As you consider making resolutions for the new year consider reading the entire Bible in 2010. ESV Daily Reading Plan M'Cheyne's Reading Plan ESV Daily Reading Bible Check out more options HERE .

From Kevin DeYoung : Abortion is not just one issue among many. We are not just arguing about different means to a shared end. We are arguing about the “right,” pulled out of constitutional thin air, to end a life. Abortion is the deepest social injustice because the human is helpless and innocent...

I know it's not fashionable right now to call terrorists, well, terrorists . Anyway, it seems that those fellas we released from Gitmo were being detained for a reason. From Brian Ross, etc over at ABC News : One of the four leaders allegedly behind the al Qaeda plot to blow up a Northwest Airlines...

The books published in 2009 that I most appreciated are (in no particular order): Words of Life by Timothy Ward Christ-Centered Worship by Bryan Chapell The Gospel-Driven Life by Michael Horton When Helping Hurts by Corbett & Fikkert Ancient Word, Changing Worlds by Stephen Nichols The Erosion...

In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. This was the first registration when Quirinius was governor of Syria. And all went to be registered, each to his own town. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the town of Nazareth, to Judea, to the...

Does Jesus' command to his followers to "turn the other cheek" mean that the state cannot legitimately bear the sword? David VanDrunen has written an excellent article for Themelios on the difference between the church's responsibilities and that of the state. Among the many biblical passages that...

Here are the books I'm taking with me on Christmas break: Presuppositional Apologetics by Greg Bahnsen For the Thrill of It by Simon Baatz Flannery by Brad Gooch The Trellis and the Vine by Payne & Marshall

Justin Taylor comments on a book that is on my must read list for 2010: "Just noticed that for a limited time Amazon has Jay Richard’s hardcover book, Money, Greed, and God: Why Capitalism Is the Solution and Not the Problem , on sale for 60% off. "Doug Wilson has written that it’s one of the best...

Oral Roberts died this week. He was 91 years old. Roberts was a bit of a denominational mish-mash. He was a Pentecostal faith healer, a United Methodist, a university president, and a proponent of the prosperity "gospel." I know it is normal practice to say nice things about a man when he dies...

Biblical Archaeology Review has an interesting article on why Christmas is celebrated on December 25. The article also dispells the widely held urban myth that Christmas was a pagan holiday. The most loudly touted theory about the origins of the Christmas date(s) is that it was borrowed from pagan...

Westminster Seminary has posted 100 audio messages on the authority of Scripture. Check it out HERE .

As someone who lives about an hour from the Jersey Shore I cringed when I saw that MTV was airing a new reality show entitled "Jersey Shore." If you take every stereo type of young New J ersy-ites whose names end with a vowel and magnify it about gazillion times then you get the idea. I must admit...

According to a new study clergy approval ratings are at a 32 year low. The good news is that we are doing much better than politicians but that is not saying much. The study measures attitudes toward clergy ethics and the news is not comforting. Among Catholics, Protestants, and occasional church...

Readers of this blog know that one of my favorite writers is Carl Trueman . He always makes me laugh and then he makes me think. His latest article posted at Ref21 caused me to look at myself in the proverbial mirror. When I think about what drives me I cannot help but be mindful of how incomplete...

In the last 20 years I have heard that statement more times than I can remember. Here are some observations to which anyone in pastoral ministry can relate.

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Check out the latest episode of the White Horse Inn . Secularists have argued for many years that religion is an entirely private matter that should not inform public life and policy decisions. But what about secularism itself? Is it really a neutral position itself? On this edition of the White...

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As the following undercover video reveals, Planend Parenthood has nothing to do with women's "choice" or "reproductive health." They are a pro-abortion business. They grow and sustain their business on deception, lies, and bad science. At one point the abortionist tells the young woman that it's...

The debacle that is the Anglican Church in North America ought to remind us that we cannot make nice with apostasy. Those churches and denominations that were once evangelical but now have departed from biblical Christianity did not reach their sad end overnight. It begin with small compromises...

Every year the world--and the church--experiences Christmas, that curious amalgam of paganism, commercialism and Christianity which Western civilization has invented to tide it over the darkest days of the winter. It would be easy to be critical. Yet, in a day of small things, the festive season,...

From R.C. Sproul: There is no greater message to be heard than that which we call the Gospel. But as important as that is, it is often given to massive distortions or over simplifications. People think they’re preaching the Gospel to you when they tell you, ‘you can have a purpose to your life’, or...

There is an interesting piece in Slate about Promise Keepers. In case you did not know, the once enormously popular (among many evangelicals) ministry is staging for a comeback. For the purpose of full disclosure I will state that I am not a fan of Promise Keepers. It is not because they teach male...

Last evening the Senate defeated the Nelson/Hatch Ammendment which would have prohibited the use of federal funds to pay for abortions. The vote, largely along party lines was 54-45. The two Republicans who voted against Nelson/Hatch were, not surprisingly Collins and Snowe of Maine. Six Democrats...