Win Bob Kauflin’s “Worship Matters”

worship.com:

Crossway Books has generously offered to give readers at worship.com a chance to receive a free copy of Bob Kauflin’s new book, Worship Matters: Leading Others to Encounter the Greatness of God.

Starting tomorrow we will run four brief video segments of Bob discussing a topic related to worship. Simply watch the video and offer your thoughts on the topic Bob covers by leaving a comment on the post.  At the end of the series we will randomly select five commenters.  Those commenters will receive a copy of Bob’s book courtesy of Crossway Books and will be featured on a follow-up post at worship.com.

Critical Thinking 101

Greg Koukl gives a “crash course” on critical thinking in particular when responding to the New Atheists.  Click here to read the whole article.

Excerpt:

The primary purpose of reason is to help us discover what is true. The primary tool
of reason is argument. An argument is a specific kind of thing. Think of it like a simple
house, a roof supported by walls. The roof is the conclusion, and the walls are the
supporting ideas. If the walls are solid, the conclusion rests securely on its supporting
structure. If the walls collapse, the roof comes down, and the argument is defeated.

The task of critical thinking is to weed out distracting or irrelevant details so you
have an unobstructed view of the structure of the core argument and can assess its
strength. This involves a simple, four-step plan.

(HT: JT)

Best Shadow Puppet Show

Okay, this pretty much puts my flying bat to shame.