This is a great post by Adam Jeske on whether Twitter is shallow and whether Jesus would use it. He starts: I get frustrated when people say social media (and Twitter in particular) is shallow. I get especially frustrated when my well-intentioned Christian friends say this. Because we use incredibly short phrases that are really […]
Archives for 2013
A Simple Way to Pray
Just came across this book at Ligonier Ministries called A Simple Way to Pray. It contains a short booklet Martin Luther wrote for his barber on how to pray. RC Sproul had this to say about Luther’s pamphlet: “No book has done more to revolutionize my personal prayer life than this little book by Martin Luther.” That’s quite […]
Biblical Typology in Romans 11:34-35
My friend, Andy Naselli, somehow was amazing enough at managing his time and work to obtain 2 PhDs. His second dissertation was published last summer, and as with everything he writes, it is incredibly clear and well argued. It’s called From Typology to Doxology: Paul’s Use of Isaiah and Job in Romans 11:34-35. For any […]
The End of Our Exploring: A Book About Questioning and the Confidence of Faith
My friend Matthew Lee Anderson started his latest book after I started mine and it has released well before mine. Way to go, Matt! Matt is the lead writer at the very helpful blog Mere Orthodoxy. It is an absolute joy to read his writing; as I’ve said before, I think he is one of […]
Pastoral Bullies
An excellent post by Sam Storms, giving concrete examples to help us understand exactly what Peter is commanding against when he tells pastors not to be domineering. Here are a few especially important examples of domineering: A pastor domineers by widening the alleged gap between “clergy” and “laity.” In other words, he reinforces in them […]
Using Your Saturdays Well and Two Other Excellent Posts
Chris Misiano organizes and oversees on-campus events at Liberty university and, on the side, has been my assistant for the last year-and-a-half. I am amazed at his productivity and ability to stay on top of things. He is also an incredible writer. Here are three very helpful articles that he has recently produced that I […]
When Christians Have Power
An excellent talk by Andy Crouch on the true meaning of power from the Q Conference. Here’s a key quote: “Power is for flourishing. Who is flourishing because you have power?” That’s worth asking.
Is There a Relationship Between Stewarding the Environment and Ending Extreme Poverty?
Live58 is a movement to end extreme poverty in our generation. This is a helpful connection from the latest email newsletter by the team: When we think of justice, the environment isn’t normally the first thing that comes to mind. Perhaps we think of human rights, or all those crime shows. But when Paul said […]
Poverty Cure: From Aid to Enterprise
I am really impressed with the vision of Poverty Cure: PovertyCure is an international coalition of organizations and individuals committed to entrepreneurial solutions to poverty that challenge the status quo and champion the creative potential of the human person. This vision, rooted in their biblical understanding of poverty and the true solutions to it, is […]
Notes on Carl Henry's The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism
I recently took notes over Carl F.H. Henry’s The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism. Written in 1947 (when “fundamentalism” and “evangelicalism” were equivalent terms), Henry’s call was for a theologically informed and socially engaged evangelicalism. Henry was concerned that, through its separatist mentality and tendency to separate social action from the concern of the Christian, modern […]