Rx for Excess
Serving God and saving the planet. Read more...
Culture Makers Articles, Today, 3:10am
Being Culture Makers
An interview with “StudentSoul.” Read more...
Culture Makers Articles, Today, 3:10am
Culture Makers is now Culture Making!
With the launch of my new book Culture Making: Recovering Our
Creative Calling, my Web site Culture Makers (http://www.culture-makers.com/) has been replaced by Culture Making (http://www.culture-making.com/). You can still find all my writing there—but the site is vastly expanded. Read more...
Culture Makers Articles, Today, 3:10am
To play and to pray
A review of Jeremy Begbie’s Resounding Truth Read more...
Culture Makers Articles, Today, 3:10am
Surprising Candor
A review of Michael Lindsay’s Faith in the Halls of Power. Read more...
Culture Makers Articles, Today, 3:10am
The Pleasures and Perils of Fermentation
Alcohol, shame, nakedness, and grace. Read more...
Culture Makers Articles, Today, 3:10am
A World Without Jobs
The gospel of a secular age. Read more...
Culture Makers Articles, Yesterday, 3:10pm
FRACTURED FAIRY TALES FROM THE FARM NO. 3
Ours is an age of hybrids. Hybrid cars, hybrid economies, hybrid vitamins and foods in general. It is thus not unexpected that there might be hybrid holiday food, in this case for Thanksgiving. Enter the turducken, one part turkey, one part duck, and apparently some chicken as well. Scientists have had theories about the origins of these rare birds, even though no one seems to have seen them in the wild. Here below is one scientific hypothesis on the matter. Read more...
Ben Witherington, Yesterday, 3:10pm
Music Monday 5.21.12
STREAMING FREE
Sigur Ros: Valtari
Regina Spektor: Read more...
Reformissionary, Yesterday, 3:10pm
Francis Schaeffer & L'Abri
Over the last couple of weeks I've been enjoying working out with Jerram Barrs audio from his two classes on Francis Schaeffer (Early Years & Later Years)... Read more...
Reformissionary, Yesterday, 3:10pm
Jet Set Tokyo: Coffee Stop
My flight west to Japan began by us flying hundreds of miles northeast to Toronto. It took me a while to figure out why, but it finally dawned on me. There is only one good reason to stop in Canada. My flight from here is direct to Japan. Flight Air Canada 001. Take off is [...] Read more...
joethorn.net, Yesterday, 12:33pm
Slow to Anger, Quick to Wrath
In God’s revelation of himself to Moses on Mount Sinai, he says that he is “slow to anger” (Exodus 34:6). However, later in the Old Testament, in the prophecy about Christ in Psalm 2, we are told to “Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish in the way, for his wrath is quickly kindled“ (2:12). Read more...
Challies Dot Com, Yesterday, 12:25pm
Competitive Mothering
We are quite the competitive bunch, we humans, and really, given the opportunity, there isn’t much that we won’t or can’t turn into some kind of a competition. I don’t know if this is innate in our humanity or something bequeathed to us in the Fall into sin, but what is certain is its certainty—we just plain love to compete with one another. Or maybe it’s better to say that we hate to compete, but we do it anyway. Read more...
Challies Dot Com, Yesterday, 9:18am
A La Carte (5/21)
Deep Roots Library - I really like what I’m seeing out of Deep Roots Library, which “exists to serve the Church by making writings from Christian history accessible, readable, affordable, and searchable. We believe that there is great value in fellowship among believers, even if they are centuries removed from where we are today.” Today only you can get 25 ebooks for free just for visiting the site. Read more...
Challies Dot Com, Yesterday, 7:45am
Jet Set Tokyo: Take Off
I hate flying, but I love Jesus and the mission he gave the church, so I’m ready to go. Or, as ready as I get when flying: packed and willing. It’s an early flight tomorrow which means I have to arrive super early, which means Brian Malcolm (my ride to O’Hare International Airport) is a [...] Read more...
joethorn.net, May 20, 10:09pm
8 Things Contentment Opposes
Jeremiah Burrough’s The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment is one of the most important and personally-impactful Puritan works I’ve ever read. Let me give you just a taste of what Burroughs has to say about contentment. Here he shares eight things that will be opposed by a true, biblical contentment.It is opposed to murmuring and repining at the hand of God, as the discontented Israelites often did. If we cannot bear this either in our children or servants, much less can God bear it in us. To vexing and fretting, which is a degree beyond murmuring. To tumultuousness of spirit, when the thoughts run distractingly and work in a confused manner, so that the affections are like the... Read more...
Challies Dot Com, May 20, 8:50am
Weekend A La Carte (5/19)
Discrimination Against Women - Mary Kassian provides an interesting perspective on the he-turned-she beauty pageant contestant who recently competed to be Miss Canada. If you expand the logic, it means that men turned women should also be able to compete against women in athletics. Read more...
Challies Dot Com, May 19, 8:24am
God’s Glory Draws Our Worship
In preparing to preach from John 4 this Sunday I revisited Clowney’s chapter on worship in his great book, The Church. He argues that it’s the glory of God draws us to worship, and says, It is not just the transcendent power, wisdom and righteousness of God that demands our worship, but, above all, his [...] Read more...
joethorn.net, May 19, 8:00am
2 year old Jesus and the Wise Men - does it matter how accurately we portray the nativity scene of the Christmas story?
Vintage Faith, May 18, 3:10pm
How to Backslide in 9 Easy Steps
A few days ago I shared John Bunyan’s wisdom on why some who profess faith in Christ eventually backslide. Today I want to follow him a little bit farther. Having covered the why, I’ve now drawn from Pilgrim’s Progress instruction on the how. In each case I’ve given my short summary followed by Bunyan’s own words. Here is how to backslide in nine easy steps: Read more...
Challies Dot Com, May 18, 12:19pm
Free Stuff Fridays
This week’s Free Stuff Fridays is sponsored by Peacemaker Ministries. They will be giving away five sets of the following five books from the “peacemaking line” at Baker Books: Read more...
Challies Dot Com, May 18, 8:29am
Getting Healthy: Counsel
I have sketched out my thoughts for this whole series in a Moleskine (as I do with everything), but I have not had the time to craft all of those thoughts into written form for the blog. But in order to get as much out there as possible before my trip on Monday, I made [...] Read more...
joethorn.net, May 18, 7:59am
A La Carte (5/18)
Feed My Sheep - Feed My Sheep, a book that includes contributions from men like John MacArthur, R.C. Sproul and Sinclair Ferguson has been marked down to just $0.99 in the Kindle version. Why not also grab The Hidden Life of Prayer ($0.99) and read it along with me. Read more...
Challies Dot Com, May 18, 7:25am
The Essential: Man
This is the fourth installment in a series on theological terms. You can see the previous posts on the terms theology, Trinity, and creation. Today the series moves to man. Read more...
Challies Dot Com, May 17, 3:10pm
The Welcome Wagon FREE EP
Get new The Welcome Wagon EP for free, or leave the artist a tip! If you don't have their first album, Welcome to the Welcome Wagon, you are missing something great. Get the free EP or try out samples below. Read more...
Reformissionary, May 17, 3:10pm
Will You Read "The Hidden Life of Prayer" With Me?
John Piper once said, “God brings books at their appointed times. The Hidden Life of Prayer arrived late but well-timed. This little jewel-strewn tapestry has done for me at 64 what Bounds’ Power Through Prayer did at 34. I could be ashamed that I need inspiration for the highest privilege. But I choose to be thankful.” For all the great classics we’ve read as part of the Reading Classics Together program, none of them have focused exclusively on prayer. For that reason, and based on its history and acclaim, we will turn next to The Hidden Life of Prayer. Read more...
Challies Dot Com, May 17, 9:43am
Worship Under the Gospel
This Sunday I’m preaching on John 4 where Jesus says, ”…the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father… the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him.” As [...] Read more...
joethorn.net, May 17, 8:00am
Getting Healthy: Is a Wholistic Thing
So, I’m hoping to wrap up this series on “getting healthy” before I leave for Japan this Monday. In order to do that I need to speed things up, and I’m not a speedy writer. So I shot a quick video at the end of a long (but good) day summarizing my thoughts on the [...] Read more...
joethorn.net, May 17, 7:54am
A La Carte (5/17)
Satan’s Desire for Mothers - I think Julian draws out some important points in this article, and especially so under his second heading, “Satan says mothering is too good for you. Gone are the days (seemingly) when mothering is bad and career is good. Now we have entered the days of ‘Super-Moms’, where mothering is not for the faint-of-heart.” Read more...
Challies Dot Com, May 17, 7:53am
A MODEL OF HEROD'S TEMPLE
Alec Garrard is a farmer, but he had a dream (not to be confused with a field of dreams). Alec has worked for more than 30 years to create a full and accurate model of Herod's Temple. His version of the Temple is so impressive that some of the world’s top archaeologists and experts from the British Museum have come to view it. The pictures speak for themselves. See what you think. BW3 Read more...
Ben Witherington, May 17, 3:10am
Dad = Titus
It was exactly two years ago that I was ordained to the ministry. Yesterday I went back and looked at the ordination vow I made. Even better, I went back and looked at the notes my son jotted down during the sermon that day. The text was Titus 2:15: “Declare these things; exhort and rebuke with all authority. Let no one disregard you.” Here is what he wrote: Read more...
Challies Dot Com, May 16, 2:49pm
Getting Healthy: Fighting Spiritually
I believe the life of a Christian is a life of fighting. We fight against sin and temptation. We wage a spiritual war against everything that exalts itself against the knowledge of God. But it wasn’t until I found myself in my weakest condition that I had to fight the most intense battles of my [...] Read more...
joethorn.net, May 16, 2:43pm
Pray for Kaitlyn Stetzer
Ed Stetzer’s daughter, Kaitlyn, has been in the hospital since Monday with some kind of infection for which the doctors have not yet be able to identify the cause. Here’s the most recent update from Ed on his blog. Update 5 at 11a.m. Wednesday: We’ve been here going on our fourth day at Vanderbilt hospital. [...] Read more...
joethorn.net, May 16, 1:22pm
Love Covers a Multitude of Sins
In wisdom and love God does not leave his people to live this life alone, but rather calls us into community. One of the sad inevitabilities of living in community is that we will sin against one another. The invitation to Christian community is an invitation to be tested by other people’s sin and weakness. Read more...
Challies Dot Com, May 16, 9:20am