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Noel and Ryan’s wedding is this weekend, so blogging may be light for a while. In the meantime, Denise has written a good essay at her web site: Take A Rest.
Many of you liked the essays I did on “The Gospel and Appalachia.”
The Gospel and Appalachia
The Gospel and Appalachia: Can The Culture Change?
The Gospel and […]

Divorce, Remarriage and the Gospel 1
Divorce, Remarriage and the Gospel 2: A Map For the Road
Divorce, Remarriage and the Gospel 3: One More Question
Divorce, Remarriage and the Gospel 4: The Law and The Prophets
Divorce, Remarriage and the Gospel 5: Jesus
Divorce, Remarriage and The Gospel 6: More Jesus
One of the struggles that I notice among contemporary […]

Divorce, Remarriage and the Gospel 1
Divorce, Remarriage and the Gospel 2: A Map For the Road
Divorce, Remarriage and the Gospel 3: One More Question
Divorce, Remarriage and the Gospel 4: The Law and The Prophets
Divorce, Remarriage and the Gospel 5: Jesus
At this point, the road is going to fork, and you are going to have to […]

UPDATE: A substantial response to and critique of Ehrman’s views on textual criticism can be found in this essay by evangelical New Testament Greek scholar Daniel Wallace.
Bart Ehrman is rapidly rising up the list of names appearing frequently in the watchblogosphere. As Ehrman gets more attention on the secular media, more apologists and defenders of […]

Divorce, Remarriage and the Gospel 1
Divorce, Remarriage and the Gospel 2: A Map For the Road
Divorce, Remarriage and the Gospel 3: One More Question
Divorce, Remarriage and the Gospel 4: The Law and The Prophets
And her husband Joseph, being a just man and unwilling to put her to shame, resolved to divorce her quietly. (Matthew 1:19)
“It […]

Divorce, Remarriage and the Gospel 1
Divorce, Remarriage and the Gospel 2: A Map For the Road
Divorce, Remarriage and the Gospel 3: One More Question
The old covenant law has many mentions of divorce. Only a few of these passages are ever mentioned when Christians discuss this topic. Instead, most of the passages dealing with divorce are […]

With all the discussion of the horrors of bad language being tossed around the reformed Baptist watchblogosphere these days, I hate to tell everyone that the final word on this matter was written long ago, in the dim mists of time that began this blog.
Yes, one leif “Eric” rigney penned “A Guide For The Cussing […]

My DaVinci Code Review. (Thanks to Nathan Bell for the Photoshops.)
I was going to write a review that attempted to be a coherent narrative, but considering we are talking about The DaVinci Code, one of the worst movies I’ve seen in years, that would be handing the film something it definitely didn’t give to its […]

Divorce, Remarriage and the Gospel 1
Divorce, Remarriage and the Gospel 2: A Map For the Road
On my way to the post office this morning, I got to thinking about Bible study- the #1 hobby of serious American evangelicals- and a basic question that should be asked before we spend hours and days chasing cross references […]

Divorce, Remarriage and the Gospel 1
Before we take on this topic, I want to spend some time preparing to use the Bible correctly. It won’t be acceptable to simply pick passages and read one of them authoritatively. This is a complicated question that involves many different Biblical texts and important questions of interpretation. In this […]

For those who dream of seeing the gospel take new root in a postmodern, pagan America, Mark Driscoll has written a superb, exciting and impressively helpful book.
A few days ago I read an interview with Covenant Life Church pastor Josh Harris, and he was asked what he had to say to young church planters. His […]

His name was Charles, and he worked with the Boy Scouts in our state. A troop was starting to use our building, and I was the staff liaison. Charles and I met together every month, and I found out that he was a Baptist preacher and a serious Christian. Over the years, I watched Charles […]

How far is too far in using creative methods to “reach” people?
Tom Ascol has been posting some good posts about some of the more extreme forms of sincere, but outlandish pragmatism to be found in the cause of church growth and evangelism. In the comments, the inevitable question appears: OK- how do we know when […]

My admiration for Touchstone Magazine grows daily, and among Touchstone’s writers, no one comes close to S.M. Hutchens for speaking to my own journey into, around, and sometimes out of evangelicalism.

Nevertheless, young people do not feel disenchanted, lost or alienated in a meaningless world. “Instead, the data indicated that they found meaning and significance in the reality of everyday life, which the popular arts helped them to understand and imbibe.” Their creed could be defined as: “This world, and all life in it, is meaningful […]