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Volume 43, Issue 3 — November 2009

MANAGING CHANGE IN A MULTI-GENERATIONAL CHURCH
In an article for LeadershipJournal.net, John Ortberg writes: “There is an old saying in the church world that ‘the issue is never the issue; the issue is always control.’ And when it comes to generations working together, the question of control is never more than about a micron below the […]

July 2009 issue is now available at http://www.thegospelcoalition.org/publications

Editorial by D. A. Carson
During the last couple of decades, I have had occasion to reflect a little on the ambiguities and challenges surrounding what is sometimes called “polemical theology.” From time to time I shall use this editorial column to develop some of these reflections. Here I […]

Logos Bible Software is celebrating the launch of their new online Bible by giving away 72 ultra-premium print Bibles at a rate of 12 per month for six months. The Bible giveaway is being held at Bible.Logos.com and you can get up to five different entries each month! After you enter, be sure to check […]

H. Edwin Young shares the following: “Charles Shultz, in his cartoons, once painted a little picture of Lucy and Linus in their home looking out a window at a thunderstorm. Lucy, in typical candidness, said, ‘I hope it doesn’t rain and rain until the whole world is flooded.’ Linus came back with, ‘Don’t worry. In […]

The newest issue is now available: Volume 34, Issue 1 - April 2009

A short preview
The Embattled Bible: Four More Books
Robert W. Yarbrough
Robert Yarbrough is chair of the New Testament department, professor of New Testament, and editor of Trinity Journal at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois.
Quite apart from commentaries and hermeneutical textbooks, books on […]

It took a cheesy title to win the big prize.
The 2009-2014 World Outlook for 60-milligram Containers of Fromage Frais by Philip M. Parker won the Diagram Prize, awarded last week by The Bookseller, a UK publication. The annual prize–decided by a public vote–goes to the oddest book title of the past year.
The book is a […]

Responding to a recent survey showing that 15 percent of Americans express no religious connections, James Emery White deals with several key questions in his latest Serious Times commentary: “First, what is happening? In what I consider an overlooked book, Without God, Without Creed: The Origins of Unbelief in America, James Turner argues that unbelief […]

An aged farmer and his wife were leaning against the edge of their pig pen when the old woman wistfully recalled the following week would mark their golden wedding anniversary.
“Let’s have a party, Homer,” she suggested. “Let’s kill a pig.”
The farmer scratched his grizzled head.
“Gee, Ethel,” he finally answered, “I don’t see why the pig […]

In an article in Men of Integrity magazine, Gary Richmond shares this story: “The Angola giraffe was giving birth. I stood next to zoo animal keeper, Jack Badal, to watch. She was standing up, and the calf’s front hooves and head were already visible. ‘When is she going to lie down?’ I asked Jack.
“‘She won’t,’ […]