In what Ricky Gervais (creator of the TV series The Office) calls his defining moment, he explains how after being asked by his older brother at the age of eight “Why do you believe in God?”, he had a crisis of faith and ”within an hour…was an atheist.” Short read straight from the horse’s mouth.
He [...]
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Look, the road is narrow and hard to find
With secret battles inside our minds
Who can last
God we need your strength to find
Your light to guide us into the night
You’re our only chanceMessiah, Messiah, Messiah save us
Run, I want to run to your open hand
But father I can barely stand
On my own
Now, like the children of [...]
After the Superbowl is over and everybody’s amazed at how quickly the winning team is presented with victory apparel, one wonders where the “winning” shirts and hats end up (if the other team had won). Well, wonder no longer! World Vision takes that stuff and hands it out to people who don’t make millions [...]
phil-omni-glot (from Greek phil “love” + Latin omni “all” + Greek glot “tongue, language”) : noun. A lover of all languages. (A personal coinage of yours truly.)
Why love all languages?
The point has been made that the reason people from every tribe, language, people and nation are seen worshiping around Jesus’ throne in Revelation 5 is [...]
Two words in the English language have foregrounded the prominence of Damascus:
Damsons - a Eurasian plum
Damask - a flowery decorative
That’s all.
The latest post on the new Sovereign Grace blog recaps the sermon delivered by C. J. Mahaney at SEBTS’ 2008 20/20 Conference Missio Dei just a week ago. Find there an overview of the conference, an outline of Mahaney’s message “The Cup”, and Dr. Akin’s conclusion:
I was listening very carefully when C.J. preached. Sometimes at [...]
While in college, one evening as I came out of the main library on the downtown campus I was met by all the smoking loiterers hanging about with nothing real important going on. I felt impressed to share the gospel with these standing around outside. What a crazy idea though. Just what I wanted to [...]
Today…
“Two mentally retarded women strapped with remote-control explosives — and possibly used as unwitting suicide bombers — brought carnage Friday to two pet bazaars, killing at 91 people in the deadliest day since Washington flooded the capital with extra troops last spring…Women have been used in ever greater frequency in suicide attacks.
The twin attacks at [...]
