BEST ESSAYS

Church Issues

• Our Ears Still Itch (published first in Christianity Today)
• In Defense of Proselytism
• Finger-Pointing and the SBC Decline (published first in Baptist Press)
• Unchurched or Unsaved? (published in Baptist Press)
• Joel Osteen’s Negative Message
• 5 Reasons Why the Emerging Church is Now Receding
• The Fundamentalist Survival Mechanism
• Newsflash! The Key to the 20Somethings is Not Musical Style
• Let Grace Abound in Us, Fellow Seminary Students

Theology

• The Trinitarian Gospel: Why We Need All Three Parts
• Truth is Beautiful
• Don’t Replace the Substitute!
• Why Calvin is More Biblical than Some Calvinists
• Piper versus Wright on Justification: A Layman’s Guide (first published in Christianity Today)
• I Love Revelation, but Eschatology Scares Me
• Why “Limited” and “Unlimited” Atonement Debates Miss the Point
• God is Jesus

Other Posts of Interest

• The State of the Blogosphere
• Reflections on the Release of My Book
• On Reading Widely
• Echoes of Babel: Our New National Sin
• Bedtime Prayers with our Children
• It is Finished!
• Luther & Zwingli at the Marburg Colloquy
• Why We Are Pro-Life

Best Interviews and Podcasts

• N.T. Wright (November 2007, April 2008, January 2009, January 2010)
• Mark Galli (March 2010)
• Danny Akin (June 2009)
• Michael Bird (April 2009)
• Andy Crouch (January 2009)
• Red Mountain Music (August 2008)
• Caedmon’s Call (July 2007)
• Robert Webber (2007)
• All Interviews

Live-Blogging

• “Southern Baptists, Evangelicals, and the Future of Denominationalism” – Union University, October 2009

Favorite Books

• My Ten Favorite Reads of 2009
• My Ten Favorite Reads of 2008
• My Ten Favorite Reads of 2007
• My Ten Favorite Reads of 2006

Best Book Reviews

• The Shack
• Deep Church – Jim Belcher
• The Faith – Charles Colson (review first published in Christianity Today)
• A New Kind of Christianity - Brian McLaren
• The Courage to be Protestant – David Wells
• The Future of Justification – John Piper
• True Story – James Choung (Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
• Young, Restless, Reformed - Collin Hansen
• Surprised by Hope - N.T. Wright
• Pagan Christianity? – Frank Viola & George Barna
• Book Reviews from 2007
• Book Reviews from 2008
• Book Reviews from 2009