**WARNING: THIS POST CONTAINS SOME OF WHAT THE AUTHOR DEEMS TO BE NECESSARILY MATURE CONTENTPeter Kreeft once wrote, "Christianity is not a hypothesis, it is a proposal of marriage."  This scene (below) from The Fisher King makes me think of his insightful words.  We in America have grown skeptical of real love and rightly so.  We are a ruggedly individualistic people, selfish to the core, whose motto may as well be "What's in it for me?"  Many of us never find, much less give, the kind of love Peter talked about that "covers a multitude of sins" (1 Peter 4:8)...

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 **This review was written by Andrew David Naselli of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, IL.    Just Do Something: A Liberating Approach to Finding God’s Will: or, How to Make a Decision Without Dreams, Visions, Fleeces, Open Doors, Random Bible Verses, Casting Lots, Liver Shivers, Writing in the Sky, etc.Chicago: Moody, 2009. 128 pp.Is this yet another book on how to find the will of God, especially with reference to vocation and marriage? No, Kevin DeYoung, senior pastor of University reformed Church in East Lansing, Michigan, does not think God’s will is lost, but he does think that many...

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There is a scene in the movie The Iron Giant that makes me cry nearly every time I watch it.*  The Iron Giant, whom federal agents are seeking to destroy, gives his own life for the lives of the people he loves after one crazed agent fires a nuclear missile off that would wipe them all out.  Instead of loving God, we have, at worst, despised Him, and, at best, been double minded toward Him, the One who made us and loves us.  We truly all like sheep have strayed from our Shepherd.  But Isaiah 53 says about Jesus that...

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Last night I listened to "the Doctor," D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, preach on evangelism.  You can listen to the sermon for yourself here.  He took for his text 1 Thessalonians 1:5-10.  He is answering the question, "How should we approach evangelism today?"  And his answers might just surprise you.  First, what we need is not newer, better, more relevant methods.  We don't need to look to businesses, to advertisers, or to marketers for help reaching non-Christians.  Our power isn't in methods, however clever or attractive they are.  Our power has never been there.  This was not Paul's way in Thessalonica.  Paul...

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**I actually have not gotten a chance to see the movie yet, but have heard good things and hope to see it soon.  I did, however, come across a review of it written by Jay Swartzendruber over at crosswalk.com that was helpful.  He writes:The remarkable true story of Memphis, Tenn.'s Tuohy family was first told in the 2006 New York Times best seller The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game by Michael Lewis (Moneyball, Liar's Poker). As the author explains, Sean Tuohy may be the successful owner of 80 fast-food restaurants, and also be the radio color commentator for the NBA's Memphis Grizzlies, but Sean learned about poverty...

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