People ask me sometimes for book recommendations. You can visit my Amazon store here. Full disclosure: If you buy something while you’re there. I will make a few cents. If you buy a Kindle while you’re there, I’ll make a…
Should I get a tattoo even if my parents don’t agree?
Dr. Russell Moore gives his answer to this question. Click here.
“Stay hitched to your toddler”
Again, whenever you hear an argument for elective abortion, stop and ask this question: Would this justification for killing the unborn work for killing a toddler? If not, your critic is assuming that the unborn aren’t human, a point for…
Whether or not they heard the muffled scream of human smoke . . .
God only knows. But, he does know. This is the point of Psalm 139. Think of it this way on Sanctity of Life Sunday — When the Nazis gassed Jews and then incinerated them, the soot of image bearers curled…
Wendell Berry and living long; It won’t kill you, not for a long time
If you’re looking for good fiction, I commend to you Wendell Berry. Jayber Crow is a wonderful place to begin. Burley Coulter is the man in Berry fiction. My favorite quote may be the one found in this post .…
“Faces of Haiti” from The Big Picture
“In short, you didn’t come from an embryo . . .”
Scott Klusendorf in his book The Case for Life: Equipping Christians to Engage the Culture page (36): In short, you didn’t come from an embryo, you once were an embryo. At no point in your prenatal development did you undergo…
Can your family be an idol?
Not only can family be an idol, it may be the most common idol amongst Christians in the West. And, remember this – – making something an idol is a sure-fire strategy for destroying the thing you idolize. Pastor (and…
“Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error . . .”
David Augsburger: Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness. This quote is a good…
Where should you start when sharing the Gospel?
David L. Turner: In evangelism and apologetics the Christian should not attempt to prove the existence of God to the unbeliever. The unbeliever, if he is honest with himself, knows this already. The Christian should proclaim the gospel, God’s appointed…