Archive for September, 2006
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Friday, September 29th, 2006My sweetie and I are jumping in the Buick and heading north for the weekend. North and west to the 2006 Desiring God Conference. It looks like it will be an excellent conference and is already sold out. We can’t wait. Not only do we get the great speakers, but we get a weekend alone [...]
A Favorite Waste of Time
Thursday, September 28th, 2006I guess you would call this a “Productivity Enhancer.” [HT: Paulo]
Didache Introduction
Wednesday, September 27th, 2006Derek Thomas has a brief but helpful article about The Didache at reformation21. The Didache is an ancient Christian document that I have to admit a fascination with. In beginning Greek, our final was to translate a piece of it having never seen it before. That was a challenge but a fun one. In the [...]
Preaching Power Through Prayer
Wednesday, September 27th, 2006As I’ve mentioned, EM Bounds’ book Power Through Prayer has really been affecting my thinking and, more significantly, my praying. Here are some significant sections that stood out for me. I’m sure that these kinds of things have been mentioned during homeletics classes, but I didn’t hear them and I should have been made to [...]
Cultural/Religious Warfare
Tuesday, September 26th, 2006They’re winning. When we cancel things out of fear, they win. Just in case you think the fear is unfounded, check this out. Update: Hey, the German’s think it is “crazy” to cancel the opera! Someone in Europe has some backbone.
Prayer
Monday, September 25th, 2006The men who have done the most for God in this world have been early on their knees. He who fritters away the early morning, its opportunity and freshness, in other pursuits than seeking God will make poor headway seeking him the rest of the day. If God is not first in our thoughts and [...]
Family Walk
Monday, September 25th, 2006Amazing Wilberforce
Monday, September 25th, 2006I’ve just noticed that there is a film coming out titled Amazing Grace. It is the story of Willam Wilberforce and his fight to end slavery in the British Empire and that pretty much brought it to an end world wide. Ioan Gruffudd is playing Wilberforce and Albert Finney is playing John Newton. Gruffudd played [...]
The Need for Preachers
Saturday, September 23rd, 2006Can a church be a church without a preaching pastor? It is a complicated question isn’t it? More complicated than it seems. A knee jerk response in either the affirmative or negative misses the complexity of the question. The relationship between pastors, elders and preachers must be considered. Actually, the need for elders comes into [...]
Gettin’ My Geek On!!1!!
Thursday, September 21st, 2006Okay, so now I have a 20″ iMac G4 1.25GHz, Airport Extreme, 80GB hard drive, SuperDrive (CD-R/W, DVD-R/W). It is simply beautiful. The screen is large and clear and beautiful. One bad pixel out of nearly 2 million. Not bad. You can only see it when the screen is black. It isn’t noticable when there [...]
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