If you’re looking for the world’s greatest Sunday School teachers, they are teaching my little girl’s class at The Red Brick Church in Stillman Valley, IL. My six year old, Mary Beth – who loves to get mail –- received…
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…
What was the most strategic local church in history?
If you had to identify the most strategic local church in history, which church would you choose?
The Most Difficult Aspect of Pastoral Ministry?
Many going into ministry assume that the greatest source of pain in the pastorate will be inflicted by those who do not profess faith in Christ. D.A. Carson and John D. Woodbridge wisely counsel those considering the pastorate: Read through…
Note to the Publishing Industry: We, the Readers, Loathe Endnotes
Is there someway we can begin a grass roots movement to agree that endnotes are a bad idea? How much time has been irretrievably lost while we thumbed through notes at the end of a book. If you are in…
What will you force the world to admit this week? (See the bold print below)
Matthew 5:14-16 reads, "“You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to…
How Luther Comforted His Wife on September 20, 1542
Today in 1542 Luther’s 14 year old daughter Magdalena lay gravely ill with the plague. “Luther knelt beside her bed and begged God to release her from the pain. When she died and the carpenters were nailing down the lid…
Gospel Definitions
Trevin Wax is building a collection of Gospel definitions. See here. This will be a valuable resource for our Romans Project at church given the centrality of the Gospel in Romans. I gave a summary of the Gospel here. For…
It’s Saturday! Why not read something? Literature Enlarges Our Being
C.S. Lewis: “Literature enlarges our being by admitting us to experiences not our own. They may be beautiful, terrible, awe-inspiring, exhilarating, pathetic, comic, or merely piquant. Literature gives the entree to them all. Those of us who have been true…
Memorizing Scripture and Initial Thoughts on “How to Hide”
Paul Adams has written an excellent post on why we should memorize Scripture, to which I say, “Amen.” I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. We live from the inside out. What we think (as well as how…