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Certainly one of my great heroes is C.S. Lewis, who, as providence would have, died on the very same day as J.F.K., but whose parting was not nearly as scrutinized as that of our young President. Our former Asbury student, Ben deVan, now teaching away in the Old North State (i.e. N.C.) has assembled a…

The senior minister at my home church, Myers Park UMC in Charlotte, Dr. James Howell is both a fine minister and a fine scholar as well. He kindly sends me his e-posts to his congregation. The following post is of relevance to what we ought to do at Christmas.——————— When Tammy Faye Baker Messner was…

http://www.christiantoday.com/article/rick.warren.six.worldviews.youre.competing.against/13420.html Rick Warren has staked out six world views he thinks Christians are confronted with on a regular basis. You will find the link above to the Christianity Today article. What seems entirely lacking in these six is a reference to what can only called myopic parochialism, or put another way racism. I think that…

Fellow bloggers Hugh Hewitt and Glenn Reynolds have had a good deal to say about the mess in Colorado at Ted Haggard’s old church in Colorado Springs and at the missionary training center. Here is what they said. “The Bravest Thing I’ve Ever Seen” Posted by: Hugh Hewitt at 5:54 PM Here is a story…

I was asked of late –“could it be clearer than Ephes. 1.6 that God simply does what he does for his own glory?” Let’s be clear— the Greek of Ephes. 1.6 says that God does it ‘to the praise of his glorious grace’. The Greek preposition is ‘eis’ here, which is probably not the Greek…

Neil Folberg’s wonderful book ‘Celestial Night’ with stunning black and white night time shots of the Holy Land would make for a wonderful Christmas gift. Here are two of those pictures– firstly the shot of the Gush Halav synagogue ruins at night, and secondly the shot in Jerusalem from behind the Dome of the Rock…

When something is really annoying you and you are about to have an angry outburst, it’s always better to sit down, get on top of the problem, and devise a plan before you have a ‘cat-astrophe’ and do something you’ll later regret.

In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that census should be taken of the entire Roman world (This was the census that was taken before Quirinius was governor of Syria). And all went to their own towns to register. So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to…

It was a very tough fall this fall in the old South. The chief cause of difficulties was the drought which struck us all. While it could be said that it was not a drought of Biblical proportions, you know its pretty severe when the Mayor of Atlanta starts talking about a water pipeline from…

Almost fifty years ago, in the early 1970s a French philosopher named Jean-Pierre Lyotard began what was callled post-modern thinking. Post-modern thinking in its rudimentary form involved the deconstruction of all the major meta-narratives of modernity, particularly western modernity. This included a deconstruction of the Christian meta-narrative in whatever form it took. The main thing…
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