Four Guidelines for Prayer
A couple of weeks ago, I blogged about six reasons for prayer drawn from John Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion (3.20.3). In... Read More
Prayer and the Sovereignty of God: Six Reasons Why Believers Should Pray
From time to time, people assert that if a person believes God has predestined all things then that person will necessarily tend... Read More
Things to Do in Detroit: The Detroit Historical Museum
Most people probably don’t have Detroit near the top of their list of possible vacation destinations, but there actually are quite a... Read More
Calvin the Preacher
John Calvin (1509–1564) is remembered for many things—some good, some bad, some real, some imagined. If Calvin’s legacy is misunderstood today, the... Read More
Celebrating St. Patrick’s Day
Although St. Patrick’s Day appears on our calendars each year, most modern celebrations of St. Patrick’s Day have little to do with... Read More
Winner Announcement – Letters to the Church
We ended up with 37 comments on our book giveaway post from earlier this week. This morning my four oldest children each... Read More
Book Giveaway: Letters to the Church
We’re giving away a copy of Karen Jobes’s book Letters to the Church: A Survey of Hebrews and the General Epistles. In... Read More
The Christian Lover: The Sweetness of Love and Marriage in the Letters of Believers
Several years ago Michael Haykin put together a short anthology of letters written by notable believers of the past about the subject... Read More
On Reading Old Books: A Few Suggestions from the Fourth Century
A couple of weeks ago I suggested that believers would benefit from occasionally reading older books. However, just because a work was... Read More
C. S. Lewis on Reading Old Books
One of my goals each semester is to try to convince students that writers of the past are not only worth reading... Read More