CBN Interview With Mike Horton

Date June 22, 2009Posted by David N

What do you think? Is Evangelicalism quickly spiraling down the path that the liberal Mainline took over 80 years ago? Is your church “preaching” self-help and material happiness? Or do you think Dr. Horton is mistaken in his diagnosis? Let me know what you think in the comments. Personal “testimonies” about your own evangelical church [...]

Star Trek (2009)

Date June 4, 2009Posted by David N

I’m a huge Trekkie. I admit to loving all ten movies (yes, even Nemesis) and all 5 of the TV shows (including all four seasons of the short-lived and disappointing Enterprise). When it comes to anything Trek I have a hard time being objective. So it was a foregone conclusion that I would love J. [...]

Great Quote

Date May 24, 2009Posted by David N

On the self-attesting power of Scripture: Read Demosthenes or Cicero, read Plato, Aristotle, and others of that tribe. They will, I admit, allure you, delight you, move you, enrapture you in wonderful measure; but turn from them to the reading of the Sacred Scriptures. Then, in spite of yourself, it will so affect you, so [...]

Tweeting For Jesus

Date April 14, 2009Posted by David N

I don't Twitter (or is it tweet?).  But I can't claim total purity, since I have facebook, myspace, and I blog.  Still, I've been purposefully avoiding the Tweet scene because it seemed to me to represent the worst of the other three.  No genuine conversation or community whatsoever, just an endless flow of (mostly trivial) [...]

Prayers for Easter Sunday

Date April 12, 2009Posted by David N

Here are the prayers for Easter Sunday! From the Lutheran Book of Prayer: O almighty and eternal God, who through the death of Your Son has destroyed sin and death, and by His rising to life again restored innocence and everlasting life, that being delivered from the power of the devil, I might live under [...]

Prayers for Holy Saturday

Date April 12, 2009Posted by David N

Here are the prayers for Holy Saturday. From the Lutheran Book of Prayer: Heavenly Father, I am silenced at the gave of Your Son, who knew no sin, yet was made sin for us.  You permitted Him to die, exchanging His innocence for our guilt.  In love He came to save us, but He was [...]

Prayers for Good Friday

Date April 11, 2009Posted by David N

Here are two traditional prayers for Good Friday.  Apologies for waiting until Saturday morning to put them up!  There will be prayers for Saturday and Easter Sunday as well. From the Lutheran Book of Prayer: O Christ, Lamb of God, slain for the sin of the whole world, with penitent heart I come to your [...]

Christianity’s Central Theme?

Date March 22, 2009Posted by David N

Allen Yeh, a Professor at Biola Univeristy and tutor in the Torrey Honors Institute, has written an article in which he argues that missions is the central theme of Christianity.  The Bible, he says, is a means to an end, and that end is missions. He offers many reasons for his choice of missions, such [...]

2009 Ligonier Conference: Live Webcast

Date March 20, 2009Posted by David N

This year's Ligonier National Conference, The Holiness of God, is being webcast live.  It will continue until tonight and pick up again early tomorrow morning.  Click here to watch!

3 Reasons Evangelicals Should Accept The Essence-Energies Distinction

Date March 20, 2009Posted by David N

Over the next year or so I will be exploring the concept of the “energies” of God.  This is an ancient Christian doctrine that goes back to the Early Church Fathers.  While it remains an integral part of the doctrine of God in the Eastern Orthodox churches, it never truly took hold in the Latin [...]