The Best Laid Plans…
Well I just read Athol Dickson’s Lost Mission and I was fully intending to take part in the blog tour. I was supposed to post on Saturday. So here I am on Thursday, in the hospital, waiting on surgery tomorrow. Nothing major—gallbladder removal, and, believe me, I’ll be happy to have the troublesome thing out—but [...]

God’s Peace
I love this deal from John 19: 19 On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being locked where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.” 20When he had said this, he showed them his [...]

Give Them God
So Kevin DeYoung happens to have posted a few days ago on giving people God. I think, his post adds to the discussion I started yesterday. Go read it. Here’s part of it: Give them a God who is holy, independent, and unlike us, a God who is good, just, full of wrath and full of mercy.  [...]

Censoring Books and Legislating Morality
I was talking to a friend the other day, and the topic of sin came up. She said, “We should not preach against individual sins. If we preach the holiness of God the sinner will get it. Every person knows he’s not perfect. That’s where the expression, ‘Nobody’s perfect’ comes from. So if we preach [...]

The Naked Gospel ~ Free Download
For the next three days you can download a copy of Andrew Farley’s The Naked Gospel free. I’m not suggesting that the book is worth reading–I’ve not read it. I’m suggesting that a good way to check out books like this–ones you probably are going to want to disagree with and debate–is to download a [...]