OK…so I have no idea of the Hebrew for “happy birthday.” But happy birthday to Westminster prof and all-around great-guy-I’d-still-like-to-have-a-real-Aussie-beer-with, Dr. Doug Green!

In addition to being one of the more engaging professors we’ve had here, Doug has become a good friend to us as well as a frequent reader and commentor on this blog. [...]

…to nail traditional liberal Christianity dead on. This quote is from atheist Brian Fleming’s reflections on a debate he had with “a mix of conservative Christians, liberal Christians and freethinkers.” He didn’t like any of the Christian positions, but singled out the liberals for special comment:
Liberal Christianity, despite being non-hateful and on many issues [...]

Andy Crouch’s article Let’s Do the Mash: The Who Boys, The Beastles, and the Bible from the most recent issue of Books & Culture may just be the most amazing thing I have read in a long time. Crouch moves from engaging suburban teenagers with their Walkman cassettes to the mashup phenomenon to Jeremy Begbie [...]

In the best combo I’ve known since Mr. Reese stuck his chocolate bar into a jar of peanut butter, my dear friend Dr. Bill Wilder and my new favorite blog, Common Grounds, intersected today. CG co-founder Glenn Lucke gave props to Bill for his post about Jesus as the New Temple on his B-wildered Blog. [...]

My friend Drew Trotter got to spend a day in Narnia…the film set that is! Drew was invited on the set of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, the feature film (to be released this December) based on C. S. Lewis’ Narnia Chronicles. He wrote about his experience in Christianity Today magazine. The article [...]

As a follow up to my post about some of Francis Schaeffer’s takes on the relationship of Christians to the creation, here’s an excerpt from N. T. Wright’s book Bringing the Church to the World (pp. 165-7):
After three well-known pagan deities [Mars - war, Mammon - money, and Aphrodite - sexuality], we now come to [...]

The following is the manuscript version of the sermon I gave at both services of liberti PCA church in Philadelphia on Sunday, September 25, 2005. I’ll link to the church’s audio file of the sermon as soon as they have it up.
Matthew 5:17-26 (NIV)
The Fulfillment of the Law
17″Do not think that [...]

One of the greatest influences in the “formative years” of my Christian life was apologist Francis Schaeffer, founder of the L’Abris community in Switzerland. Though I have read almost all of his works, I had skipped over Pollution and the Death of Man for some reason. Perhaps it was because of the implicit gnosticism of [...]

Regular reader and commentator on this blog, Dr. Joel Garver, assistant professor of philosophy at LaSalle University, has a talk of his about theonomy on SermonAudio.com. I’ll be looking forward to giving this a listen. Joel, you probably don’t know that my wife and I used to belong to a theonomic church. Emphasis on used [...]

Perhaps you thought Eugene Peterson’s paraphrase The Message was “Bible Lite”? My LSW* writes about a Bible that elevates The Message to Guttenburg status. (BONUS! Westminster professor Doug Green makes his song writing debut!)
*Wonder why I refer to Karyn as the LSW? Mouse over the acronym above to find out. Hint: It has to do [...]