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Monthly Archives: August 2008
evening out
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Tagged austin, austin texas, d300, evening, night, nikon, nikon d300, town lake
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I love my city
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Tagged austin, austin texas, night, nikon, nikon d300, photography, texas
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vision
Steve at Vision Navigator has a post up about the Kingdom of Heaven. It is an interesting idea about using imagination and the post has an embedded bearded Australian man video to boot. In the post Steve links to series … Continue reading
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Tagged church, kingdom of god, kingdom of heaven, purpose, vision, vision statement
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photo phriday
here is the event spelled in McCoy’s honor. the new, the brand new and the established. I liked the water in this one. messing around with rear flash
Posted in family, photography
Tagged austin, austin texas, night, off-camera flash, photography, rear flash, town lake
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More information on Suffering
More information is now available on the Desiring God Conference in Austin in October. Thanks to Creation Project for the heads up. Here is the scoop: Registration The registration fee is $25.00 per person if received on or before August … Continue reading
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Tagged austin, hill country bible church, John Piper, registration, suffering
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Ligonier Ministries Blog
who knew? Ok, the Foolish Galatian did. R.C. Sproul’s Ligonier Ministries has a blog. the top post right now is an article called Truth and Consequences by Gene Edward Veith. Gene begins the article like this: The old atheists maintained … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, atheists, bleak worldview, camus, golden compass, ligonier, pullman, r. c. sproul
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two solid hits from RPM
Ramblin Pastor Man had some good ones up yesterday. First up was a link to a paper by Tim Keller and David Powlison about passing along bad reports about other people (a/k/a gossip). Well written and extremely practical instruction about … Continue reading
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Tagged batman, christian love, communication, culture, dark knight, gossip, heath ledger, joker
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Never let Go
Julie wanted me to see this video. It is a remix of the video of one of the best songs on the Remedy CD. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRfcARM8OwI&hl=en&fs=1]
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Tagged david crowder, John Piper, louis giglio, never let go, remedy
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the Foolish Galatian
New link added to the blogroll. He has some great stuff on his blog. For instance, did any of you guys know that CC DeVille was a follower of Christ? Go spend some time over there. He shares my addiction … Continue reading
The Call
As believers in Christ, what is our calling? Jesse Phillips is asking a pointed question on the Catablog. here is the issue and the question: Some evangelicals believe it’s our duty to fight for righteousness in our nation, creating laws … Continue reading
The Big Give
here is an idea that a church of any size can do in its community. We wanted to plan an event that was all about serving our community, so we planned this event where we would give away new backpacks … Continue reading
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Tagged back-to-school, backpacks, church, fun, games, haircuts, missions
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Another portrait
Julie thought the other one didn’t do her new hair justice since it was out in the sun. Here is a better one.
Posted in family, photography
Tagged d300, hair, julie, nikon, off-camera flash, photography, portrait
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go ahead and have a cup of coffee
the New York Times says its good for you. via Instapundit.
Hebrews and Eschatology
The whole book of Hebrews was written to Jewish believers in Christ who were thinking about/considering the possibility of returning to Judaism. The writer’s purpose was to persuade these believers to stay with Jesus. He (or she) wrote that Jesus … Continue reading
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Tagged angels, jesus, melchizedek, partial, perfect, premillenial, priesthood, prophecy
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transitions
transitioning a conversation to the gospel requires the intention to do so and the opportunity. Joe Thorn has a list of eight topics from which the gospel is an easy leap. There are more in the comments. Here are the … Continue reading
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Tagged church, community, conversation, evangelism, missions, politics, sin
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A fish story
here is a fish story from a book by Wayne McDill called Making friends for Christ: Wayne McDill – Making Friends For Christ p.8 Whatever Became of Evangelism? Now it came to pass that a group existed who called themselves … Continue reading
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Tagged church, evangelism, fishers of men, fishing, forrest gump, mission, shrimp
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Piper remembers Solzhenitsyn
John Piper has put up a remembrance of Alexander Solzhenitsyn with a quote from the Gulag Archipelago here is a portion of the quote, but go read Piper’s post for the whole thing as well as John’s prayer of gratitude … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Solzhenitsyn, evil, good, John Piper, prison, refining, suffering, trials
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Priority Drift
Chuck Warnock has coined a phrase for getting off purpose in life. He calls it priority drift. “Priority drift.” I made that phrase up to describe the state I found myself in a couple of weeks ago. Simply put: my … Continue reading
Why Pray?
If God is sovereign over all as Ephesians 1:11 say He is, then why pray? John Piper wrote an article back in 1976 answering two questions: 1. “Why pray for anyone’s conversion if God has chosen before the foundation of … Continue reading
more photos
the boys after a week of camp and one to go and Julie in the sun in West Austin more of my pictures here.
getting our children engaged in christian growth
My lovely wife and I have been wondering about/concerned with the question of how to encourage our children to appropriate the Faith for themselves in a vibrant and real way. Julie sent a link out yesterday to some folks as … Continue reading
Romans 8:16-39
Adrian Warnock posted this video a few weeks ago of a dramatic reading of Romans 8:16-39. Enjoy. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6Lluay3_1Y&hl=en&fs=1]