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01/04/11--20:23: Doug Wilson on the Morality of Technology (chan 1786552)

Doug Wilson has some good, balanced reflections on technology in a post entitled “Calvinism, Eschatology, and the New Media.” He opens this way: Jesus is the Lord of history, and this is why we don’t need to be afraid of Twitter. Or Facebook. Or teenagers typing with their thumbs. Jesus is the Lord of history, [...]






01/12/11--22:53: Michael Horton’s New Systematic Theology (chan 1786552)

Michael Horton’s long-awaited systematic theology, The Christian Faith: A Systematic Theology for Pilgrims on the Way (Amazon | WTS Books), is due out very soon. Zondervan’s website says it’s “coming January 2011.” Amazon says “January 25, 2011.” WTS Books says “February 2011.” Systematic theologies are one of my favorite categories of books, so I’m really looking forward to [...]






01/17/11--21:04: 6 Killer Tips to Strengthen Your Marriage (chan 1786552)

My wife and I enjoyed this video (embedded below). I must admit I’ve been guilty of more than one of these on more than one occasion. For more marriage advice, check out “The Don’t Song.” If you’re in need of some laughs, see even more from Igniter Media’s Johnny and Chachi.






01/18/11--22:39: Bonhoeffer Buzz (chan 1786552)

Dietrich Bonhoeffer has been the subject of some interesting discussion recently. If you missed it, here’s a quick overview. It started with the publication of Eric Metaxas’s “groundbreaking biography” Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy (Amazon | WTS Books). Its publication has been largely met with rave reviews, awards, and lots of secular press. It has 174 reviews on Amazon [...]






02/17/11--20:02: Proclaim: New Church Presentation Software (chan 1786552)

Logos Bible Software, the company I work for, is getting ready to enter into the church presentation software market with a product called Proclaim. What Sets Proclaim Apart? Proclaim takes a new approach to presentation software by pushing the data to the cloud and allowing multiple people to collaborate on the same project without needing [...]






02/21/11--06:00: Announcing the Best Book of 2011 (chan 1786552)

I haven’t gotten my copy of The Christian Faith yet, but I’m pretty confident that it’s great based on the feedback it’s getting. However, it seems a tad premature to announce it as the best book of 2011 not even two months into the year, does it not? It’s kind of like announcing the winner of [...]






02/26/11--14:29: Rob Bell on Hell (chan 1786552)

Justin Taylor and Denny Burk point out a new video from Rob Bell about his forthcoming book, Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived. Here’s the publisher’s description: Bell addresses one of the most controversial issues of faith—the afterlife—arguing that a loving God would never sentence [...]






03/17/11--08:40: What Is the Gospel? (chan 1786552)

Here’s a helpful new video from Knox Theological Seminary featuring Tullian Tchividjian and Warren Gage on how they’ve come to understand what the gospel is and how it relates to the everyday experience of Christians. HT: Kendell Stellfox






04/03/11--00:27: What Is the Most Convincing Proof of the Deity of Christ? (chan 1786552)

My immediate response would probably be God’s special revelation in His authoritative and inerrant Word. Here’s what B. B. Warfield had to say in “The Deity of Christ”: The Scriptures give us evidence enough, then, that Christ is God. But the Scriptures are far from giving us all the evidence we have. There is, for example, [...]






04/20/11--07:34: How Do the Father, Son, and Spirit Differ? (chan 1786552)

In recent debates about the Trinity—particularly the ones that stem from the gender debate—the question of the differences among the persons of the Trinity comes to the forefront. How do the Father, Son, and Spirit differ from each other? John Brown of Haddington answers this way:1 By their names of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, Mt [...]






04/20/11--21:00: Carl Trueman, Hero Worship, and God’s Gifts (chan 1786552)

Carl Trueman wrote several provocative posts critiquing conservative evangelicalism in American and its purportedly unhealthy promotion of its prominent preachers and teachers—particularly as it relates to conferences like The Gospel Coalition. Here they are: Home Thoughts from Abroad What hath Jerusalem to do with Hollywood? Thoughts on Marketing and Conferences Not guilty! The Lady Doth Protest Too Much [...]






07/30/11--00:55: Why InDesign Crashes When Placing Word Documents and How to Fix It (chan 1786552)

  I occasionally create PDF documents using Adobe InDesign. The source document always comes from Microsoft Word. More often than not, when placing (think importing) the document in InDesign, it crashes and says, “Adobe InDesign CS5 has stopped working. A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a [...]






08/06/11--21:24: Did the Incarnation Improve God? (chan 1786552)

  Earlier this week, the Gospel Coalition blog featured a post on the Incarnation and God’s immutability, which caught my attention. An individual asked, How do we hold together the idea that God doesn’t change with what happened at the incarnation and resurrection—where Jesus was united to a human nature and took on an earthly body [...]






08/14/11--16:19: Warfield on Eternal Subordination in the Trinity (chan 1786552)

  Those who reject the notion of hierarchy in the imminent Trinity often point to B. B. Warfield as a supporter of their position. In his article in ISBE on the Trinity,1 Warfield discusses at length his reservations about reading what we see in the economic Trinity back into the immanent Trinity. 19. The Implications of [...]






11/25/11--11:13: Piper’s A Holy Ambition Free from Vyrso (chan 1786552)

  Vyrso currently has John Piper’s A Holy Ambition: To Preach Where Christ Has Not Been Named available as a free download. For now, it’s available digitally exclusively through Vyrso. Vyrso is the new Christian ebook platform from Logos Bible Software. Three other free books available from Baker for today only are Success Is Not an Accident: [...]

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