Oct

Jackie Bruchi is On a Roll

Posted by Steve Published in Culture

Jackie Bruchi is a part of the leadership team over at Stand Firm. Over the past week or so she’s posted some gems – covering a wide variety of topics. Following is a selection of a few of her postings: Susan Sarandon Calls Pope a Nazi Roman Catholic University Sued by Muslim Student for Discrimination [...]

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Oct

Friday Morning Video: Ravi Zacharias – A Christian Perspective on Homosexuality

Posted by Steve Published in Video

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Oct

Mohler: Does Joel Osteen Not Know, or Does He Not Care?

Posted by Steve Published in Culture, Theology

Kendall Harmon has said you can tell the health of the church by the heresies it produces. Extrapolating from that thesis, the pulpit presence – and popularity – of Joel Osteen says quite a bit, I think, of the pathetic state of the American Church and the Christian theological mind. From Albert Mohler: Speaking to [...]

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Oct

How to Insult Like Shakespeare

Posted by Steve Published in Just For Fun

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Oct

Around the Horn – 10.27.11

Posted by Steve Published in Culture, _samp

Steve Jobs: “He Knew the Couple of Things He Wanted to Do” From John Piper: The wisdom Steve Jobs learned, he said, was this: Do a couple things, and do them well. You don’t have time for much. And most of things are not lasting. So do two or three things, and do them amazingly. [...]

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Oct

Calvin on God Choosing the Poor (James 2)

Posted by Steve Published in Empowered Living, Scripture

James 2.5: Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him? “Hath not God chosen the poor of this world?” Calvin writes: “Not indeed alone, but he wished to begin with them, that he might beat down the [...]

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Oct

Ernie

Posted by Steve Published in Changed Lives, Scripture

At SAMP, we’re working out way through an extended series on the Epistle of James. Our text this past Sunday was James 2.1-13 and our topic was, “Favoritism in the Church.” It was a challenging text and it convicted me, yet again, of the darkness in my heart and the manner in which I continually [...]

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Oct

Friday Morning Video: Amazing Grace, Wintley Phipps & Carnegie Hall

Posted by Steve Published in Devotional, History, Video, Worship

At Carnegie Hall, gospel singer Wintley Phipps delivers an amazing rendition of Amazing Grace. In his explanation of the song he says, “A lot of people don’t realize that just about all Negro spirituals are written on the black notes of the piano. Probably the most famous on this slave scale was written by John [...]

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Oct

Monergism

Posted by Steve Published in Theology, Vocabulary

Last night in a conversation with some folks they asked what I meant when I used the word “monergistic.” Great question and good reminder. I had made an assumption. Out of that conversation came a request to add a feature to the blog in which I periodically define important terms. So, today we begin. Monergism (Greek mono meaning [...]

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Oct

Around the Horn – 10.20.11

Posted by Steve Published in Culture, _samp

What to Remember When Fighting Temptation On September 12, 1933, 35-year-old Clive Staples Lewis wrote a letter to his dear friend Arthur Greeves. The letter is located in the Wade Center at Wheaton College–just down the street from where I am typing right now. We’re Just Crybabies in the West An interesting Canadian point of [...]

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