The Lie
Way back in the day when I was in a small church youth group, the youth pastor repeatedly taught on what he called "The Lie." He would quote Romans 1:24-25, "Ther...
Make sure that he had plenty of opportunities to disobey you.
There is a good deal to be said for excluding literature from school curricula altogether. I am not sure that the best way to make a boy love the English poets mi...
The idea was to find out whether the boy had read his books.
But there is a profound misunderstanding here. These well-meaning educationalists are quite right in thinking that literary appreciation is a delicate thing. What...
BibleWorks
Since I began formal theological studies in 2004, I have been using BibleWorks as my preferred Bible software. I have often argued for this software over Accordan...
The trouble allowing words to slip into the abyss.
To save any word from the eulogistic and dyslogistic abyss is a task worth the efforts of all who love the English language. And I can think of one word—the word ...
As old horses go to the knacker's yard...
The truth is not simply that words originally innocent tend to acquire a bad sense. The vocabulary of flattery and insult is continually enlarged at the expense o...
Giving Thanks to God for You: Sermon Prep on 1 Thess 1
Is it wrong to motivate a congregation toward holy living by holding up the Thessalonians as an example to imitate? No, I don’t think so, because Paul indicates t...
Impudence!
The other night we read Luke 11:1-13 as a family. Now, to be perfectly honest this passage of Scripture has always eluded me. For those of you who get this text r...
Augustin: The Typeface not the Man
I have a friend (here and here) who has introduced me to the world of typography. I am a total neophyte, but hopefully I am learning. I ran across this new typefa...
Millennial Views in a Statement of Faith: Sin.
Justin Taylor quotes Mark Dever saying that having a millennial view written into a church's statement of faith is sin. Having experienced this sort of thing firs...