Man & Motorcycle

If you’ve ever wanted a motorcycle, I encourage you not to check out this article by The Art of Manliness blog, on Famous Men and their Motorcycles. It will for sure make you want one all the more.  Read More

Hell of Quotes

Michael Patton attempts to sketch out the spectrum of opinions on the Doctrine of Hell. File Under: So, apparently my new thing is going to be near-cussing on this blog. Suppose if it was between me and Faris, it should be me.  Read More

The Trinity is for Life, not Curiosity

Fred Sanders passes along this gem from Edmund Hill’s notes on Augustine’s De Trinitate: But the dramatic scope of the De Trinitate was not even suspected, and so its essential significance was lost on the Latin theology of succeeding ages. The work was indeed much copied and diligently mined…. But the central point was missed entirely, and that is that Augustine is proposing the quest for, or the exploration of, the mystery of the Trinity... Read More

The Top 10 Theology & Church Stories from 2010

I should have posted this awhile ago–say, I don’t know, at the end of December or very beginning of January, when everyone was still posting 2010 top 10 lists–but I didn’t. But Glen and I really weren’t into writing blog entries back then. So what? I’m posting it now. Get off my back. Anyway, Collin Hansen posted his “Top 10 Theology & Church Stories from 2010“ and I think it’s a nice little... Read More

The Manner of Men George Whitefield Wanted

“And what manner of men will they be? Men mighty in the Scriptures, their lives dominated by a sense of the greatness, the majesty and holiness of God, and their minds and hearts aglow with the great truths of the doctrine of grace. They will be men who have learned what it is to die to self, to human aims and personal ambitions; men who are willing to be ‘fools for Christ’s sake’, who will be above reproach and falsehood,... Read More

To those Considering Suicide…

Michael Patton This was the argument that [my sister] had made to me many times over. “Michael, no one will care. . . . At least everyone will soon get over it. All of your lives will return to normal soon. But my pain will be over.” We, my mother and sisters, would try to respond telling her that the pain that she has now will be multiplied to all of us if she were to die. “Is that what you really want?” we would ask. She did not believe... Read More