On Page 76 of N.D. Wilson’s Notes From The Tilt-A-Whirl (my favorite book of the year):
In Virginia, there lived a man named Roy Sullivan.  He was struck by lightning seven times.  I’m told rough odds of this happening are out of 1.6 x 10 to the 25th (sixteen septillion).  Which is like one man winning [...]

Better abolish pulpits than fill them with men who have no experimental knowledge of what they teach… People go to their place of worship and sit down comfortably, and think they must be Christians, when all the time all that their religion consists in, is listening to an orator, having their ears tickled with music, [...]

Doug Wilson on evangelism:
The Bible not only teaches that the world is the way that God made it, and not the way we would like it to be, but the Bible also teaches that every man actually knows this, and that no man has an excuse for denying it. The world the way God made [...]

From Ray Ortland’s Blog
My dad used to say to me, when I was a kid, “Listen, son.  Half-hearted Christians are the most miserable people of all.  They know enough to feel guilty, but they haven’t gone far enough with Christ to be happy.  Be wholehearted for him!”
I used to roll my eyes when you said [...]

(HT: Vitamin Z)

“If you’re a sports fan, and I am, that’s the holiest day of the year,” he wrote. “It’s not a day to discuss abortion. For it, against it, I don’t care what you are. On Super Sunday, I don’t care what I am. Feb. 7 is simply not the day to have that discussion.”
- Gregg [...]

There have been many reviews and critiques of this book, but here is one that is concise and written in a helpful tone, by Tim Keller.

99 Balloons from Igniter Media on Vimeo.
(HT: Justin Taylor)

“I had also hoped that the white moderate would reject the myth concerning time in relation to the struggle for freedom. I have just received a letter from a white brother in Texas. He writes: “All Christians know that the colored people will receive equal rights eventually, but it is possible that you are in [...]

Kevin DeYoung helps to clarify what different Christian communities mean by the phrase social justice by acknowledging an unconstrained and constrained vision.  Here is a question that helps us differentiate between a constrained and unconstrained vision of social justice.  Is it always, in every circumstance, just to give food to the hungry person? Before I [...]