Greg Linscott of SharperIron asks, “What’s Wrong with This Picture?” in response to Curtis Allen’s presence at John Piper’s Bethlehem Baptist Church. You can view the video on YouTube. It’s also embedded below. https://youtube.com/watch?v=N2xyaUnkkZg
Free Audiobook: Spurgeon’s All of Grace
ChristianAudio.com has a free audiobook download each month. This month’s free download is Spurgeon’s classic All of Grace. You can download it here. You’ll need to use the code NOV2006. This is a great way to build a library of free audiobooks.
Firefox 2.0 Is Here
If you’ve been using Firefox 1.5, you might be interested to know that Firefox 2.0 was officially released yesterday. (If you haven’t been using Firefox, now’s a great time to start.) It’s got a lot of great features that keep it a couple steps ahead of the new Internet Explorer 7. E.g., FF 2 (1) […]
The Ten Commandments (2006)
Shanna and I got another call from the local movie store inviting us to come in for a free rental. We took them up on it and got The Ten Commandments. It was just shy of three hours long, which, in this case, was not a good thing! It stood in stark contrast to the […]
Catalyst Conference 2006—A Summary Article
I had the opportunity to attended the 2006 Catalyst Conference (dubbed “Clearly”) in Atlanta on Thursday and Friday two weeks ago (Oct 5–6) with a good friend of mine—and ostensibly over 10,000 pastors. Catalyst claims to be the largest pastors conference around. My place of employment asked me to write a review article of the […]
Paradigm Shift—Paul’s Use of Σάρξ
Over the past couple of years, and particularly the past several months, I’ve been in the process of a fairly significant paradigm shift in the way I read the NT—particularly Paul. Though I have already made a major shift, I’m still somewhat in transition; I’m still testing my conclusions to see if they fit naturally […]
Loving God Supremely
I found these words from Piper to be convicting in that they reveal my all-too-idolatrous heart—my tendency to enjoy the gifts of God more than God the Giver: The critical question for our generation—and for every generation—is this: If you could have heaven, with no sickness, and with all the friends you ever had on […]
Gal 6:16—Some Additional Thoughts
If you read my previous post about the function of καί and its implications for the various interpretations of τὸν Ἰσραὴλ τοῦ θεοῦ, you may have been left with some lingering questions—as was I. In addition, I was missing one vital piece of information that makes view #1 slightly more plausible. Since I don’t think […]