Don Sweeting has composed a list of cultural trends facing us in 2011. Tidbits include: “the West is still in a heightened phase of anti-authoritarianism” “. . . for the first time a Chinese city (Shanghai) ranked number 1 in the world’s most recognized standardized test for 15 year old students (the 65 country Pisa… [Read more…]
December 9, 2010
To my knowledge, this review by Keith Mathison is the most clear-headed review of David VanDrunen’s helpful book, Living in God’s Two Kingdoms. I can concur with Mathison that I do not necessarily “object” to a two kingdoms view of biblical theology; there is much from VanDrunen (and Stellman) that I heartily applaud. In particular,… [Read more…]
December 8, 2010
I noticed from Thomas Boston the comfortable assumption that the time of Adam’s fall was on the same day as his creation; you can find this in his notes on Edward Fisher’s, The Marrow of Modern Divinity (67). This flies in the face of what the ‘man on the street’ assumes about the timing of… [Read more…]
November 19, 2010
First of all, I never got a call from the Barna folks. Their recent release of stats on Reformed congregations within American Protestantism has been released and it seems to tell us . . . nothing. I suppose the very fact that Barna they are even asking the question, “Is there a ‘Reformed’ movement in… [Read more…]
November 11, 2010
Given the paltry state of biblical literacy among the general population, I suppose one could make the argument that it is good to that Ryna Singel got the “three days” right. Look at Christ Took 3 Days, the Web 3 Months. Even so, how unappealing it is to me that a better metaphor could not… [Read more…]
December 31, 2010
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