One hundred and ten years ago Reuben Archer Torrey (1856-1928), then Superintendent of the Bible Institute of Chicago (later renamed Moody Bible Institute) wrote:
The Resurrection of Jesus Christ is in many respects the most important fact of Christian history. It is the Gibraltar of Christian Evidences, the Waterloo of Infidelity and Rationalism. If the scriptural [...]
Archive for March, 2008
The Resurrection of Jesus Christ
Posted in Jesus Christ on March 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Pi Day
Posted in God on March 14, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Just when I thought there was a day for everything, via Susan Polger’s Chess and Information blog I learned that today is…Pi day.
Evidently the instigators of this use this day (March 14, or 3.14) as an opportunity to celebrate math in schools, and perhaps other reasons as well!
The official website (www.piday.org) has a page [...]
McClain and New Evangelicalism
Posted in Fundamentalism, McClain, Alva J., New Evangelicalism on March 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Previously, I wondered what response McClain had toward new evangelicalism during its rise in the 1940s and 1950s. Recently, while filing a pile of papers, I came across some notes from a chapel at DBTS by Dr. McCune. He and Dr. Priest were doing a series on “Fundamentalist Personalities,” and the individual under consideration for [...]
Rohrer on McClain
Posted in McClain, Alva J. on March 6, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I finished Norman Rohrer’s book on Dr. Alva J. McClain last night, and I remembered my assessment of this biography: disappointing.
I found it disappointing because Rohrer spent large portions of the book on items that weren’t as salient to McClain’s life as other aspects that could have been included.
Rohrer did cover the controversy [...]
Alva J. McClain
Posted in McClain, Alva J. on March 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I was scheduled to begin teaching a class on the book of Revelation at Great Lakes Bible Institute last night. Alas, freezing rain canceled it.
With some time on my hands, I picked up Norman Rohrer’s biography of Alva J. McClain, A Saint in Glory Stands. I bought and read this several years ago. I may [...]
