Below find a list of all the posts on this blog. They are organized by category, with some posts appearing more than once in multiple categories. To better help you find your way to something you are looking for, I hope to add short, summary descriptions of these posts in the near future.
Church Thoughts:
- Church Music
- Faith on the Interwebs
- Gratitude for the Gospels
- Hipster Faith: A Response
- Journalism and the Scriptures: Ground Rules
- Listening to Preaching as a Preacher
- Living in an Age of Conviction
- Practical Holiness: On Holy Speech
- Pray for your Pastor
- Rethinking Accountability
- Rhetoric and an Apologetics of Fear
- Some Reasons to Feel Depressed About Christian Publishing
- Speaking of Church…
- The Myth of Mitigating Circumstances–An Essay on Power and Morality
- The Problem with “Leadership Training”
- The Spiritual Value of Submission
- Those Pesky Scriptures
- To Carry the Weaker Brother–Romans 14 and 15 in Focus
- The Weaker Brother Part 2: A Q&A
Theology:
- Buzzword Spirituality and the Mission of the Church
- Journalism and the Scriptures: Ground Rules
- Minding the Iotas (On the importance of Theology)
- Responding to the Shift in Evangelical Thought
- Resurrection Butterflies
- The One-Way Ladder (On the Doctrine of God) (How our knowledge of God must come from God, and not from human means)
- The Two Aspects of Heresy (How heresy solves the mysteries of the church and accommodates culture.)
- The Two Sins of Judas
General Thoughts:
- All I Want for Christmas is Some Metanarrative
- Becoming More Human Through the Reading of Old Books
- Crime, Punishment, and Gerry Conlon
- Crass v. Class
- E-Books and Aesthetics
- Eagleton, Dawkins, and the Category Dismissal
- Good Living is Good Dying: A Reflection on Beowulf
- Hitler’s Private Library
- Jogging and Spirituality: Three Ironies
- One Year Later…
- One Year After (A Letter to My Former Church)
- Rhetoric and an Apologetics of Fear
- Six Signs You’re Reading A Book of Spiritualishism
- So, I Wrote a Book…
- The Cat and the Comedian
- The Myth of Mitigating Circumstances–An Essay on Power and Morality
- The Problem with “Leadership Training”
- The Spiritual Value of Submission
- The Successful Sequel
- To Be A Godly Man
- Two New Books!
- Zest versus Excitement
Book Reviews:
- A Bizarre Mystery–Richard Rohr’s “From Wild Man to Wise Man.”
- A Song for Nagasaki (The biography of Takashi Nagai)
- Augsburger: The Freedom of Forgiveness
- Baron Friedrich von Hugel’s Letters to a Niece
- Being a Christian when the Chips are Down
- Buzzword Spirituality and the Mission of the Church (A Review of Hugh Halter’s AND)
- Chronicles of a 20th Century Prophet (Malcolm Muggeridge’s Autobiography)
- Crime, Punishment, and Gerry Conlon (Book Review of In the Name of the Father)
- F.F. Bruce: The New Testament Development of Old Testament Themes
- Getting Rid of the Gorilla
- Good Living is Good Dying: A Reflection on Beowulf
- Gordon MacDonald’s Magnificent Marriage
- Hitler’s Private Library
- How Do I Help a Hurting Friend?
- John Wimber: Power Healing
- Karl Barth’s Dogmatics in Outline
- Kitchen Confidential: A Revelation (Anthony Bourdain’s Memoir)
- Marshall Frady’s Martin Luther King Jr.: A Life
- On Discovering Hidden Rooms: A Review of Planet Narnia
- Phil Robertson’s Real Success (Review of Happy, Happy, Happy)
- Six Signs You’re Reading A Book of Spiritualishism (A Review of St. George and the Dragon and the Quest for the Holy Grail)
- Smoke on the Mountain (Joy Davidman’s book on the Ten Commandments)
- The Heavenly Man… Or Not?
- The Narcissism of Heaven: A Review of Smith’s Heaven in the American Imagination
- The Problem with (Some) Christian Books: Gibbons’s The Monkey and the Fish
- The Towers of Midnight: Walking in a Dead Man’s Shoes
- Unapologetically Unimpressed with Francis Spufford’s Unapologetic, Part 1
- Unapologetically Unimpressed with Francis Spufford’s Unapologetic, Part 2
- Vietnam’s Christians
- What’s So Amazing About Grace?
- Why Peter’s Gospel Doesn’t Look Like Ours–Some Thoughts on the Apostolic Preaching (a review of C.H. Dodd’s book)
Movies:
- Inception’s Deception
- Raise the Red Lantern: A Study of Hell on Earth
- Seven Things Wrong with Invictus
- The Ironic Vision of Salvation in Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler
- The Karate Kid II: A Story of Forgiveness
- The Successful Sequel
- The Two Towers (Film) Revisited
- The Return of the King: Three Unforgivables
Eine Kleine Exegese (i.e., stuff to do with bible interpretation):
- Compressed Sight: Revelation 12 and Federalism
- Gratitude for the Gospels
- Matthew 24, Genesis 1, and the Eternal Reign of King Jesus
- Revelation 19–On the Worship of Prophecy
- 2 Peter 1 and the Furnishing of Faith
- Stop Quoting Matthew 7:1. No, Seriously, Stop it.
- The Good and the Bad News of Christmas–a Meditation on Mary’s Magnificat
- The Law of Forgiveness
- The Two Sins of Judas
- Those Pesky Scriptures
- To Carry the Weaker Brother–Romans 14 and 15 in Focus
- The Weaker Brother Part 2: A Q&A
- Two Witnesses in the Scriptures (Revelation 11 Explained)
Sermons
- Honoring the Child King: A Christmas Homily
- Peace on Earth: A Christmas Homily
- Thriving Faith in an Antagonistic World, Part 1
- Thriving Faith in an Antagonistic World, Part 2
- Thriving Faith in an Antagonistic World, Part 3
- The Good and the Bad News of Christmas–a Meditation on Mary’s Magnificat
- The Scandal of Forgiveness, Part 1
- The Scandal of Forgiveness, Part 2
” Dear James” Letters
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