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C. S. Lewis: 50th anniversary
November 22nd marks the fiftieth anniversary of JFK’s assassination. But another anniversary on that same day fifty years ago is widely celebrated within and beyond the American borders—C. S. Lewis’...
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Saint Nicholas and Christmas
St. Nicholas, patron saint to children and sailors. St. Nicholas also was a preserver of orthodoxy who slapped, possibly punched Arius, the heretical bishop.Jolly St. Nic as the song says was the...
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Virtue is what the culture needs
Virtue is what the culture needs. It’s all in Plato. What has happened to the moral and religious standard? It has been scourged from schools and seemingly governments.What are these virtues that are...
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Phil Robertson of Duck Dynasty anathemetized
Phil Robertson of the popular show Duck Dynasty has been suspended from the show. He was interviewed by GQ and was asked his opinion about homosexuality. He spoke his opinion with biblical basis, but...
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Narnia: Seeing afresh
“When he is reborn, Narnia can be saved at last; with Aslan’s blood on the ground, the land can blossom into spring.” Brian Murphy in his article “Last Works: Further in and Higher up&rdquo...
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Switchfoot new album Fading West
Switchfoot’s Fading West, sure to be another top-seller, is the crest of a wave in the whole picture of albums. If you start with Nothing is Sound and continue through to Vice Verses, the shape is...
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IVP Bible Commentary useful and helpful
Over a half a million copies have been sold. The IVP Bible Background Commentary on the New Testament is a great companion for preachers and laypeople alike. The commentary gives the cultural...
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The church fathers still important today
In a culture saturated with confusion, lust, spiritualism, and attention-seeking behavior, strong, true and loving voices must pierce the Spirit of the Age. The early church fathers lived in a very...
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The law: the Pentateuch
Some Christians tend to ignore or deem the Old Testament, especially the Law, as “no longer relevant” or that the New Testament supersedes or nullifies the Law and/or the Old Testament. Frankly, some...
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The law continued
When considering God's law, one must consider two things: not to fall into moralism, but at the same time not fall into antinomianism.Moralism is making a series of rules that must be followed in...
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God arrives (Part 1 of 2)
At one point someone asked me why God doesn’t blatantly show himself on the streets of a city as something magnificent like a huge powerful man, then all would believe he is God.The fact is he did...
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Jesus gathered the men who would spread the gospel to the world, then he left, ascended to heaven. Why did he leave the spreading of the good news to fallible men? Why couldn’t Jesus stay after his...
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Alchemy or the seed dying
Transformation is either seen from a material perspective or a spiritual or both. Some use the analogy of alchemy to describe transformation from our material reality to a spiritual reality. But the...
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Ascension Sunday (part 1 of 2)
Christ descended and then ascended that we too may ascend with Him. Christ came that we may be lifted up. In John’s gospel, we read that Christ is praying for his disciples, but also for the church...
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Ascension Sunday (part 2 of 2)
In the context of I Peter 4:12-19, is the suffering church. In the first century and for several centuries afterward, Christians were murdered: burned, fed to lions, crucified. In the time Peter was...
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Commentary on the book of Esther (Part 1 of 2)
Every year Jews celebrate Purim. It is a remembrance of the events that took place in the book of Esther. The Jews remember they were saved from annihilation. Samuel Wells encourages us to remember in...
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Daniel: City of God, city of man
The book of Daniel must be read in the light of the entire canon (the Bible). It is apocalyptic literature that is highly symbolic which can easily stray into wild interpretation. It also must be read...
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Cormac McCarthy's The Road intersects with Daniel
The book of Daniel is a journey of exile and expectation. Of empires overshadowing the world and crumbling. All the while angels as the messengers and potential carrying out the destruction. The...
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Plato and Progressivism in Christianity
It has been said by Christians and non-Christians alike that Christians are Platonists. In a small sense this is true—only in the fact that we are in the shadowlands—a place that has not been remade...
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Micheal Card's series complete
Ephesus in the first century. One of the seven wonders of the world, the Temple to Artemis, was a prominent place of worship. The place of worship for Dionysius or Bacchus was also a common...
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