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- My dance-card this week
published on Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:23:00 EDT
(No offense meant to Baptist readers)First, there's always a bit of post-sermon reacclimatization.Then, at work this week I have an assignment that makes it impossible for me to do the usual between-call browsing, writing and posting.Finally, this Friday and Saturday, I'm to attend the PCRT. I will probably be live-blogging Friday, at least.So I do have a Hither and Thither brewing, but it won't be as massive as last week's.Just to tell you.As you were.... - I've been interviewitized again
published on Wed, 11 Mar 2009 08:50:00 EDT
If you like, you can read it here.If you don't like... well... have a nice day!... - Evangelicalism down the drain?
published on Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:45:00 EDT
by Phil Johnsono everyone—including Matt Drudge—is talking about the iMonk's op-ed piece in The Christian Science Monitor. No fewer than a dozen people sent me links to the article before I woke up this morning. Another half-dozen of my co-workers stopped by my office to tell me I ought to read it.I did. Actually, I had read parts of the work in its unabridged form at iMonk's blog. I think the Monitor's editing was nice and tight, without sacrificing the look and feel of the original.I... - Not good enough for Dan's Blog ...
published on Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:52:00 EDT
... but we take risks here. OK: Be warned that this video lulls you into a pleasing little zone of coffee house mellowness, and then you get Rick Rolled, and then there's a sudden outburst of Chris Crocker set to mellow jazz guitar, and then it ends with the Power Ranger's theme. If you can not be offended, and you like this sort of thing, and you want to show Dan Phillips that you are the better blog readers by toughing it out through the Crocker outburst, I present this to you: oh, pickle. ... - oh SNAP!
published on Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:24:00 EDT
by Frank Turk I OWE SOMEBODY A BOOK! Announcement tomorrow! SORRY EVERYONE! ... - Piper and boys wrestling girls
published on Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:00:00 EDT
In Over My Dead Body, Son, John Piper dogmatically condemns the thought of boys wrestling girls in athletic meets. He makes two basic points:Full-contact wrestling will necessarily send a sexual messageBoys should be raised to honor and protect women, not attack themMen being men, Piper probably has a point in his first argument. Sad, but true.His second is weaker and incomplete in how he applies it.Of course I agree that men should protect women, and never mistreat them. But what is the purpose... - Preachin' Dirty
published on Tue, 10 Mar 2009 04:00:00 EDT
by Phil Johnsonulpit Live is currently posting transcripts from Friday morning's plenary session at last week's Shepherds' Conference. The comment-threads there would be a perfect place for me to answer some of the questions I have received since the Shepherds' Conference, but for reasons unknown, the Pulpit website won't accept my comments. (I'm dead to them.)On top of the many comments posted in various on-line forums, I've received about two dozen e-mails from people who have written me direc... - Human Cloning and Stem Cell Research
published on Mon, 9 Mar 2009 12:23:00 EDT
Today, President Obama over-turned President Bush's policy on the federal funding of stem cell research. You can read about it here. Now, I have no trouble mounting an ethical argument against the destruction of embryos to get stem cells. Once you believe that human life begins at conception, then the argument is easy to make. We have been irresponsible in our quest for reproduction, resulting in 'extra' embryos. Frankly, science has far outstripped our ethics in this category.What strikes me as... - I don't in any way follow football, but...
published on Mon, 9 Mar 2009 12:03:00 EDT
by Dan Phillips...these are pretty amazing:Now, I think the first is clearly faked, and one or two others are iffy. But the rest? If they're fake, they're fooling me.Even if they're all fake, we know that athletes pour incredible focus and discipline into what they do. Their whole life is molded around their sport, their endeavor: their diet, the use of their spare time. They do things the rest of us can only imagine, and they do them quickly and well.You can see this sort of discipline in most ... - What Kind of Confession Do You Make?
published on Sun, 8 Mar 2009 20:30:00 EDT
Your weekly dose of Spurgeonposted by Phil JohnsonThe PyroManiacs devote some space each weekend to highlights from The Spurgeon Archive. The following excerpt is from "Confession of Christ," a sermon preached on Sunday evening, March 21st, 1868.here is no true confession where there is not a changed spirit and a transformed life, or rather the confession is such as shall suffice to condemn the man out of his own mouth, and send him out from God's presence a revealed pretender.My dear brethren a... - Baptist Pastor in Illinois shot and killed during service
published on Sun, 8 Mar 2009 19:56:00 EDT
This morning during the 8:15 am morning service at First Baptist Church in Maryville, Illinois, a 27-year-old man walked down the aisle, exchanged a few words with pastor Fred Winters, pulled out a gun, and shot the pastor to death.Mark Jones, another pastor at the church, said that he did not recognize the murderer. At this point, nobody knows the motive behind the shooting. The first shot hit the pastor's Bible, two others missed, but one hit and killed him. Then the murderer's gun jammed and ... - The Divine Initiative...the ministry of the Holy Spirit in salvation
published on Sat, 7 Mar 2009 15:38:00 EST
Without the presence of the Spirit there is no conviction, no regeneration, no sanctification, no cleansing, no acceptable works . . . Life is in the quickening Spirit. â??W A. CRISWELLBy R.C. SproulBIRTH and rebirth. Both are the result of the operation of the Holy Spirit. Just as nothing can live biologically apart from the power of the Holy Spirit, so no man can come alive to God apart from the Spiritâ??s workIn His discourse with Nicodemus, Jesus said this about the Holy Spirit: Most assured... - Nothing says "This table is taken" quite like...
published on Sat, 7 Mar 2009 13:11:00 EST
... - They read that here
published on Fri, 6 Mar 2009 11:01:00 EST
WSJ called Obama "Jimmy Carter". I said it first. They are obvioulsy reading in spite of my spotty posts.secret technorati tags:religion God Jesus Christian ... - A Pathetic Tell
published on Fri, 6 Mar 2009 10:54:00 EST
Some of you watch "professional" poker, I know, and some of those guys are ridiculous. OK: all of those guys are ridiculous, but some of them have a really solid poker face -- but many of them have a pathetic "tell". You can tell when they're bluffing. Turns out the Global Warming saints have a terrible tell. In fact, they cannot wait to turn their cards over to show you they were bluffing all along. This, btw, is why Hillary didn't get elected president: nobody believed her. Every time her l... - Hither and thither â?? 3/6/09
published on Fri, 6 Mar 2009 08:52:00 EST
My oh my, do I have bounteous buckets of eclectic goodness for you today!Let's launch:Obama: Bush handled Iraq war correctly. Okay, you note no quotation-marks. 0-bama didn't say that in so many words. That would take honesty and humility. But that's the upshot.I have a new goal. It's inspired by Rush Limbaugh's very good day. President Obama's Designated Idiot Press Secretary, Robert Gibbs, said on Tuesday that Limbaugh "doubled down on what he said in January in wishing and hoping for economic... - As One Having Authority
published on Fri, 6 Mar 2009 03:01:00 EST
by Phil Johnsonhis week, as you know, is the Shepherds' Conference at Grace Church. It's always my favorite week of the year for several reasons. Of course the conference itself is always a great pleasure. I get to see people I love but don't see often. In fact, almost every year I meet up with old friends I haven't seen for years. The weather is also usually (almost) perfect this time of year in Southern California. It's obvious now that the daylight hours last a little longer each day. It's th... - Writer secured for "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader"
published on Thu, 5 Mar 2009 09:39:00 EST
It's being reported that the new writer for Dawn Treader is Michael Petroni.I'm concerned to note that nothing in his portfolio demonstrates the Australian writer's ability to do Lewis any kind of justice, to put it kindly. I've been unable to find any interviews or other insight as to his own worldview. (I've actually sat on this awhile, hoping more would come out on him â?? but, not yet.)Good news, though: they're looking for a 2010 release date.... - Bible interpretation dodge #3 â?? the PoMo Shuffle (NEXT! #6)
published on Thu, 5 Mar 2009 07:43:00 EST
by Dan PhillipsChallenge: That isn't what that verse says to me.Response A: Oh. What would it say if you and I were dead?Response B: Oh. What did it say to God?NEXT!(Proverbs 21:22)... - You know...
published on Wed, 4 Mar 2009 15:01:00 EST
...I already have so much juicy Hither and Thither, that I could almost do two this week.... - Sin and repentance: equally notorious
published on Wed, 4 Mar 2009 12:25:00 EST
Charles Spurgeon, from pages 13-14 of his Lectures to My Students:As John Angell James remarks, "When a preacher of rigteousness has stood in the way of sinners, he should never again open his lips in the great congregation until his repentance is as notorious as his sin."This is spoken of pastors, but shouldn't it apply all around? Shouldn't the sphere of confession and restitution at least equal breadth and depth of the sphere of infamy and scandal?... - Bible knowledge test
published on Wed, 4 Mar 2009 07:39:00 EST
Or supposedly it is, anyway: from the BBC.Should I think it significant that, actually, at least two of the questions are not "Bible knowledge" questions, but are "knowledge of literature that makes reference to the Bible" questions?I missed one of those, ending up with 9/10.... - What He Must Read
published on Wed, 4 Mar 2009 04:00:00 EST
by Frank Turk About three years ago (I think) my friend johnMark linked me to a talk by this fellow who was railing on against the popular model of youth ministry, the popular conception of family and success, the myth of the Southern Baptist Convention, and the necessity of the Gospel for the church. For some, I am sure, the message sounded like complete madness, but to me, it was amazing. The speaker was Voddie Baucham Jr., and I became an instant fan. The problem was that Pastor Baucham sort... - Your ten-year-old will say...
published on Tue, 3 Mar 2009 09:29:00 EST
..."Hey, why'd you slap my head? You made me lose my place in Donkey Destructor IV! I was gonna advance a hoof!"(Virtuoso Sarah Chang, at age ten â?? the age at which age I was reading comic books. Period.)... - What it doesn't mean
published on Tue, 3 Mar 2009 08:24:00 EST
Ok -- seriously now.March 2, 2009 -- For those who have endured this winter's frigid temperatures and today's heavy snowstorm in the Northeast, the concept of global warming may seem, well, almost wishful. But climate is known to be variable -- a cold winter, or a few strung together doesn't mean the planet is cooling. Still, according to a new study, global warming may have hit a speed bump and could go into hiding for decades. That's not the best part by a long shot. Here's the next paragrap...