Timmy Brister has some great photos from the conference. Read more
Timmy Brister has some great photos from the conference. Read more
One of the things I love about this remote blogging thing, is that I get to read posts like this one by Free to Live which speaks about the individual’s sense of conviction and response to a message they have heard. I have not yet read the full notes of Carson’s session, but I already know the talk was a corker. I am a great believer in the fact that our Christian life advances not so much incrementally as in... Read more
Well, the other Tim, author of Challies Dot Com, has found a wifi spot and shared his usual complete notes from session 3. Here is a sample: “The postmodern world presents a crisis to us. The Western world is now a mission field, but a post-Christian mission field. In some ways our culture is inoculated against Christianity, just as the body becomes inoculated against disease so that we can say Western culture has a distorted memory of Christianity. “ Read more
Well, Tim’s pastor, Paul Martin, has beaten him to it on session 3. Paul has some great snippets, the pick of which I will share here – see “How Do we Do Evangelism in a Post-Modern World?” (Tim Keller) for the rest, and when Tim finds his pastor, perhaps he will tell him where the wifi is! “Jonah 2:9 “salvation is of the Lord.” Ed Clowney says this is the central verse of the Bible. It is of the Lord.... Read more
Challies Dot Com has notes from the second session of the Desiring God conference: “What is wrong with the world? Colossians 1:21 – We are what is wrong with the world! We are God’s crowning creation and yet are hostile towards the one by whom and for whom we were created. The question is not “if God is good why do bad things happen?” but “how on earth can a holy and righteous God know what I did and thought... Read more
Challies Dot Com is working again, and longtime readers of my blog know the score – Tim and others get to live-blog, and I get to find some interesting paragraphs and reproduce them here. I call it “remote blogging,” and this one is a corker of a quote: “Christianity is only about this kind of Christ – Christ reigning supreme and unchallenged and unchallengeable over all of life’s enemies. We do not have any other message than this. Seekers and... Read more
DG06 – Session 1“And here I am, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, at my second Desiring God National Conference. This convention center is a great deal busier than it was last year. The room is nearly packed from front to back with the 3130 people who are …” Challies Dot Com And that is all I can get! Challies.com is DOWN – how am I going to get my DGM fix now????? Well, there are a few other bloggers there – let’s... Read more
This is Adrian’s editorial assistant, Annette, doing just a bit of “guest blogging.” Today, on their way from Toronto to Minneapolis and the Desiring God Conference, Tim Challies and two friends (Tim’s pastor and fellow blogger, Paul Martin, from kerux noemata, and Tim’s “other” friend, Paul, an IT tech) had a three-hour lay-over in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, my hometown. It ended up being a wonderful first-time meeting of bloggers and a blogger’s editor who, through this remarkable medium of the Internet,... Read more
I plan to do a bit of “remote blogging.” Justin Taylor has links to some quotes from the speakers and other stuff to whet your appetite. I will keep an eye on the following Google Blogsearch “John Piper” OR “Desiring God” and link to whatever I can see. Tim Challies will be there “live-blogging” as usual! Read more
This week I want to direct your attention to an article from 1991 in which Dr. John Piper makes the most charismatic statements I have seen anywhere in his material, and argues for his position very clearly. If you are interested in a more extended explanation of Piper’s views, there is also a fourteen-part sermon series on the gifts entitled, “Are Signs and Wonders for Today?” which he preached in 1990. Piper is not your typical charismatic, but is more... Read more
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