Sep
13
2011
Worth a look 9.13.11
Mark Driscoll has a new website that will provide a forum for him to speak personally about what’s going on with him and his family, as well as how the Holy Spirit is working in his life.
Are the cartoons your children watch harming their ability to concentrate?
Fast-paced, fantastical television shows such as “SpongeBob SquarePants” may harm children’s ability to pay attention, solve problems and moderate behavior, according to a US study published Monday. Researchers from the University of Virginia found that the learning ability of four-year-olds who watched nine minutes of “SpongeBob SquarePants” was severely compromised compared to four-year-olds who either watched the slower-paced TV show “Caillou” or spent time drawing.
Why Christians Shouldn’t Be Jerks:
What is wisdom? Among the attributes James describes in chapter three is reasonableness.Sometimes translations render it “moderation” or “restraint.” It’s the simple attitude of being nice and easy to get along with. Now you’d think this would be natural for Christians, but James, a first-century pastor, knew it wasn’t. Actually sometimes it is Christians who are the crankiest people. They are not fun to be with. Sometimes Christian leaders are the people you’d least want to be around.
Russell Moore reviews a new book on James Dunn and soul freedom:
“Everybody wants a theocracy,” James Dunn famously said. “And everybody wants to be ‘Theo.’” I probably quote that at least once a semester in Christian ethics class here at Southern Seminary, not only because it’s pithy but because it is so true. Dunn, longtime head of the Texas Baptist Christian Life Commission and the Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs, was nothing if not quotable. The other famous (or infamous) quote from him that comes to mind is his one sentence defense of “soul freedom”: “Ain’t nobody but Jesus going to tell me what to believe.”
Love him or hate him, Dunn was a powerful force in Baptist life in the twentieth-century, and a new book seeks to set him in historical and theological context.