How to Sleep Comfortably on a Hot Night It’s hot over here right now. None of us has air conditioning. So, to those of you who live in places that were hot even before this global warming thing kicked in – which of these ideas works best? (tags: cool reference web) True Professions of Faith: The Problems in Uganda Lig Duncan posts a prayer letter from an evangelist in Uganda, addressing some of the same issues raised by Mark Dever... Read more
As you can see, I’ve been adding a few pictures to my sidebar in an attempt to make it look less cluttered – sorry if you noticed the mess as I moved the furniture around in here! The pen has always been the tool of the writer. So, here is a picture of a pen in honor of the power that it has wielded for centuries. Words really do have power – Christians must believe that if they are to... Read more
Christian blogger extraordinaire, Tim Challies, will be live-blogging WorshipGod06. Although Tim would confess he’s not a charismatic, you wouldn’t want to miss the possibility of seeing Tim raise his hands in a moment of unguarded passion. Reason #4 – Why you don’t want to miss the SGM worship conference. (tags: sgm worship) Many intelligent Christians are puzzling today over what is being called “The New Perspective on Paul.” Thanks to one of my readers, here’s a transcript of a paper... Read more
“The Knowledge of Election is Cumulative.” In this short piece, A. W. Pink provides seven ways to know you are among the elect. (tags: election) A Roman Catholic Considers Reformation Theology “I never really bought into the conservative Trentian orthodoxy, but I struggled for a long time because honestly I was scared . . .” A searching Catholic examines reformed theology in this email to the Reformation Theology website. (tags: calvinism reformed) Four Reviews of the ESV Journaling Bible The... Read more
Sometimes certain blogs are described as “influential.” I have spent a lot of time thinking about what being influential means and how it can be measured. We could measure this in many different ways, which don’t all necessarily go together: The number of people who read your site or your “hit rate.” The number of people who read more than one page and then become regular readers. Your ability to send your readers to other websites and/or to cause them... Read more
In 2 Cor. 5:21, the principles of justification, expiation, imputation, substitution, and reconciliation are all illuminated in some important aspect or another. You could do a comprehensive survey of every aspect of soteriology with this one verse. In the second part of “The Great Exchange,” Phil Johnson defines the “simple truth that ought to be the heart and the focus of everything we teach.” (tags: atonement christ gospel preaching pyromaniacs) “Paul never expected uniformity of conclusions … he did not... Read more
Over on the newfrontiers resources page the DVDs and CDs of the fantastic newfrontiers conference I live blogged recently are now available to download. I am sure that they will ship them to you anywhere in the world – although I understand that the mp3s will be available soon. You should really order ALL of them if you can, but if you need help choosing, my summary post may be of help! Read more
Today Lloyd-Jones returns with some final thoughts on “speaking the truth in love.” You can find the two previous posts on this subject here and here. Whilst Lloyd-Jones, of course, wrote this in the days before blogs, his words on speaking the truth in love can equally well be applied to our blogging!Often churchgoers today find themselves exposed to everything but ‘the truth once delivered to the saints,’ and as MLJ puts it, instead of exposition of Scripture, they hear... Read more
Joseph – God’s Dreamer Notes from the sermon I preached yesterday. (tags: adrianw sermon) Challies Redesigns His Site It gets the Warnie seal of approval! Check it out and see what you think. (tags: blogging) “I am afraid that the rhetorical device of setting up a dichotomy between that which is God-centered and that which is man-centered can lead to some unintended consequences.” “We can forget that the essence of what it means to be human is to be God’s... Read more
Today I preached a message on Joseph for my UK church. The message is entitled “Joseph – God’s Dreamer” and is available as an mp3 file for download. (To download this, simply right click on the mp3 link and save it to your computer. Or, why not subscribe to the podcast either by following the link or seaching inside the iTunes podcasts list for “Jubilee.” It was the first sermon I have preached using only notes written in the margins... Read more
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