Tim Challies did a great review of the book, The Shack, by William Young on his website. It is well-written and offers an insightful critique of the book. If anyone was considering reading the book, I’d send them to Challies’s post. If you don’t plan on reading the book, I’d still recommending reading it so that you can interact with people concerning the book and have a baseline knowledge of what the book is about and the topics it covers.
Category: Theology
Joel Osteen – Your Best Life Now
Michael Horton offers a critical examination of Osteen’s book, Becoming A Better You, that is worth reading.
Sigmund Freud’s Thoughts About People
“I have found little that is ‘good’ about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash.”
-Sigmund Freud
Now this doesn’t necessarily invalidate any system that Freud came up with. However, when you take into consideration that the system he invented, psychoanalysis, has as one of its primary goals to treat psychological and emotional illness, you have to ask yourself if a person who thought that most people are trash really had other people’s best interests at heart as he developed his system.
Time for the Trees?
We have babies being slaughtered, soldiers being killed, forced prostitution (read: sex slavery) of children and yet there is a need by some people to focus most, if not all, of their attention on trees?