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I walked in the door last weekend from Half Price Books, clutching a paperback copy of Roy Adkins’ Nelson’s Trafalgar: The Battle That Changed the World. Shannon’s response was loving and surprised. “Another book? You haven’t started the last one you bought!”
She was referring to Nathaniel Philbrick’s Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War. [...]

Got back this afternoon from Together for the Gospel 2008. It was outstanding! I’ll probably post more later about it, but in the meantime, some quick thoughts and observations at least somewhat related to the conference:

The audio is available here. For free. Woohoo! (Already downloaded…)
The conference had an amazing bookstore, with all selections approved by [...]

I blogged about the beginning of the series here, but Phil Johnson has now concluded his series of posts on Paul at Mars Hill ( the latter half of Acts 17).
The posts in the series are, in order:

Context and Contextualization (Not technically part of the series, but what led to the series to begin [...]

Well, here we are! 5 weeks and counting…
This time around, Shannon is not feeling morning sickness so much. She does have a little bit of nausea, but not like she did with Atticus. Still, pray for her to be comfortable.
And pray for her to not be lonely and miss me the next couple of days… [...]

Jacob did never enjoy so much the presence of God as when he had left the company of men. Oh! the sweet communion that Jacob had with God when he withdrew from his family, and was all alone with his God by the ford Jabbok! Certainly Jacob was never less alone than at this time, [...]

John Piper makes a good point this morning, in a brief post (below is the whole thing) titled, It’s Good We Aren’t All Like Jesus:
Jesus never wrote anything. He hung out, and talked, and healed. But if his followers had only done that, we wouldn’t know even that about him. Both-And, not Either-Or. And some [...]

Al Mohler looks at one of Details magazines cover stories this month, titled Would You be Okay with a Gay Kid?:
Details magazine is an American version of what the Brits call “laddie mags” — rather racy magazines that present a vision of what the good life is supposed to look like for young adult males. [...]

I was looking around for something today on Christian music, and I ran across an article by Steve Camp titled, A sad fad: “God is my Girlfriend” songs. I thought I’d share it with you, as well as file it away for my own future reference; particularly, this part which brings together a number of [...]

Christianity Today is covering a shift in ministry at Willow Creek:
For three decades Willow has been focused on making the church appealing to seekers. But the research shows that it’s the mature believers that drive everything in the church—including evangelism.
Hawkins says, “We used to think you can’t upset a seeker. But while focusing on that [...]

LifeWay recently surveyed small-church pastors to find out what their biggest challenges are. If you’re in a small church, take heed, and help out your leadership!
Brad Waggoner, vice president of B&H Publishing Group and former LifeWay Christian Resources vice president over the research and ministry development division, shared the findings at “Impact 2008,” a three-day [...]