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Monthly Archives: January 2013
When Work Goes Wrong
I posted a few weeks ago on the first part of Tim Keller’s new book Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God’s Work. I am not an uncritical fan of everything Keller has written. Perhaps I shouldn’t have added … Continue reading
Posted in Christian Life, Work
Tagged Tim Keller
How Could a Good God Allow Suffering?
Chapter 2 of Tim Keller’s book The Reason for God broaches the problem of pain. Given the pain and suffering in the world – either God is not good or God does not exist. This argument has many variations but … Continue reading
Posted in Problems for Faith
Tagged Tim Keller
All Religion is Culturally Conditioned Truth
Tim Keller has spoken on a number of different occasions about his book The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism. Many of these are now available on the internet through YouTube and on other sites. As I … Continue reading
Posted in Knowledge, Problems for Faith
Tagged Tim Keller
In an Age of Skepticism
I have had a number of interesting conversations over the last couple of months, some in person, some by email. One was with a young adult who was contemplating how to discuss the Christian faith with a friend who was … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Problems for Faith, Resources for Discussion
Tagged Tim Keller
Soon and Very Soon
I am mourning this week as a fellow faculty member and long time (5+ year) attender of our church died last week, not in the fullness of age as we read in Isaiah 65:20, but at my age. He wasn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Church, Evangelicalism
Is God Just?
The first of three cycles of speeches in the debate between Job and his friends covers Job 4-14. Each of the friends, Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar, reprove Job and Job responds to their charge. Job also reflects on his desire … Continue reading
Posted in Job
Tagged Tremper Longman III
Every Good Endeavor
Among other things of late I’ve been reading the new book by Tim Keller with Katherine Leary Alsdorf: Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God’s Work. If you happen to, oh say, teach at a seminary or pastor in … Continue reading
Posted in Christian Life, Work
Tagged Tim Keller
God’s Role in the Cosmos
We’ve taken a bit of a break from the series on the book of Job – but today we return and begin to dig into the debate between Job and his friends. The new commentaries by John Walton (Job (The … Continue reading
Posted in Creation, Job
Tagged John Walton, Tremper Longman III
The Bible Is Not the Center
The Bible has always played an unimpeachable role in Christianity … It is not, however, the central focus of Christian faith. That position belongs to God, and Christians are called to trust him. … Coming to the realization that the … Continue reading
Posted in Bible
Tagged Peter Enns
