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Series: #1 Using the Lord’s Prayer
I grew up going to Catholic mass, so the Lord’s Prayer (or the “Our Father”; see the prayer in Matthew 6:5-15) was one of the first non-musical pieces of writing that I memorized growing up. Yet, for...
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Series: #2 Using the Lord’s Prayer to Pray — “Our Father”
The first two words of the Lord’s prayer remind me of two rich truths: “Our” reminds me that I am not a Christian in a vacuum. I am part of a family of believers. This prompts me to remember others in...
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Tim Keller on Preaching
In his blog article “Lloyd-Jones on the Practice of Real Preaching,” Tim Keller gleans some points from Lloyd-Jones’ Preaching and Preachers. I am not a preacher, but I found that much of what I’ve...
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Series: #3 Using the Lord’s Prayer to Pray — “Who Art in Heaven”
The phrase “Who art in heaven” reminds us how far God is above us. It brings to mind this passage from Isaiah: For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord....
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Series: #4 Using the Lord’s Prayer to Pray — “Hallowed be thy Name”
The next segment of the Lord’s Prayer — “hallowed by they name” — is easy for me, in my selfishness, to pass by quickly. Yet, in placing this prayer here, Jesus is reminding us that life isn’t about...
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Hadsker
The uncertainty of her motor skills makes her lean, step after wobbly step, smiling as she walks along the edge of all things reachable, oblivious to danger. She has twisted her chunky thighs and...
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Book Review: Letters to a Young Calvinist, by James K. A. Smith
Brazos Press November 2010 160 pp. For many, Calvinism is nothing more than the theological concepts represented by TULIP: Total depravity, Unconditional election, Limited atonement, Irresistible...
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Book Review: Upside, by Bradley R. E. Wright
Bethany House July 1 256 pp. As a teacher in America, I’m intimately aware of today’s bad news about education. “We’re falling behind other nations! We’re teaching the wrong things and with the wrong...
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On Charging Money for Sermons
I recently had a conversation with a friend who thought it wrong that Redeemer Presbyterian Church of New York City (Tim Keller’s church) charges for sermons. I have several thoughts on this: First of...
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Book Review: Gospel Transformation (Second Edition), by World Harvest Mission
New Growth Press 2006 372 pp. Recommended. The best study on how the gospel changes all of life that I’ve come across to date. If you’re like me, you believe that, somehow, the good news of God’s love...
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Book Review: Scars of a Chef, by Rick Tramanto
Salt River March 2011 288 pp. For a cooking amateur–what’s a word for “beneath an amateur”?–this book was an interesting and fast-paced dash through the world of cooking superstardom. Rick starts out...
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Book Review: The Shepherd Leader, by Timothy Witmer
P & R Publishing February 2010 288 pp. Timothy Witmer’s The Shepherd Leader is an approachable yet rigorous, theological yet practical guide to conceptualizing, structuring, and carrying out...
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Book Review: A Short History of the World, by J. M. Roberts
Oxford University Press July 1997 560 pp. When I began reading Roberts’ A Short History of the World last summer, I was essentially a world history ignoramus. I could tell you several random tidbits...
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Book Review: A Short History of the World, by J. M. Roberts
IVP Books May 2009 260 pp. I first picked up a copy of Hollywood Worldviews from a bookshelf in an Upper West Side apartment. New York City, a cultural center of our age, was an appropriate setting for...
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Book Review: Big History, by Cynthia Stokes Brown
The New Press September 2008 288 pp. In Big History, Brown sets out to do a task that many historians do: to tell the story of humans. What makes Brown’s book unique is that she begins her story at the...
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Book Review: The Integrated Life, by Ken Eldred
Manna Ventures July 1997 226 pp. The idea that one’s faith should be fully lived out in all of life is, unfortunately, quite rare these days, yet we find it again and again in the Scriptures. But how...
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Book Review: What is the Gospel?, by Greg Gilbert
Crossway March 2010 128 pp. The gospel, thankfully, is being made much of these days–just look at my review list, with titles like Gospel Transformation, Gospel-Powered Parenting, The Gospel for Real...
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Book Review: Get Outta My Face, by Rick Horne
Shepherd Press 192 pp. January 2009 As a high school English and World History teacher, Rick Horne’s Get Outta My Face: How to Reach Angry, Unmotivated Teens with Biblical Counsel is a welcome book....
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Fire Up Speaker Notes
Hello amazing, inspiring future teachers of America, Here is a link to my speaker notes — no promises that they are pretty or that I touched on all or anything contained within them!
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“Unless the Lord builds the house”
My wife gave me a “verse of the day” this morning — this isn’t habitual, and she had a slight grin on her face when she read it for me. But as she was reading Psalm 127:1-2, and as I was reflecting on...
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