There is very encouraging news about President Mohler. Over the past 24 hours the Lord has been pleased to answer the prayers of His people and Dr. Mohler’s health has made a marked improvement.

A good report from Dr. Russell Moore:

Dr. Mohler’s health has sustained a setback. Over the past 36 hours Dr. Mohler has suffered from unrelenting pain. This unusual degree of pain signaled concern for the attending physicians and prompted additional tests this afternoon. In the past hour these tests have revealed that Dr. Mohler is suffering from pulmonary emboli in both lungs. His condition is quite serious and he has been moved to the intensive care unit of Baptist East Hospital in Louisville, KY for immediate treatment.

Dr. Mohler continues to recuperate from abdominal surgery at Baptist East Hospital in Louisville, KY. Daily he is gaining strength and making progress, but he still has a good deal of recovery before him. Please continue to pray for his complete and expedient recovery and for the Lord to grant him abundant grace during this time of convalescence.

From Baptist Press:

Just in time for Christmas, the major news media regularly present magazine cover stories and prime-time television events that focus on the historical questions concerning the birth of Jesus Christ and the theological issues central to Christianity.

Rob Renfroe, a minister at The Woodlands United Methodist Church near Houston, Texas, writes a very interesting article in the current issue of Good News magazine, published by the Good News Movement, a group of evangelical United Methodists. In “An Appeal to Leadership — Listen and Lead,” Renfroe argues that the sexuality issues currently dividing his church point to far deeper differences.

The idea that preaching should be addressed to the self-perceived “needs” of the congregation is now well ingrained in the larger evangelical culture. The argument behind this is almost always missiological — just preach to the needs people already feel and then you can point them to a deep need and God’s provision of the Gospel.

The conviction of Enron executives Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skillings is an historic development in the world of business and in the field of criminal prosecution, but the whole case raises more questions than these convictions can answer.

Scenes of urban mayhem filled the cable news programs in recent days as university students and their allies filled the streets of Paris with rioting and protests. The students want no changes to France’s impossible and impractical labor laws — laws which currently make it virtually impossible for French employers to eliminate any job or fire any worker, however justified such a firing might be. Given the currrent laws, employers are just not hiring young people. One might think that the young would look with favor at changes that might open jobs. But not these students. They want a job from which they can never be fired, or no job at all.