Book Review: The Last Lecture

Title: The Last Lecture Author: Randy Pausch Publisher: Hyperion, 2008; 206 pp. $21.95 (paperback and digital versions also available) Recommendation (4-star scale): Imagine you are leaving your job for a new one in another state. You have been with this organization for many years and have mentored many diverse people in the process. What do […]

FREE — Journal of Biblical Manhood and Womanhood

The Journal of Biblical Manhood and Womanhood has long been a very helpful resource and clear-sounding voice on the Biblical position of complementarianism in marriage. And a subscription to the bi-annual journal was always very affordable (I think about $10, if I remember correctly). And now the price is even better — it’s free! Like […]

Newton’s counsel on worldliness

Today at lunch I was reading William Carson’s Letters of John Newton. You can tell by his letter to this woman that she had asked something about how to resist the temptations of the world. His counsel is wise even for our own day: You would have me tell you what are the best means […]

More resources about worldview

“The faithful,” writes Tullian Tchividjian, “according to Jesus, are not intended to be fashionable. They’re not supposed to fit in. They’re called out from the world to be ‘odd.’ Our oddness, in fact, is essential to our faithfulness. To put it another way, faithfulness to Christ requires foreignness to the world’s trendy diversions.” What is […]

What’s important?

We wrestle often with the question of “What is the meaning of life?” As Packer has noted, it is not such a difficult question: We also need to recover a true understanding of human life, a sense of the greatness of the soul. We need to recover the awareness that God is more important than […]

Memorial Day

Today is a day to remember. It was a day to remember the cost of freedom. It was a day to remember those who fought and gave their lives for the freedoms we enjoy today. Fathers, sons, brothers, uncles, cousins, friends and unknown soldiers purchased with their lives our liberty. It’s good to remember. It […]

Sunday Leftovers (5/30/10)

Thinking a little more about worldviews and the world system and the way unbelievers think… It might seem daunting at times to try and sort out what others think about life and the world — what are the core values that drive that individual? James Sire has formulated a series of seven questions that help […]

Reading Samuel

Samuel’s books are important for the nation of Israel for they provide not only the monarchy for the nation of Israel, but also include the Davidic Covenant (God’s promise that the Messiah would come from the line of David). Yet in the midst of these books there is much about the reality of sin and […]

One must be lost

A man must be lost before he can be found by the grace of Christ. One must be in desperate straights before he might be saved by God’s salvation. A man must be cognizant of and convicted by his unworthiness before God will redeem his sin and use that man for God’s own glory. A […]

Reading Philippians

In today’s Bible reading, we read the book of Philippians — a favored book of many because it is one of Paul’s most personal and intimate letters and strikes a strong note of encouragement to rejoice in Christ. Of note, joy is not only encouraged, but it is even something that is commanded — a […]

A few articles worth reading

A few articles I’ve come across on the internet recently that are worth reading. Here are the articles with some samples from each of them: “Pornography — The Difference Being a Parent Makes” Political scientists and sociologists long ago came to the realization that one of the most significant indicators of political behavior is parenthood. […]

What is Biblical counseling?

In a recent four-part series, David Powlison answered the question, “What is Biblical Counseling?” (audio). He has also made available his lecture notes and two other related articles. This material would be good supplement to what Keith is doing in the Tuesday evening GBI “Biblical Counselor Training Class.”

Regeneration is the profoundest change

Continuing the thought from yesterday’s sermon of Paul’s presupposition that salvation will always produce transformation, Martyn Lloyd-Jones wrote this: …regeneration is the profoundest change in the world, and that therefore we must always keep this in the forefront of our minds. A Christian is not just a man who has decided to be a little […]

Sunday Leftovers (5/23/10)

Simon Stylites was a man who took seriously the call to holiness and the command to live distinctly from the world. But you have to wonder if he really understood. After several other attempts to distance himself from worldly desires, he developed a plan that he followed for the final 39 years of his life. […]

1000 posts and counting — reflections on blogging

Three and a half years ago (October 10, 2006, to be exact) ago I started blogging. Today I reach a milestone of sorts — blog post number 1000. Prior to my blogging “career,” I had sent out devotionals by email on a weekly, and then bi-weekly basis (some of those are still archived on the […]