This morning I finished my last final for this semester. That’s 85 credits down, five more to go! December 14th is coming up soon…
As a reward for getting through another semester, I am now reading George Marsden’s biography of Jonathan Edwards. I bought it with Christmas money in January and promised myself that if I [...]
Archive for May, 2007
Almost There…
Posted in Personal on May 23, 2007 | No Comments »
Something to Ponder
Posted in Ministry, Theology on May 17, 2007 | 2 Comments »
“The sins of the flesh are bad, but they are the least of all the sins. All the worst pleasures are purely spiritual: the pleasure of putting other people in the wrong, of bossing and patronizing and spoiling sport, and back-biting; the pleasures of power, of hatred. For there are two things inside me, competing [...]
The Death of Me
Posted in Personal on May 14, 2007 | 2 Comments »
The close of a semester has the uncanny ability of sapping a man’s desire to ever learn anything new again, let alone write about it. The fearsome alliance of St. Anselm and David Hogg is truly a terrible thing. If I make it past Thursday afternoon, I’ll be a better man for it.
The Making of an Evangelical
Posted in Academia, Church History, Culture, Theology on May 10, 2007 | 13 Comments »
Nathan Finn posted a question on his blog not too long ago entitled, “Defining Fundamentalism,” where he requested his readers to supply some rudimentary definitions of fundamentalism. In the spirit of Finn-ness, I present today’s post.
This afternoon I began reading America’s God by Mark Noll, Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at the University of Notre [...]
ETS President Returns to Rome
Posted in Academia, Theology on May 9, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Several of you may have already heard about this on the blogosphere, but for folks like me who have their head stuck in reference books (after all, it is the end of the semester), I have some news.
Dr. Francis Beckwith, an associate professor at Baylor University and President of the Evangelical Theological Society, announced on May 5th [...]
Owen on Knowing God
Posted in Theology on May 7, 2007 | 2 Comments »
It has been almost two weeks since my last post but ironically this blog has had more activity than at any other time in its two-year existence. Maybe I should take a blogging break more often.
For the past several months I have been slowly making my way through John Owen’s On the Mortification of Sin [...]
