Randy Alcorn has a great post on a true genius Blaise Pascal. . . amazing to think that Pascal only lived to the age of 39, and yet accomplished so much.
David Wells on Churches Fiddling
David Wells posts his first ever blog in which he interacts with some alarming statistics that Barna has published.
The New Narnia
If you are a follower of Christ, you must get fired up reading this – –
“I see,” she said. “This is still Narnia, and more real and more beautiful than the Narnia down below, just as it was more real and more beautiful than the Narnia outside the Stable door! I see . . . world within world, Narnia within Narnia . . .”
Important Demographics
Buzzard Blog provides some amazing numbers — Can you believe that there are an estimated 480 Christian martyrs each day?
Interaction with Nooma Videos
Rob Bell’s Nooma videos are extremely popular. If you haven’t watched one – – then they have probably at least been mentioned to you. . . you may want to read C.J. Mahaney’s thoughts and Greg Gilbert’s critique to which…
Wisdom from Pollywog Creek
Paul probably didn’t picture a blog when he wrote, Titus 2:3-5. I doubt that his vision for older women teaching younger women included someone in Florida being able to write thoughts instantly accessible to the world. But, Pollwog Creek lives out the exhortation of this passage.
Crawford Loritts on Courage
In Northern Illinois, we got hammered with snow today. Somewhere around a foot of the white stuff came down. So, I’ve been hunkered down in my study at home – – I studied, prepared a sermon and listened to a…
The Bunting is Back
It’s an amazing day we live in when those who tucked in with a clean blanket of snow in Illinois (Isaiah 1:18) can enjoy and be thankful for a particular little bird in Florida . . .
Books on the Cross
C.J. Mahaney recommends books to read on the Cross. One is not even out yet, so unless you are really in the loop and J.I. Packer and Mark Dever has asked you for an endorsement, then you haven’t read them…
Bye / Hi Painted Bunting
I honestly didn’t know what a bunting was — I thought it was something to do with what the guy called his daughter before he went hunting in the nursery rhyme. (Note that the nursery rhyme didn’t work out so well for the rabbit).
But, one of my wife, Jamie, and I’s favorite blogs, Pollywog Creek, has some pictures of a painted bunting – – so I now know what Painted Buntings are in general, and I have met one in particular, on the banks of Pollywog Creek.