Mark Overstreet

Read or listen to a biographical message on Martin Luther preached by John Piper.

Read the live-blog from Noah Braymen on this conference co-sponsored by IX Marks and Matthias Media at CHBC this week.

OK, so you don’t have any ideas for the fall festival.  Try this link for your favorite ready-to-print mask from the Star Wars series, Revenge of the Sith.  I found it while preparing for tonight’s lightsaber tournament we’re having in my front yard tonight, where I will be sliced to death by my three sons [...]

Read this article in TIME, where the mag tries to tackle the “favorite Baptist parlor game.”   What exactly is a Mormon? It’s a question that has special significance right now, since it relates to how religious conservatives regard the Mormon candidate Mitt Romney.”
Read the article.

Richard Land, president of the ERLC, has an interview in this week’s Newsweek magazine on the direction of conservative evangelicals and the “third party” option many have expressed as necessary should Rudy Giuliani be nominated.  He also appeared earlier this month in Time (here). Read the Newsweek interview here.
Update: SWBTS to name center for cultural [...]

DBU President Dr. Gary Cook was diagnosed with Acute Myelogenous Leukemia (AML) on Friday, October 12, and he was hospitalized as soon as they discovered the problem.
AML is a form of leukemia which is very aggressive, and once someone is discovered with this disease, they are required to begin treatment immediately.
He will be undergoing treatment [...]

If any of you doubted that Google will soon take over the world, this should clinch it for you.   Dial 1-800-GOOG-411, and its all voice automated from there…
Watch the Google YouTube.

My good friend, Dr. Jim Hamilton, made the Dallas Morning News this weekend in an article that addresses the benefits of reading and studying a good translation of the Bible.  He preaches and teaches from the ESV.  Other contemporary translations, he explains, go beyond translation to interpretation.  “Interpreting is the job of commentator, teacher, preacher [...]

Read about Mrs. George W. Bush’s trip to the East. Its her 14th international trip she’s taken without the president. Read about her mission here.

Listen to more from Byron Pitts, who did a fine job interviewing Osteen on 60 Minutes tonight. Michael Horton joined the fray, even calling aspects of Osteen’s preaching heresy.
Horton has written several well-soled essays on Osteen and the theology he preaches.
Byron Pitts interviewed.