7 lbs., 14.4 ounces. Twenty inches long. Mom and baby appear healthy. Thanks be to God. See more recent photos of Jonathan. … [Read more...] about Jonathan Elijah Chediak – Born 09/26/07
Interview with Ryken on ESV Literary Study Bible – I
Awhile ago I mentioned the newly released ESV Literary Study Bible, edited by Dr. Leland Ryken and Pastor Phil Ryken. Dr. Ryken, the Clyde S. Kilby professor of English at Wheaton College, was kind enough to answer a few questions about the project. I'll post part 1 of the interview now, and part 2 late tomorrow. What motivated you to organize this type of study Bible? Dr. Ryken: The primary motivation was my awareness that the Bible is, in terms of its external format, a literary anthology. That being the case, it deserves to be printed with critical apparatus (as it is called in my … [Read more...] about Interview with Ryken on ESV Literary Study Bible – I
Gospel Growth vs. Church Growth Conference
Nine Marks and Matthias Media ministries are hosting a conference entitled: Gospel Growth versus Church Growth: Understanding the difference sets you free. Dates: Tuesday, October 30 to Thursday, November 1, 2007 Location: Capitol Hill Baptist Church, Washington, DC Registration Ends: October 10, 2007 Cost: $95 Speakers: Phillip Jensen, Mark Dever, and Tony Payne About the Conference: It's hard for pastors not to be mesmerized by church growth. Who doesn't want their congregation to grow? Who doesn't want to see numbers and budgets increasing year by year? And who isn't greatly interested … [Read more...] about Gospel Growth vs. Church Growth Conference
The Death of the Grown-Up
Dr. Mohler commends newly released The Death of the Grown-up: How America's Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization by Washington Times columnist Diane West. Many other titles have argued that 20 somethings are putting off adult commitments (such as marriage and family) until later in life. Ms. West contributes to this discussion by noting that the converse is also true: older adults today increasingly act like adolescents and identify with adolescent culture. Whereas teenagers of a previous generation took pride in identifying with adult culture, the trend is now the … [Read more...] about The Death of the Grown-Up
The PBS Documentary “The War”
Ken Burns has directed a critically-acclaimed, almost 15-hour long documentary entitled THE WAR. The documentary traces the lives of these who fought and those who stayed behind from four American towns: Mobile, Alabama; Sacramento, California; Waterbury, Connecticut; and Luverne, Minnesota. From the producers: "Above all, we wanted to honor the experiences of those who lived through the greatest cataclysm in human history by providing the opportunity for them to bear witness to their own history. Our film is therefore an attempt to describe, through their eyewitness testimony, what the war … [Read more...] about The PBS Documentary “The War”
Video Games Cut Into GPAs
As a university professor, I do not find this USA Today study by Todd Stinebrickner, an associate professor of economics at the University of Western Ontario, and his father, Ralph Stinebrickner, a professor of mathematics and computer science at Berea College in Kentucky, to be surprising: "First-year students whose roommates brought a video game player to college studied 40 minutes less each day on average, according to a new study from the National Bureau of Economic Research. Those 40 minutes of lost study time translated into first-semester grades that were 0.241 points lower on the 4.0 … [Read more...] about Video Games Cut Into GPAs