personality and character. Sinclair …