A great interview with John Frame on the Problem of Evil: http://theologica.blogspot.com/2008/08/interview-with-john-frame-on-problem-of.html John Frame has been a significant influence on me, and I really have appreciated his brilliant mind and am grateful to God for his writing ministry. If you’re looking for a serious contemporary systematic theologian to read who engages brilliantly with current and …
Monthly Archive: August 2008
Aug
18
No Little People
From Francis Schaeffer’s No Little People: “We must remember throughout our lives that in God’s sight there are no little people and no little places. Only one thing is important: to be consecrated persons in God’s place for us, at each moment.”
Aug
17
I Like Burritos
I’m probably in a small minority of bloggers who actually aren’t taking too much notice of the US Presidential race. But, I was reading the liveblog of the McCain/Obama meeting with Rick Warren at his Saddleback church. Within a matter of seconds I was pleasantly surprised that in between all the ‘God-pronounced’ judgments on the …
Aug
11
The use of law for the believer
I’ve recently read through Michael Horton‘s excellent book, God of Promise (2006) in which he discusses the covenantal structure of the Bible. Of particular interest to me were the continuity and discontinuity of the Abrahamic and Mosaic covenants, and the question of how do God’s commandments (OT and NT) apply to Christians. Horton’s covenantal theology …
Aug
04
Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008)
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the great Russian novelist, playwright, historian–a man of truth and courage–is dead at the age of 89. His famous and controversial Harvard commencement address can be read online: A World Split Apart. Undoubtedly many commentaries and tributes to come, putting the man and his vision in context. (H/T: Between Two Worlds) Here is …
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