Some Thoughts

We have a happy little boy!!

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If I had to name the two people who have most influenced my understanding of reality (ie, Scripture’s revelation of it/Him), they would have to be Cornelius Van Til, and Meredith G. Kline. (C. S. Lewis would no doubt man a common trailhead to both paths to the summit.) Van Til you may already be [...]

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January Cornelius Van Til, In Defense of the Faith Vol. I : The Doctrine of Scripture Donald Van Dyken, Rediscovering Catechism : The Art of Equipping Covenant Children John Owen, Works, Vol. 2 : Communion with God February Cornelius Van Til, The Intellectual Challenge of the Gospel Michael Horton, Christless Christianity R. Scott Clark, Recovering [...]

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From Google News’ “World” section, about 8:30 AM this morning: Elsewhere, “Pope calls for ‘New Order with teeth’ before the G-8 summit” …another confusion of the two kingdoms. [update: “There is urgent need of a true world political authority. .. to manage the global economy; to revive economies hit by the crisis; to avoid any [...]

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In response to a recent post by Joel over at Token Lines Suggesting Rhythm, here are the first 15 books that came to mind that “will always stick with me” : Desiring God, by John Piper The End for Which God Created the World, by Jonathan Edwards (in Piper’s God’s Passion for His Glory) The [...]

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Recently Mike asked me for some good poetry recommendations. I’ve decided to turn my response into its own post, so here goes (forgive the comment-response format): I’m a big fan of Milton (Lycidas, Il Penseroso & L’Allegro, At a Solemn Musick, etc.). Then there’s Shakespeare, of course. Yeats, Keats, The Brownings (Robert, Elizabeth), Gray (Favourite [...]

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A few whifs of stoicism aside, here’s a great poem I’ve just come across by Rudyard Kipling: IF you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can [...]

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Micah over at Mad Sanity has some great advice after 10 years at his job: Don’t talk about people behind their backs.  Just don’t.  Be a gossip vault. Always be on time.  No matter how good you are at your job, if you are constantly late, it’s what you will be known for. Don’t call [...]

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It is not ‘triumphalistic’ to heartily rejoice in the ‘already’ aspects of Christ’s victory. Sure, there’s a ‘not yet’, but so what? Shouldn’t we march boisterously toward the not yet – even if we still have to limp until we get there? Shouldn’t our sins and the devil be bludgeoned with loud rejoicing over what has [...]

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Just a brief plug for Jerry Bridges’ wonderful* little book, Respectable Sins : Confronting the Sins we Tolerate. I’ve been a thankful fan of Jerry Bridges since I first read his excellent The Pursuit of Holiness and The Practice of Godliness back around 1997. Both are excellent devotional-type books, great for a chapter-a-day reading (though [...]

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