Weekend Website (1): NASA’s Daily Image Gallery

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Starting this weekend, I will begin posting a Weekend Website–something worth taking a few minutes to check out over the weekend.  With respect to my visit to the Kennedy Space Center, this weekend’s post is NASA’s Daily Image Gallery. 
Its daily images alternate between space technology snapshots and photographs from outer space.  The picture above is one of those [...]

NASA and the Spirit of Babel

To the moon…to Mars…and beyond. 
Don’t get me wrong, I like NASA, astronauts, the space program, and the whole enterprise of exploring the wonders of God’s cosmos. This affection probably finds its root in the countless times as a child that I watched The Right Stuff, a cinematic production dramatically chronicling the United States [...]

Why blog (5): For the joy of telling the truth.

This is my last extended reflection on why blogging is a valuable endeavor.  (Such a prolegomena could go on infinitum and ad nauseum, so we will conclude with these final remarks).
Why blog?
For the joy of contending for, expounding, and simply telling others about God’s goodness and truth.  John writes:  “And we write these things so that [...]

Why Blog? (4): So that the sparks may fly.

Why blog?
If two of the three reasons for blogging listed so far are aimed at conversation with non-Christians (i.e. 1. to explain and expound the gospel of Jesus Christ, and 2. to defend the faith once for all delivered to the saints),  the fourth reason is directed towards other believers.  Proverbs 27:17 says, “Iron sharpens iron, and one [...]

Why Blog? (3): Blogging as the Modern Day Areopagus

Why Blog?
Because the Internet and weblogs are the forum for the twenty-first century Aeropagus.  In Acts 17, Paul travels from Thessalonica to Berea to Athens.  Being run out of the first two cities, he arrives in Athens to mend his wounds and wait for his traveling/ministering companions.  Yet, as he walks the streets of the [...]

Why Blog? (Part 2)

Why Blog?
Let me suggest another reason: In order to grow in the wisdom of God’s word and to better understand and articulate its Truth.
Consider 2 Timothy 2:7 with me. Paul writes, “Think over what I say, for the Lord will give you understanding in everything.” This verse has two parts. First, [...]

Joshua 24 and the Value of Land

On Sunday I preached a message on YHWH’s covenantal faithfulness and Israel’s continued fickleness as a picture in history of mankind’s need for a better covenant. In the sermon, I began with a reflection on the importance of land in the Bible and in Joshua:
In the Bible there is a great deal made of [...]

Corn Creek Baptist Church and the Spiritual Gift of Listening

This morning my wife and I had the privilege of worshiping with Corn Creek Baptist Church.  Located in the rolling hills of Northern Kentucky just off the Ohio River, it is a church with a long history, as indicated by the cemetery plot in back.  The people were so kind and welcoming, and those to whom [...]

Why Blog?

For today, let me pose a question that may take a few days to work out.  The question is: Why blog? 
Surely there are many reasons and motivations to avoid and guard against.  Snares like diffusing gossip, espousing puffed-up views of our own invention, promoting ones self  and their ministry for personal gain, unrighteous proclivities towards argumentation and disagreement, or simple intimidation [...]

Via Emmaus

So again, on another website, with the same name.  I try my hand again at this thing called blogging.  With more humble intentions this time, I write– not trying to write bits-and-pieces of a theological treatise, but rather aiming to simply articulate thoughts on biblical theology, contemporary ecclesiology, and anything else on which the gospel light shines.  This [...]