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Monthly Archives: February 2009
sink or faucet
are you a sink or faucet? Trevin Wax wants to know. Hat tip to Justin Taylor.
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Relevance
Joe Thorn has a quote from John Piper regarding relevance that says: As a preacher, I think a lot about relevance. That is, why should anyone listen to what I have to say? Why should anybody care? Relevance is an … Continue reading
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Tagged joe thorn, John Piper, relevance, temporal v. eternal, the gospel
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Francis Chan on the Church
I am reading Francis Chan’s book Crazy Love. I am more than halfway finished with it and I will be posting more about it once I have finished it. I can already see that it is going to have to … Continue reading
another helpful reminder
here is another helpful reminder from Kevin DeYoung. What’s more, lots of the people who came to church over the weekend did more than just attend. They taught Sunday school, handed out bulletins, played the guitar, stacked chairs, and held … Continue reading
I don't even trust you to do that
Cool Milton Friedman in action deconstructing Phil’s leftist utopian assumptions. A helpful reminder of the real engine that drives growth on a day when the Senate passes a 829 billion buck boondoggle of leftist wishlists run amuck. “Where are these … Continue reading
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Tagged capitalism, communism, free market, milton friedman, phil donahue, self interest
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hard to face but real
Ok, there is an event that occurred that has to be faced even though it is horrible. Benjamin linked to the news story in his comment to this post. The quick summary is that a woman went to have an … Continue reading
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Tagged abortion, baby, born alive infant protection act, botched abortion, fetus, vitamin z
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Facebook's fifth birthday
Facebook turns five and Al Mohler has thoughts about it and social networking in general. By the way, Dr. Mohler is one of my facebook friends. Dr. Mohler has 8 suggestions for “safeguarding the social networking experience.” 1. Never allow … Continue reading
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Tagged dr. mohler, facebook, my space, safeguards, social networking
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theistic evolution
as I mentioned yesterday, I read the book Who Was Adam last month. It was interesting, but I kept having a recurring question pop into my head. The question is “why?” Why would God limit himself (in part) to naturalistic … Continue reading
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Tagged challies, creation, evolution, fuz rana, greg koukl, tactics, who was adam
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Saturday morning
Tournament time means being all the way across town for a basketball game before 8:00 a.m.
Spectacular Sins
I am just finishing the book Spectacular Sins by John Piper. As you might expect from Piper, his purpose is to demonstrate from scripture the sovereignty of God in every situation including several specific spectacularly sinful occasions. He deals with … Continue reading
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Tagged John Piper, sin, sovereignty, sovereignty of god, spectacular sins, supremacy of Christ
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Who Was Adam
I read the book Who Was Adam in January. It was very interesting indeed. I would recommend it to anyone interested in seeing an attempt at synthesis between the naturalistic fossil record and the Biblical record of creation in Genesis. … Continue reading
friday fotos
sunset at the capitol and
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Tagged 80-200mm, 80-200mm f2.8 AF-D, circular polarizer, d300, nikon, nikon d300, photography, polarizer, sunset
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Love on a Texas football field
I heard about this when it happened, but now courtesy of Jeff Myers, I have seen the video. Very moving. For some reason I can’t get flash video to embed here. Please go watch it over at Jeff’s place. UPDATE: … Continue reading
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McDonald's cappucino and football
Kevin DeYoung reminds us that Jesus came for Grimace and Hamburglar too with this video: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg87E1tjTOE&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1] Kevin adds: I mention all of this because so much that passes for spirituality these days is nothing more than middle class, 20something coffee … Continue reading
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Tagged coffee, culture, Kevin DeYoung, macdonalds, starbucks
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why church membership
why is it important to require people to “join” a church and become a “member”? Isn’t “membership” an outdated term/concept? Joe Thorn has posted some thoughts as well as an outline for his membership class. Excellent stuff. We do church … Continue reading
preachers' pledge
more than 5000 preachers have taken the following pledge. will you? “I will make the Bible my primary resource in sermon preparation and preaching. I may use other resources such as commentaries and web sites to enhance, not replace, my … Continue reading
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Tagged centrality of scripture, preacher's pledge, sermon central, the Bible
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willing to be hated?
Randy Alcorn asks if you are willing to be hated for what you believe. Here are some excerpts, but you have to go read the rest. especially the quote from D.L. Moody. I have heard it before, but it is … Continue reading
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Tagged challies, disciple, follower, gospel, hated, offensiveness, randy alcorn, teacher
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what Francis said
I don’t know very much about Francis Chan, but my lovely wife recently appeared after a shopping trip with this book. I haven’t opened it or even looked at the dust jacket blurbs. However, Todd Burus has done so and … Continue reading
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Gospel Centered
Dodson posted a bit from Tim Keller’s piece about what it means to be gospel centered. I am reposting that one, plus another one farther down in the article. I do not simply mean by ‘gospel-centered’ that ministry is to … Continue reading