I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that I’m the only person in the world who reads through back issues of the Ann Arbor Baptist, a periodical from the late 1800s. But periodicals like that were the blogs of their era and within their pages I find such interesting articles and poems. One that I spotted recently (though I’ve spotted it in other works as well, sometimes adapted into a hymn) is Mary Brainard’s “I Know Not What Shall Befall Me,” …
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Good morning. May gratitude goes to Zondervan for sponsoring the blog this week to tell you about an excellent new book about God’s love for us. Today’s Kindle deals include some books that are newer and some that are older. (Yesterday on the blog: Can You Live a Life that’s Worthy of the Gospel?) Confessions of Faith and the Baptist Tradition ”One of the most-cited arguments against Baptists standards of doctrine and practice is that Baptists have historically opposed confessions …
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This week Free Stuff Friday is sponsored by Zondervan Reflective. They are giving away five copies of The Great Love of God. There is a Divine Love that heals our hurts, fears, and loneliness, but have we lost sight of it? Nothing is more obvious about our world than the reality of how far we have slipped from the ideal of divine love. We live in a society that has sunk into the depths of desperation. An avalanche of problems …
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There are some Bible verses that seem to go just a little bit too far. “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children … he cannot be my disciple” comes to mind, or “rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances.” And then there’s this one: “Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ…” (Philippians 1:27). We read a verse like that and …
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Good morning, at last, from downtown Recife. I look forward to spending the weekend with Primeira Igreja Presbiteriana do Recife. Blasphemy Then and Now Carl Trueman examines charges of blasphemy against Monty Python then and now. “Opponents of blasphemy then and of blasphemy now share something in common: a concern to protect that which is sacred. But that is where the similarity begins and ends. Old-style blasphemy involved desecrating God because it was God who was sacred. Today’s blasphemy involves …
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