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Things You Should Agree With: Rondo Is the NBA’s Best Point Guard

My favorite NBA point guard, Rajon Rondo, just got a glossy spread in Boston Common magazine.  I am fond of Boston Common for many reasons, not least because it is the location of Park Street Church in...

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Francis Schaeffer Turns 100: A Credo Retrospective

Here’s notice of a really important issue of Credo magazine.  It’s on the life and legacy of Francis Schaeffer, one of my top ten theological and spiritual influences.  Schaeffer’s form of cultural...

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For Tonight’s Debate, Use #youngcons on Twitter

If you’re so inclined, use the hashtag code #youngcons on Twitter while Tweeting in Twitteresque ways about the second presidential debate between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama. A bunch of, well, young...

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Family Policy Lecture at Family Research Council

Next Wednesday at 12:30pm, one week from today, I’ll be giving the Family Policy Lecture at the Family Research Council in Washington, D. C.  My lecture is entitled “The Sacrificial Witness of the...

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Announcement: Beginning ThoughtLife–New Patheos Blog–on Monday

I have some exciting news to share–at least, it’s exciting if the atomized world of overheated evangelical blogging matters greatly to you.  Come Monday, October 22, 2012, I am beginning a new blog,...

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Peter Greer of HOPE on “Broken Aid”& the Gospel

My friend Josh Good over at AEI’s fantastic Values & Capitalism project just sent around an interview with Peter Greer.  According to Values & Cap, Peter is President and CEO of HOPE...

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Can Barack Obama Save Liberal Protestantism?

In my first piece over at ThoughtLife, I tackle this question.  As I did on Thursday, I urge you to, in the words of Tina Fey, “go to there.”  Subscribe to ThoughtLife, sign up for it in your RSS feed,...

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Who Should You Vote For? How About…Babies?

Over at Patheos, I just blogged on who I’m voting for this presidential election season.  This topic afforded me the chance to talk more broadly about how abortion is not simply a position, one among...

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The Importance of Bearing Fruit at Work

Too often, we get into a fundamentally unhealthy divide in our thinking about faith and life.  We abstract our faith, putting it in the “spiritual” box, and consider our labor as separate.  It goes in...

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Why Forbidding Little Girls from Wearing Victoria’s Secret Is Deeply...

Dads, you should be aware of what your little girl is wearing at all times.  It’s not something you necessarily understand perfectly, but this matter requires your fatherly care and leadership just as...

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Salvation by Conversation–Or, How an Hour a Week Can Save Your Marriage

Mike McKinley posted a few days back at 9Marks on how pastors serve everyone but their wives.  That caught my attention.  Wow.  What a scary and damning reality.  It made me think of a helpful article...

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The Endless Evangelical Quest for Ultimate Transformation

A few days back, CJ Mahaney posted on Kevin DeYoung’s message from the “Next” conference in May 2010 in Baltimore, Maryland.  CJ lauded Kevin’s call for “plodding visionaries” and listed several points...

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Evangelical Guilt in Evangelism–and How John 3 Helps

Do you struggle with guilt related to evangelism?  Do you feel like you do very little as a Christian to “draw” lost people?  I sometimes struggle with this feeling–and sometimes, it’s justified....

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Another Essential Book to Add (!)

Turns out the book sale mentioned yesterday isn’t the only piece of literary news right now.  I caught this in a web search yesterday–it will be of interest to many readers who peruse this little...

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Mike McKinley and the Wimps of Church Planting

You might have heard about Mike McKinley’s recent book on church planting: Church Planting Is for Wimps (Crossway, 2010).  If you haven’t, it’s a great read. Mike is the senior pastor of Guilford...

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Great Books: Josh Moody’s “No Other Gospel”

Without a doubt, one of the preachers I most look up to and learn from is Josh Moody of College Church in Wheaton, Illinois.  Josh is a humble man with an outsize résumé–BA from Cambridge, PhD from...

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Baseball Uniforms Should Be Crisp

This is a cross-post from the blog of Vitamin Z, where I am guest-blogging this week. I don’t know about you, but I find baggy baseball uniforms weird.  So does Wesley Morris, writing “The...

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The Essential Edwards Collection, Half Off (!)

Update: links fixed! Some of you out there may remember the Essential Edwards Collection (Moody, 2010).  Doug Sweeney and I wrote it for Moody Books in order to make Jonathan Edwards and his treasure...

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New England Pastors: Duncan and Anyabwile in May 2011

Great news for New England–just got this from Dave Ricard of the New England Center for Expository Preaching: “I was informed tonight that Ligon Duncan has agreed to join Thabiti Anyabwile at Island...

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