If you live in the East TN area (or would be willing to drive there) then please allow me to invite you to a couple of events that I’m quite excited about. ——————————————————– Matthew Smith Concert @ University of Tennessee Baptist Collegiate Ministries October 1st @ 8:00 pm (following the UT/Ole Miss Game) BCM Building [...]

This has been one of those four or five day stretches where it seems like I have much too much to accomplish and not enough time to do it in. I just wanted to apologize for the lack of posting. If you are looking for something to read, let me suggest these sites: * Chase [...]

I was reminded today while reading Phillip Johnson’s Blog of a conversation I had recently with a friend about a charge often times leveled at those who hold strongly to a given position in a discussion, debate, or argument. I saw this charge thrown out quite often on my friend Jared‘s blog (and to a [...]

I’d like to tell you about the new blog my friend (and sort-of-brother-in-law) Chase Vaughn started. He’s named it Theologia Viatorum which I believe means “Theological Pilgrim” or is some kind of latin curse. You can access this new blog here. Why would you want to do so you ask? Chase is one of the [...]

Tom Ascol recently posted about his love for the local church on his blog. If you haven’t read it, I suggest you drop by and check it out. The central theme of the post is the value of the church both to Christ and to believers. At the close Tom asks a rhetorical question as [...]

The September-October edition of Facts and Trends (a magazine published by Lifeway “designed to assist pastors, church staff and denominational leaders in their roles of ministry by informing them about LifeWay resources and how they relate to current issues in Christian ministry”) contains data culled from a poll of Protestant Pastors conducted by Ellison Research. [...]

In this post I would like to share the second quote from Total Truth that I mentioned in my other post. Unlike the quote in the former post (which address the failure of political activity to change culture) this quote addresses the necessity of worldview training within the local church.

I recently purchased Total Truth by Nancy Pearcey. If you aren’t familiar with the book, it is a discussion of the importance of and how to build a Christian Worldview. It is a follow up to How Now Shall We Live by Chuck Colson and Pearcey but is not dependent upon the previous work. (You [...]

My friend Cameron sent me an email containing the text of the article at this link. Please let me encourage you to read it. Return here for my comments if you so desire. An Unnatural Disaster: A Hurricane Exposes the Man-Made Disaster of the Welfare State by Robert Tracinski I think the author reveals an [...]

I want to say thank you to Ephrem Christopher Walborn for the technical tidbit he dropped in my email inbox. If you notice (as he did) that I tend to write long posts then you’ll appreciate the new changes. ECW gave me the quick tag that tells WordPress (my blog software) to display the first [...]