Three Good Blog Reads from friends: End of November 2011

Some of the blog entries I read recently that I thought was pretty thought provoking: 1.) It’s okay to kill your child when…?  Over at Bryan Lopez’ blog.  His wife and him has adopted many children over the years. 2.) Role Models for Little Girls: The Little Mermaid or Queen Esther?  Maungakiekie has a very [...]

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Los Angeles Riots against Korean Americans and the argument against Black Reparation

I want to make it clear at the outset that I have nothing racial against other race, but I thought this news story made me think about the issue of race a little further from http://www.wavenewspapers.com/news/local/Black-and-Korean-leaders-to-commemorate-20th-anniversary-of-92-unrest-133587583.html: Black, Korean leaders to commemorate 20th anniversary of L.A. riots Seeking to create a multi-cultural Los Angels that exists [...]

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Book Review: Foundations of Christian Scholarship

This work was an unofficial festschrift for Cornelius Van Til, edited by Gary North.  The story behind this second Festchrift for Van Til is an interesting story in it’s own right.  The work attempts to put forth the foundation for a Christian approach towards various academic disciplines that is informed from a Christian worldview.  I [...]

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Christmas Gift Book Lists on Christian Worldview and Apologetics Discipleship 2011

Last year I put together a list of Christmas recommended books for gifts on Presuppositional Apologetics that can still be accessed here. I thought I also put out another list of books that I recommend when it comes to area of Christian worldview and not just presuppositional apologetics or apologetics per se.  It is also [...]

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Book Review: Future Men by Doug Wilson

If you have read any of Doug Wilson’s book previously, you would expect his style and wordsmiths to shine through in this work. My expectation was not disappointed. Wilson did a good job tackling this topic of raising up men from a Christian perspective. The work is filled with practical wisdom concerning raising up boys [...]

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Review: Thinking Straight in a Crooked World By Gary DeMar

I wrote this review some years ago. For those who have been growing in their knowledge and application of defending the faith in Presuppositional Apologetics (that emphasize beginning from the Bible first, focus on epistemology[Theory of knowledge], Ultimate Standards and authority, etc) one might find that over time it can be difficult to lay out [...]

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Book Recommendation: Money, Posessions and Eternity by Randy Alcorn

This work is worth the money and time in buying and reading from front to end. If you do not have money, sell your possessions to buy it! Our church has read this for our mid-week fellowship and it has challenged all of us in our Christian life when it comes to the issue of [...]

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Book Review: The early Christian apologists and Greek philosophy: Exemplified by Irenaeus, Tertullian and Clement of Alexandria by Hamilton Baird Timothy

This work is an abridgement of the author’s doctoral dissertation from the University of Edinburgh, and readers will get the sense that the book has a lot that carried over stylistically from the thesis. The work examines three Christian apologist that lived in the second century– Irenaeus, Tertullian and Clement of Alexandria–and their relationship to [...]

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CARM Interviews Dr. Jason Lisle of Answers in Genesis

I just found this you tube clip. Have not seen the whole thing yet, but thought this might be of interests. Dr. Lisle’s apologetics is shaped by the works of Dr. Greg Bahnsen and Cornelius Van Til.

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Occupy SF speech about Burn your money

If these guys would just burn their dollar bills, that would remove their own buying power, but on the one hand it rid us of some of the inflation cause by the government overproducing currency. Or on the other hand, they can give it all to me, and I will make sure it will not [...]

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Book Review: Calvinistic Concept of Culture

For those who are familiar with Cornelius Van Til and his work on apologetics, this book will be a treat. The author happen to be Cornelius Van Til’s nephew, and the work explores the implication of Calvinistic theology on culture. Divided into three parts, the first section is largely devoted to the question of what [...]

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BIBLICAL GENRE HERMENEUTICS COURSE: SESSION FOUR: PROSE 2: OLD TESTAMENT HISTORICAL NARRATIVE

GO TO PART III I. Identifying Old Testament historical narrative a. Old Testament historical narrative is a specific type of narrative. i.      Some scholars might not see this as a distinct category while some do. ii.      Historical narrative “is national and not familial or tribal”[1] iii.      Thus, historical narrative does not imply that regular narratives [...]

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Veritas Domain Flashback Posts: Total Depravity and implications for apologetics

I thought it might be good to give a link to a post I wrote here back in 2009, titled “Total Depravity and the implications for Apologetics.” You can read it by clicking HERE. It was a good reminder for me to remember the implications of the biblical doctrine sin and Christian anthropology, and it’s [...]

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Book Review: Honest Money: Biblical View of Money and Banking

I write this review during a time in the United States where Occupy Wall Street and protests against banks is on the front page news. In light of the attention on economics and banking, this book is one that would serve as a Christian introduction to the concept of money, and banking. I thoroughly recommend [...]

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Review: Lectures on Francis Schaeffer Early Years

Covenant Theological Seminary has for free Seminary lectures on the early years of Francis Schaeffer by Jerram Barrs, which is available by clicking HERE. This is the course description on their website: Course Description Identification of the biblical emphasis in the thought and life of Francis and Edith Schaeffer, with a focus on the development [...]

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