What Christians can learn from St. Patrick (387–461), a ‘theologian-evangelist’
March 17, 2009
The origins of Valentine’s Day explained
February 13, 2009
Billy Sunday, explained by a kindergartner
February 6, 2009
What the History Channel has Taught Me About Jesus
January 19, 2009
By Paul Cat
1. He never existed.
2. He did exist, but he was only a man.
3. He was gay.
4. He was a woman.
5. He was married to Mary of Magdeline (I guess this makes him a lesbian.)
6. His real father was a Roman soldier named Pantera who secretly knocked up Mary.
7. He really just repacked Hinduism and Buddhism.
8. The Gospels are simply the sum total composite image of Christ from the early Christian communities. Therefore he was not God, but was mistaken for being God …
Book review: The Unwavering Resolve of Jonathan Edwards, by Steve Lawson
January 17, 2009
This is My Heart: Devotional Readings from John Calvin
January 8, 2009
Valkyrie: too much focus on Cruise’s character, but a fair depiction
January 1, 2009
Jordan J. Bailor, Acton PowerBlog
Things that happened for the first time in 2008
January 1, 2009
A list by FellowElder at Pure Church
Two ancient coins found on Temple Mount in Jerusalem
December 22, 2008
A story from the Jerusalem Post (HT: Todd Bolen):
“Two ancient coins, one used to pay the Temple tax and another minted by the Greek leader the Jews fought in the story of Hanukka, have been uncovered amid debris from Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, an Israeli archeologist said Thursday.”
Weekend Walkabout, December 20, 2008
December 20, 2008
26 posts from the week that escaped mention (almost!):
“All” Always Means ALL. Right? - Phil Johnson
A Bad Sign - The Sacred Sandwich
CCM Magazine’s Top Ten Artist Blogs of 2008 (HT: Worship.com)
Don’t Waste Your Sexuality - Josh Harris
The Elvis-Beatles Relativity Fallacy - Rod Dreher
“Free” Christian music downloads from CompassionArt - Gospel Soundcheck
Glorifying God in Our Christmas Shopping - Tony Reinke
“Does my gift serve the soul of the recipient?”
How Hellish is ‘Time Out’? - Russell Moore
If Only it Were That Clear - Mark D. Roberts
Jonestown and the Reformed Movement - R. Scott Clark
“As weird and impossible as Jonestown seems today, what happened to them and what they did to themselves, is not utterly unrelated to ideas, causes, and personalities in the Reformed movement over the last three decades.”
Killing is My Business, and Business is Good - Paul Manata
Lewis’s Famous Essay on Bulverism (HT: Victor Reppert)
Martin Luther’s Christmas Book - Between Two Worlds
No Good Reason - Cerulean Sanctum
“In sorting through this clothing, the realization that I throw away just about nothing hit home.”
Online Community…Does it exist? YES! But I Think You Are Asking the Wrong Question - Rhett Smith
Phillips Daylight Window Concept Presentation - Joshua Sowin
Q+A :: How many U.S. churches exist? - Church Relevance
Reflections from a Church Pianist - Amy Scott
“When I have a brain freeze at a bad time, I’ve got a special look for the other musicians that asks, ‘What are you people thinking, man?’”
Six Christmas Poems - Marcus Goodyear
Tim Challies Day - Justin Taylor
Unpacking forgiveness in real life - Dan Phillips
Volition: A Short Film - Jonathan Ignacio
“It is a fifteen minute film focusing on three of the worst atrocities of human rights this world has faced.”
Why read through Calvin’s Institutes in 2009? - Ligon Duncan
Xmas Giveaway - Trevin Wax
“For the next ten days (Dec. 15-25), you have the opportunity to register to win all ten of my favorite books this year. Plus, an ESV Study Bible. That’s $260 worth of books!”
You Should Subscribe - Green Baggins
Zeitgeist as Agent? - Pseudo-Polymath
“Consider … for a moment the intelligent ant colony … from the ant’s perspective … here with man as ant. “
Caution over recent Noah’s Ark discovery
December 16, 2008
The Bible Places Blog’s Todd Bolen points readers to a review of a video released recently which details Robert Cornuke’s ‘discovery’ of the remains of Noah’s Ark, in Iran:
“The problem is, as with all of Cornuke’s ‘discoveries,’ that they are never published in a credible journal where specialists in the relevant fields can respond. Instead, Cornuke (like his predecessor Ron Wyatt) goes straight to the public, where the standards are much, much lower. Sadly, perhaps no group is more gullible to these sorts of claims than evangelical Christians.”
Get the video.
The review.
Ancient graffiti
December 16, 2008
Ben Witherington discusses topics touched upon at the ‘Graffiti Seminar,’ held at the recent meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL):
“The most obvious graffiti were the political ads and ads for gladiatorial games, sometimes with letters 2-3 feet high painted in bright colors on a white washed wall. You could hardly miss them when walking the streets. The ads the sex trade however were of a more permanent and prevalent nature, incised into walls at strategic locations …”
Muggeridge on knowing about Jesus
December 16, 2008
A great quote (HT: Waving or Drowning?):
“Future historians–assuming there are any interested in such matters–are likely to conclude that the more we knew about Jesus the less we knew him, and the more precisely his words were translated the less we understood or heeded them.”
Malcolm Muggeridge, Jesus: The Man Who Lives
Have you seen ‘The Devil’s Bible’?
December 11, 2008
‘The Devil’s Bible,’ or Codex Gigas, is a medieval Bible manuscript with some interesting features. The National Geographic Channel will be airing a program about it this Sunday, Dec. 14.
(HT: Tommy Wasserman >> Jim West)
“More from the ‘Cesspool’ about Catholicism”
December 9, 2008
Richard Mouw, President of Fuller Seminary, responds to the bloggers at reformata.org, who have referred to the institution as “Fuller Theological Cesspool Seminary” because of his sympathetic stance regarding Roman Catholicism.
Mouw cites quotes from John Calvin and Charles Spurgeon, conceding that some that remain within the Catholic Church are redeemed.
