Mike Wittmer

Month: May 2009

  • God: 135 Cleveland: 0

    That is the score for the last 45 years of Cleveland’s three major sports.  I know that the Cavs didn’t start until around 1970, so that score may be off by about 8 or so, but really, what does it matter?  It was a bit surreal to see my neighbor standing over Cleveland this time,…

  • no answer

    I know of three things today which have no answer:  the Cleveland Cavaliers, Roland Burris, and those who oppose penal substitution.  The first two are self-explanatory if you are following the news, but I should explain the third.  It hit me recently that those who deny penal substitution are unable to explain exactly how the…

  • we don’t discriminate, except when we do

    Every job posting and even the cover of our seminary catalogue states that “Cornerstone University does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, sex, age or disability in any of its policies and programs.”  This important statement is enforced by our nation’s courts.  Should we ever sin by discriminating “on the basis of…

  • mile high

    I’m in Denver for the Gospel Rescue Missions national conference, and last night I missed the first half of the free-throw shooting contest in Orlando to attend the plenary talk by Shane Claiborne.  Shane was in the Christian news last year when my alma mater disinvited him (not his fault), so I was interested to…

  • trick or tweet

    That last post was what I would have tweeted if I had a Twitter account, but I don’t and so it’s not.  But in this issue of Time magazine there is an article about churches that encourage their members to tweet during the service (p. 51-52).  It may also be available on-line, but with my…

  • whew!!

  • scream

    My neighbor put on a fireworks display last night in downtown Grand Rapids–not for the public (he’ll do that on July 4), but for the 1,000 executives who are in town for the 50th anniversary of his business and watch party for the Cavs-Magic series.  He was interviewed in the paper this week, and he declared…

  • how it ends

    Here is a book review of A Case for Historic Premillennialism which I just finished for Calvin Seminary’s journal.  My review won’t be published until November or next April, so it looks like new media triumphs once again.  I teach at a premillennial, pretribulational seminary (we’re mostly progressive dispensationalists) and I wrote this review on non-dispensational…

  • yeah, yeah, yeah

    This lies outside my area of expertise (but not my pay-grade), so unlike my researched rants on Cleveland sports, I’m open to being wrong here.  But has anyone else noticed the sudden rise of a new locution in the English language?  I speak of the phrase, “Yeah, yeah, yeah,” not its drawn out form which…

  • the home team

    I live in Ada, Michigan, the hometown of a successful business which is celebrating its golden anniversary this week.  I don’t want to say out loud what the business is, but if you are free this evening, I’d like to stop by after my softball game and tell you about a terrific opportunity for you…