Here’s a post I did for the DG blog today.
Archives for 2010
Broadening Our Understanding of Suffering: The Various Types of Suffering
This is post 2 in the series: Suffering in Our Work and Everyday Lives Selling your house and moving half way around the world to advance the cause of missions is suffering. But is selling your house to just move to another part of the U.S.? What about having to drive to work in cold […]
Suffering in Our Everyday Lives: An Introduction
Post 1 in the Series: Suffering in Our Work and Everyday Lives Today we are going to begin a series on suffering. We are going to look at the different types of suffering, how to endure suffering, what suffering looks like in our work and vocations, God’s role in our suffering, the effects of our […]
A Surprise at the Final Judgment
Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 4:1-4: This is how one should regard us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God. 2 Moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found trustworthy. 3 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you or by […]
The Difference Between Historical Faith and Saving Faith
From Rod Rosenbladt’s chapter “Christ Died for the Sins of Christians, Too” in Christ the Lord: The Reformation and Lordship Salvation: I hear the reader asking, “Well then, is saving faith just a matter of knowing facts?” Hardly, and the Reformers knew that. They distinguished between historical faith and saving faith. Historical faith has human […]
Good Works that are Performed in Order to Become Right with God are Not Really Good
Good observations from the Scottish preacher and writer John Colquhoun (1748 – 1827), from his book A Treatise on the Law and the Gospel: Can a man perform no good works till after he is justified in the sight of God? Hence it is manifest that they who rely on their own obedience for a […]
The Case for Slack
From the Harvard Business Review article “The Case for Slack: Building ‘Incubation Time’ into Your Week”: Slack is anathema to most manufacturing processes, but it’s indispensable for creativity. How can you build in the incubation time required for breakthrough strategies and ideas? Start by changing your mental model of production, suggests Michael Connor, manufacturing director […]
Tim Challies on How He Reads a Book
Tim Challies gives a good overview of how he reads a book. This is especially significant coming from him, because he reads more than almost anyone I know, and is currently reading through every New York Times best seller for his project 10 Million Words.
Evidence for the Resurrection
The founder of every major world religion is dead, except for one. Here is an article I wrote in college that covers six pieces of historical evidence for the resurrection of Christ. These six facts are acceptable by virtually all scholars–including critical scholars–who address the resurrection.
Harmony of the Resurrection Accounts
Here is a harmony of the resurrection accounts I wrote in college after reading John Wenham’s excellent book Easter Enigma: Are the Resurrection Accounts in Conflict? Wenham shows how every detail of the accounts fits together consistently. I tried to do the same in a short article so that people didn’t have to read the […]