Jacob's Limp

[...] off like a polymath. He wasn't. He scraped by at Balliol College Oxford with a Third. He mocked CS Lewis' famous trilemma as "pathetic". (The 'Trilemma' was actually originated by an earlier [...]

[...] of Vienna. He visited Hungary in the Thirties and wrote about it in his Autobiography. Like CS Lewis he never took an academic doctorate though he navigated many a young scholar through doctoral [...]

[...] Today is the birthday of CS Lewis, the most quoted Christian author of the 20th Century. This blog has been virtually retired for [...]

[...] (1949-2011) The Death of Christopher Hitchens Last night Christopher Hitchens discovered he had an immortal soul after all. As far as his present state of consciousness [...]

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[...] John Stott (April 27, 1921-) I just listened to a 2002 Christmas sermon preached in London by John R.W. [...]

[...] other candidates could inspire a nomination for second place. Whitefield? Martyn Lloyd-Jones? John Stott? I really have no idea who should be second. But I suspect it's a distance second. Spurgeon was [...]

[...] not choose me; I chose him. Later that summer we did ministry together with students in the Czech Republic. Just before his diagnosis he agreed to come and minister in our church in Budapest, a [...]

[...] one reason to commend the quote: It happens to be true. Before I left for a trip to the Czech Republic on August 26th, Jane and I prayed. For some reason we began praying for friends [...]

[...] ) that reality never measured up to theory. Many traced their awakening in memoirs: George Orwell, Whitaker Chambers, and Joy Davidman among others. One of the most prolific and profound of [...]

[...] in the defeat and victory of our team. But there's also something there which is less obvious. George Orwell wrote that where religious faith is absent totalitarianism is inevitable. Men cannot live [...]

[...] a good laugh at least. I felt strangely drawn to his conclusion, but I fear it was based on insufficient data. I guess it depends on the standard. It took me 48 hours to learn of the death of my [...]

[...] enough time to find what I was looking for. I couldn’t share the illustration with insufficient data. So I tried to shelve the idea. But I couldn't get the thing out of my mind. I [...]

[...] you step outside that circle.' Antiochus left Egypt. And the authority for this," said FF Bruce, "is the Greek historian Polybius." "Well Professor Bruce," I responded, & [...]

[...] he wrote an Introduction to a book by Dewey Beegle which featured an unfortunate view of biblical authority. I am not competent to speculate on his reasons or what that Introduction signaled about [...]

[...] conviction that the Bible is the Word of God. He ministered in an era when confidence in biblical authority was in dramatic decline. The emergence of evolution meant that human life was being [...]