Mark D. Roberts

Part 1 in the series: More Christmas Carol Surprises Permalink for this post / Permalink for this series Three years ago I did a blog series called Christmas Carol Surprises. As we draw near to Christmas, I thought it might be good to revisit and add to this series. What follows will be an edited…

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Today I’m celebrating the birthday of one of the finest people I know . . . my son, Nathan. I don’t always blog about my children’s birthdays, but Nathan is turning 15 today, and it seems right to honor him. I’m not exaggerating when I say that Nathan is one of the finest people I…

A Great Christmas Post Marcus Goodyear, my colleague in the H.E. Butt Foundation, has become one of my favorite bloggers. Marcus has lots of fascinating things to say about all sorts of topics, but I love his commentary on family life most of all (see this post from a couple of weeks ago). This week…

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In the series: Considering N.T. Wright Permalink for this post / Permalink for this series In Part One of Simply Christian, N.T. Wright discusses four “echoes of a voice” that incline our hearts in God’s direction. These echoes are: the longing for justice, the quest for spirituality, the hunger for relationships, and the delight in…

Eyewitness Testimony in Mark’s Gospel My guest blogger, Dr. James Arlandson, has put up the next post in his excellent series on the Gospels. Here’s everything you wanted to know about Mark and the reliability of this particular Gospel. Thanks, James. Ramblin’ Dan on Flattened Silos My colleague at The High Calling of Our Daily…

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In the series: Considering N.T. Wright Permalink for this post / Permalink for this series In my last post in this series I gave a short overview of N.T. Wright’s synopsis of the grand Christian story in his book Simply Christian. In order to know God, Wright argues, we need more than theological pronouncements. We…

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