Charles Wesley, the author of the hymn “And Can It Be”, also wrote this classic, which I doubt that you’ve ever seen in your hymnal. (But we can hope to see it there soon or maybe in a Powerpoint presentation).
“Still shall the Hellish Doctrine stand?
And Thee for its dire Author claim?
No–let it sink at thy [...]
Archive for May, 2007
Charles Wesley on Calvinism
May 23, 2007Beatitudes
May 23, 2007The Beatitudes flip the world upside down (or right side up, depending on your perspective). The Beatitudes announce that God is giving out blessings to the most unlikely sort of people. The world thinks that the most happy folks on earth are the strong, the rich, the famous, and the attractive. But it doesn’t take very [...]
Ministering to unchurched kids
May 23, 2007Yesterday I went to the doctor’s office for a physical. While I was in the waiting room I read this article in Billy Graham’s Decision magazine. It has some pretty good thoughts about reaching and ministering to unchurched kids. Most of my ministry has involved working with unchurched kids so that I thought that it [...]
Carefully Designed by Evolution?
May 22, 2007My wife Shelley heard this story on NPR about fertility drugs and multiple births. I find it pretty ironic when you heard Liza Mundy, the author of Everything Conceivable, say, “Our bodies have been very carefully designed by evolution to ensure that generally we are only going to ovuate one egg per month.”
Carefully designed by a random thoughtless [...]
More Craig stuff
May 22, 2007I found that Bill Craig also has a podcast of his Sunday School class. It’s good stuff.
Dave Ramsey and debt
May 22, 2007I’ve been listening to Dave’s podcasts a lot recently. Great practical stuff. Here’s a question for whoever wants to answer it. What circumstances do you think that it’s alright to go into debt for? A house? A car? College? Do you think that credit cards are a good deal? What’s your thoughts?
Craig on Molinism
May 22, 2007William Lane Craig has an excellent commentary on his new site about Molinism. The article is on the difference between possible and feasible worlds. For those who don’t know what Molinism is, it’s an approach to God’s omniscience that seeks to reconcil human responsibility with God’s sovereignty. And it gets there in a way that [...]
Sermon on the Mount
May 22, 2007I started to read George Ladd’s The Gospel of the Kingdom this week. So far it’s been a pretty interesting read. One of the main questions that he seeks to answer is, “What is the kingdom of God?” (BTW I think that it’s pretty obvious that the kingdom of God and the kingdom of heaven are the same [...]
Scot McKnight and preterism
May 22, 2007Recently I found this article by McKnight on Matthew 24-25, a difficult passage indeed. McKnight is a preterist on this text. Interesting article. Check it out. He tells a pretty funny story about Bernard Shaw and Winston Churchill.
Time Magazine Top 100 Most Influential
May 22, 2007I saw this letter to the editor in Time this week.
Benjamin Woods writes, ”These are supposedly the 100 Most influential people in the world, but not a single professional bowler? Who puts these lists together?”
I’ll tell you, Benjamin. It’s Obama’s presidential campaign committee.
