March 31, 2010
1 Corinthians 15:20-26 But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. But each [...]
March 31, 2010
If you have ever attended a Catholic Mass or a liturgical Protestant service, you know that Whitton Avenue Bible Church is about the furthest thing from “liturgical,” whether it be in the ordering of our services or in what services even have. While there are likely downsides to this way of doing things, there are [...]
March 24, 2010
“You can spend 2 hours of a film showing people falling in love or falling out of love, but you can only show 2 minutes of them being in love.” This is a paraphrased quote I heard someone share from a personal conversation with Sydney Pollack, the late film director and actor. We can observe [...]
March 17, 2010
This week I received alarming e-mails from three dear missionary brothers serving in sensitive Muslim contexts. These brothers minister in different capacities with different agencies in countries that are separated culturally and geographically. Yet the updates they sent were startlingly uniform: the work of the gospel is being threatened by push back from the host [...]
March 10, 2010
The cover story of this week’s issue of The Economist is titled “Gendercide,” and highlights the massive gender gap in China, India, and other Asian and European countries due to gender-based abortions of female babies. Consider this staggering projection: in 10 years, China will have as many unmarried male adults as the United States has male [...]
