Mike Wittmer

Category: miscellaneous

  • go with God

    Andy Naselli has an embarrassingly cute man crush on Tim Tebow. After reading this Wall Street Journal story, I understand why. Tebow played for Florida and now Denver, two teams that Ohio sports fans have learned to hate. But it’s very hard not to root for him–and most of all, to pray that God will…

  • things that matter much more than they should

    This is for Pete Scribner, who will probably learn today that Albert Pujols has signed with the Miami Marlins. I know a little about what you are going through, Pete (except the part where my star wins a championship before leaving town). Keep your chin up, because as this article attests, it gets better. Update:  apparently the…

  • prison

    Last night I had the moving experience of preaching in a Muskegon prison. My former student Craig Curtis is doing a stellar job as the prison chaplain, and he invited me to come preach on the topic of hell. I asked whether the prisoners had heard of Love Wins, and I was told that they…

  • summer’s end

    I realize that my friends at Southern Baptist Seminary are already approaching their mid-terms, but classes at GRTS don’t begin until tomorrow. Our late start coincides with the governor’s decision a few years ago to delay the start of our public schools until after Labor Day, so that the state can take advantage of the…

  • free chapter

    I noticed that much of the discussion about Love Wins lingers on its views of hell, when what is needed is a deeper evaluation of how its position on hell leads to a different, existentialist understanding of the atonement. To that end, the Christ Alone website has now published chapter 7 as a free pdf.…

  • grand trip

    I just returned from a week of rafting through the Grand Canyon with about 30 other men. I made and was inspired by some new friends, and I learned a lot about the canyon and the two main theories on how it was formed (by the Flood or by millions of years of the little Colorado flowing…

  • 13 signs your sermon isn’t going well

    I posted this before, but many of my new readers haven’t seen this, and it fits with the first law of blogging: humor always attracts more hits than serious. So, in a shameless attempt to boost my blog traffic for one day, here is a “Top Ten List” I created for our seminary banquet a few years ago…

  • really?

    Summer school has consumed my energy these past two weeks, but I wanted to comment on a couple of strange items in the week’s news. 1. Anthony Weiner apologized to Bill Clinton?! Bet you didn’t see that one coming. 2. Clinton’s people say that the former president is genuinely miffed at Weiner, because Weiner’s wife…

  • ohio sports

    Think you’re having a bad day? Pity the poor guy trying to sell this. On the bright side, tomorrow night Akron’s favorite son takes the first step toward his inevitable NBA championship, and the Cleveland Indians, though having lost three of their last four games, are still the best team in baseball. The people most excited about this…

  • can your city do this?

    Last year in a fit of irony Newsweek claimed that Grand Rapids was a dying city. Since Newsweek knows what it feels like to be dying, we took this claim seriously. Here is our response (credit goes to Rob Bliss, who put this together).