Sunday’s Best

It’s a day late, but you’ll get over it.  I’d  call it “Monday’s Best” but it really doesn’t have the same ring. Also, Glen and I are working on a couple blog related things, including the layout (which, if you haven’t noticed, is really buggy right now) and the recent lack of content.  Glen has been finishing up his semester at Talbot while working full time and I have upped some of my work load... Read More

Sunday’s Best

A little late on Sunday for our weekly links post, but so it goes. Just so you know, these links posts are usually compiled by both me and Glen even if it only has one of our names on the byline.  If we were smarter we could probably figure out a way for it to say that we co-authored the post.  Anyway, for the future, maybe we’ll categorize them or something so you know who the recommendations are coming from. Incidentally, this week it’s... Read More

Sunday’s Best

1. Restoring free furniture for the sake of orphans and windows. That’s the idea behind this really, really cool project from Zach Nielsen’s wife.  Now that is a good way to use Craigslist. 2. Definitive evidence that Fred Sanders is a good writer. Read this short, hilarious article on the anniversary of the death of Mary Baker Eddy, founder-ish of Christian Science, and you’ll realize why we asked Dr. Sanders to tell us all how... Read More

Sunday’s Best

1. Did you know that the world’s countries can be arranged to form a chicken? Neither did I.  Good thing Johnny Vanderwell did. 2. The Hole in our Holiness. I’ve heard a few older pastors that I respect point this out now, and I think Kevin DeYoung does a nice job doing it here: perhaps young Christians are exercising a bit too much liberty and neglecting the clear biblical call to personal holiness. 3. Those are good burgers, Walter.... Read More

Sunday’s Best

1. Here’s a 5,000ish year old idea: good theology is important for life. Jeremy Treat has a nice graphic and description of how the Old Testament “Writings” (Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Job, Song of Solomon) point to the relationship between good theology and practical godly living centered on the phrase “fear of the LORD.” Helpful indeed. 2. Theological throw-down in Hotlanta. Interested in the debate over the term... Read More

How To Be an Effective Minister

Zach Nielsen quotes Darrin Patrick’s Church Planter: Most of the young men I’ve encountered who aspire to serve God in vocational ministry gravitate toward the pragmatics of ministry performance: preaching improvement, church growth, cultural engagement, etc. While it is good and necessary to pursue excellence in these areas, the paradox of Christian ministry is that our “peak performance” in leading, shepherding, and preaching comes... Read More

The Treat that is Jeremy Treat

He’s probably heard that pun a few too many times in his life, but Jeremy Treat’s blog is so good that he’ll just have to hear it again. When prepping for a sermon this past week I got on the Google and did an image search for Grunewald’s Crucifixion (the painting that famously hung over Karl Barth’s desk and less famously hangs on the right side of this blog post).  I found the picture at Mr. Treat’s blog, and... Read More

Work Out Your Salvation

I’ve been camping for a few days, and since I don’t have an iPhone or anything, I have been behind on blog reading.  So maybe my linking Mike Bird’s excellent post about the need to obey once we believe is totally needless because you all have already read it. But supposing you haven’t, go read it.  It is great, and it hits on a recent hobby horse I’ve been riding, namely that the young Reformed movement is so overly... Read More

If Gallagher Was a Preacher

Can’t blame the kid for thinking this would be awesome, can you?  Read More