Archives for December 2003

A friend of mine recently read 12 Steps for the Recovering Pharisee (Like Me). He emailed me the chapter titles. Thanks Jim. 1. We admit that our single most unmitigated pleasure is to judge other people.2. Have come to believe that our means of obtaining greatness is to make everyone lower than ourselves in our […]

In Preaching Biblical Wisdom in a Self-Help Society Alyce McKenzie writes: I bumped into an acquaintance from church recently browsing in the self-help section of the local Barnes and Nobles bookstore. She was scanning book spines with titles I wish I’d thought of like Getting Over Getting Older, Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff, Pulling Your […]

Andrew Jones has given me a new phrase to add to my vocabulary: Residual Church “Residual Church: The existing church that remains, that has existed and functioned previously and the impact of which still remains. The early church in the Book of Acts (emerging at the time) was influenced by the synagogue structure, secular assemblies […]

In the latest issue of the Mars Hill Review, there is an article by John Sexton entitled “The Argument from Story.” The journal’s summary of the article is as follows: The author reviews the classic arguments given by philosophers for the existence of God and proposes another argument that apologists have overlooked: the argument from […]

Yesterday, when I got home, Caleb, my two-year-old, said, “Daddy I put candy up my nose.” He was very proud of it, and he was seeking my approval. Not wanting to give him a “father wound” this early in life I congratulated him on his accomplishment. Turns out it was an orange Smartie. Heather said […]

Tremper Longman has written a helpful book on Proverbs. On page 77 he writes: This study of the similarities between the advice given in the biblical book and ancient Near Eastern wisdom also makes concrete what we read in 1 Kings 4, that the sages of Israel lived and studied in an international setting. It […]