Do not have a happy halloween…

An email today from H.B London Jr (of Focus on the Family) included the following notes — sad but true….
Halloween has become a major unofficial American holiday. Researchers at Hallmark Cards report that 65 percent of us decorate our homes and offices for the annual event. It is second only to Christmas in retail spending [...]

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Australia against watching TV

In an article posted at the Banner of Truth website (originally in The Times ), comes news from the Australian Government that watching TV is detrimental to very young children (and, thus, to society).
Hmm. How long did it take them to figure this one out?!
The article is worth a look. Here [...]

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Basketball Hall of Fame lessons

“Be like David, not like Mike,” writes Voddie Bauchman as he contrasts the recent Basketball Hall of Fame acceptance speeches of David Robinson and Michael Jordan. More:
Modern American sports serve as an incubator for the self-centeredness that resides in each of us. The better one performs, the harder it is to avoid “the big-head.”
I [...]

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A timely question: What unites us?

Recently conservative commentator Pat Buchanan stepped aside from the fray, and made some keen observations, leading him to ask, What now unites us?
We seem not only to disagree with each other more than ever, but to have come almost to detest one another. Politically, culturally, racially, we seem ever ready to go for each [...]

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Never forget: September 11, 2001

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For sale?

The gospel cannot be a product that the church sells because there are no consumers for it. When we find consumers, we will find that what they are interested in buying, on their own terms, is not the gospel.

– David Wells, author of ABOVE ALL EARTHLY POWERS

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The Lost Art of Reading

I had hoped to read 12-15 books this summer (beyond my reading for work, which is already fairly substantial), but, alas, I’ve fallen short of the goal. I do hope to close the gap in the final weeks of summer though!
I run into a lot of people who say they love to [...]

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Avoid culture’s cynical mindset

The opposite of a childlike spirit is a cynical spirit. Cynicism is, increasingly, the dominant spirit of our age. Personally, it is my greatest struggle in prayer. If I get an answer to prayer, sometimes I’ll think, It would have happened anyway. Other times I’ll try to pray but wonder if [...]

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Journal article published

An article I wrote some years ago (on the dangers of modern society’s infatuation with Halloween) was recently published in The Puritan Reformed Journal. The PRJ is a biannual theological journal from the Puritan Reformed Seminary in Michigan, edited by Dr Joel Beeke and featuring articles by both faculty and other members of the [...]

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Worship without God?

Some secular groups like the Boy Scouts are still “religion friendly” and allow for various degrees of religious expression. That can be a good thing, and I’m glad for it, but culture’s view of ‘pluralism’ and demand for tolerance(!) typically overrule any biblically-faithful practices (such as preaching or praying or explicitly speaking of ‘Jesus’). [...]

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