by Mark Farnham | Feb 23, 2014 | Book Reviews, Leadership
Anyone who has ever taught Sunday School, Adult Bible Fellowship, a small group, a VBS class, or in any other setting has experienced the frustration of a lesson that fails for lack of depth, flagging interest, or stagnant inward focus. Trevin Wax’s new book,...
by Mark Farnham | Jan 24, 2014 | Apologetics, Christian Thinkers, Culture, Theology
A prophetic quote from the late Malcolm Muggeridge: . . . it has become abundantly clear in the second half of the twentieth century that Western Man has decided to abolish himself. Having wearied of the struggle to be himself, he has created his own boredom out of...
by Mark Farnham | Jan 22, 2014 | Christian Thinkers, Church History, History, Theology
From John Piper’s forward to John Owen’s book, Overcoming Sin and Temptation: As I look across the Christian landscape, I think it is fair to say concerning sin, “They have healed the wound of my people lightly” (Jer. 6:14; 8:11, ESV). I take this to refer...
by Mark Farnham | Dec 30, 2013 | Christian Thinkers, Philosophy, Theology
All memory is tragic in the end: The failures, humiliations, betrayals, sufferings, or calamities that we recall for the most part cannot now be undone; the joys, triumphs, discoveries, and raptures that we recall are for the most part long gone. All memory is haunted...