Shortcut to Theology: One Book Before Seminary
Sometimes science fiction becomes science. Jules Verne had an uncanny sense of what would be possible. He wrote, for example, stories about submarines diving 20,000 leagues under the sea, and voyages from the earth to the moon well before the technology ever materialized in reality. [...]
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One Giant Loss for Mankind: Remembering Neil Armstrong
When Neil Armstrong died on Saturday, at the age of 82, mankind lost one of its most iconic heroes. Armstrong represents the archetypical explorer. He was our generation’s Columbus, Scott, Hillary, Einstein, our pioneer and discoverer. And that’s what it used to take to instil [...]
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Strange Mercy: God’s Grace in our Weakness
1Yesterday we looked at a chapter that is renowned for displaying God’s attributes of holiness and wrath. Leviticus 10 is the sobering story of Aaron’s two sons, Nadab and Abihu who “offered strange fire before the Lord” and got fired as priests…literally. God incinerated them on the [...]
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Strange Fire: Is there a Wrong Way to Worship?
Don’t you just want to roll your eyes when someone gives you a gift of that is what they want, instead of what you want? They see a box of almond chocolates and think, “Mmm, I love almonds, and I love chocolate, and I love my [...]
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De Young on parenting the young
You know how much I like Kevin De Young, and how giddy I am that he will be preaching at our church in April next year. (If you missed that headline, check out the post titled, Kevin De Young, Restless, & Reformed). Here’s an excellent and [...]
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The other Archer agrees: Degrees of Reward
Baron Archer of Weston-super-Mare is most commonly known as the über-successful novelist, Jeffery Archer. Not only is Lord Archer a member of the landed gentry, a former Minister of Parliament, and a bestselling author, he is also most recently an ex-convict. In 2001 Archer was [...]
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Is Folly Sin? Mad Libs for Devil’s Advocates
A really insightful question was posed to me recently by multiple people on different occasions in various ways. I could summarize the enquiry, “Is it wrong to do something that is not sinful, even though you know it’s not wise?” This question has many applications, [...]
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Quick Quotes from the Quickest Woman on Earth – Allyson Felix
My wife was on the Los Angeles Baptist High School athletics team with a young, talented girl named Allyson Felix. While Kim was setting school pole vaulting records, Allyson was doing the same on the track. Fast-forward a decade and half or so… Allyson Felix [...]
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