Today a church service was held in Ekaterininskaya Church (Catherine's Church) for the first time in over seventy years. If you have been to Chernigov before, it is the large church on the hill as you enter the city, towering over the road and seen from a few miles away. After the fall of the Soviet Union, it was never returned to the Orthodox Church even though it should have been. The interesting...

Vern S. Poythress is in my opinion one of the most intelligent Christians in America. They guy is a mathematician who got his Ph.D. in Math at Harvard. Not only that, but his expertise in linguistics, theology, science, herminutics, and philosophy is so rich that you feel like even the paper his stuff is printed on weighs more than your average 80 grams, more like 240 grams . A math genius turned t...

So they say your taste buds change every 7 years or. I am not really sure if it is true or not but my taste for hot sauces has gone through some serious changes. Prior to moving to Europe I loved Tabasco and used the stuff constantly. After leaving the States I fell in love with Tapatio and would purchase it by the gallon to avoid running out on the other side of the world from Vernon, California....

Over at Driscoll's blog is a photo of Mark Driscoll and JI Packer. What struck me is the similarities and differences between these two men. They are from two different generations, grew up on two different continents, dress and talk completely differently, are something like 50 years apart in age, yet both are possibly the the most influential christians to their generation. Packer was to the seco...

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