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Westminster Theological Seminary is a great place to pick up some very useful books and music. I will try to have “Editor’s Pick” style post here so either click on the banner or on the books. Check out the “Pages section on the left for the weekly/bi-weekly picks!!
*I would appreciate it if you would click on the banner or images so they can see how much traffic is coming from this site.
From the Resurgence site:
Last year I spoke at a large church planting event along with a number of other church planters and church planting movement leaders. The event was held in Florida, went well, and did a very encouraging job of bringing together a number of denominations, networks, and organizations that otherwise would not have benefited from such a partnership.
This year I was invited back but declined because the few-day round trip from Seattle to Florida to give a very short message (last year it was less than twenty minutes) seemed like too much in light of other responsibilities. So, the sponsors of the event asked me to instead put together an eight-minute video on church planting that could be shown at the event and then handed out to each of the 1,500 attendees. So, in an effort to be helpful, the video crew from Mars Hill Church and I spent half a day in freezing weather at a military cemetery shooting scenes that were then edited for the video. Apparently the video was shown at the event, was well received by the attendees, and then criticized by Bill Hybels from the stage because it did not speak of women church planters. And, not wanting a bigger fuss, the organization hosting the event then made a decision not to hand out the video as they had promised, leaving the guys from our Acts 29 Church Planting Network who had hauled suitcases of the videos to Florida with thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours of wasted effort. The leaders of the event are good guys whom I still consider friends, and I’ve never met Bill Hybels so I won’t speak about him personally. But, I thought we should at least post the banned video online, so here it is:
From AO site
We officially have a title and release date for the new Caedmon’s Call record.
Overdressed will be out August 28, 2007.
Oh yeah.
Save up and prepare yourself…I have great feeling about this cd!!!
I am asking out to the blog world if there is anyone who has a Joost invite. Please leave me a comment and let me know.
Until then if anyone else would be interested check out Brilliantdays. they had some invites as of the other day.
Thanks!
Update: I have received a Joost invite!!! Gotta love the blog-o-sphere!! I’ve only watched about 3 min of “Stella” on the Comedy Central Channel, but so far I have been impressed! As soon as I get some invites I will let you guys know…
update: I now have unlimited invites if anyone is interested….just leave me your email address (to avoid spam just write it out…i.e jeremy at gmail dot org)
centuri0n has a great post about those who are against calvinism. You can read it HERE, but I had to post one of the brands here.
This is a major sore point for me. People who rant and rave about calvinism without even really knowing anything about the points
(other than God choosing to send people to hell)..
[1] Hunt’s Tomato Paste: “I hate Calvinism, but I can’t accurately describe the Doctrines which constitute such a thing.” Listen: read a book or something — and I mean read the whole book, don;t skim it in hopes that you have picked out the useful bits by mistake. The Five Points of Calvinism, 2nd Ed., By D.N. Steele, C.C. Thomas & S.L. Quinn, would be a great and brief place for you to start.
“We believe in the substitutionary atonement of Christ for all men. We believe that Jesus Christ was the perfect GodMan, who died
upon the cross of calvary, to take my sins, your sins, the sins of all humanity upon himself, and that anyone who trusts him, who believes
in His death, burial and resurrection is born again. We don’t believe that Jesus Christ died for a select few, sometimes called “the elect.”
We believe that whosoever will may come, and that no one is left out. We are not in the…into particular love or limited atonement.
As a matter of fact, we consider it heresy. And so we are believing that all men everywhere, in every age, can be saved, if they come
to the living Christ who died for them.”
-Jerry Fallwell on Liberty Universitie’s stance on atonement.
(HT:Founders Blog)
This is just awesome!!
Some specs for this project:
Total Number of Post-It® Notes
about 6400
Total People
about 10
Total Time
5 hours
Shaun Groves has a great post on what married men want. Great job Shaun!!
You can read it HERE
Guys, in general, aren’t so good at talking. We really aren’t so good
at examining the deepest parts
of ourselves, drudging up what it is we
really feel and desire and then putting that into cogent sentences
with
subjects and predicates and modifiers and what not. And to make
matters worse, the men
communicating for us, the fictional guys your
see on the television and the silver screen, are one-dimensional
troglodytes who want nothing but sex, sex and more sex.
We are spotting one of the funniest and sadest blogs I have read. Christian Cheese shows just how commercialized Christendom has become.
Go check it out and help get this crap out of the stores.
Hark, the voice of love and mercy,
Sounds aloud from Calvary!
See, it rends the rocks asunder,
Shakes the earth and veils the sky!
“It is finished, It is finished,”
Hear the dying Savior cry.
“It is finished,” O what pleasure,
Do these charming words afford.
Heavenly blessings, without measure,
Flow to us from Christ the Lord.
“It is finished, it is finished,”
Saints the dying words record.
Finished all the types and shadows,
Of the ceremonial law;
Finished all that God had promised;
Death and hell no more shall awe.
“It is finished, it is finished,”
Saints from hence your comfort draw.
Tune your harps anew, ye seraphs;
Join to sing the pleasing theme;
Saints on earth and all in heaven,
Join to praise Immanuel’s name.
Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
Glory to the bleeding lamb! Hark, the voice of love and mercy,
“There are two kinds of sinners. The first are the evildoers, who do not believe, and the arrogant saints. The second are those who believe in forgiveness through Christ. We are indeed sinners but under the shadow of Christ’s merit and prayer, which he has performed as our High Priest. Consider this word well and do not skip over it, namely, that the prayer spoken over you with tears was prayed by a true High Priest and is heard by God. For this reason no one is excluded from this prayer except those who are unbelievers or arrogant saints. Other preachers make only an example from this prayer as they did with Christ’s suffering.”
(HT:Reformation21)
You can now Pre-Order Derek Webb’s new CD “The Ringing Bell” for $20.00. This includes the cd (due out May 1), a graphic novel for the cd, and the opportunity
to download the full cd.
You can listen order he cd HERE
Arminian Grace
(To the tune of Amazing Grace)Arminian “grace!”
How strange the sound,
Salvation hinged on me.
I once was lost
then turned around,
Was blind then chose to see.What “grace” is it
that calls for choice,
Made from some good within?
That part that wills
to heed God’s voice,
Proved stronger than my sin.Thru many ardent gospel pleas,
I sat with heart of stone.
But then some hidden good in me,
Propelled me toward my home.My poor, dead neighbor,
Such a fool!
Didn’t choose from sin to flee
I had the sense
to change my heart
But he’s not smart — like me!When we’ve been there
ten thousand years,
Because of what we’ve done,
We’ve no less days
to sing our praise,
Than when we first begun.
Moore Thoughts and Views 