Daily Archives: September 28, 2008

Mark Steyn on the thuggery

Here is Mark Steyn on the bout of thuggery and intimidation from the Barack Obama campaign. As Stanley Kurtz, Milt Rosenberg and David Freddoso can tell you, this pattern is well established: The Obama campaign’s response to uncongenial allegations is … Continue reading

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the defense plan from Mr. Obama

here is Barack Obama’s defense plan for the U.S. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU4sVQV3Lhk&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&fs=1] background on why I am posting this video here. and more stuff here. Oh and here is another bit here. and just in case you can’t see the pattern yet, … Continue reading

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first reports on Desiring God conference

the first reports are trickling in about the Desiring God fall conference on the power of words. Mark Driscoll just completed his session entitled: How Sharp the Edge? Christ, Controversy, and Cutting Words. It was one of the best messages … Continue reading

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Ligonier West Coast Conference

Outlines of various talks given at the Ligonier West Coast Conference are posted on the Ligonier Ministries blog. As you would expect, there is some challenging and excellent material being presented. The one on Postmodernism by Ligon Duncan caught my … Continue reading

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Molly's surgery

here is a link to Steve McCoy’s updates regarding his lovely wife Molly’s surgery. It sounds like everything has gone well so far.

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excellent Newbigin quote

Todd Hiestand has an excellent quote from Newbigin up this morning. Here is the second half, but be sure to go read the first half too. And we can also see that wherever the missionary character of the doctrine of … Continue reading

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