This is the kind of blogging I like best- me bouncing off David Wayne. Right now he’s posting about the security of our salvation and how that relates to Heb 6. Interesting that like me he went through a quiet spell recently and has now decided to serialise some sermon material (see my “what kind of church changes the world” series) I linked the other day to an introduction to the introduction, one of the many similarities between David and... Read more
Phillip Johnsons is one of the heroes of the internet. He is the man that brought us spurgeon.org and the Hall of church history. I am thrilled that he now has a blog. Pop over and visit PyroManiac: for a critique of Quick-and-Dirty Calvinism. It is a sign of great wisdom to be able to criticise well your own position. If this is a mark of things to come pyromaniac will quickly become a must-read site for christian blogs. Welcome... Read more
JOLLYBLOGGER: explains that a genie has been let out of a bottle with blogging. We get to read people who are working things out and whos ideas may well change. This is good in my view but I agree with David that we need to be careful not to treat our latest idea like a fixed dogma of truth. “We’re living in a world full of unfinished thoughts, incomplete paragraphs, and fragmentary setences. The owners of these unfinished, incomplete fragments... Read more
David of jollyblogger is preaching on Hebrews 6, the famous passage that is so controversial in the debate about eternal security. You simply have to go over and read his well thought out blog post on the matter. Just to whet your appetite….. …..the typical reformed exegesis which effectively neuters the passage’s intended effect as a warning. What I mean is that reformed exegetes and others who believe in eternal security spend so much time jumping through hoops to prove... Read more
In the last posts of my long running series, I argued that churches led by teams of very different people will change the world and began to discuss what teamwork that will change the world looks like. The key point is simply this, that people differ in many ways, but that a simple but helpful way to categorise people and think about how they interact and how I can best serve others in my interactions is the Social Styles model.... Read more
One of the great things about the blogosphere is that you can to use David Wayne’s phrase “call out” people. Well, right now I call out all my Arminian readers out there and ask them to respond to this quote from Spurgeon. In his sermon NO. 52 “FREE-WILL A SLAVE” he claimed that the following was one of the strongest arguments for the veracity of Calvinism. I would love to hear the response of an honest Arminian to this rather... Read more
Blair is off the hook and must be breathing easier tonight. To most commentators the almost unspoken way the rest of his premiership was to play out was that he would fight and probably loose a vigorous campaign to implement the EU constitution in a referendum, then bow out gracefully making room for Brown (although I am not so sure that Brown will get the unchallenged take-over he wants). Now he surely wont have to put this constitution to a... Read more
Wittenberg Gate has two posts about dominating people in the church. The first describes individuals and the second what happens to a church when it is lead by an overly-dominant person. The bible never intended for the church to be lead by one dominant individual with no accountability. This is why team leadership is so vital. Read more
I am working through my blog template, which can be downloaded at the last post in this series- How to be a successfull blogger part 4 – a walk through a blog template So far we have spoken about the title and begun to speak of the banner. It is hard to underestimate as I have said the title you have chosen for impressing search engines and the banner you use for impressing humans. I deliberately kept my banner simple-... Read more
I thought I would share my blogger template with you and speak through the things you will find in it. Although this is a blogger template which could be used in blogger with minimal modification, there are tips and tricks I will share here that will work in other systems. Web design is often about stealing other peoples ideas, and the best way to do that is to either use view source or get ahold of the template itself. So,... Read more
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