Mike Wittmer

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

  • uh-oh

    Turns out the top bowler in the Special Olympics is Kolan McConiughey from Ann Arbor.  He has bowled 5 perfect games since 2005 and has publicly challenged our president to “bring it on.”  I’m guessing that Obama is wishing that he had compared his bowling skills to something more innocuous, like kindergarteners. 

  • what went wrong

    If you want to understand how our country and the world landed into this financial mess, you should listen to NPR’s This American Life episodes “Bad Bank” and “The Giant Pool of Money.” They are the clearest and easiest to follow explanations that I have heard. You can listen to a streaming podcast or download…

  • tullian and coral ridge

    Tullian Tchividian is asking folks to pray this weekend for the near merger of his young church, New City, with the venerable Coral Ridge community once pastored by D. James Kennedy.  On the face of it, this seems like a difficult merger to pull off, but Tullian reports that the leaders of both churches are…

  • the weekly magazine that gets it

    Unlike Newsweek, which may or may not have tried to tweak the ever gracious Richard Mouw this week, the upcoming issue of  Time is on the “10 ideas that are changing the world right now.”  And number three is…the “new calvinism.”  Take a bow, Piper, Mohler, Carson, Driscoll, Taylor, et al.  May Jesus continue to bless…

  • is this anything?

    In the February 9, 2009 edition of Newsweek, Richard Mouw, the President of Fuller Seminary and former Grand Rapidian, objected in a “My Turn” column to Newsweek’s incendiary cover story on the Bible and homosexuality.  Mouw said that “one remark that hit especially close to home was made by the editor of this magazine.  He…

  • tony’s unoriginal sins

    Here is my brief assessment of Tony Jones’ blogposts that deny the traditional Christian doctrine of original sin.  Besides the immaturity (“Watch out, Brian, the NeoReformed stormtroopers went after Scot McKnight last week, and they’ll probably come after you here!”), Tony’s posts suffer from ignorance and arrogance. 1. Ignorance:  Tony reduces original sin to original…

  • push back

    I have been a bad blogger this week, distracted by the real life demands of teaching and preparation for teaching.  This weekend I get to speak on vocation to about 200 participants at The Chapel in Akron.  Next week I get to grade student confessions and papers! In the meantime, Doug Phillips emailed me this…

  • our daily journey

    A couple of times I ran devotionals by you all on this site for Radio Bible Class’s “Our Daily Journey,” which is a longer version of “Our Daily Bread” for 30 somethings.  The website just went live today, with an interactive blog.  Check it out at http://www.ourdailyjourney.org/.  Instead of my whole face their icon of…

  • southern kuyper

    I just had an extremely stimulating day with the students, recent graduates, and friends of David Naugle at the 12th annual Paideia conference at Dallas Baptist University.  There may not be anything else like it.  Nearly 40 students read papers at this day and a half long event, and the ones that I attended were provocative…

  • Brian McL. on Brian McL.

    I’m spending the weekend with David Naugle at his Paideia Student Conference at Dallas Baptist University.  It’s 80 degrees here!  Tomorrow I give a lecture and answer questions on Heaven is a Place on Earth.  It is used as a textbook here in some classes, and some of the students think I’m way off base, so Dave invited me…