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December 2012

December 31, 2012

Looking Back on 2012: Oct-Dec

Since it's the last day of 2012, I have to cover three months in this...

December 30, 2012

Looking Back on 2012: Aug-Sept

August and September were busy months for my blog. There was the Chik-Fil-A drama and...

December 29, 2012

Javert vs. Valjean: the two Christianities of Les Miserables

***Spoiler alert: this post presumes that you know the storyline of Les Miz.*** After watching...

December 29, 2012

Looking back on 2012: June-July

In June and July, I wrote about my family reunion, the culture wars, a whole...

December 28, 2012

Looking Back on 2012: Hip-hop and Piano Ballads

I wrote some songs this past year and posted recordings of some of the songs...

December 27, 2012

Looking Back on 2012: April-May

In March, I fasted from blogging for Lent. April and May of 2012 were dominated...

December 26, 2012

Is it Christian to fire a sexy employee?

I wasn't going to blog this week and instead re-post old blogs from each of...

December 26, 2012

Looking Back on 2012: Jan-Feb

I figured I would end 2012 by reviewing a selection of my posts from throughout...

December 25, 2012

Let God be a baby

God's not allowed to be a baby. That was the thought that scandalized 5th century...

December 24, 2012

Why name him Jesus?

In Matthew 1:21, Gabriel says to Mary, ""You are to give him the name Jesus,...

December 23, 2012

Word, life, light: the eternal side of Christmas

I decided to do something different for my LifeSign sermon this weekend. Normally for Christmas,...

December 22, 2012

Father Hopko vs. Wheaton College: Who gets to be orthodox?

Eastern Orthodox priest Father Thomas Hopko has a featured podcast on Ancient Faith Radio that...

December 21, 2012

Isaiah 10 and the fiscal cliff

When I read something in the Bible and I think I shouldn't say anything about...

December 21, 2012

It's the beginning (again), not the end!

Well today is the last day on the ancient Mayan calendar, so I expect there...

December 20, 2012

Love; don't profile

I had a disturbing conversation this week with a friend who has a child who's...

December 19, 2012

Life and wrath as ontologies (John 3:36)

I just stumbled across something in my sermon preparation that made me do a double-take...

December 19, 2012

Why should the wicked fear God's mercy?

Psalm 52:3 blew my mind yesterday as I was reading it in the Chapel of...

December 18, 2012

Why are evangelicals and Catholics the opposite on guns?

A recent survey by the Public Religion Research Institute has some very interesting statistics on...

December 18, 2012

The moral question of gun collecting

The 2005 film "Thank You for Smoking" is about a tobacco PR executive who wins...

December 17, 2012

Mary's Magnificat: "His mercy is for those who fear Him"

This weekend, I preached on Mary's Magnificat (audio, Luke 1:46-55) at our church in the...

December 17, 2012

Guns and Bibles? Really?!!

This photo has been circulating in response to the Connecticut shooting. I don't disagree that...

December 16, 2012

The moral crisis of mental illness

When we admit that mental illness has been a factor in many of the mass...

December 16, 2012

The good work of God's wrath (a response to Greg Boyd)

It's always interesting when someone else says something that you've said exactly the way you...

December 15, 2012

People who fear God don't make t-shirts like this

Whoever made this t-shirt doesn't fear God. Why? Because it blasphemes God's name when we...

December 14, 2012

Why I hate retributive justice

I just found out that a kid I love a lot who's a very smart...

December 13, 2012

Don't disdain the pragmatic and aesthetic sides of the gospel

This is going to be a short one. I just want to make an appeal...

December 13, 2012

The "Kantian" and "Nietzschean" threads of evangelical piety

There are certain rhetorical moves that evangelicals make in their arguments to "out-pious" their interlocutors....

December 12, 2012

Original sin, part one: Romans 5:12-21

Original sin. There are few Christian doctrines that cause more scandal for people living today....

December 10, 2012

Two opposite ways to "delight in the fear of the Lord" (Isaiah 11)

Those of you who have been following my journey know that I keep on stumbling...

December 10, 2012

Is God a capitalist? (John Locke and the Romans Road)

One of the theories Doug Campbell advances in The Deliverance of God is that the...

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