God is Love and God is God
This morning, I listened to an amazing sermon by John Piper about why God would inspire biblical texts that are difficult to interpret and understand, given that he is omniscient as well as a perfect communicator. Piper’s main ideas were that difficult texts make us more dependent on God as we strive for understanding: Open [...]
Analogy?
(Note: I revised this a bit since I posted it this morning.) I’m curious as to what you think about how well an analogy holds that I’ve been thinking about for a couple of years, primarily regarding Romans 13:8-10 (although other texts either support this idea or say virtually the same thing): 8Owe no one [...]
Conquering the Qur’an
As an introduction to the History of Islam class that I will be taking this semester, our professor handed out a New York Times article from August 20, 2002 entitled, “Assigned Reading on Koran in Chapel Hill Raises Hackles.” Unfortunately, the New York Times requires people to purchase articles after a certain period of time, [...]
A further response
(I am responding to Andrew’s comment here. The commenting system would have limited the HTML that can be used, and I am again wanting to boost my permanent stats.) Good points. I’ll see what I can do about responding, and I will respond with numbers corresponding the points you made with your numbers (i.e., my [...]
On the telly
Did anyone else who watched the Tommy Lee Show think that the show was not so much an “embarassment to a serious academic institution,” but just boring? I did enjoy watching my friend Matt, though. In addition to the Tommy Lee show, I watched all of the first season of The Office. I thought that [...]
A Response to my Learned Colleague
In Andrew’s last post, he wrote a section on some of his recent thinking. I started to write a comment to respond, but I thought I’d just go ahead and post this–it boosts my posting stats. First, I would like to say that I agree with Clark and Schaeffer that all that God does is [...]
Desiring God
I have of late been entranced by pastor, preacher, and writer John Piper. I just finished his book, The Pleasures of God, and I have started working my way through his Romans sermons series (I’ve finished about twenty sermons, and we aren’t out of chapter 1 yet!). Briefly, here is what I love about Piper [...]
Shame and Fear
So…I just looked through the list of blog posts for the summer to find (much to my mortification), that I only posted three times since school got out for the summer. But, since I am justified by faith and not by how many posts I compose, I shall lay aside every weight and the procrastination [...]
