Lawful and Unlawful Use of the Law
The law is used wrongly in a legalist or antinomian way
It is an unlawful use of the law – and abuse both of law and gospel – to pretend that its accomplishment by Christ releases believers from any obligation to it as a rule. Such an assertion is not only wicked, but absurd and impossible in the highest degree: for the law is founded in... Continue Reading
Star Wars Producer To Make Eric Liddell Sequel
The Oscar-winning film that tells the story of devout Edinburgh sprinter Eric Liddell, is to finally get a sequel.
Gary Kurtz confirmed the sequel would focus on Liddell’s life and agonising death on Chinese soil. The Hollywood veteran – who produced the 1977 classic Star Wars and sequel The Empire Strikes Back said : “We are going to be shooting in various places in China. The 1981 low-budget blockbuster finished with the Christian... Continue Reading
A Free-Market Economist’s Take on Ken Burns’ “The Roosevelts”
A review of “The Roosevelts: An Intimate History”
Thank goodness I made myself watch the actual documentary. Ken Burns and his writer, Geoffrey C. Ward, steered clear of presenting a mythological hagiography, and instead gave us vivid, insightful, fair-minded biographies of three immensely important, but oh-so-human Americans. By now, you’ve probably seen or heard about Ken Burns’ 14-hour documentary on the three most famous... Continue Reading
When Your Husband Is Addicted To Pornography
The book is not a manual on how to fix your husband, it is also more specifically geared for encountering the first level of sexual addiction, which is pornography
“While I’m glad to see more and more resources available for men who struggle with sexual sin, their suffering wives have not had much available to them. And I have had more friends than I’d like to number who have been in this painful struggle–When Your Husband is Addicted to Pornography. Of course, the gospel... Continue Reading
The Old Testament in the New Testament
8 points on the relationship between the Testaments
In many cases the NT writers, illumined by the Holy Spirit, perceived with greater clarity than the OT writers themselves God’s intended meaning behind some prophecies. What the prophets had seen only dimly and in terms of general principle, the NT writers saw in the glowing light of fulfillment in a perspective in which a... Continue Reading
Jonathan Edwards (Christian Biographies for Young Readers) by Simonetta Carr
The Christian Biographies for Young Readers series introduces children to key figures from church history
This book is a joy to page through. Full color illustrations, photographs, portraits and maps, buildings and vistas appear at the appropriate time on each page. After the biographical sketch, a time line of Edward’s life is included, as is an excerpt from a letter to one of his daughters. Also included is a “Did... Continue Reading
The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It
A review of Peter Enns' new book
In the end, The Bible Tells Me So is a book about contradictions. Enns intended it to be a book about contradictions in the Bible. But it becomes quickly apparent that the contradictions are really in Enns’s own worldview. He claims the Canaanite conquest is immoral, yet argues the Bible provides no clear guide for... Continue Reading
Why The Church Covers Up Abuse
Four reasons why churches sometimes cover up abuse
Abuse is an evil that feeds upon silence, secrecy, and shame. Sometimes people are pressured not to ask or tell about abuse, because it would damage both parties, both families by unnecessarily shaming them. But ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ is not help. And of primary importance, we must affirm that our fundamental duty is to... Continue Reading
A Review: “The Word Became Fresh: How to Preach from Old Testament Narrative Texts”
A study and guide for using the Old Testament in preaching and teacing
The author explains and expounds that the central focus of every Old Testament narrative is theocentric, which means that in “all our reading we should keep our eye on God – what he is revealing about himself and how he is working.” Davis wraps the book together by giving the reader an opportunity to walk with... Continue Reading
God, the Infallible Author of the Old Testament
An excellent reminder that the Scriptures of the Old Testament are authored primarily by God himself
The fact that certain critical scholars choose to refuse to discuss the theological questions involved in the formation of the Old Testament canon need not deter us from so doing. When men endeavor to account for the Old Testament canon upon the basis of historical considerations alone, how unsatisfactory their attempts are! In reality they... Continue Reading
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