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When you think of teenagers what images come to mind?  Does your mind take you to images of goofy, silly, irresponsible youth, or do you envision young adults preparing to enter the culture? When someone mentions college students, do you imagine frat parties or sporting events, or do you picture young men and women who [...]

“The work has been chiefly amongst the young; . . . few others have been made partakers of it. And indeed it has commonly been so, when God has begun any great work for the revival of his church; he has taken the young people, and has cast off the old and stiff-necked generation.” Jonathan [...]

Once upon a time (@ 1959) in a land called America there lived a group of people who banded together with a common faith, a common culture, and in so many ways, a common aesthetic. This group proved to be a growing population in numbers and in influence in the land of the free and [...]

I love speaking to and hanging out with young people.  As a college professor I made it a point to sit around the student center a couple hours a week just to enjoy time with excited, vivacious students.  I also love teenagers; in fact, I just returned from a wonderful weekend in Florida where I [...]

A LEGACY OF FAITH: JONATHAN AND SARAH EDWARDS One of my favorite people in history, Jonathan Edwards, witnessed what he deemed a “surprising work of God” historians call the First Great Awakening. Jonathan is best known for his famous sermon, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.” While this sermon was used of God [...]

Al Mohler is in grave condition in ICU as I post this. Please pray for him. Dr. Mohler and I were in college together but truly became friends through the conservative resurgence when he served as editor of the Christian Index. He has shown great leadership at SBTS amidst great difficulty in his early years [...]

New. I like that word. I prefer new to old in many things, although I do love history and certain things that would be called “vintage.” But “new” conjures thoughts of freshness, of surprises, of excitement. We soon turn the page to a new year. One can make more friends. One can earn more money. [...]

I love what I do, but sometimes I am tempted to feel a big guilty. After all, I get to teach the most amazing students how to tell the most amazing news in history, and I get paid to do it. And, due to the kindness and efforts of evangelist Bailey Smith, who secured the [...]

It has become fashionable in our Americanized version of Christianity to say things like “I want to be like Jesus.” Todd Agnew recently challenged the understanding of the phrase with a song. I particularly noted this line: “But my Jesus. . . would not be welcomed in my church. The blood and dirt on his [...]

I have to tell my friends who frequent my little corner of blogdom about what has become my favorite blog. Just go to nathanfinn.blogspot.com. Now there are others I read with various levels of agreement, encouragement, perplexity, or even disagreement. But this is my favorite. Nathan is a brilliant PhD student at SEBTS and our [...]