Month: March 2008
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Augustine's Two Spiritual Laws
Bill Bright put a simplified account of the gospel into an easily-communicated form called the Four Spiritual Laws. Those laws, as stated in the classic booklet that has been used for so much evangelism, are: 1. God loves you and offers a wonderful plan for your life. 2. Man is sinful and separated from God.…
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Jesus in Trinitarian Perspective on the "Converse with Scholars" Program
This Thursday (March 6 ’08) I’ll be the guest on the Converse with Scholars web show hosted by Reclaiming the Mind ministries. I’ll be talking with the hosts and the live web audience about my 2007 book, Jesus in Trinitarian Perspective. You’ll be able to listen to the show anytime from their site, but if…
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18 Cats in 5 Minutes
Phoebe Age Five recently accepted the challenge to draw 18 cats as fast as she could. She completed the task in well under five minutes, and the result is a set of cat drawings with a striking range of compositional choices. In drawing, composition is the art of arranging visual elements on a page. It…
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The Bible Women
The story of Biola’s founding is easily told as the story of Big Men doing Big Things for their Big God. I’ve told the story that way myself, because it’s true: Biola’s three most important founders were a civil war veteran oil tycoon (Stewart), a highly-educated world-traveling evangelist (Torrey), and an urban pastor who could…
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The Secret’s Out: Great Books Education at Biola
Anthony Esolen has posted a blog entry over at Mere Comments regarding his recent visit to the Torrey Honors Institute at Biola University: I’ve visited a lot of campuses in the last few years, including Princeton and Yale, and at only one school, the much maligned Patrick Henry College in Virginia, did I encounter quite…