Let me say this: there is no greater human motivation than the need for other relationships. The question is only if we will make the right choices. And that's not only for those who are lonely: it is for those who read James 2 and want to be doers of the word and not hearers only. Wishing others no...

What if people really cared about people? Let me suggest that if Christians, without giving up one iota or one inflection mark of doctrine, actually loved other people besides their own families, the Japanese would be a lot more interested in replicating faith in Christ rather than building machines...

JT linked to this interview by Hugh Hewitt of apologist and author J. P. Moreland (and if that link goes dead, you can find it here as a converted PDF) I will have more to say about this, either here or at TeamPyro. Pack a lunch. secret technorati tags:religion God Jesus Christian...

AP news is reporting this gem about Herman Rosenblat and his wife Roma. I'm not going to spoil it for you by giving ypou the summary, so go read it. Now, I have two axes to grind here -- both of which have to do with the Gospel. The first is the important factoid reported in the UK that Oprah has ca...

Carl Truman at his best. BTW, if you want me to exposit on that essay, here's my take in 150 words or less: The cultural and sociological issues at stake in both sides of the coin Truman examines here is exactly the reason Paul tells Timothy what the criteria for Elders and Overseers ought to be, an...

Y'know, I post the "best of" posts to try to keep the blog from going belly-up and to keep my time commitment to blogging minimized in the system tray, if you get what I'm saying: open, running, but not really doing anything. Last night, my family went camping without me because, well, I'm the Dad, ...

Now, in the end, you’re either saved or your not, right? So I'm not falling off the apple cart here. The question is if everyone in the church is saved, and if every church is itself standing inside the Gospel which saves. It would be a much less complicated world in which to deliver the Gospel if...

It's been a while since I posted a "best of Cent" look backwards, and today I have exactly enough time to make one post. This may be my favorite post I made in the first 3 months of my blogging. It's from my extended review of Tony Campolo's book, Speaking My Mind. Here’s a sample of some of Campo...

Yeah, you’re wondering when I’m actually going to get to part 2 of the “culture vulture� series and stop with the graded sidebars. Me, too. Anyway, Steve Camp has stopped by to, um, do what he does, and in it he said this:I don't think contextually that Jensen was making a mandate for engagi...

So I was listening to the 9Marks podcast, and Mark Dever was talking to this Aussie -- Phillip Jensen, Dean of St. Andrews in Sydney -- and Jensen said this: "You can't preach the Gospel to people you are afraid of." That, my friends, is a statement that ought to change the way we view the "culture"...