Top Ten Posts of 2008

Tabletalk 2010: The First Six Months
For more than thirty years, Tabletalk has existed as a magazine for the church. So it strives to help explain important, biblical doctrines and events that shape the church while encouraging people to reflect the image of Christ in both word and deed. We are proud to follow that same trajectory in 2010--dealing with issues that challenge, exhort, and encourage God's people. And all this is offered on top of our daily devotional readings and various columns, which deal with entirely different topics throughout the year. What follows is a brief look at what's coming in the next six months: 

Of Origins and Twitter Posts
Today marks 150 years since Charles Darwin's book, On the Origin of Species, was published. At our Twitter account every hour, we'll be highlighting 24 resources that discuss evolution, creation, atheism, and subjects related to cosmology and science -- all from a biblical worldview.Follow along 

Social Darwinism
Truth and Consequences by Gene Edward Veith Charles Darwin's theory of evolution was never just about biology. Nor were its consequences just about religion. Rather, the origins and effects of Darwinism were largely cultural and moral. Darwin's Origin of Species was published in 1859, which was at the height of the Industrial Revolution and the Capitalist Revolution. The dynamic free market economy, characterized by intense competition in which weak companies went broke and the strong companies thrived, had brought unparalleled economic and technological progress. It was a small step to speculate that animal species compete and progress in

Resting on the Promises
by R.C. Sproul It seems astonishing to the layperson that anybody would go to the extremes René Descartes went to simply to discover that he existed. What could be more self-evident to a conscious being than one's own self-consciousness? But Descartes was not on a fool's errand. In a world of sophisticated skepticism, he sought certainty for something that could serve as a foundation for much, much more. He moved from the certitude of self-consciousness to the certitude of the existence of God, no small matter for the doubt-ridden believer. Descartes and others like him understood that to prove the existence of God is prior to affirming the trustworthine

Our Great High Priest in Hebrews: The Son Greater than the Angels (pt. 3)
(Read Part II) In this our last installment in our series on our great high priest in Hebrews, we come to 2.1-18, where the author of Hebrews finishes what he started in 1:5-14. As we contemplate the Son in the new state He has entered and with the new honor He has received, the author of Hebrews warns us: how can we ever turn a deaf ear to God's speech in one as glorious as the Son (2.1-4)? Punishment was inescapable for neglecting God's previous communication through inferior angels at Sinai (1.1; 2.2): it will be even more so if w