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From Psalm 48… Mount Zion rejoices; the towns of Judah are happy, because of your acts of judgment.  Walk around Zion!  Encircle it!  Count its towers!  Consider its defenses!  Walk through its fortresses, so you can tell the next generation about it!  For God, our God, is our defender forever! He guides us!

O God, because without you we are not able to please you,  mercifully grant that your Holy Spirit may in all things direct and rule our hearts;  through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.  Amen.

Christianity Today is my favorite Christian publication — it has exceptional leadership and editors, solid articles from across the spectrum, and a real keen eye for what’s not only happening but is what to happen. I hope you subscribe. But there’s something brand new about it… Have you seen the new design of Christianity Today?…

A star cluster photo released from NASA   Please pray for Dianne and Bob, and pray that the God who made that vast starry sky will attend to Bob at this time. One of my favorite journalists, Christine Scheller, creates some controversy with some cutting remarks.  One of my favorite backyard photographers, Rob Merola, offers…

Kris and I both love to read memoirs. Kris likes those memoirs that probe one’s psychological state or get into some deep story, while I like memoirs of writers and thinkers (which is not to say they don’t sometimes explore the inner world nor to say that those psychological memoirs aren’t by thinkers). In fact,…

Yesterday we finished off a discussion of John H. Walton’s fascinating look at The Lost World of Genesis One. In the discussion of scientific explanations of origins in proposition 16, p. 136 Walton draws an analogy (He uses a few examples, I am going to paraphrase a bit to use only one example).  We believe…

What makes Chris Armstrong’s new book, Patron Saints for Postmoderns: Ten from the Past Who Speak to Our Future , unique is the choice he makes of those whom we can learn from. Antony and Gregory the Great are not surprising; Dante Alighieri is (at least that choice surprised me). One winter here in Chicago…

Missional communities are apostolically-shaped communities where the wonders of God are seen but where the wonders of God sometimes provoke persecution of the people of God. But persecution provokes courage on the part of the missional community. Read Acts 5:27-32: Having brought the apostles, they made them appear before the Sanhedrin to be questioned by…

This is my last post on Walton’s book, but RJS will have one tomorrow ... We come today to the end of John Walton’s (professor at Wheaton) new book, The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate, and he finishes off this book with a conclusion that is worthy of serious…

According to Jim Belcher, a pastor-theologian, there is Third Way with, between and beyond the traditional and the emergent. He sketches such a Third Way in his new book, Deep Church: A Third Way Beyond Emerging and Traditional . One thing he has to do is define “emerging.” No small task. But he observes that…
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