Michael Krahn : The Ascent to Truth

My 5-year-old daughter Olivia and I wrote a song today! It really was a co-writing effort. She came up with some of it and I came up with some of it. As a habit, I like to demo (which means roughly record) a song as soon after it’s written as possible, and we did that [...]

Full article in SLATE here. A couple of interesting quotes:
On the “Christian Right”: “I have discovered that the so-called Christian right is much less monolithic, and very much more polite and hospitable, than I would once have thought, or than most liberals believe.”
On his respect for Doug Wilson: “I much prefer this sincerity to the [...]

Q: What are some key things for young pastors to keep in mind when they are urged to “engage the culture”?
Carson: Know what the gospel is first, comprehensively, accurately, faithfully. Work out from there. Learn to preach to your own people, not to the aggregates set out in books by Barna and Wuthnow (though much [...]

Calvin, citing Augustine: “I count myself one of the number of those who write as they learn and learn as they write.”
John Piper: “Writing became the lever of my thinking and the outlet of my feelings. If I didn’t pull the lever, the wheel of thinking did not turn. It jerked and squeaked and halted. [...]

I’m not entirely sure how to start this review. I could start by telling you that I have been aware of Kevin Abell for a long time. We went to the same high school. But that wouldn’t tell you very much about his book and you might think I am reviewing this book because we [...]

I am NOT a Hillsong basher but Ugh, I hate Hillsong videos… and some of their lyrics. I have no idea what they’re trying to market in videos such as the one below. Ok, actually its pretty obvious: the people in the band and all their fans are gorgeous and hip! They spend time in [...]

Check out this kid:

“Dude!” indeed.
Michael Krahn (michael.krahn@gmail.com) is a husband, father, Pastor, writer, and recording artist who enjoys books, theology, technology and the Ottawa Senators.
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Jesus speaks of the words and ideas we accumulate in our hearts as treasures. Whichever treasure is dominant in our hearts, be it evil or good, will make its way out of our hearts, through our mouths and into the world revealing exactly what kind of treasure we’re accumulating.
Without the active intervention of my will, [...]

A couple of weeks ago I was contacted by a journalist named Jessica Clark for a quote on Donald Miller’s new book. Here’s the piece she wrote:
Million Miles author stops in LR
JESSICA CLARK ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE
A New York Times bestselling author says he knows the ingredients to a meaningful life and he’s sharing them Tuesday [...]

A few weeks ago at The Ascent to Truth, we had a lively discussion about pornography and internet monitoring in the comment section of the post “No Excuses. No Porn.”
In the comments Chris offered a solution to the problem of porn in the form of something he called “Emotional Apathy”. It works as follows:
Chris says: [...]