Hattip to The Obvious?: “Technorati provides a really neat way of picking up on blogs pointing to posts on this blog simply by including the appropriate Technorati search into my template” Read more

Challies Dot Com: is blogging all the way through Desiring God Read more

If I was cynical and if last night was just an experiement, I would have shown that it worked. In a matter of hours of me noticing the Jollyblogger, I posted quotes from his blog in umpteen of my posts, and emailed him telling him that his was the best blog I had come accross in ages. I defy almost ANY blogger not to respond in the way JollyBlogger indeed did, by posting about me on his blog, adding me... Read more

Jollyblogger: in a post entitled ‘Jessica Simpson – Hottest of the Hotties, and Christian Role Model?’ states “Rather than being a total world and life view, for these stars Christianity has become one compartment of their lives, which doesn’t necessarily influence any other compartment. And, lest we be guilty of picking of casting stones at stars like Jessica and Beyonce, let’s not forget that this ‘dis-integrated’ faith is not only found in Hollywood. This ‘dis-integration’ is found in football players... Read more

Real Live Preacher was grilled by an ‘important church man’ and said in his blog ‘It’s a very important spiritual discipline for me to let people like this think that I am an incompetent fool. It is critically important that I not explain myself to them. I just wave bye-bye and let them go.’ Read more

When a minister like the Jollyblogger can say : “The blogosphere is filled with intelligent people (with a fair amount of quacks thrown in) who keep the ‘sharpening process’ going in my life. In the short time I have been blogging I have been forced to think more deeply, study harder, and think more clearly about many issues than I have thought in years. “ then the Blogoshpere is a wonderful place. I couldnt agree more. Read more

Jollyblogger: Theological Reflections: “for the past 2,000 years countless Christians of all stripes from the Apostle Paul onward who have regularly meditated on Jesus’ Passion have also experienced greater and deeper spiritual growth thereby. Perhaps the massive lack of such meditation on the part of we pampered and spoiled modern Western Christians –who seem much more interested in the warm fuzzies of Gospel Lite than in the holy suffering of Jesus’ challenge to take up our crosses and follow Him”... Read more

The Jollyblogger is a new discovery today to me, last week I preached about preaching and urged us to preach to ourselves. I could have used some of these quotes from the writer who is a reformed preacher himeself. “The old Puritan preachers used to preach their sermons to themselves before they preached them to their congregation……our greatest problem in life is that we listen to ourselves too much. Instead of listening to ourselves we ought to be talking to... Read more

Jollyblogger: How to Study the Bible exposes the kind of over exegesis that is only too common in commentaries: “It is approximately the year 2790. The most powerful nation on earth occupies a large territory in Central Africa, and its citizens speak Swahili. The United States and other English-speaking countries have long ceased to exist, and much of the literature prior to 2012 (the year of the Great Conflagration) is not extant. Some archaeologists digging in the western regions of... Read more

Jollyblogger impresses me again when speaking about blogging : “I see two areas where Christians need to take this to the next level. First of all, ‘faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God.’ Stories of Johnny Cash and Bono are great for making connections, but I hope our cyber-evangelists will make the same effort at getting people into the Word of God as they do in making connections. Secondly, I am still flummoxed as to how... Read more