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Calvin on God’s Permissive Will

June 11, 2010 by Phil Gons

Calvin on God’s Permissive Will — John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion

After reading my post on Zac Smith’s cancer a while back, a friend of mine saw a link in the sidebar to a related post, “The Grace of Cancer,” and left a comment challenging my choice of words when I repeatedly said that God gave cancer to a man from our church to bring him […]

Filed Under: Theology Tagged With: Calvinism, cancer, evil, God's will, John Calvin, John Piper, Logos Bible Software, permission, R. C. Sproul, sovereignty

Was the Oil Spill an Act of God?

June 10, 2010 by Phil Gons

Was the Oil Spill an Act of God? — Divine sovereignty over disaster—against Rick Warren’s tweet.

Rick Warren tweeted earlier today, “When people call an ocean oil spill caused by human drilling ‘an Act of God,’ THAT, friends, is taking God’s name in vain!” To my surprise, I enjoy a lot of what Warren tweets, but in this case I think he has it precisely backwards. Failing to attribute to God […]

Filed Under: Theology Tagged With: Act of God, Amos, calamity, Calvinism, disaster, evil, Job, John Piper, Rick Warren, sovereignty

Memorial Day vs. Trinity Sunday

May 30, 2010 by Phil Gons

Memorial Day vs. Trinity Sunday — What a church chooses to mark, and what that choice says.

Today was a special day in many churches around the world. Some churches in the US anticipated Memorial Day and remembered those who have fought to defend our nation’s freedoms. Others celebrated Trinity Sunday and reflected on the Christian doctrine of the Trinity—God’s being both one and three. Some may have done both; others neither. I’m […]

Filed Under: Miscellany, Theology Tagged With: Memorial Day, poll, Trinity, Trinity Sunday

Logitech Webcam Pro 9000 for $55

May 16, 2010 by Phil Gons

Logitech Webcam Pro 9000 for $55 — A webcam deal, and why Skype beat the phone for distant family.

Living thousands of miles away from where we grew up (Ohio and Minnesota), we’ve been incredibly thankful for modern technology that allows us to have face-to-face conversations with our families. We almost exclusively use Skype now instead of our mobile phones to communicate with our parents and siblings. A really cool new feature coming in […]

Filed Under: Deals, Technology Tagged With: Logitech, Skype, Webcam Pro 9000, webcams

Save $60 a Year on Your Internet

May 11, 2010 by Phil Gons

Linksys Cable Modem

If your internet service provides a cable modem for you to use to get your internet from the wall to your computer, they’re probably also charging you $5 a month for the modem rental (like Comcast has been doing to us for the last two-and-a-half years). Save yourself the $60 a year by buying this […]

Filed Under: Deals, Technology Tagged With: cable modem, internet, Linksys, NewEgg

Free Episode of Planet Earth in HD

April 27, 2010 by Phil Gons

Planet Earth

If you’ve never gotten around to watching BBC’s Planet Earth yet, now’s your chance to check it out for free—and in HD—and find out what you’ve been missing. Amazon Video On Demand currently has Planet Earth: Season 1, Episode 1: “From Pole to Pole” (49:16) available as a free download—both the standard and HD versions. And it’s […]

Filed Under: Deals, Videos Tagged With: BBC, creation, David Attenborough, Life, nature, Planet Earth, Sigourney Weaver

Greg Bahnsen Lectures and Debates on YouTube

April 26, 2010 by Phil Gons

Greg Bahnsen

On Saturday night I discovered the Greg Bahnsen channel on YouTube, which has five video lectures (in 32 parts) and two audio debates (in 20 parts). Greg Bahnsen delivered the video lectures in 19911 as a five-part series, Basic Training for Defending the Faith (Amazon | Monergism), to soon-to-be college students. I spent a little while listening […]

Filed Under: Audio, Theology, Videos Tagged With: apologetics, George Smith, Gordon Stein, Greg Bahnsen, neutrality, worldviews

How to Use Greek and Hebrew in Blog Posts

April 19, 2010 by Phil Gons

Greek Manuscript

If you use Greek and Hebrew in your blog posts, here’s a tip that will help you make it look good and give you the ability to make changes across your entire site in just a few seconds. There are two main things you need to do. Step 1: Add Styles to Your Style Sheet […]

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: fonts, Greek, Hebrew, phpMyAdmin, regular expressions, Unicode, website, WordPress

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