Matt Perman offers a great summary of a lengthier post by business expert Patrick Lencioni. HT: JT … [Read more...] about What’s Wrong With Socialism
Charles Spurgeon on Fashion and Respectability
From the inside cover of Tullian Tchividjian's new book, Unfashionable, which I've been really enjoying over the last week and am about half-way through: The great guide of this world is fashion and its god is respectability--two phantoms at which brave men laugh! How many of you look around society to know what to do? You watch the general current and then float upon it! You study the popular breeze and shift your sails to suit it. True men do not so! You ask, "Is it fashionable? If it is fashionable, it must be done." Fashion is the law of multitudes, but it is nothing more than the common … [Read more...] about Charles Spurgeon on Fashion and Respectability
Facebook Users Do Worse Academically
The Times Online is reporting what I've long suspected to be the case: Facebook use leads to lower grades. FACEBOOK users may feel socially successful in cyberspace but they are more likely to perform poorly in exams, according to new research into the academic impact of the social networking website. The majority of students who use Facebook every day are underachieving by as much as an entire grade compared with those who shun the site. Read the whole thing. HT: Challies … [Read more...] about Facebook Users Do Worse Academically
ESV Study Bible Now Available on Kindle
The ESV Study Bible Team announces: Crossway is pleased to announce that the ESV Study Bible is now the first study Bible available on Amazon's Kindle. Created to help people understand the Bible in a deeper way, the ESV Study Bible has all 2,752 pages of ESV Study Bible notes, resources, and features conveniently accessible anywhere, anytime on the 10.2-ounce Kindle device. Equivalent to more than 20 volumes of Bible text and study resources, the Kindle edition of the ESV Study Bible can currently be purchased in the Kindle store for $9.99 (Introductory SRP of $14.99 until June 1st). … [Read more...] about ESV Study Bible Now Available on Kindle
Free John Piper/D.A. Carson event on Pastor & Scholar
This sounds like a fantastic, free event in the Chicagoland area: An evening of presentation and discussion with John Piper ("The Pastor as Scholar") and D.A. Carson ("The Scholar as Pastor"). On Thursday, April 23, 2009, at Park Community Church in Chicago, IL, the Carl F. H. Henry Center for Theological Understanding of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School will host an evening of free lectures and discussion with Dr. John Piper of Bethlehem Baptist Church and Dr. D. A. Carson of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. The event will begin at 7:00pm and conclude around 10:00pm. Titled “The … [Read more...] about Free John Piper/D.A. Carson event on Pastor & Scholar
Francis Beckwith on Obama Honorary Doctorate at Notre Dame
I previously mentioned the Christianity Today interview last month with Dr. Francis Beckwith on the decision of his institution (Notre Dame) to not only invite President Obama to speak at their commencement service but to also receive an honorary doctorate in law. Dr. Beckwith has since written a compelling essay in First Things on the matter. Here's the upshot, but do read the whole thing:Why then would the University of Notre Dame bestow an honorary doctorate of laws on someone who for his entire public life has enthusiastically fought for a segment of the human population, the unborn, to … [Read more...] about Francis Beckwith on Obama Honorary Doctorate at Notre Dame