Justin Taylor (quoting Pete from Grace City): Pete from Grace City has a post about Steve Jobs, Apple, and porn. An excerpt: “Jobs has argued that he wants his portable computer devices to not sell or stock pornography. When a…
Let’s multiply our talents with this sort of ingenuity . . .
The Parable of the Talents (Matthew 25:14-30) encourages us to multiply what has been entrusted to us – – rather than playing it safe. To multiply talents requires hard work, risk, and creativity. Examples like the one below (of how…
A Chris Brauns Forgiveness Webinar at Peacemakers
On May 25th I will be doing a free online webinar on forgiveness. Space is limited. Chris Brauns, a keynote speaker for our 2010 Peacemaker Conference and pastor of The Red Brick Church in Stillman Valley, IL will be doing…
Yeh on Van Gogh’s Sunflowers
Vincent Van Gogh (just “Vincent” to his friends and to art appreciators who are familiar with him) established a “Studio of the South” in the town of Arles, France, in the French Riviera. He hoped for this studio to be…
The obvious place to begin in improving the health of a local church
Mark Dever: If a healthy church is a congregation that increasingly displays the character of God as his character has been revealed in his Word, the most obvious place to begin building a healthy church is to call Christians to…
Don’t Try and Revive the Opossums
While Christians are called to love and tend God’s creation, I would suggest that you not feel obligated to try and revive creatures you see wounded along the road. HT: Spurgeon
Doug Moo on the definition of justification
The Bible pictures all human beings as defendants in a courtroom: a courtroom in which God is the judge and our sins constitute the evidence against us. The judge weighs the evidence and finds every single one of us guilty…
Are bitterness and unforgiveness the same thing?
I am looking forward to being part of Peacemaker’s National Conference in the Fall. Anticipating the focus of the conference, Ken Sande reflects about the relationship between bitterness and forgiveness. I was asked recently whether bitterness and unforgiveness were, in…
NY Times: AIDS War is falling apart
The New York Times: On the grounds of Uganda’s biggest AIDS clinic, Dinavance Kamukama sits under a tree and weeps. Her disease is probably quite advanced: her kidneys are failing and she is so weak she can barely walk. Leaving…
Mucking out the Stables
As a farm kid from the GSOI, I appreciate this one. Eugene Peterson (Under the Unpredictable Plant) on the nature of pastoral work: Pastoral work consists of modest, daily, assigned work. It is like farm work. Most pastoral work involves…