I’ve never liked change. I gripe when Jamie rearranges the furniture. Now, Amy Scott writes this and I’m feeling convicted. Change happens whether you want it to or not. I understand this more than I used to. One day you…
Charles Krauthammer: Medicalizing mass murder
Why is the media reluctant to acknowledge the reality of radical Islam? Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer on the media interpretation of the mass murder at Fort Hood: What a surprise — that someone who shouts "Allahu Akbar" (the "God…
Free Falling Fertility Rates
Al Mohler: Is the fact that fertility is falling around the world good news? You would certainly think so if you agree with the analysis cheerily offered by The Economist. That very respected journal of economic analysis recently offered a…
Redeeming the Informant
A new movie features Matt Damon playing the story of Mark Whitacre, an employee of ADM (Archer Daniels Midland) who was a whisteblower on their price fixing while embezzling $9 million. Whitacre eventually went to prison. Many may not know…
Neil Postman Lecture on Living in a Technological Society
Tony Reinke has posted links to a Neil Postman lecture available on You-tube. The late Neil Postman was the author of Amusing Ourselves to Death. If you are interested in how technology is shaping our identity you will profit from…
Mike Wittmer on the Prayer of Jabez
It’s probably been a while since you thought about Bruce Wilkinson and his hot selling book, The Prayer of Jabez. But, given the reception it received in evangelicalism, its reception tells us something about ourselves worth considering. And, I don’t…
“Also, he has put eternity into man’s heart, so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end”
Know this song? Either way, you hopefully know the text: Ecclesiastes 3:1-15 " For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to…
Refuse to Be Bored
David Wayne interacts with boredom and a NY Times article about Ben Franklin: Kottke has a post titled "Ben Franklin Did Everything" which links to a post in the NY Times on Ben Franklin by Maira Kalman called "Can Do."…
Pictures for Worship
Tonight at dinner, my family read from Big Truths for Young Hearts: . . . The only way we could be thinking together about the goodness of God in this book is because God has shared with us the secret…
“The fear of man lays a snare, but whoever trusts in the LORD is safe (Proverbs 29:25).”
People-centeredness (“the fear of man”) disguises itself in many forms. The question is not “if” you struggle with being people centered, but “how?” (If you think you never struggle with being people centered, then in your case the problem may…