There is an interesting parallel between Jim Collins (author of Built to Last, and Good to Great) and G.K. Chesterton. Telling his faith story, Chesterton compared himself to the English yachtsman who slightly miscalculated his course and discovered England under…
Unpacking Forgiveness in Wales and a Central Forgiveness Question
I leave tomorrow (D.V.) to preach on forgiveness for Manor Park Evangelical Church. While the church is located at Worcester, the retreat is in the land of LLoyd-Jones in southern Wales at Hebron Hall. If you asked me, what forgiveness…
Giving Calvin Homework – How Would We Bring Calvin Up To Speed on 500 Years of History?
Given that Calvin’s 500 birthday is in July, I’ve played a time travel exercise in my mind. If suddenly Calvin rode a time machine into our age and it was my job to bring him up to date on what…
The Chemical Danger of “Hooking Up” is that it Creates People Less Able to Connect
Scot McKnight interacts with a new book that makes a physiological argument against the “hooking up” culture. (A book I have not read). The most alarming feature of this book for me is that sexual activity neurochemically secretes the chemicals…
The Difference Between Good Advice and Good News
Listen to Piper talk about Doug Wilson, and you will think in a fresh way about the Gospel.
Forget Miss California, How Much Grace Should Donald Trump Show Miss Mango?
When I recently went to Togo, Miss Mango won the pageant – going away. Standing adjacent to a sewage covered field, next to the hut of a man who was in agony with a broken leg and few medical options,…
The Most Insidious Drug is One You Give to Someone Else For Your Own Benefit
A while back, we bought an additional television for our basement, so I have been thinking again about the whole television thing. I am reminding myself, in particular, about a warning given by Marie Winn. In her landmark book, The…
Michael Horton on Joel Osteen
Dr. Michael Horton wrote this article after he was interviewed about Joel Osteen on 60 Minutes. "Name it, claim it"; the "health-and-wealth" or "prosperity gospel" : these are nicknames for a heresy that in many respects is only an extreme…
Why Piper Doesn’t Watch Television and Rarely Goes to Movies
John Piper: But leave sex aside (as if that were possible for fifteen minutes on TV). It’s the unremitting triviality that makes television so deadly. What we desperately need is help to enlarge our capacities to be moved by the…
If you can figure out what I was studying, please let me know – – it will be helpful for Sunday . . .
My study at church was too hot today – – so, I swam in books at home. This is how my desk looked at 10:30 PM before organizing for tomorrow. My computer was even worse with way too many apps…