July 2011
1 post
November 2010
3 posts
Lauren Booth’s conversion to Islam: a... →
HT Mark Meynell
Lauren Booth is Cherie Blair’s half-sister, and therefore Tony Blair’s half-sister-in-law. She is a journalist – and in the last few years, she has become a Muslim. So it was fascinating to read her account of her conversion to Islam in yesterday’s Guardian.
January 2009
1 post
December 2008
4 posts
Five things to be concerned about
After giving us five things that he is thankful for, Ray Ortlund gives us five things he is concerned about. This is worth thinking deeply about:
1. Too many churches remain uninvolved in and even unaware of the new things God is doing. They seem stuck in old patterns of dysfunction. Will they be left behind and lost to tragic inconsequentiality? 2. A tsunami of sin has been slamming us for...
Total depravity! →
Virgo Bible Insight →
Piper on why God doesn't waste Satan →
October 2008
7 posts
“The way in which we maintain “the expulsive power of a new affection” is the...”
– Sinclair Ferguson Expelling Worldliness with a New Affection - Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals, Inc
“Evangelical humiliation is a sense that a Christian has of his own utter...”
– Evangelical Humiliation :: classics, humility, jonathan edwards, reading :: A Reformed, Christian Blog
Carson expands on social action (one of those five... →
“20 Resolutions from the book of James from Sinclair Ferguson
James 1:5 To...”
– Between Two Worlds: Sinclair Ferguson: 20 Resolutions from James
Five trends in the church today according to Don... →
The Sola Panel | Jensen on Driscoll →
The Sola Panel | Mark Driscoll rolls grenade down... →
March 2008
3 posts
Keller at Stamford →
February 2008
12 posts
How to make a difference today →
7 tough questions to ask your friend →
On marriage →
The amplified Lord's Prayer →
On cynicism →
Carl Trueman on 'Doing Church' →
Make text talk →
“Many believers are “rabbit hole” Christians. In the morning they pop...”
– Jan Johnson Moody Monthly, Nov. 1987 here http://www.thegracetabernacle.org/quotes/Evangelism-Lifestyle.htm
Great page of quotes →
Together for the Gospel 06 talks here →
January 2008
17 posts
“What may be done at any time will be done at no time.”
– Scottish Proverb
“John Owen (again) expressed this attitude of total reliance on Christ when he...”
– Jerry Bridges on Four ways to love here http://purechurch.blogspot.com/2008/01/jerry-bridges-on-four-ways-to-love.html
“Tell the truth, love people, pray hard, and expect to be misheard and...”
– David Field on getting grief from fellow Christians here http://davidpfield.blogspot.com/2008/01/getting-grief-from-fellow-christians.html
“To “pray without ceasing” refers to recurring prayer, not nonstop talking....”
– John MacArthur on http://www.sfpulpit.com/2008/01/22/pray-without-ceasing/
“Three things confuse a Christian;
Yeah, four confound any man.
Unbelief...”
– Virtue and its impostors http://purechurch.blogspot.com/2008/01/virtue-and-its-impostors.html#links
“There is nothing in us or done by us, at any stage of our earthly development,...”
– B. B. Warfield, Works 7:113 from http://theologica.blogspot.com/2008/01/resting-on-his-blood-and-righteousness.html
“Neither to be a church that makes for full notebooks and empty hearts, correct...”
– http://teampyro.blogspot.com/2008/01/right-balance-negatively-put.html
My Presidential Quiz results
This is apparently who I vote for in the States. What is interesting is that Mike Huckabee, who is the ‘Christian’ candidate, doesn’t rate high! Also 69% isn’t a strong correlation. 69% Barack Obama 67% Joe Biden 66% Hillary Clinton 65% John Edwards 62% Bill Richardson 60% Chris Dodd 56% John McCain 51% Dennis Kucinich 47% Mike Gravel 46% Mitt Romney 43% Mike Huckabee...
Another book on Scripture →
“It is too easy to putter through life, not sinning greatly, but not pursuing...”
– From http://englishmusings.blogspot.com/2007/12/beginning-work.html via http://antblogs.blogspot.com/2008/01/great-aim-for-2008.html
Don Whitney's questions for a New Year
The beginning of a new year is an ideal time to stop, look up, and get our bearings. To that end, here are some questions to ask prayerfully in the presence of God. What’s one thing you could do this year to increase your enjoyment of God? What’s the most humanly impossible thing you will ask God to do this year? What’s the single most important thing you could do to improve the quality of...
David Field's lecture notes on Doctrine of God →
Carson's book on his dad →
Dever on evangelism →
I want a principle within
I want a principle within of watchful, godly fear, A sensibility of sin, a pain to feel it near. I want the first approach to feel of pride or wrong desire, To catch the wandering of my will, and quench the kindling fire. From Thee that I no more may stray, no more Thy goodness grieve, Grant me the filial awe, I pray, the tender conscience give. Quick as the apple of an eye, O God, my conscience...
December 2007
30 posts
On incarnation and fish →
Definition of community →