Month: August 2008
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On the Art of Online Conversation
Internet discourse is in a bad way. Crass language, disrespect, and dishonesty seem pervasive in many of the essays and comment sections of internet publications. On the whole, there is much about the internet that ought to give Christians pause. GodblogCon speaker and Scriptorium Daily essayist John Mark Reynolds discusses these problems with Katherine Britton,…
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Why C. S. Lewis Was Smarter Than Me Am
An excerpt from a letter that the 17-year-old C. S. Lewis wrote to his best friend: 12 October 1915 You ask me how I spend my time, and though I am more interested in thoughts and feelings, we’ll come down to facts. I am awakened up in the morning by Kirk splashing in his bath,…
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By the Book
“The B-I-B-L-E” doesn’t really pack the same punch for adults as it does for the pre-K Sunday school crowd. But gussied up in the dignity of an Elizabethan homily, the admonition to read my Bible once again demands my attention. “A Fruitful Exhortation to the Reading of Holy Scripture” is the first sermon of over…
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Unquiet Thought (Spenser’s Amoretti #2)
VNQUIET thought, whom at the first I bred, Of th’ inward bale of my loue pined hart: and sithens haue with sighes and sorrowes fed, till greater then my wombe thou woxen art. Breake forth at length out of the inner part, in which thou lurkest lyke to vipers brood: and seeke some succour both…
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How To Support Your Christian Blog
Website monetization is a multi-million dollar problem that currently has no good solution. To shed some light on the problem and provide a possible solution, GodblogCon invited Marcus Goodyear and Chris Cree to interview GBC speaker Wade Tonkin, owner of Christian Affiliate Marketers. Be sure not to miss Wade’s interesting response to the question, “Is…
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Voting as a Spiritual Discipline: Ten Tips
How do you keep a healthy spiritual life during an intensely political time? The political season, after all, is about to begin in earnest: in only one week the Democrats will open their national convention in Denver, and shortly after that the Republicans will convene in Minneapolis – St. Paul. In short order, running mates…
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Leaves, Lines, and Rymes (Spenser’s Amoretti #1)
HAPPY ye leaues when as those lilly hands, which hold my life in their dead doing might shall handle you and hold in loues soft bands, lyke captiues trembling at the victors sight. And happy lines, on which with starry light, those lamping eyes will deigne sometimes to look and reade the sorrowes of my dying…
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Andrew Jones Interview
Biola University and the Torrey Honors Institute are proud to present GodblogCon 2008 this September 20-21st. GodblogCon invited Andrew Jackson, Rhett Smith, Cynthia Ware, Matthew Anderson, and Marcus Goodyear to interview Andrew Jones of the Tall Skinny Kiwi who will be speaking at this year’s conference. Topics ranged from the relevance of blogging in today’s…
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The Gist of the Lesson
R. A. Torrey wrote dozens of books, oversaw academics at the two greatest Bible Institutes in America, and carried out a round-the-world preaching tour that made headlines in big cities on five continents. He was a busy man and he worked on a grand scale. But while serving as the international celebrity for evangelical Christianity,…
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R. A. Torrey’s Greatest Sermons
R. A. Torrey (1856-1928) was the most important evangelist between Dwight L. Moody and Billy Graham. In the eighty years since his death, his fame has declined, so that he is no longer a household name. But his name is still powerful: you can hardly find a Christian bookstore so vacuous that it doesn’t sell…
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“Permit Me, Then, to Address You as Dying Persons…”
It’s a phrase Charles Simeon used fairly often in his preaching career, usually toward the end of a sermon in order to double-underline his point. “Permit me, then, to address you as dying persons, and to ask what you will think of these things when standing on the bring and precipice of eternity?” He uses…
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Summer Reading Recommendations
A book, a hammock, a cool glass of lemonade, and a gentle summer breeze. There is still time left in the summer to enjoy cultivating the mind and exercising the imagination. John Mark Reynolds, Paul Spears, and Fred Sanders share their picks for good summer reading. Click here to listen!