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To help those of us that could not make it to this years conference (why is it up in Minnesota and not Alabama?), I am going to add Tim Challis Feed to the sidebar since he is liveblogging the event.
This years topic is “The Supremacy of Christ in a Postmodern World.”
John Piper
Mark Driscoll
Timothy Keller
David Wells
D.A Carson
Voddie Baucham
Here is the promo
1) This sudden craze to use your cellphone as some fake lighter at concerts. It is a slap in the face of those classic rock fans who took time to have a lighter in their pocket for that moving guitar solo. Don’t cheapen it will some mode of communication. It makes you look lazy.
2) Self-Impossed Encores. What is the deal with musicians saying their good byes, running off stage, then running right back out to play another set? You earn an encore! You do not assume the crowd wants an encore, you dont plan on leaving your single (most of the time the only reason they come and endure the other hour of your best work) till the second encore.
The audio for the Mohler/Patterson “debate” has just been posted.
You can here it HERE
Unbiblical reason not to use wine no. 1: the Bible says that Christians should not drink alcohol at all. Myth. Find the verse.
Unbiblical and dumb reason no. 2: people who struggle with alcoholism shouldn’t be tempted. What? The evangelical church is one of the most gluttonous and overeating communities you’ll find in America. If anything, we should worry that the bread will tempt people to go to Old Country Buffet and eat from the various troughs as they stuff themselves after church on Sunday. There are more overeaters in your church than alcoholics. Few pastors have the courage to address overeating however. SIDENOTE: What would happen if the church treated people with drinking problems and over-eating problems the same way? Ok, so the weaker brother argument won’t work here. Next?
Stupid reason no. 3: we’ve always done it like this. Ahh, not really. Using grape juice is new folks. The United Methodist started this during the women’s temperance movement in the 1870s and 1880s. Here’s the real reason: people don’t know the history, they don’t like change, and many claim that doing what Jesus actually said would now dissension. I think we heard about this before in Galatia (law vs. grace).
Tom Ascol has an interesting post on a new survey by Lifeway.
You can read it HERE
I am grateful to Lifeway for conducting this research. I hope they will do it again in 5 years, because the return to the historic faith of our Southern Baptist founders is growing. John Broadus referred to “that exalted system of Pauline truth which is technically called Calvinism, which compels an earnest student to profound thinking, and when pursued with a combination of systematic thought and fervent experience, makes him at home among the most inspiring and ennobling views of God and the universe He has made.” This biblical system of truth is being seen by more and Southern Baptists who take the Word of God seriously. By God’s grace, that trend will continue and increase.
Was wanting some feedback on what you all thought about this clip. Is he wrong? Have we gotten so sensitive that everything offends us? Are we so legalistic that there is no room for grace or the idea of falling?
Albert Mohler has an article on the edits NBC has made on Veggietales.
NBC fears that Bob the Tomato is a zealot — a clever televangelist
seducing children with his radical theology of God’s love — and with
his theology made less threatening by his vegetable charm. Larry the
Cucumber was evidently unavailable for comment.
You can catch it HERE
Christianity Today had a great article on the rising popularity of Reformed Theology.
You can read the article HERE.
“Once you’re exposed to [doctrine],” he (Joshua Harris) said, “you see the richness in
it for your own soul, and you’re ruined for anything else.”
It is refeshing to see the shift from being content to just “feel” and actually moving to a place of understanding and becoming doctrinally sound. It appears the worship light model may be saying its goodbyes and walking out the door.
Saw some people seraching for guitar chords for Derek Webb and thought I would mention T-REV. Last time I checked it did not have Mockingbird, but does have a ton of tabs from Caedmon’s Call and She Must and Shall Go Free.
If all of us are so depraved that we cannot come to God
without being born again by the irresistible grace of God, then it is
clear that the salvation of any of us is owing to God’s election.
Election refers to God’s choosing whom to save. It is unconditional in
that there is no condition man must meet before God chooses to save
him. Man is dead in trespasses and sins. So there is no condition he
can meet before God chooses to save him from his deadness.
We are not saying that final salvation is unconditional. It is not. We
must meet the condition of faith in Christ in order to inherit eternal
life. But faith is not a condition for election. Just the reverse.
Election is a condition for faith. It is because God chose us before
the foundation of the world that he purchases our redemption at the
cross and quickens us with irresistible grace and brings us to faith.
Relevant Magazine has a interview with David Crowder and his new book “Everyone wants to go to heaven, but no one wants to die”
You can listen to it HERE (Podcast is in the center of the pages)
I have heard from the doctors now and the news is this: they don’t
know what it is, but they know what it ISN’T. And it ISN’T cancer.That’s a very good thing. An incredibly good thing.
I’ll
still have to do some more tests, but in a few months, and they’re
doing a “wait and see” for what will happen next. All the cells they
saw in the biopsy were normal, so they’ll try again in December to get
to the root of it. For now, though, nothing looks dangerous.
Men’s health has a article on todays TV shows and their view of fathers.
Any thoughts?
You can read it HERE
Today, whenever you turn on the television, some lard-ass numbskull is
trying to extricate himself from some ridiculous predicament while his
bright, unexpectedly gorgeous spouse looks on. Strongly suggesting that
the only way to land a smart, beautiful wife is to be a fat, dopey
loser.
Moore Thoughts and Views 