What do you make of a statement like this comment by a person who calls themself "kwatson?" It is from a discussion on World Magazine Blog regarding extraterrestrial life: [I]n the case of aliens and extraterrestrial life, far less crazy than talking about a mythical being who looks like us, who created the universe in …
Category: Christianity
A Good Quote
People do not drift toward holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of …
Global Warming & Wayne Grudem
Last week, I linked to a Christianity Today article on global warming. I've been thinking about a quote by theologian Wayne Grudem in the CT article: Activities that produce carbon dioxide—such as "breathing, building a fire to cook or keep warm, driving a car or tractor, or burning coal to produce electricity … [are] morally …
The Language of God
Francis Collins was the director for the Human Genome Project, which sequenced all of the base pairs for human DNA. He recently spoke as the keynote speaker at the annual conference of the American Scientific Affiliation, and that speech can be found as a video or mp3 audio file at http://www.asa3.org. The speech is entitled …
Back in Bucharest
After seven months on home assignment (or furlough) in the United States, we are back in Bucharest, Romania, where we serve with the Evangelical Free Church of America International Mission at Bucharest Christian Academy. We had a number of answered prayers as we traveled, and are excited to be back "home." I am also very …
In Christ Alone
For the past seven months, we have been worshiping in English, rather than in Romanian, and have heard a number of songs we hadn't heard before. One new song that stood way out above the rest was "In Christ Alone" by the Newsboys. I love this song—it is focused on Christ and the cross, and …
Life Goals
I was blessed today by being stranded while our minivan was in the repair shop. Being that we have only one car, I had no easy way to get "home" (we are staying with a family until we return to Romania and don't really have a home) so I spent the day at the public …
EFCA Leadership Conference
Shirley and I recently attended the Evangelical Free Church of America Leadership Conference in Denver, and were greatly encouraged. The teaching was excellent, with a focus on the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. If we ever lose this focus on what Christ has done for us by his life, death, and resurrection, we will …
Father’s Day #2
One thing I do to "tell the story" to my children is send an email to my family several times per week, with insights I have had from the Word, often with a quote or two from my reading. I started this just a few months ago, and they comment to me when I start …
Father’s Day #1
In my wide margin Bible, I mark an "F" in the margin to denote verses about the family. As I have done this, I have seen more clearly my responsibilities as a father. The most common command or exhortation in the Scriptures in regards to parenting is to teach our children about the wonders of …
Bonhoeffer Quotes #2
Some more quotes to ponder, from The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer: No one should be surprised at the difficulty of faith, if there is some part of his life where he is consciously resisting or disobeying the commandment of Jesus. To deny oneself is to be aware only of Christ and no more …
My Favorite Study Bible
Is it the Ryrie Study Bible? Scofield Study Bible? NIV Study Bible? Reformation Study Bible? No, right now it is the NIV Wide Margin Edition—lots of white space on all four sides of the page for notes. I've had this for about four years, and I estimate that I have about 3000-4000 comments, underlines, color-coded …
Bonhoeffer Quotes
Some quotes to ponder, from The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Perhaps it would be just as well to ask ourselves whether we do not in fact often act as obstacles to Jesus and his Word. The command of Jesus is hard, unutterably hard, for those who try to resist it. But for those …
White Horse Inn
In Bucharest, we attend a Romanian-language church, and often don't get all that much out of the sermons. When we need a dose of solid English-language teaching, we download a John Piper sermon from Desiring God. My favorite radio program is The White Horse Inn, produced by the same people who put together Modern Reformation …
Fellowship in the Sciences
As an undergraduate student, at Montana State University, I knew of no other Christians in the geology department. They may have been there, but I felt very much alone. This was at a time when I was just starting to grow in my faith as a Christian, and I had no one with whom I …
Christ and Creation (Romans 1:18-20)
One of the privileges of being a missionary on home assignment is the opportunity to preach from time to time. I have given this message on two occasions recently: at Elim Evangelical Free Church in Oak Lawn, Illinois, and at Rockport Baptist Church in Arnold, Missouri. I don’t read directly from my typewritten notes—I tend …
Good Days/Bad Days
Here's a quote from The Discipline of Grace by Jerry Bridges: Your worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God’s grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God’s grace. This sums up our daily dependence on Christ and his grace. …
The Silence of Adam
I usually avoid men's conferences and books written for men. So, when the men's group I was in a few years ago selected The Silence of Adam by Larry Crabb as the book we would be in for a few months, I was skeptical. I was hoping for something with meat in it, not fluff. …
Earthquakes and the End Times
Since today is the 100th anniversary of the great San Francisco earthquake... "There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. All these are but the beginning of the birth pains." Matthew 24:7,8 ESV A common "fact" proclaimed in Bible end-times prophecy books (Hal Lindsey and others), radio broadcasts, and on numerous web sites is …
A Darkened Mind
A quote from C.S. Lewis which applies to many areas of life: All that is made seems planless to the darkened mind, because there are more plans than it looked for. From Perelandra, p. 218 in my edition.
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