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America is a great country. Where else could I turn on the television this week and witness a serious debate about whether the televising of the Oscars last Sunday had adversely affected attendance at Nascar races that day? It is difficult to be optimistic about the future of anything, be it...

The tiresome story of the "Tomb of Jesus" rolls on, proving once again the eagerness with which unbelief will grasp at anything to believe a lie. Informed responses can be found at the following sites: Andreas Kostenberger , Ben Witherington , Darrell Bock , and Charles Quarles .

My wife and I went to see the Wilberforce movie last (it had all the feel of a Baptist Prayer Meeting inside the theater with folks wearing suits and ties and the average age, well, my age!). It was hugely enjoyable, even if I got the distinct impression that for Hollywood to make this even...

Listening to Janis Joplin the other day, I was struck by two things. First, my eleven year old son (who had never, to my knowledge, heard Joplin) commented as he heard the first bars of `Me and Bobby McGee' that he didn't know I had a Joplin album. To recognise the voice like that at 11 must make...

I just returned from the first installment of this year's Philadelphia Conference on Reformed Theology , at Immanuel Baptist Church in Sacramento, CA. It was another classic PCRT! There were so many highlights, all of them resulting from the Spirit's presence in the preaching of God's Word. I want...

It seems that every year at the PCRT, something is said that focuses the entire conference. Last year it was Sinclair Ferguson's insistence that our goal is not merely "to know the truth of God's Word, but to know the power of the truth of God's Word." This last weekend it was a statement made...

Here's one Wall Street Journal op-ed piece that Carl may agree with.

A new edition of the 9 Marks Newsletter is now online [also available in PDF ]. Here's an introduction from editor Jonathan Leeman:

John Piper has posted a very moving journal entry from the other night, recounting the death of his father. I encourage everyone to read it. He has also posted an obituary of his dad.

Goodness me! Steve Nichols has produced yet another book on the Reformation: The Reformation: How a Monk and a Mallet Changed the World (Crossway). Come on people, get with the program -- the kids of today don't want to hear about grace, Christ, scripture, salvation, Christian freedom, service and...