It appears that the Ligonier Ministries team is posting sections of a helpful R.C. Sproul book I recently read entitled How Can I Know God's Will?. Here's a three-part series on the meaning of man's will. (And before that, they have a five-part series on the meaning of God's will.) The Meaning of Man's Will - Part 1 The Meaning of Man's Will - Part 2 The Meaning of Man's Will - Part 3 … [Read more...] about The Meaning of Man’s Will
Archives for 2009
John Piper – A Tribute to His Father
John Piper: My father was the happiest man I have ever known. Not that he never grumbled (he was a golfer who lost a lot of balls). But he was rooted so firmly in the glory of God’s grace that nothing could keep him down for long.Read the whole thing. … [Read more...] about John Piper – A Tribute to His Father
Why is Obama AWOL on Iran?
John Hinderaker at PowerLine breaks down the possible reasons for Obama's strange stance on the Iranian uprising (and the government crackdown about to intensify): 1) America is or has been evil, so it should do little or nothing in the world. (Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, etc.) 2) Obama is just a cautious guy who avoids risk at all costs. (Iran is the pirate "crisis" writ large, with Obama silent until someone else steps up and does something.) A variant of this theory is: 3) Obama has no idea what to do about Iran, and he knows it. (He remembers that a few years ago he was but an unknown … [Read more...] about Why is Obama AWOL on Iran?
Obama Absolutely Clueless on Iran
Charles Krauthammer at his best: Moreover, this incipient revolution is no longer about the election. Obama totally misses the point. The election allowed the political space and provided the spark for the eruption of anti-regime fervor that has been simmering for years and awaiting its moment. But people aren't dying in the street because they want a recount of hanging chads in suburban Isfahan. They want to bring down the tyrannical, misogynist, corrupt theocracy that has imposed itself with the very baton-wielding goons that today attack the demonstrators. This started out about election … [Read more...] about Obama Absolutely Clueless on Iran
Great Online New Testament Greek Tool
Anthony J. Fisher hosts a browsable, Web-based interface to the Greek New Testament (GNT). You can select a book, a chapter, or a verse. Or you can search for all instances of a particular word. And you can narrow a word search to only those instances in which an adjacent word (such as the definite article) is present. A nifty tool. … [Read more...] about Great Online New Testament Greek Tool
Five Myths on Fathers and Family
Writing for the National Review magazine, W. Bradford Wilcox exposes some of the misleading Father's Day themes that tend to pop up in the media at this time of the year. 1. The Mr. Mom surge. 2. Women want all housework and child-related work divided 50-50. 3. Cohabiting fathers are just as involved as their married counterparts. 4. The children of divorced parents do just fine. 5. Dads are dispensable. HT: Albert Mohler … [Read more...] about Five Myths on Fathers and Family