I’ve been enjoying the TV show Sherlock lately. Its nice to get into a show that is relatively clean, and its very clever and engaging (portrayed right is Benedict Cumberbatch’s incarnation of Sherlock Holmes—he does...
Read moreI believe in biblical inerrancy. I never read the Bible wondering which parts are true and which parts are false. Doing so would seem to me inconsistent with accepting the Bible as the Word of...
Read moreD.A. Carson observed at the 2010 NEXT conference that evangelicals tend to be relatively weak in the area of theology proper, or the doctrine of God. One aspect of the doctrine of God that has...
Read moreWhy do anything when we cannot do everything? Why go anywhere when we cannot go everywhere? Why be something when we cannot be everything? These kinds of questions are at the heart of many postmodern...
Read moreI’ve pushed my German test back a bit, which will allow me to learn the language better, and also creates some cushion in my schedule now, which is greatly needed here at the end of...
Read more“And Herod and Pilate became friends with each other that very day, for before this they had been at enmity with each other” (Luke 23:12). I was reading through Luke while in Belize and was...
Read moreEgalitarianism may be the default leaning in our setting, but if we widen our horizon its very much a minority voice. Unless we have a bias in favor of 21st century Western democratic cultures, this...
Read moreVarious factors over the last several years have been compelling me to revisit the issue of gender roles in the church and home. It’s a volatile and often dividing issue, especially in my setting in...
Read moreWhen I was working through church government issues, I found helpful this quote by John Owen, who was an Independent and contributed to the Savoy Declaration: “Let the Church be protected in the exercise of...
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