Important note: Since first posting this, I must have received about ten to twelve requests a week for me to “share” the sheet music to this song. The license to the sheet music that I purchased does not allow me to legally “share” it with you. To purchase the sheet music for “In Christ Alone,” [...]

Someone’s post on a message board about the new incarnation of the television series Battlestar Galactica brought back a strange memory.
Back in the ’70s, shortly after we were married, Karyn and I shared a house with some good friends; I’ll call them Joe and Katie. Joe was a total science fiction nut. He even had [...]

For some reason, perhaps because I jumped on the news fairly early, my blog continues to be a focal point for debate over Nathan Wilson’s claim to have discovered a method by which the Shroud of Turin may have been faked.
The debate rages on here.
Read about Nathan’s hypothesis here.

Real Live Preacher wrote this week (”We Can Talk at Starbucks“) about a talk with his 16-year-old daughter that every Christian father dreads. No, it wasn’t a “Dad, I’m pregnant” talk; it was actually something far worse (if the eternal destiny of your children is your highest concern). Over hot drinks at Starbucks, the Preacher’s [...]

The Internet Monk strikes again with a much needed reminder during holy week of how uncomfortable the Jesus of the Gospels can make us feel. We have our nicely ordered and outlined Christianity with it’s neat, comfortable rituals and well-presented plans of salvation…and there is Jesus running amok across the Gallilean countryside telling proclaiming some [...]

Forgive another shameless in-house plug, but I wanted to call attention to my wife’s post “Fractals, the Scriptures, and Infinity” on her blog. To me, this is yet another example of what Pete Enns calls the “incarnational analogy”…this time in creation itself.

The following is my summary of “A Theological Postscript” by R. H. Gundry (in Matthew: A Commentary of His Handbook for a Mixed Church under Persecution). I thought it might make an interesting follow up to the thread on “Freeing Evangelicalism from Its Modernist Captivity.” Gundry proposes a way of dealing with the problem of the New Testament’s use of the Old Testament that attempts to avoid the pitfalls of both the traditional conservative and liberal approaches. What’s the problem? The fact that the NT writers, and Matthew in particular, often interpret the OT in ways that we today would consider spurious. Additionally, Matthew seems to give some accounts of some of the events in Jesus’ life that vary considerably from the same accounts in the other gospels.
The following is my summary of “A Theological Postscript” by R. H. Gundry (in Matthew: A Commentary of His Handbook for a Mixed Church under Persecution). I thought it might make an interesting follow up to the thread on “Freeing Evangelicalism from Its Modernist Captivity.” Gundry proposes a way of dealing with the problem of the New Testament’s use of the Old Testament that attempts to avoid the pitfalls of both the traditional conservative and liberal approaches. What’s the problem? The fact that the NT writers, and Matthew in particular, often interpret the OT in ways that we today would consider spurious. Additionally, Matthew seems to give some accounts of some of the events in Jesus’ life that vary considerably from the same accounts in the other gospels.
The following is my summary of “A Theological Postscript” by R. H. Gundry (in Matthew: A Commentary of His Handbook for a Mixed Church under Persecution). I thought it might make an interesting follow up to the thread on “Freeing Evangelicalism from Its Modernist Captivity.” Gundry proposes a way of dealing with the problem of the New Testament’s use of the Old Testament that attempts to avoid the pitfalls of both the traditional conservative and liberal approaches. What’s the problem? The fact that the NT writers, and Matthew in particular, often interpret the OT in ways that we today would consider spurious. Additionally, Matthew seems to give some accounts of some of the events in Jesus’ life that vary considerably from the same accounts in the other gospels.

My daughter Sarah has posted a first-person account of our grandson Ethan’s recent surgery.

I’ve added a little “ad” for Westminster Theological Seminary Campus Bookstore to the right. This store, my current employer, is the best Christian book store I’ve ever stumbled upon. I invite you to click the link to peruse our online store. Our prices are always below Amazon.com and we ship for $5, no matter [...]