Between the Trees

I know some of you have been missing Jake’s posts, as he is doing missions work in Zambia. Thanks for tuning in anyway to hear my decidedly-less-readable posts. However, on Wednesday morning my wife and I are also going to be departing the country, also going to Africa, albiet for us its for a wedding [...]

Justin Taylor posted an interesting quote by Jerry Bridges from the book “Transforming Grace”:
I think my parents’ pool hall fence was appropriate. But there is a lesson in my experience for all parents: Don’t focus on the fence. If you erect a fence for your children - for example, in regard to certain movies [...]

Those of you who know me are probably aware that something I’ve been thinking about this summer and am doing a good bit of reading on is the “cessationist/continuationist” debate about spiritual gifts. I’m reading books by people on both sides of the aisle (Fee, Gaffin, Hoekema, Grudem, Carson, and several others) and trying to [...]

I am a young man who has, for a long time, felt a deep call on his life to pursue the ministry of preaching the Word in a church. As I pursue this calling, I come into contact with many other young men, much like me, who love to study the Word of God and [...]

First of all, to those of you who are interested (and don’t get his e-mail updates,) Jake has indeed arrived safely in Africa and is beginning to get settled. Please continue to keep him, his team, and their labors in your prayers over these coming weeks.
I have several more serious posts which are half-finished, one [...]

I believe most of you are aware of this, but for those who aren’t, I’m going to be leaving for Zambia in two days. Before doing that though, I wanted to share a few thoughts I’ve had this week, hopefully getting some feedback before leaving on Monday.
First, I’ve been reading Shane Claiborne’s book, The Irresistible [...]

I promise that I will soon be completeing my series on cultural relevance, but I thought I would share something I stumbled across today. For those of you who don’t know, I am a member of the Presbyterian Church in America. I’ve been following for some time now the controversy bouncing around the PCA regarding [...]

Call me silly. Call me a masochist. Call me odd. But sometimes while I’m tooling around in my delivery van for work, I like to listen to talk radio. Nevermind that I rarely agree with the views being expressed, that I feel like the hosts are little more than demagogues, or that I feel like [...]