I’m not sure if readers love them, but I read enough blogs to know that bloggers love to create them: End-of-the-Year Lists. This is my contribution—the list of books I read in 2014 and a few comments about them.
Read MoreFor sermon preparation and other teaching responsibilities, I typically spend a few hours a week reading Bible commentaries. But rarely do I read them cover to cover. However, I’m glad I did this for LEVITICUS by Dr. Jay Sklar. He is a reliable tour guide through, what is for many, a foreign land.
Read MoreYou know how smells can bring back memories, well, for me, so does the Bible. Specific passages recall specific memories, and every time I read 2 Corinthians 1:12, I always think about this one time when…
Read MoreIn seminary, I remember having classes on the Lord’s Supper. And in those classes, I remember learning that many wonderful things take place when Christians participate in the Lord’s Supper. But as in salvation, during the Lord’s Supper, before grace becomes rich and satisfying, sin must be seen as graphic and unpleasant.
Read MoreA book review of UNBROKEN -- the unbelievable story of Louis Zamperini.
Read MoreUNBROKEN is the story of Louis Zamperini. When his WWII plane went down over the Pacific, he drifted on the open ocean in a tiny yellow raft for forty-seven days while sharks tried to eat him. Finally, he reached land. And then it got worse.
Read MoreA poem to remind us of what's important in life.
Read MoreRight now, stop what you are doing and read this blog post. Seriously. I am urgent. I am a helpful review that can't wait. You can do whatever you are doing now, later.
Read MoreThat’s the subject line of an email I got just over two months ago. It still makes me mad.
Read MoreBarnabas writes of some pastors that need “a bucket of ice water in their sleeping face." Perhaps I have been more asleep than I knew.
Read MoreTHE PASTOR'S KID by Barnabas Piper touched a nerve. Here's a preview to my full review.
Read MoreIt has happened to me only a few times, but when God uses a particular passage of his Word to sculpt your future and score grooves in your soul for his grace to flow, that passage never seems quite the same.
Read MoreOf the blogs that I read consistently, Kevin DeYoung’s is one of my favorites. I thought you’d enjoy this recent satirical rift on the Sermon on the Mount.
Read More