some thoughts

May…our daughters [be] like corner pillars cut for the structure of a palace… (Psalm 144:12b)
It’s odd. I’ve heard much talk of an “incessant need to cater to male ego.” Yes, we men are fallen. But I think there’s more to it than mere ego. I think, perverted though it may be, there’s a biblical reality […]

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Great news released today about America’s favorite, legal, mind-altering Christian Drug©!
Man, after reading stuff like this and this (HT), I was beginning to eye my morning libation with fear and trepidation…O how sweet is a conscience cleared!
(Thanks for the coupons, Holly!)

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I’m happy to report that Carl R. Trueman (of Westminster Theological Seminary, PA) has joined the Reformation21 blog. I recently transcribed an article he’d written for the Calvin Theological Journal (”John Owen’s Dissertation on Divine Justice” CJT 33 (1998): 87-103) for the guys over at johnowen.org, and I was very impressed. Writes Ligon Duncan:
Carl is […]

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Starting next Sunday (9.4), I have the privelege of teaching a sort of “Gospel 101″ class at my church, which will last 13 weeks. I’ll only have about 45 min. per class (which isn’t nearly enough, I don’t think, for adequate presentation, q&a, and quality discussion time), but we’ll make do.
Here’s the tentative course […]

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The video for Nick Cannon’s song, Can I Live, is worth watching, and passing around (rap or not).
This song is based on his (true) story. (HT: Justin Taylor…yet again.)

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Recently, Time Magazine featured a cover story titled “Evolution Wars.” The subtitle reads:
The push to teach “intelligent design” raises a question: Does God have a place in science class?
Obviously this question is the epitome of arrogance; who the heck are we to determine where the omnipotent and ominpresent God “has a place” and where he […]

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A minister, about to write an article criticizing a fellow minister for his lack of orthodoxy, wrote to John Newton of his intention. Newton replied as follows.
This 4-page letter from John Newton (1725-1807) on Godly Disputation, is well worth the read. What with most of us publishing opinions, objections, rants, praises, etc. on a near […]

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…to the Puritans, communion between God and man is the end to which both creation and redemption are the means; it is the goal to which both theology and preaching must ever point; it is the essence of true religion; it is, indeed, the definition of Christianity.
J. I. Packer, Quest for Godliness, Chapter titled “The […]

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Micah Larsen of Resolution 57 has written an uncommonly perceptive and moving poem about the inner turmoil between the new man and the old–who, “though dead, still speaks.” His portrayal of the mind-struggle we all experience in our “already-not yet” state is highly reminiscent of Dostoevsky’s conflicted character, Roskolnikov Romanovich, the protagonist (and antagonist) of […]

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Since its inception, the movie theater has been a medium not for just entertainment, but for worldviews packaged as (or by) entertainment. Whenever I see an “old movie,” typically considered to have the pre-1950s family values, etc., I’m constantly shocked at the actual content of the dialogue and the not-so-subtle sexual innuendo. The movie theater […]

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