by | Jun 3, 2009 | Books, Church, Culture, History, Theology
I have been thoroughly enjoying Perry Miller’s The Life of the Mind in America, which presents a highly complex picture of early American Christianity. One of the interesting issues he describes is the unique way in which Christians in America achieved a form of...
by | May 26, 2009 | Books, Church, Culture, History, Preaching, Theology, Worship
I have been reading the second volume of Iain Murray’s comprehensive biography on D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, having read the first volume last year. It is a bit tedious at times, but only because Murray made the conscious choice to include more, rather than less,...
by | May 23, 2009 | Culture, History, Theology
As some of you know, I went through a long phase where I was a huge fan of Ronald Reagan. I still am, to a large degree, but I no longer actively collect biographies written about him or things like that. In fact, the more I think about Reagan’s political...
by | Oct 22, 2008 | Bible, Church, Culture, Theology, Worship
Last May, I wrote a post that suggested that in heaven all the redeemed might speak our individual languages, rather than learning some universal, heavenly language. I was thinking more about this thought this morning, and, being in the process of reading gobs of...
by | Jul 18, 2008 | Books, Church, Culture, Theology
D. A. Carson writes in his For the Love of God, Vol. 2 for the meditation on Jeremiah 14: Because our own culture tries so hard to detach from God what happens in the “natural” world, reserving for him only private or distantly “spiritual”...
by | May 1, 2008 | Bible, Church, Culture, Theology, Worship
And they sang a new song, saying, Worthy are you to take the scroll and to open its seals, for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation, and you have made them a kingdom and priests to our God,...