January 2009
42 posts
On Ambition →
“Tell me, I ask you, where will we get by all these labors of ours? What are we seeking for? To what purpose do we serve in office? What higher ambition can we have at court than to become friends of…
iPhones Have Consequences →
FIRST THINGS: A Journal of Religion, Culture, and Public Life.
Law and Theology →
Law and Theology.
“We await the final outcome of events, remembering who it is who ploughs the...”
– John Chrysostom
“I seldom quote from modern theologians in my sermons, although I’m often...”
– Kathleen Norris, The Cloister Walk
How To Argue Like Jesus →
How To Argue Like Jesus — Joe Carter & John Coleman.
Scripture Memorization →
Scripture Memorization.
Free Course on Calvin’s Institutes →
Worldwide Classroom: Calvin’s Institutes.
Probably No God? →
Atheists Play Their Hand — Probability.
A Call to Care →
Learning to Cry for the Culture | Christianity Today | A Magazine of Evangelical Conviction. An article on Francis Schaeffer by John Fischer
“The normal human reaction is to hate what we don’t understand. This is the...”
– John Fischer
Drucker on Abandonment →
Effective executives know that they have to get many things done effectively. Therefore, they concentrate. And the first rule for the concentration of executive efforts is to slough off the past that…
WatchLaptop without Keyboard!
Praying for Your Pastor →
by Iduncan at T4G.
Free Theological Courses! →
At the Worldwide Classroom.
How to Use a Study Bible →
How to Use a Study Bible by Albert Mohler
Theologians in Hell →
C. S. Lewis once wrote that there are theologians in the bottom of hell who are more interested in their own thoughts about God than in God himself. For that reason it is important that a dogmatician…
Atheist Believes Africa Needs God →
As an atheist, I truly believe Africa needs God | Matthew Parris - Times Online.
Year of the Bible →
This year for me is the year of the Bible. I plan to read other books less and the Bible more - much much more! Last night I read the whole of Mark, II Corinthians and Ecclesiastes straight through…
Van Til’s Trinitarian Theology →
Van Til’s Trinitarian Theology | The Reformed Forum.
The Discipline of Gratitude →
Gratitude … goes beyond the “mine” and “thine” and claims the truth that all of life is a pure gift. In the past I always thought of gratitude as a spontaneous response to the awareness of gifts…
“‘God is so beautiful, and so patient, and so loving, and so generous that...”
– GEORGE MACDONALD
Silence in the Soul →
If there never be a silence in the soul, and a man goes on always with his own thoughts and schemes and endeavours, it brings about a moral and spiritual madness. That is tenfold worse than mere…
The Golden Key →
The Golden Key is the premier on-line resource for all things related to Victorian Novelist, Poet and Christian Fantasy writer George MacDonald (1824-1905) and home to the Wingfold Email List.
“Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely...”
– JIM COLLINS, Good to Great and the Social Sectors
Best New Year's Resolution? →
By JIM COLLINS, author of Good to Great.
Two Ways to Live →
My way or His way?
Assessing Church Health →
My Poems →
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“…there are only blessings. If I set out to do something and it didn’t turn...”
– Ramsey Lewis
Ramsey Lewis →
One of my favorite jazz pianists.
Bobby Fischer →
Remembering one of the greatest chess grandmasters ever.
New Year's Resolutions →
by David Powlison
Another New Year's Resolution
To become a better cultural laytheologian. Why? Because -
Christianity must pervade not merely all nations, but also all of human thought. The Christian, therefore, cannot be indifferent to any branch of earnest human endeavor. It must all be brought into some relation to the gospel. It must be studied either in order to be demonstrated as false, or else in order to be made useful in advancing...
Merton and Why I Don’t Believe in Success →
I first encountered Thomas Merton (the famous Trappist monk and author of The Seven Storey Mountain) when I was a college freshman. That was a long time ago. I remember browsing over the books in…
“Art, true art, is always local.”
– Eugene Peterson
Read the Bible in 2009 →
Read Calvin's Institutes in 2009 →
“It is our duty and our privilege to exhaust our lives for Jesus. We are not to...”
– Charles Spurgeon