In the excerpt I am quoting today, Martyn Lloyd-Jones weighs in on the current discussion regarding the gift of tongues. He attempts to answer the question, “Is there a discrepancy between the tongues described in the book of Acts and those referred to by Paul in 1 Corinthians?” Now clearly the Doctor’s view contained in this post, if totally correct, seems to cause some problems for BOTH my position AND Dan’s. But I will, for now, allow him to simply... Read more
Hello, Tamasin here! I would just like to tell you a funny story about my youngest brother Joel. Once we all went to the prayer meeting together as a family and near the end there was a time where people were praying for one another. My mum was looking after Joel, and asked him to pray. So Joel said, assuming that this was the only prayer that existed, ‘Dear Lord Jesus, thank you for this lovely food, Amen!’ And I... Read more
Well, here I am — just back from holiday — and what do I find? Talk about whilst the cat’s away the mice will play?!? Over at TeamPyro, Dan has a four part response to my set of questions on tongues and gifts which I bashed out quickly before I left. I have read all of Dan’s posts and every one of the comments. Sadly, it seems that there are few, if any, charismatics who read TeamPyro, or if they... Read more
Well, I am back! Normal blogging will resume around here shortly – well, maybe not normal – it is me we are talking about!Anyway, good old Paul Schafer, the King of Lists, has generated a list of most of my personal and family posts from the previous years. I have had a lot of fun going back and re-reading some of these – some of the ones which report what my kids said are priceless – you can expect to... Read more
UPDATEIn January 2008, the following post was identified as the 26th most-read post on this blog. The 27th most-read post was “The Best Blond Joke in the World Ever.” If you don’t yet own Logos Bible Software, then this offer is still available. If you purchase through my site, I receive some reimbursement as a result. You will not regret this, I’m sure! *************** I’m delighted to be able to bring you a very special deal from one of my... Read more
As a further response to the ongoing discussion between Dan Phillips and myself, I received the following article from Sam Storms via email. This will be appearing on his site, Enjoying God Ministries, in a week or so. In the meantime, he has given me permission to post it here. In recent days two bloggers have taken up the question of the gift of speaking in tongues in the New Testament: see http://adrianwarnock.com/ and http://www.teampyro.blogspot.com/. The latter of these two,... Read more
Newfrontiers Together On A Mission: Audio DownloadsThe audio from this fantastic conference is NOW available to download. Don’t miss session nine by Terry Virgo, but download them all! My live blogging notes are available if you need help in choosing which ones you want to listen to. (tags: newfrontiers) “Five of us took eleven guys to Canada in hopes that God would give them their masculine hearts back and, as usual, God moved mightily among these men. I consider it... Read more
The last three days have been the first since the onset of my shingles that I have attempted to sit up at a computer desk for a full day’s work. (I have worked other days, but mostly from my bed – half-lying down puts less strain on the affected nerve!). Unfortunately the nerve pain has reminded me that it is still very much there and ready to punish me for foolishly thinking I should not spend my life lying in... Read more
“Tongues” Across the Water: Pyromaniac’s Response to Me – Part One DJP has a gracious, but firm, response to my post on tongues. Sadly I am winding things down here right now ahead of my holiday so can’t respond yet, except to say that, as is common in these debates, he has replied to a view more extreme than what I said. (tags: charismatic) Read more
Every now and then I decide I want to pull back the curtain and let you see a little bit about what goes on behind the scenes here. I thought today I would share one of my favorite blogging tools with you – the beta version of the Google Toolbar. If you want to download this yourself after I have finished going over it, then simply click on the Google Toolbar logo at the top of this post. Incidentally, in... Read more
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