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Monthly Archives: March 2009
Time Magazine noticed us
everybody is buzzing about number 3 on Time Magazine’s Top Ten Ideas Changing the World Right Now. here, let them explain: Calvinism is back, and not just musically. John Calvin’s 16th century reply to medieval Catholicism’s buy-your-way-out-of-purgatory excesses is Evangelicalism’s … Continue reading
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Tagged al mohler, Between Two Worlds, calvinism, john calvin, John Piper, justin taylor, mark driscoll, predestination, reformed theology
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this morning
it finally stopped raining, so I took some pictures this morning.
Posted in photography
Tagged 105mm, buds, macro, macro photography, new leaves, nikkor 105mm f2.8 AF, photography, spring, trees
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contending and contextualizing
The church must both contend for truth and must contextualize truth to be effective in evangelism. Compare II Timothy 1:14 to I Corinthians 9:22. Hunter Beaumont’s diagnosis of the current evangelical moment is that we are over-contextualizing and under-contending: But … Continue reading
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Tagged contextualization, persuasion, resurgence blog, the gospel, truth
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phriday photos
more spring pictures
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Tagged 80-200mm, 80-200mm f2.8 AF-D, d300, nikon, nikon d300, photography, spring, trees
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church planting
As some of you know, Julie and I are in the very beginning stages of working with Bryan and Lindsey Payne to plant a Harvest Bible Chapel here in Austin, Texas. Our Facebook group is here if you want to … Continue reading
heart or head
Tim Chester is advocating that Christians live in such a way that others want to believe the Gospel while at the same time engaging their intellectual questions. what do you think? Why don’t people believe the gospel? It often looks … Continue reading
four things
I ran across this ABC news story this morning about the end of the world coming in 2012. “You have to understand, there will be nothing, nothing left,” Geryl told ABC News from his home in Antwerp, Belgium. “We will … Continue reading
Posted in teaching
Tagged eschatology, future, Jesus' return, prophecy, rapture, second coming
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the object of the Christian life
Todd Burus has had a couple of interesting posts on depression and biblical counseling this week. The book he is reading is Martyn Lloyd-Jones’ book Spiritual Depression: It’s Causes and Cure. Yesterday, Todd talked about the spirit of bondage and … Continue reading
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Tagged depression, fear, grace, love, martyn lloyd-jones, performance, pleasing God, spirit of bondage, Todd Burus
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christian themes in Science Fiction
Kathryn Jean Lopez pointed yesterday to this interesting City Journal article about religious themes in science fiction movies. here is a small excerpt, but go read the rest, especially if you like science fiction at all. What did happen? Not … Continue reading
Posted in culture
Tagged christian themes, culture, darth vader, luke skywalker, political themes, pop culture, science fiction, star trek, star wars, superman returns
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tunes
I am obsessing this week over the Justin Cofield Band. specifically, King of Glory and Whiter Than Snow are in heavy repeat mode on my iPhone. Psalm 51 already haunted me without setting it to Justin’s voice and Kyle’s guitar. … Continue reading
Posted in music
Tagged justin cofield band, King of Glory, psalm 51, whiter than snow
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friday riddle
who said this: All the money you earn, all the stocks you buy, all the mutual funds you trade—all of that is mostly smoke and mirrors. It’s still going to be a quarter-past getting late whether you tell the time … Continue reading
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Tagged money, temporary wealth, treasure, treasure in heaven, true riches, wealth
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foto friday
spring is here with flowers with baseball and with new leaves on trees
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Tagged 80-200mm f2.8 AF-D, 80-200mmm, austin, austin texas, d300, nikon, nikon d300, photography, spring, texas
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ESV Study Bible
As I expected when I bought my ESV Study Bible, the most important part of the purchase was access to the online version. Crossway is offering free access to the online version of its study bible through the month of … Continue reading
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Tagged English Standard Version, ESV, ESV Bible, ESV Study Bible, free study bible online, online study bible
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ligonier on fire
Ligonier Ministries’ blog has been on fire lately. Yesterday they put up an interview with Sinclair Ferguson that included these two bits and more: Sometimes I feel this is actually what has happened in popular evangelicalism. Our “Jesus” is actually … Continue reading
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Tagged Holiness of God, ligonier, ligonier ministries, r. c. sproul, sinclair ferguson
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suffering
I noticed in the sidebar at the Straight Up blog a three part series on God’s role in suffering by Gerald Hiestand. Here is part three which contains links to the first two parts. Go check it out. I like … Continue reading
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Tagged choice, determinism, free will, gerald hiestand, indeterminism, morality, responsibility, sovereignty, suffering
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using spiritual gifts
James McDonald has posted about the great damage that can be caused by people using the spiritual gift of discernment in their flesh and not in the Spirit. I have been a pastor for more than 25 years and I … Continue reading
R.C. Sproul on Horton's Christless Christianity
R.C. Sproul has reviewed Michael Horton’s book Christless Christianity and he likes it. here is an excerpt: Leaning heavily upon the research of sociologists of religion such as James Davidson Hunter, and others, Horton has been able accurately to pin … Continue reading
Original Sin
Kevin DeYoung points to a series of posts by Emerging Church leader Tony Jones in which Tony makes the statement: “I have come to reject the notion of Original Sin. I consider it neither biblically, philosophically, nor scientifically tenable.” [emphasis … Continue reading
yesterday
Yesterday we went to Origins Church. It is a church plant that only began having public worship services last September. They meet in a Holiday Inn meeting room which was nice. Meeting in that location lessens the setup and takedown … Continue reading
Saturday evening
Yesterday evening we went to the H.E.L.P. Launch party held at the Sodade Coffe house. It was fun and we were able to see some folks from Vista that we haven’t seen in a while. Good music too. first up … Continue reading