THE GOSPEL IS FOR BELIEVERS Jerry Bridges has a great book on Christ-centered, gospel-centered Christianity entitled The Discipline of Grace. I haven't completed my list of "top ten Christian books" but this one will probably be on it. Bridges wrote an article for Modern Reformation magazine called Gospel-Driven Sanctification. Here are a few quotes from …
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Warning: I'm not a big fan of The Purpose Driven Life. I'd rather have a forgiveness-driven life, or a cross-centered life. Warren's book starts out well: "It's not about you," but then is mostly about you. Chris Rosebrough at Extreme Theology has been contrasting Christ-centered theology with me-centered theology. Rosebrough puts much of the church …
I use Wikipedia quite a bit, mainly for getting public domain images for classroom PowerPoint lectures. I occasionally run across vandalism, such as this: That is the entire article on "Fish." I guess that is what you get when you have a "free encyclopedia that anyone can edit." Ninety percent of the time, Wikipedia is …
The Gospel isn't just for beginners. I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. (Galatians 2:20 NIV) Are you so foolish? After beginning …
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Today was fish dissection day in middle school Life Science at BCA. A good time was had by most of my students: Grace and Peace
An animation of last week's spy satellite shootdown is available from Analytical Graphics.
This image is Wikipedia's "Today's Featured Picture" and is a view of Italy's Mount Etna from space: Here's the description from Wikipedia: An October 2002 eruption of Mount Etna, a volcano on the Italian island of Sicily, as seen from the International Space Station. Etna is the largest of Italy's three active volcanoes and one …
This item was originally posted in February 2007. It is now part of my blog recycling program. Because I have new readers of The GeoChristian, I will occasionally go back and re-use some of my favorite blog entries. Today is Valentine's Day, so... Is Mars the planet of war? After all, Venus was the Roman …
Lightning is a picture of God's wrath. We hear it said, "Don't do that or God might strike you down with lightning." Sinners deserve God's wrath; to be struck with lightning. Gene Edward Veith has a picture on his Cranach blog that pictures God's wrath being poured out on Christ on our behalf: Christ took …
AP/Yahoo News headline: Nature Giving Way to Virtual Reality As people spend more time communing with their televisions and computers, the impact is not just on their health, researchers say. Less time spent outdoors means less contact with nature and, eventually, less interest in conservation and parks. I've wondered about this as well. If children …
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From today's Astronomy Picture of the Day: A Spider Shaped Crater on Mercury Explanation: Why does this crater on Mercury look like a spider? When the robotic MESSENGER spacecraft glided by the planet Mercury last month, it was able to image portions of the Sun's closest planet that had never been seen before. When imaging …
Back in the mid-1980s, the perceived major disruption to the geologic time scale wasn't climate change, but all-out nuclear war (which still would be, of course, rather disruptive). Geology published a serious and yet somewhat tongue-in-cheek article discussing the effects of nuclear war on stratigraphic nomenclature. Here's the abstract from Postapocalypse stratigraphy: Some considerations and …
Paleocene, Eocene, Oligocene, Miocene, Pliocene, Pleistocene, Holocene. These are the epochs of the Cenozoic Era (which is also divided into three periods: the Paleogene, Neogene, and Quaternary). Due to rapid changes on Earth caused by humans, some British geologists suggest that we are transitioning into a new epoch, the Anthropocene. Here's the story as reported …
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