I debated whether to post this today. In the end, it’s not about singling out one guy. But sometimes dealing with a real situation can make a truth appropriately pointed. So here goes… The pre-story I recently read a post by an Australian pastor boasting that he was going to

A friend asked me recently “Jason, what does imputed mean?” No, she wasn’t a Christian. And no we weren’t studying the Bible. We were studying for an accounting exam at uni. The reason she asked is that one of our questions had a factor called “the imputed interest rate.” “I

Having recently finished the rigours of college life, he was enjoying the free time living with his parents allowed. Only the day before he had finished reading missionary David Brainerd’s journals and wrote “I have prayed for new words, explosive, direct, simple words.” Sixty years ago today, as he sat

I’ve really enjoyed using my Twitter account to store all my momentary profundities. Here are ten recent tweets… tweet 1: Mao’s Last Dancer… freedom is precious to those who have lived without it. tweet 2: Oh yeah, Darwin’s that guy who discovered the amazing adaptability God built into His creation…

We didn’t want to see our children go through pain, so we coddled them until they grew up to be lawless brats. We didn’t want to cause our friends pain, so we refused to ever confront them about their self-destructive patterns. We didn’t want to cause our bodies pain, so

Allegory is a great tool for illustrating a truth. Allegory is not evidence for that truth. Another way to say it is that allegory is designed to bring truth home. It is not designed to defend truth. To merely preach allegory is to preach without evidence and defence for the

Wednesday had been a difficult day in the city, so he was glad to spend the evening at a friend’s house in a small town a few kilometres outside the city. Thursday morning he sent some friends to prepare for the evening in the city. But after that, we have

Charles Spurgeon may be dead, but he writes enough blog posts to make a pyjama wearin’ blogger look computer illiterate. That’s right, Charles Spurgeon blogs posthumously on a regular basis. And that’s got me thinking about posthumous blogging in general. I’ve thought of several ups and several downs to posthumous

I recently read Jason David BeDuhn’s Truth in Translation and found it deeply intriguing and at times disturbing. I’ll give some positive points and then I’ll list my concerns. 1. Truth in Translation is a carefully crafted and scholarly work. BeDuhn brings a wealth of research and knowledge to the

In the last three years we’ve seen blogging transformed. We’ve seen the advent of micro-blogging. We’ve seen social networking come of age. But something else has been happening that has gotten a lot less attention. Internet forums have changed dramatically. Then and now Five years ago forums were new and