This blog is apparently read by more than my wife, the dog and the two students who actually liked my classes. A positive result is that I got an email from The Master’s College library with this good news: many TMC chapel messages are already online, downloadable, for free, in mp3 format. They are in the… Read More »
If you want to help save a life, take a look at these children who have serious heart defects. Surgeries like these cost tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars, but Israeli doctors are donating their skills to operate on the hearts of these Iraqi kids. But there are still some costs of transportation, housing, and… Read More »
The problem with studying the geography of Israel is that it can quickly become divorced from the life-changing truths of Scripture. After all, how do hills and valleys help you grow closer to God? Wayne Stiles has the answer to that in his new book, Going Places With God: A Devotional Journey Through the Lands… Read More »
These are truths you didn’t learn in English class. From Thomas Brooks, “The Unsearchable Riches of Christ,” via GraceGems. You must meditate and dwell upon what you read; otherwise your pains and mine will be lost. The more any man is in the contemplation of truth, the more deep and firm impression is made upon… Read More »
Well, almost everyone, and that’s not an exaggeration. A new study, published by USA Today, interviewed about 40,000 people and they found that 95% had sex before marriage. That’s 19 out of 20. The study is being used by some to attack government-funded abstinence programs. One expert says that these face an “extremely high hurdle.… Read More »
Pyromaniacs has a great quote today from D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones. I feel it is an interesting and profitable subject to try to decide which is the more dangerous position for a man to be in —to state openly and avowedly that he is not at all interested in Christ and religion, or to follow Christ… Read More »
If you’re looking for good sermons to listen to over the Christmas break, you can always subscribe to podcasts like Grace to You (John MacArthur) and Desiring God (John Piper). Travis Carden has recently compiled a list MacArthur sermons from the podcast from the last year, with links to the mp3 files and transcripts. The… Read More »
I don’t usually post my responses to private emails online, but I think this one might be worthwhile to some. It’ll at least make somebody mad, which I seem to be good at doing lately. Yesterday I sent out a newsletter for BiblePlaces.com which featured photos related to the Christmas Story. (I think my timing… Read More »
John Piper is now finishing seven years of preaching through Romans and I know that many don’t have the time to read his sermons each week. But I thought this section worthy of highlighting as it is not something that we hear very often and yet it is very important for half of the church. He… Read More »
A few weeks ago Bart Campolo (son of Tony) wrote an article in The Journal of Student Ministries in which he said some disturbing things, including: Please, don’t get me wrong. I am well aware that I don’t get to decide who God is. What I do get to decide, however, is to whom I… Read More »