Book Review: The Shack

Each year I purchase a significant number of books.  Most of these are related to Christianity — theologies, commentaries, spiritual life, church history, marriage, counseling, and the like — but I also will purchase other books as well — sports, gardening (for Raye Jeanne), histories, fiction, and books of interest to our girls. But for […]

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A brief glimpse of Hell

Richard Baxter noted that if we were able to glimpse for even a moment the gravity of Hell and the closeness of so many men to it, that we would be greatly emboldened for evangelism.  That is, we are shy about declaring the gospel because we do not see it as a great threat to […]

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Sunday Leftovers (12/21/08)

Christmas isn’t about babies.  Or gifts.  Or giving.  Or sacrifice.  Or thankfulness.  Or in songs.  Or family.  Or tradition. Christmas is about death. More specifically, Christmas is about the death of Christ.  That is to say, Christmas is about the gospel. The Christian faith demands clarity about many things.  But it demands that we must […]

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