When Cancer Interrupts
David Powlison is a cancer survivor four times over; his new little booklet, When Cancer Interrupts, contains observations and wise instruction for all.
“Cancer creates opportunities for more profound intimacy with those around you,” Powlison knowingly observes. “People pay attention when a sufferer is being honest”. That last sentence reminds me that cancer provides Christians experiencing it an opportunity to teach the rich God-centered doctrine and lessons of faith we’ve previously learned and that have prepared us for processing suffering biblically. We’ve... Continue Reading
6 Reasons We Shouldn’t Use Hymnals Anymore
...and why I don't find any of those reasons compelling.
“Hymnals are intended to be a collective statement of faith for the denomination or group that adopts it. The theological content of our singing is certainly stronger when we have a primary resource that’s been examined, vetted, and solidified on that basis.” A year ago yesterday I wrote a post about hymnals. A lot of people read... Continue Reading
The Lost World of Adam and Eve: A Response
Responding to John Walton's newest book on the historicity of Adam and Eve
Walton has provided an example of what happens when one gives extra-biblical texts magisterial authority over the text of Scripture. His basis for interpreting the text of Genesis comes from ancient people who were polytheistic, believed in the ultimate source of the power of magic, and wrote much of their history in the form of... Continue Reading
How Reading Can Transform Your Health
If reading secular books can have such life-transforming benefit, how much more will a wide range of good spiritual books transform our lives and even our eternity.
Grothaus’s life was in a rut…until he read War and Peace. Its 1500 pages took him two months to conquer and immediately became his favorite book because of how it changed him. “It’s almost impossible to explain why,” he says “but after reading it I felt more confident in myself, less uncertain about my future…As weird as... Continue Reading
Under God — Since When?
Kevin Kruse’s "One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America" has received considerable attention since its release earlier this year
“Most 19th-century and early-20th-century Americans would have affirmed that the United States was a “Christian nation,” even if they would have disagreed bitterly about the meaning of that phrase. Nor were public displays of generic (or even Christian) religiosity new, though they took on new forms during the Eisenhower administration.” Kevin Kruse’s One Nation... Continue Reading
“The Righteous Mind” – Understanding Conservatives and Liberals
Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt: The moral foundations of liberals and conservatives are not just different, they are dramatically unequal
Another implication is that liberal prescriptions tend to be incredibly single-minded as compared to those of conservatives. Haidt uses the metaphor of a bee hive to illustrate. A liberal, finding a bee in the hive suffering from injustice, is motivated more or less exclusively by the desire to get justice for the bee. A conservative,... Continue Reading
Meeting Elisabeth Elliot: A Personal Testimony of a Godly Woman
I was 15 years old when a family friend gave me Elisabeth Elliot’s Passion and Purity
“In my early years of marriage when Matt was in seminary and our leisure time was devoted to reading, I devoured A Chance to Die, the story of Elisabeth’s own hero Amy Carmichael. Besides being challenged by Amy’s exemplary life, I was encouraged that my hero had a hero.” I was 15 years old... Continue Reading
Review: Openness Unhindered by Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
Who we are, flows out of who we belong to.
Regarding sexual orientation, Butterfield traces this back to Sigmund Freud who rooted identity in sexuality rather than being made in the image of God. This has profound implications because people are now identified in categories that reject Original Sin. Openness Unhindered, Rosaria Champagne Butterfield, Crown & Covenant Publications, July 2015, 206 pages. The Secret... Continue Reading
Finding Truth: A Review
This book is brilliant. It reaffirms the pressing need to teach our children critical thinking.
The value in a worldview lies in its consistency and ability to explain those things which form the real stuff of our lives. She adduces a string of leading atheist thinkers to demonstrate a kind of cognitive dissonance, where the practicalities of real life are actually antithetical to what they profess to be true. Atheists act as if Christian epistemology is true,... Continue Reading
Calvin on the Great Usefulness of the Law
What did Calvin say about the third use of the law?
“The third use of the Law (being also the principal use, and more closely connected with its proper end) has respect to believers in whose hearts the Spirit of God already flourishes and reigns. For although the Law is written and engraven on their hearts by the finger of God, that is, although they are... Continue Reading
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