Want to “impact” your campus/city/world for Christ?
Better read Andy Crouch’s On the Journey to Greatness first!
Bible Trivia Corner: Who was the most “successful” Old Testament prophet? Which one was the biggest “failure”? Which of those two had the biggest “impact” from the picture of history? And why is knowing all that crucial to whatever [...]

Mark Horne has written a little jewel on the value of finding a Bible you feel comfortable reading and just….reading it. Don’t try to get something out of it, don’t look for God’s little message for you, just…you can do this now…read it!

No, not here in Philadelphia …up at daughter Hannah’s in Maine. My LSW has the photographic proof.

Sacred Journey Blog now has its own Frapper Map! This adaptation of Google Maps allows anyone to set up a community map showing the location (by zip code, so stalkers are outa luck!) of members. I invite all my Sacred Journey fellow travellers to sign in and represent!

Robert Blake at Christrock has posted his interview with Bill Mallonee conducted before Bill’s recent gig at the Mad Donkey.

It’s the weekend before our Old Testament History and Theology midterm, which involves thorough knowledge of about 150 verses from the Pentateuch. We’ve covered about six of them in class, which feels a little frustrating[1], but looking from the long view I know I’m the richer for it. Doug Green’s thoughtful examination of and always-interesting [...]

Independent songwriter/recording artist Eric Peters played “more songs than I have in a long time” (as he told me later) to an enthusiastic crowd at Westminster Seminary’s first Westminster Cafe Coffee House Concert of the year. The small audience at the beginning of the evening grew to over sixty after evening classes let out. Extra [...]

First of all, that is not a picture of my friend Justin Moore. It just came up on Google Images when I put his name in, so I wanted to use it, because nothing says, “Happy birthday!” quite like wannabe teenage rock stars.
Actually, I just wanted to be the first in blogdom to wish Justin [...]

Below are my notes taken today from Rev. Mark Dever’s first plenary address at the Westminster Theological Seminary conference “Preaching that Builds a Healthy Church.” Rev. Dever is the senior pastor of Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, DC. He is also the executive director of 9Marks Ministries and author of Nine Marks of a [...]

Just heard that Jeremy Casella will not be accompanying Eric Peters at Westminster this Thursday. Jeremy’s father-in-law has taken an turn for the worse, and he has gone down to Houston to be with his wife and her family. Please join me in praying for them at this trying time.
Eric will still be performing in [...]