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God is Love and God is God

This morning, I listened to an amazing sermon by John Piper about why God would inspire biblical texts that are difficult to interpret and understand, given that he is omniscient as well as a perfect communicator. Piper’s main ideas were that difficult texts...

Conquering the Qur’an

As an introduction to the History of Islam class that I will be taking this semester, our professor handed out a New York Times article from August 20, 2002 entitled, “Assigned Reading on Koran in Chapel Hill Raises Hackles.” Unfortunately, the New York...

Desiring God

I have of late been entranced by pastor, preacher, and writer John Piper. I just finished his book, The Pleasures of God, and I have started working my way through his Romans sermons series (I’ve finished about twenty sermons, and we aren’t out of chapter...

On the Cohesiveness of the Scriptures

So, I was reading from Numbers 10 about the use of silver trumpets within the nation of Israel. It was interesting, but I was sort of thinking about it as being on par (in terms of importance) with prohibitions against boiling an animal in its mother’s milk or...

By the Grace of God

The Proper Attitude of Man Under Grace: To believe, and to consent to be loved while unworthy, is the great secret. To refuse to make “resolutions” and “vows”; for that is to trust in the flesh. To expect to be blessed, though realizing more...

For the Love of God – Book Review

I have been using For the Love of God, Vol. II by D. A. Carson, as well as the first volume for about four years. The reason I have used it so much is because it, more than anything I have found, puts an incredible emphasis on the importance of saturating ourselves in...

Ego – Book Review for Anthem, by Ayn Rand

This evening I read Ayn Rand’s Anthem. For those of you who are unfortunate not to have ever read any of her works, I highly recommend that you do. This one is particularly good to start with, since it is extremely short (well under 100 pages). Be warned,...

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