Mike Wittmer

What I think. What I know. What I think I know.

  • 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.…

  • education can be fun

    Here’s proof that my summer has been a little bit better than yours.

  • God’s Glory in Salvation through Judgment

    I met Jim Hamilton, associate professor of biblical theology at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, on a rafting trip through the Grand Canyon earlier this summer. Jim loves guacamole, his “sweet wife Jill,” and his Lord, though not in that order. Jim exudes Southern warmth and charm that make me envy his congregation at Kenwood…

  • the church in China

    If you live in Grand Rapids and don’t have tickets to Taylor Swift, consider coming out to Baker Book House tonight at 7:00, when I’ll be speaking on Christ Alone. I was fascinated by the cover story of the current Books and Culture, entitled “A Critique of All Religions:  Chinese Intellectuals and the Church.” David…

  • receipt

    Here is another entry for Our Daily Journey. As always, I appreciate any constructive feedback that might improve it before I submit it. read > 1 Samuel 15:1-35 “Then what is all the bleating of sheep and goats and the lowing of cattle I hear?” Samuel demanded.  I was walking through a museum exhibit on…

  • it’s here

    Many of us have been saying for some time that the normalization of homosexual marriage will inevitably open the door to the state’s acceptance of polygamy. Proponents of gay marriage typically scoff and say we’re silly for making such a slippery slope argument. Well, not anymore. In an op-ed in today’s New York Times, Jonathan…

  • the bottom of the slippery slope

    It probably isn’t too productive to comment on the comments of “emergent” authors, as they have taken pains to make clear that they are no longer with us. As they might say, their centered set doesn’t overlap with our bounded set (which, of course, demonstrates that they too can’t avoid having a boundary). But in case there was…

  • 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…

  • art that tells the story

    Chris Brewer’s Art That Tells the Story is now available. I mentioned this before, but it’s a coffee table collection of works grouped around the themes of creation, fall, redemption, and consummation. It’s something that every Kuyperian should possess, and since we’re all Kuyperians now (thanks to the successful efforts of N. T. Wright and…

  • liberating lordship

    I finally saw The King’s Speech last night (and early this morning, it’s a long movie). I almost never watch movies in a theater, not because of my residual conservative upbringing, but because I can’t see paying $20 when my wife and I can watch the same movie for $1 a few months later. I do…