Joe Haynes | July 31, 2010
I’m not a fan of the Alpha Course. It does not give adequate weight to the whole message of Scripture, particularly on what the Bible has to say about why the Gospel of Jesus Christ is “good news”. (There’s more to say about Alpha, but that’s another blog post.) I am a fan of the [...]
Joe Haynes | July 24, 2010
What would happen if modern civilization was destroyed by a lethal virus and nuclear war, thrusting the surviving population back into a time of medieval technology and brutality? What would happen if all knowledge was lost, including the knowledge of God’s Word? What would happen if one couple, far from home, running for their lives, [...]
Joe Haynes | July 22, 2010
Maybe I’m just feeling a bit grumpy? Maybe it was the bag of vegetable chips I just ate? But when I saw a tweet talking about the 10-10-10 Initiative (http://www.101010initiative.org/) my stomach turned over a little bit. I really hope I’m just irritable right now and that my concerns with this thing are totally unfounded [...]
Joe Haynes | July 21, 2010
I’m just going to shamelessly copy and paste Brian Croft’s blog post from the Gospel Coalition Blog, found here: http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/tgc/2010/07/21/how-can-i-make-sure-i-am-individually-shepherding-my-children/ . What a challenge! But what a worthy goal! How can I make sure I am individually shepherding my children? Most pastors would affirm our priority is first to shepherd our family, then to shepherd [...]
Joe Haynes | July 19, 2010
The year the ESV Study Bible was published, I did not know who Tullian Tchividjian was. I saw his video introduction to Crossway’s new study Bible in the kiosk at the local Christian bookstore in Saskatoon and thought, “Who is that guy? And how many consonants are in the name, ‘Tullian Tchividjian’?” But since then, [...]
Joe Haynes | July 17, 2010
Two opinion pieces in Canada’s National Post caught my attention tonight. The first is by Jonathan Kay, posted yesterday, entitled “Bad Science: Global-warming deniers are a liability to the conservative cause”. The impression one gets from reading this article is that people (conservatives) who doubt that “Climate Change” (nee “Global-Warming”) is a real, scientific fact, [...]
Joe Haynes | July 3, 2010
How did that happen [that our world is just a “faint image of its former glory”]? Our passage [Romans 8:18-25] says it was deliberately subjected to futility. Indeed, the futility of the earth comes from the hand of God. The very God who pronounced his creation good, has also created a world that would need [...]
