A Quick Look at the Book of Revelation A Mission Practicum lesson for students in Sunset International Bible Institute’s Adventures in Missions program Dear Adventures in Missions student, As you work among the people at your posting, you will occasionally encounter folks who base much of their do...

An engaging study of Revelation is going on at my home church, every Wednesday night. Our pastor, a New Testament scholar, who wrote his dissertation on Revelation 19, is providing for us an in-depth analysis of the context of Revelation, including educating us on the genres it’s comprised of,...

My sentiment toward the stimulus bill has been what I might call optimistically credulous. That is, I'm pretending that the goal here is to actually stimulate the economy. Thus, my reaction to the inclusion (or removal) of sensible public policy proposals has been to ask, "How well does this fit wit...

In my blogging adventures, I ran across Bill Cork, who was a Seventh-Day Adventist who converted to Roman Catholicism when I knew him (circa 2004). Now I find out that Bill has returned to Adventism. Wow, what a lot of friends he must’ve left behind on his adventures. When you convert to a new...

octo mom. she already has 6 kids. there is no dad involved. she lives with her parents. the mother in california who gave birth to eight babies on monday has six children already, cbs news discovered. today on the early show, a segment on the now-doubled family aired. they took cameras to the home a...

I found a great quote on JD Prickett’s blog by Harvard’s Roland Barth. “Show me a school whose inhabitants constantly examine the school’s culture and work to transform it into one hospitable to sustained human learning, and I’ll show you students who graduate with both...

(Here's the video link if the embedded video above won't play in your browser.)Rayford Steele figures he owes Buck a favor for helping to subdue Mr. Panic on the airplane, so he offers to give him the name of a......

Everything DC Chancellor of Schools Michelle Rhee knows about improving school performance she learned from her three year stint as a Teach for America recruit.  Her formula for raising "student achievement" is a simple one: Put a dedicated, hard-working teacher in every classroom an...

Daniel Radosh stumbled into what he calls "the parallel universe of Christian pop culture," and I for one am glad he did. Radosh's wonderful book Rapture Ready chronicles his travels through this strange land with a generous spirit and a perceptive eye. He sees things as they are and understands wha...

Left Behind, pg. 456 We left off here: Carpathia raised the .38, cocked it, and stuck the barrel into Stonagal's right ear. The older man at first jerked away, but Carpathia said, "Move again and you are dead." We've discussed how disappointing it is that the Antichrist's first on-screen kill should...