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  • A Weakness of Theologically Deep Worship Music

    [This post is part of the Revamping Christian Worship series] A couple of days ago over at Parchment and Pen, Lisa Robinson posted some thoughts critiquing how people critique worship music. In her post, she linked to my post on how to worship when you think the songs suck. If you haven’t read her post,…

  • Questioning Your Spirituality

    Recently, I’ve been working my way through Brian Kay’s Trinitarian Spirituality. In his third chapter, he embarks on a search for a viable Trinitarian spirituality, which as he puts it is one that “should come completely undone if the doctrine of the Trinity were proved untrue” (p. 31). In order to examine prospective models of…

  • The 3650 Challenge

    This isn’t the first, and probably won’t be the last challenge I post about on here. You may remember talk of a 90-day challenge back in the early summer. I’ll have more to say about that, and what I’ll be doing with it come January 1st. In the meantime, I wanted to pass along this…

  • Why, O God? Suffering and Disability in the Bible and Church

    Larry Waters & Roy Zuck eds., Why O God?: Suffering and Disability, in The Bible and The Church. Wheaton: Crossway, July, 2011. 336 pp. Paperback, $22.00. Buy it: Amazon Read an excerpt Visit the publisher’s page Thanks to Crossway for the review copy! This week in our reading group, we’re covering the chapters in John Frame’s Apologetics to the Glory of God about the problem…

  • Unitarian vs. Trinitarian Worship

    [This post is part of the Revamping Christian Worship series] At my request, Wipf & Stock was kind enough to send along a copy of Brian Kay’s Trinitarian Spirituality: John Owen and the Doctrine of God in Western Devotion. I’m only through with chapter 2 so far (which only 3opgs into the 200 total) but…

  • What Steve Jobs Can Teach the Church

    From the title of the post, your initial thought might be “not much.” Jobs was admittedly a jerk, and while he inspired people to do things they never thought they were capable of, he often did so through ridicule, insult, and downright cruelty at times. Steve Jobs is probably not the best candidate to teach the…

  • The Problem with the Prosperity Gospel

    Last Sunday during Pastor Josiah’s sermon, he mentioned rather emphatically that the prosperity gospel isn’t biblical. He didn’t elaborate on it since it wasn’t a main point in the text. It did however get me thinking about an ongoing class discussion we were having about this time last year. In my Preaching I class, the problem…

  • What Do You Think of Me? Why Do I Care?

    [A review copy of this book was provided by New Growth Press and The B&B Media Group] A little over 8 years ago, I read a book that was a total game changer. It was for my last class of the second year program at Word of Life Bible Institute, and the book was When…

  • Lit! Reading With Priorities and In Community

    [A review copy of Lit! was provided by Crossway] Monday, we examined the first part of Tony Reinke’s Lit! Yesterday, we examined the second part. Today, as promised, I’d like to go into a little more detail and explain what I’m changing after reading Lit! A perennial problem for me since leaving Dallas and graduating has been narrowing…

  • Lit! Some Practical Advice on Book Reading

    [A review copy of Lit! was provided by Crossway] Yesterday, we looked at part 1 of Tony Reinke’s book Lit! Today we’ll dig into the part 2 and see what kind of advice he offers us readers. For space sake, and so I don’t take too many tangents explaining my own approach on some of the advice Reinke gives,…