Posted in Blogs, Life on September 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Excerpts from the post Things I’ve Learned After It Was Too Late:
Be careful what you say in front of your children.
If you’re given a month to do an assignment, and you think you can wait until the last week to do it, the assignment will take at least two weeks.
God may not help everyone who [...]
Posted in Articles, Blogs, Church, Quotes on September 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The following was directly copied from Mark Driscoll’s blog at Resurgence. I highly recommend that you look there to read his thoughts on ministry and many other topics, but for accessibility I’ve compiled his posts entitled Death by Ministry. Be warned that it is very long, but there are a few wonderful points:
Posted in Life, Thoughts on September 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Do either of these categories fit you well?
[Some] construct a modern monestary by adopting a “fortress mentality.” They refuse to live in this world and instead construct an entirely Christian one, from which they rarely break out. They are consumed by Christian radio stations and Christian bookstores, and when they need their faucets fixed, they [...]
Posted in Thoughts on September 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This evening I had the blessing of conversing with three of my closest friends, and the topic turned to that of heroes and role models. We lamented the absolute lack of names we could commend to the youth of our church. Athletes have let us down; movie stars continue to let us down; and let’s [...]
Posted in Articles, Files, Links, Resources, Sin on September 29, 2007 | 2 Comments »
It is my privilege to commend to you the blog of Jonathan Dodson called Creation Project. Jonathan is the author of a wonderful article in the Journal of Biblical Counseling entitled Accountability Groups which I recently cited for my paper on Repentance vs. Penance, and it can be downloaded here. (pdf link) There are some [...]
Posted in Personal, Quotes, Resources, Thoughts, Writing on September 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Books don’t change people…paragraphs do…sometimes even sentences. – John Piper, A Godward Life
In recent days I’ve been persuaded that while a deep understanding of the most technical of subjects can be to the glory of God, still the practical depends upon short, perhaps pithy, sentences. If I cannot summarize a sermon, a lecture, a book, [...]
Posted in Quotes, Thoughts on September 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Reformation21 has a wonderful roundtable discussion with Ligon Duncan and Justin Taylor on the topic of Forgiveness. Here is a quote:
Derek: How much forgetting is involved in forgiving? And is that what God actually does?
Ligon: Well, obviously, because God is unchangeable and omniscient, there is sense in which he doesn’t ever forget anything. When we [...]
Posted in Articles, Media, Quotes on September 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
FaithVisuals has a good article tonight entitled Just Because You Can Doesn’t Mean You Should. Here are some highlights:
The problem is that many [people] seem to think that knowing software is equal to knowing how to create good art. They think because they know Photoshop that makes them a graphic artist. Churches are in the [...]
Posted in Links, Mac, Media, News, Software, Video on September 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It had been months since I had fired up Joost at all, since generally there isn’t much content to view. Correction, there isn’t much worthwhile content to view. But today I received in my inbox a notice that the over-the-internet Joost will be re-airing MLB playoff games within 24 hours of their first airing, and [...]
Posted in Files, Resources, Seminary, Sermons, Software, Theology on September 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday Logos started taking orders for the John Piper Collection which contains 24 of his books. With an MSRP of $360, it will most likely sell for $170 when it comes out and is available for preorder at $150. Production will begin when enough preorders have been made. Note, this is different [...]
