Between the Trees

The final view presented in The Genesis Debate is the framework view, presented by Lee Irons and Meredith Kline.
A framework reading of Genesis 1 and 2 argues that the days are simply a literary device used by God to communicate truth in an understandable and useful way. I should preface any further comments by saying [...]

Most of us don’t take enough time to speak well of churches other than our own.
That being said, Zion Church here in Lincoln is awesome. And if you haven’t met any of their pastors, you need to. I’ve only had the chance to meet Stu Kerns (the preaching pastor) and Keith Ghormley, but I’ve had [...]

Please continue to pray for Zimbabwe. The crisis there continues to get worse, as President Mugabe continues to do whatever is necessary to maintain power. Due to local pressure to stand down, challenger Morgan Tsvangirai has withdrawn from today’s run-off election, meaning that Mugabe will stay in power indefinitely. The BBC has laid out some [...]

Okay, if you have an hour or so, I have an exercise for you all to try. First, listen to this speech by Barack Obama. Then listen to this response from Focus on the Family yesterday (the actual response starts about 11:30ish). Make sure you listen to the speech first.
Now here’s my three questions:
1) Which [...]

The second view presented in The Genesis Debate is the day-age view of Hugh Ross, a respected member of several national science organizations and the Evangelical Theological Society and Gleason Archer, an ordained pastor in the PC(USA) and professor emeritus at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.
The day-age view argues that the days of Genesis 1 and [...]

I go back and forth about the strategy going around in our circles that says that we need to “target the cities” in our church planting efforts. The argument goes something like this: city is the place where the culture-makers live - the universities, the media outlets, the politicians. As the cities go, so goes [...]

The 24-hour view in The Genesis Debate is presented by David Hall and Ligon Duncan. Both Hall and Duncan are ordained in the Presbyterian Church in America and demonstrate a wonderful respect for the authority of Scripture and a sincere desire to faithfully exegete the opening chapters of Genesis. Further, Duncan and Hall understand the [...]

Was saddened to read this morning that famed comedian George Carlin passed away yesterday evening.
I was first made aware of Carlin during my junior year of high-school. I was in a class on argumentation and rhetoric and we watched Carlin give a speech on political correctness that was one of the finest explorations of language [...]

For the past three years I’ve struggled immensely with issues of how we are to understand the opening chapters of the book of Genesis and the relationship between scripture and science. I think part of the intensity of the struggle for me goes back to my first church and their understanding of that relationship. The [...]

When I come to the table on a given Sunday for the Lord’s Supper, I often work through a mental exercise. I watch the people around me eating the bread and drinking the wine and tell myself “This is my brother. This is my sister.” I have found this to be a profound experience, especially [...]