Pulpit Ministry & the Presidential Election: Part 1
As an interim pastor charged in part with exposing the Scriptures so as to inform the moral and ethical decision-making of a... Read More
My Father's World
The intersection of common grace with special grace is on my mind today, but not for a particularly “spiritual” reason. Bow season... Read More
Surviving Seminary as a Family: The Wife's Perspective
This is the second part of a two-part post on how to survive seminary as a couple/family. The first part is Mark... Read More
Surviving Seminary as a Family: The Husband's Perspective
Since my wife and I are seminary survivors that still occasionally hold hands in public, we are sometimes asked, “How did you... Read More
Book Note for Academic Writers
Rowman & Littlefield just graciously sent me a desk copy of their Guide to Writing with Sources by James Davis (2012), so I... Read More
The Active Obedience of Christ and Dispensational Theology: A Follow-Up
Being a major election year, attention to voter eligibility has again become an issue. Each side wants to make sure that every... Read More
Harmonizing a Theology of the Cross with a Doxological Center
One of the persistent themes of the conservative evangelical movement has been a recovery of a “theology of the cross” from its... Read More
Special Price on a Faculty Publication
I was just informed that iTunes is offering an electronic version of Coming to Grips with Genesis for the special low price of... Read More
Will My Heaven Visa Be Revoked if I Didn't Eat at Chick-fil-A?
I did not eat at Chick-fil-A on August 1st. I’ve got a good excuse: they don’t have Chick-fil-A’s in Michigan, and Toledo is... Read More
Belmont Pastors and Fishtown Churches
OK, so I am finally getting through the stack of reading that accumulated during the school year, and finally read a book... Read More