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cooperation
Timmy Brister posted an extended discourse yesterday on cooperation between Calvinists and Arminians that is well worth your time. This morning, Timmy’s senior pastor, Tom Ascol, followed up with a quote from Charles Simeon that is too good not to … Continue reading
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Tagged arminianism, calvinism, cooperation, salvation, the gospel
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atheism's despair
Mark Driscoll with an excellent rundown of the hopelessness of an atheistic worldview: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv3TFg9SJb4&hl=en_US&fs=1&] Here is a related example from via challies: Indifference to the Disappearance as the Months Pass Not every atheist was horror-stricken at the O’Hairs’ disappearance. Frankly, … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, danny fry, david waters, dawkins, gary karr, hope, hopeless, hopelessness, john maccormack, Madeleine Murray O'Hair, mark driscoll, russell
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Grace
Austin Christian Fellowship is having a series on the Most Beautiful Word. If you want to hear a demonstration of what Grace is and why it is indeed the most beautiful word, then listen to the interview with Bob and … Continue reading
African Aid
Keving DeYoung takes a look at Dead Aid: Why Aid is Not Working and How There is a Better Way for Africa by Dambisa Moyo. Kevin says the book is: “a short, pungent, provocative book.” The thesis is simple and … Continue reading
foto friday
sunset with fill morning snapshot finally got the B&W film I took at Katherine’s wedding developed
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Tagged 80-200mm, 80-200mm f2.8 AF-D, autumn leaves, canon powershot S90, film, film photography, ilford Delta 100 iso, ilford film, leaves, nikon F4e, photography, pond, shadow, sunset, tree
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Veterans Day
Veterans, thank you so much for your service to this country. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7oBeQ4Y6xo&hl=en&fs=1&] HT to Veronique de Rugy from Normandy for whom Veterans Day has special significance.
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Tagged memorial, veterans, veterans day, world war II, ww II memorial
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lukewarm and loving it?
Francis Chan’s question three years ago is are you lukewarm and loving it? well? [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBhqrtMqrv8&hl=en&fs=1&]
Health Care Reform
The Wall Street Journal is quoting John Cassidy from The New Yorker explaining what Obamacare really is and why Nancy Pelosi was willing to sacrifice the careers of several House members to get it passed: Mr. Cassidy is more honest … Continue reading
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Tagged entitlement, health care reform, john cassidy, middle class entitlement, New Yorker, statism, wall street journal
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20 years ago today
the Berlin Wall came down. It was an amazingly euphoric moment in time celebrating the end of Stasi driven tyranny of the East German Government over its people. I remember Lech Walesa and Solidarity in Poland and just what an … Continue reading
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Tagged Berlin Wall, celebration, determination, east germany, failure, fear, freedom, reward, risk, straight talk
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health care
Nancy Pelosi has pulled out an armtwistinghardballnoholdsbarredrazorthinpartisan “victory” in passing a plan for the Government to take over all of our health care decisions. Notice the bipartisan nature of the opposition. anyway, check out this very important Wall Street Journal … Continue reading
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Tagged arm twisting, blanche lincoln, bribing, hardball, health care reform, illiberal, mary landrieu, pelosi, wall street journal
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six flags over Jesus
compare and contrast this to this. here is an excerpt from the first one: Q: What can the church expect to gain from all the changes? A: The transformation of our campus will dramatically increase First Baptist’s ability to minister … Continue reading
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Tagged ampitheater, building program, challies, first Baptist Dallas, francis chan, jared wilson, sanctuary
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phriday photos
we went camping last weekend and here is one of the dogs camping with us. Nikon F5 on Fujifilm Some trees, sun and campfire smoke nikon d300 and here are David and Paula, our friends with whom we were camping … Continue reading
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Tagged 50mm, 50mm f1.4 AFD, 80-200mm, 80-200mm f2.8 AF-D, canon powershot S90, d300, F5, nikon, nikon d300, Nikon F5, photography
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This is the end of the line for the prosperity gospel
I wish that I could embed vimeo videos. you have got to see this 8.5 minute clip from The Global Conversation. It might make you sick, but you must watch it. The Prosperity Gospel from The Global Conversation on Vimeo. … Continue reading
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Tagged africa, false gospel, ghana, poverty, prosperity gospel
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Logos 4 is out
Libronix has come out with Logos 4. Here is a video introduction of the new product. It looks really great, but I will wait till they get the Mac kinks worked out before I make the leap. Can’t wait to … Continue reading
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Tagged bible study, bible study software, libronix, logos 4, Logos for Mac, software
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more from Piper on the prosperity gospel
here are ten minutes from John Piper about the prosperity gospel and why he hates it. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLRue4nwJaA&hl=en&fs=1&] more here from Dr. Mohler and John Piper being more strident on this topic. Hat tip to Vitamin Z.
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Tagged false gospel, greed, heresy, John Piper, love of money, prosperity gospel
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a change of heart
interesting story of the conversion of a planned parenthood center director from providing abortions to pro-life. Probably everybody has seen this already, but just in case you haven’t, here it is. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAdbaoSh4XM&hl=en&fs=1&] hat tip to just about everybody that I … Continue reading
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Tagged abortion, life, planned parenthood, pro-choice, pro-life, technology, ultrasound
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Los Angeles Times' William Voegeli gets it
William Voegeli gets it and what he gets is in the title and the lede of yesterday’s Los Angeles Times column. The Golden State isn’t worth it Our high-benefit/high-tax model no longer works, especially compared with low-tax states like Texas. … Continue reading
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Tagged California, government programs, high benefits, high taxes, low benefits, low taxes, market competition, spending, taxes, texas
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foto friday
messing around with bokeh and depth of field in the Parma’s grass. This one with my 300mm f4 and water droplets on the grass and this one with my 80-200mm f2.8 and a leaf (new custom header picture) here is … Continue reading
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Tagged 300mm, 80-200mm, 80-200mm f2.8 AF-D, bokeh, bokeh photograhy, d300, depth of field, dew, grass, nikkor 300mm f4 AF, nikon, nikon d300, off-camera flash, photography
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where we are
Christian Smith and Patricia Snell have written a book that looks fascinating. It is called Souls in Transition: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of Emerging Adults at the link above you can read extended excerpts from the book and get … Continue reading
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Tagged Christian Smith, ethics, morality, Patricia Snell, souls in transition, spirituality, young adults
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speaking ill of others
Nathan Finn posted some great advice from Charles Simeon regarding what to do when hearing someone tell you a bad report about another person: This sage advice comes from Charles Simeon, the great 19th century Anglican evangelical: 1st – To … Continue reading
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Tagged charles simeon, dealing with others, gossip, nathan finn, texas lawyers creed
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abortion as genocide
Margaret Sanger and her monstrous eugenic aspirations for abortion on demand appear to be bearing fruit. Abortion kills more black Americans than the seven leading causes of death combined, according to data collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for … Continue reading
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Tagged abortion, black abortion, black population, dede scozzafava, doug hoffman, eugenics, margaret sanger, planned parenthood
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Restless hearts
Justin Taylor posts the following quote from C.S. Lewis regarding our restless hearts. C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity (HarperOne, 1980), pp. 49–50: What Satan put into the heads of our remote ancestors was the idea that they could ‘be like gods’—could … Continue reading
Another hard one
Stand to Reason Blog found a place on the net called “The Abortioneers” which has since disappeared but remains visible in Google cache. Here is the paper abstract and information. the article by L Harris is very interesting stuff. she … Continue reading
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Tagged 2nd trimester abortion, abortion, ambivalence, deceit, rationalization, violence
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the gospel
another post defining the Gospel. this one is excellent. check out the whole post, but here is the meat of the coconut: So what is the gospel? Although this brief survey is far from complete, it consistently reveals that the … Continue reading
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Tagged Author and Finisher, evangelion, good news, gospel, Jesus Christ, objective work of Christ
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photo phriday
these weeds have been fascinating me and I finally got the chance to photograph them this week. and I bought a canon point and shoot (powershot S90) to carry around for more spontaneous pictures. It is a great little camera.
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Tagged 80-200mm, 80-200mm f2.8 AF-D, bokeh, canon powershot S90, fall leaves, leaves, nikon d300, photography, S90
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