Frankly Speaking

The college course syllabus has changed. As some of us can remember, years ago a syllabus might take up no more than one side of a single sh...

What efforts I spent on that task (i.e., learning Hebrew), what difficulties I had to face, how often I despaired, how often I gave up and t...

With so much attention focused on the Olympics right now, I almost forgot about tonight's big event: Rick Warren, pastor of Saddleback C...

1986 saw the publication of a massive anthology edited by Wolfgang Mieder, The Prentice Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs . In the 1990s, ...

Teaching is not a lost art, but regard for it is a lost tradition . The test and the use of a man's education is that he finds pleasure ...

In his book The Supremacy of God in Preaching , John Piper writes: Years ago during the January prayer week at our church, I decided to prea...

Last week, I mentioned and asked about my recently-assigned topic: The Sovereignty of God. Several ideas and suggestions came in. Thanks! Ge...

Book talk. It's one of the many things I like about blogging. I like to hear about that great book someone else has discovered. I like...

It might sound ironic at first, but I really like it whenever I'm asked to preach or write and the topic is assigned . For one thing, ...

Is the United States of America a Christian nation? There’s more than one way to answer that question. According to statistics gathered by t...

It was sunny and hot at the Alamo! At the Riverwalk As of last Saturday night, we're back in Amarillo. On Tuesday morning...

Rain! . . . Let's Keep It Most sections of the Texas Panhandle have gotten a few inches of rain over the past two weeks. In some cases i...