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God, What on Earth are You Doing?
INTERVIEW WITH TIM KELLER
Here is my interview with Tim Keller on his latest book, Walking with God Through Pain and Suffering:
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2014/02/04/tim-keller-on-suffering/
THE PRACTICALITY OF SOUND SCHOLARSHIP
If you ever wondered about the impact of a scholar, read this truly arresting and encouraging article:
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2014/january-february/world-missionaries-made.html
ART’S POWER
Poignant and powerful art can move the soul to ponder what is most important. It is why sermons ought to be artful!:
SCARLET PIMPERNEL SPOOF
Wonderful spoof on the classic, Scarlet Pimpernel. Doreen found this doing some research for one of her classes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8U1AM5dVR70
LIBRARY TOUR
As a student, I heard Criswell preach. Professor Dwight Pentecost strongly encouraged us to pay at least one visit to First Baptist of Dallas.
Here is a tour of his library and his step by step process for preparing sermons:
SACRED SCRIPTURE, SACRED WAR
Wars are not simply military affairs. For the Christian, they are theological to the core. Mark Noll has made that clear with the various ways ministers interpreted the Civil War (see The Civil War as a Theological Crisis, University of North Carolina Press).
Last year, James Byrd of Vanderbilt released his Sacred Scripture, Sacred War: the Bible and the American Revolution (Oxford University Press). It received a book of the year award from Christianity Today.
My interview with Professor Byrd of Vanderbilt appeared this past Saturday on JesusCreed:
DENVER WINS!
Denver: 28
Seattle:17
Predicted wind gusts are held back and Payton gets to do his thing. Interestingly, Manning does not get his rather regular 300 passing yards, but still makes 3 TDs via his arm. I am tempted to say the fourth TD comes from Payton running it in himself which seems ludicrous, but let’s say he does for fun. The Denver defense actually plays like the Seattle defense!
After the game, Richard Sherman says he is the worst CB in the league.
NICE COINCIDENCE
I just got back from Dallas.
I went with our oldest son, David, because he does his internship with Deloitte consulting
in Dallas before finishing up the Masters program at the University of Texas in accounting.
Turns out he is living very close to DTS so he was interested in stopping by. There were not many on campus, but a guy came out of a building as I was looking for someone who could answer a few of my questions.
I asked my questions, we started to depart, and then I said, “Michael?” Indeed, it was Professor Michael Svigel who uses Doreen’s book in his classes. He has even Skyped her in twice to interact with the students who write papers on my wife’s book. We’ve never met. Great guy, even apart from his terrific taste in literature!
