Chesteron said (paraphrased) that the reason truth is stranger than fiction is because people make up fiction, but God is the author of truth. In a secular culture, because we are shaped more than we know by “fictional thinking” God’s…
Motherhood: A Tremendous Call
When I was in grade school a girl on my school bus pulverized me with her lunch box. If you’re my age or older, you remember lunch boxes from the 1970’s. They usually had some theme like the Brady Bunch…
Pornographic Sentimentalism
PORNOGRAPHIC SENTIMENTALISM Defined Pornographic Sentimentalism: A man-centered airbrushing of the past that creates a fiction that never existed in the first place – – such that people lust after what was, though in fact it wasn’t. Illustrated “Now the rabble that…
An Auspicious Day
Today our church celebrates 150 years as a church. We’re only having one service, which means that we’ll be packed. . . it’s going to be a wonderful time. So few churches make it to 150 years. And, far fewer…
Closer Than a Brother
BIBLICAL TRUTH “A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother (Proverbs 18:24).” ILLUSTRATION Our son, Christopher, bumped heads with his brother, Benjamin.
Turn the Page
This post has nothing to do with the Bob Seger song with the same title. Rather, I put two new pages on my blog and rewrote the “about” post. One of the best parts of writing a book was praying…
You Need to Do This
If you’re not taking advantage of RSS feeds, and you read even one blog, and you do, because you’re reading this one, then you need to use Google Reader (or some other equivalent). Abraham Piper explains what you need to…
Parenting Teens
Brian McLaughlin is putting up some very valuable posts on parenting teenagers. I cannot recommend them highly enough. The last one on on MTD’s (or something like that) is very insightful. Read his thoughts by clicking here.
Packer Separates from “Poisonous Liberalism”
This article reports that J.I. Packer has chosen to leave the Anglican church. HT: Tullian Tchividjian
Christians Will Spend Eternity on Earth (This earth)
If you are a Christian, you may (probably!) need your thinking corrected about where we spend eternity. Here’s the deal. Christians will be on earth: this earth. Click here to read what Tullian Tchividjian writes about an area where many (most?)…