Robert, Restless and Always Reforming

Don’t miss SI’s cover story on Tim Tebow. Tebow is the mainline article, and he is an upcoming football star and SI reporter Austin Murphy is more than certain of it. It talks about  life Tim Tebow being born on August 14, 1987 in the Philippines to Bob and Pam Tebow, who were serving as [...]

To those who have heard at least a bit of the life of Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) you probably often remember as the preacher of the famous sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.” At times by unlearned historians he is given as the caricature of a hell-fire preaching of the Puritan age. In [...]

In his book with the subtitling “A theology of Intolerant Love”, K. Erik Thoennes an  Assistant Professor of Biblical and Systematic Theology at Talbot School of Theology, Biola University covers the central role that divine jealousy plays in the activities of God in the historical scheme of the Bible. Yet this attribute of God is ignored [...]

One late night while surfing the great endless sea of the web while I was shopping to find the best price online for a set of John Calvin’s commentaries and looking at youtube vidz in between things I ran into this little promo video on providing Pastor’s a set of books for their ministry. I watched more [...]

Found: God’s Will by John MacArthur is a small, short 61-page booklet that quickly tackles down the Bible’s answer to the question, “What is God’s will for my life?” This is not primarily an in-depth study of the nuances of God’s will or the difference between his sovereign will and his moral will. It pastorally [...]

Steve Holmes’ Listening to the Past: The Place of Tradition in Theology is a most valuable and but not so readable collection of essays. I reckon it’s worth buying just for the essays on ‘Why Can’t we Just Read the Bible’, on Anselm, and on ‘Karl Barth’s Doctrine of Reprobation’. There’s also a good essay [...]

With all this resurgence of study in John Calvin the man with the 500th birthday of the pastor-theologian I decided to read an abridged version of the Institutes. This book which is a good introduction to Calvin’s theology is an abridgement of Calvin’s much larger “Institutes.” Tony Lane has paraphrased sections of Battles’ translation into [...]

This week on July 10th 500 years ago, God gave a great gift to the Church. While he’s so well remembered as a theologian, we do him a great disservice in forgetting that he was a pastor at heart. His greatest contribution to Christendom was his duty as a pastor. Which entailed the preaching of [...]

Crazy Love by Francis Chan: The God of the universe is crazy about you! His love is the most powerful thing in the world and He wants to give it to you, so you can live for Him. If you have made a commitment to follow Christ, then listen to Crazy Love to be reminded [...]

We’ll just got back recently from Youth Camp from Alto Frio in Leakey, Tx. As always God spoke as we prayed we saw people respond to his voice some in repentance over sin and the spiritual depravity of there lives, others answering the call to ministry, some coming to salvation in Christ, and then some coming [...]