by Dan Phillips ...these are pretty amazing: Now, I think the first is clearly faked, and one or two others are iffy. But the rest? If they're fake, they're fooling me. Even if they're all fake, we know that athletes pour incredible focus and discipline into what they do. Their whole life is molded ...

by Dan Phillips Among the exhortations the apostle fires off to Timothy in a staccato burst is this: "U ntil I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to exhortation, to teaching" (1 Timothy 4:13). If the last two facets describe preaching (and, I think, they do), the first describ...

by Dan Phillips (Some additional reflections on this post ) Vignette one: Centuries ago, when I was a brand-new Christian, I tried to witness to a friend in high school. He listened openly enough to such as I had to say. At the end, he had to confess: "I just keep trying to convince myself that acce...

by Dan Phillips I'm going to assume you're familiar with the narrative of Numbers 22-24. Balak, son of Zippor, king of Moab (Joshua 24:9), tries to hire the services of a seer named Balaam. Balak believes that Balaam's words have power (22:6), and he wants Balaam to aim those words at his enemy: Isr...

by Dan Phillips Challenge: So you think that all Jews who don't believe in Jesus are going to Hell? Response: Well, that's what the Torah says. Jesus believed the Torah. I believe Jesus. So...you do the math. NEXT!...

by Dan Phillips You don't remember Uzziah (c. 792-740 BC) having a problem with women? Nor do I. But he did have the same problem as some women. Check 2 Chronicles 26:16-21 — But when he was strong, he grew proud, to his destruction. For he was unfaithful to the LORD his God and entered the temple...

by Dan Phillips Series introduction : here commences a series of occasional posts that will last as long as inspiration (or flow of good suggestions) lasts. The posts will be shorter than a gamer's attention-span and more focused than a starving cat at a mouse-hole. They are meant to be sharp, force...

Over at his blog, Dan Phillips gives a shout out and happy birthday wishes to George Beverly Shea, who turns 100 today. And he's still singing for the glory of Christ! Dan's got a feature linked where you can send greetings to Mr. Shea on this special day....

by Dan Phillips [NOTE: this is a reworking of this post from my blog, from 2007] We know a lot about angels, and that we don't know a lot about angels. There is a great deal of Biblical material, on the one hand; but there are many gaps, holes, and lacunae. We know that angels are spirit beings of g...

by Dan Phillips I can't tell you how many times I've sat in an assembly and thought this, in the past 35+ years since my conversion: Dude, this critical moment, with these assembled people, on this your one shot — and you do that with it? Let me unpack. To me, as a preacher, one of the most stirri...