In the last couple weeks, our speed of life has accelerated like James Bond’s Aston Martin (Quantum of Solace: watch it!), and I’ve been meaning to toss out this simple post for awhile now…for those of you who track these things:
On this coming Sunday, the 23rd, I’ll be preaching on James chapter 3, verses 1-12 [...]
I’m not a careful follower of Scot McKnight and his widely-read blog, Jesus Creed, so when my friend Rob told me I should read McKnight’s latest book, The Blue Parakeet, I didn’t know what to expect. For many people, McKnight has proved to be a helpful “middle voice,” arbitrating between some of the extreme [...]
I read On the Old Testament earlier, and that was my intro to Mark Driscoll’s new series of Re:Lit “Books you’ll actually read.” Like the OT book, On Church Leadership runs about a hundred pages and can be read in about an hour.
A quick look at LibraryThing statistics revealed that, as I suspected, the Leadership [...]
The rivets in the walls were as wide as manhole covers and would have taken a week to saw through with a diamond cutter before you realized the walls were triple reinforced. The towers on either side of the gate were made of solid granite and rose 14 thousand feet into the air where storms [...]
Time for a quick review of N.T. Wright’s Acts for Everyone (Part One):
Awesome.
Now, let me elaborate. What impressed me deeply about Wright’s commentary on Acts is his magisterial command of biblical narrative threads. He views the events of Pentecost and the apostolic journeys without ever losing sight of the Old Testament backdrop of prophecy and [...]
