The Tulip Driven Life

REFORMATION BIBLE COLLEGE DIALOGUE PAPER IN A BAR WITH JOHN LOCKE AND DAVID HUME CHURCH HISTORY BY THOMAS BOOHER SANFORD, FLORIDA MARCH, 2012             I strode into the bar. It was past eleven now, and my nerves were on edge. My church history oral presentation and final paper would be due in a few short hours, and I had yet to postulate what to talk about and what to write. After pacing about in my room and realizing I was fresh out of ideas, I figured the rational thing to do was hit up the bar and have a beer or two to calm my nerves. After all, drinking seemed to always have that effect on me.             “What can I get for you?” the girl at the bar asked. As she spoke, two other men scooted in, each looking a bit disheveled and flustered with one another. They were garbed i...

Thanks to Saltriver (Tyndale House Publishers) for kindly providing a copy of  Night of the Living Dead Christian  for review on the March 2012 Christian Science Fiction and Fantasy Blog Tour. Night of the Living Dead Christian.                                               My Score: 3.5/5 stars.  It is a shame that I am a busy Bible college student, and that I will only be able to post once for this blog tour. I just finished this book, at 2:30 in the morning, and read it all in one sitting. I have a class at 8 AM and have much to say regarding Matt Mikalatos ' wonderfully well written, zany, comical spoof and biblical allegory,  Night of the Living Dead Christian .  Firstly, when I read Mikalatos, I do not think of C.S. Lewis. Not because Mikalatos is a poor writer, he is a very good writer, but because this style of writing is nothing...

On my new blog, Worldview Writing, I have posted a response to a critique of The Hunger Games that Doug Wilson posted. Take this link and check it out. http://worldviewwriting.blogspot.com/2012/03/response-to-doug-wilsons-review-of.html

Below are videos broken up into four parts of all that I wrote for this blog post, plus I intermixed additional commentary and exhortation apart from what is written in the post below. I think you will benefit more from watching than reading, and get where I am coming from better, as inflection and voice is always better than the written word lying flatly. But by all means, if you can't watch it, read it, or do both. Hopefully you will find it both encouraging and convicting. Part 1: Thoughts on 2012 Ligonier National Conference Part 2: Thoughts on 2012 Ligonier National Conference Part 3: Thoughts on the 2012 Ligonier National Conference Part 4: Thoughts on the Ligonier National Conference Burning hearts are not nourished by empty heads. I believe Sproul said this originally, I am not sure. Regardless, that needs to be the message proclaimed to every person that takes on the name of Christ, because Sinclair Ferguson was right whe...