The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 9,800 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 4 sold-out performances for that many […]

I often struggle to find a happy medium between the ‘noise’ of Christmas and the ‘silent night’ we so often sing about during this time of year.  My goal this year is to intentionally take the time to stop and reflect about the wonder of the incarnation, the turmoil in between, and the anticipation of […]

Here is a two-part television interview with New Testament scholar, Dr. Craig Evans, the Payzant Distinguished Professor of New Testament at Acadia Divinity College, Wolfville, NS, on the birth of Jesus in the Gospels. Excellent material on the meaning and significance of Jesus’ incarnation. Part 1 Part 2

Joy to the World – For Unto Us [HD] Ava Maria [HD] Mary, Did You Know? [HD] O Holy Night The Singer One Wintry Night

The Word Made Fresh and Society of Evangelical Scholars meeting November 2011—Theme: Exploring the Life and Theology of Clark Pinnock. Video includes entire session including Don Thorsen, Sarah Pinnock, Scot McKnight, Linda Mercadante, John Sanders, and Roger Olson.

Here is a new book co-written by Stanley Porter and my friend Jason Robinson entitled Hermeneutics: An Introduction to Interpretive Theory.  Jason provided me with a copy to review and I hope to get to it very soon. Book Description In this concentrated, intelligible, and useful introductory volume Stanley Porter and Jason Robinson give a […]

Reblogged from Prof. John Stackhouse's Weblog: I’ve been reading the fourteenth-century spiritual advisor Walter Hilton of late. He seems just the right sort of advisor: realistic, patient, encouraging, and yet uncompromising when it comes to what it means truly to follow the path of Jesus Christ. In a season of the year in which it […]

The nature of love and human free will debate is one that I’ve given much thought to over the years. For me, there is a logical inconsistency between holding to God’s meticulous sovereignty (absolute control) on the one hand and reciprocal love on the other. How is it possible to say that love is a […]