I am reading John Piper’s book When I Don’t Desire God. In a transparent fashion, he admits to 50+ years of fighting the distractions that lure each one of us away from spending our appointed times reading the Word of God:
ADMITTING THE SIN OF RELUCTANCE TO READ THE BIBLE A thousand interesting things compete for [...]
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John Piper follows up on Josh Harris’ blog post about using Twitter during a worship service:
Josh Harris has done us a good service. He explains why many of us think it’s a bad idea to “tweet” while participating in corporate worship. That is, we think you should use Twitter before and after corporate worship to [...]
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From C.J. Mahaney’s blog:
I struggled greatly with fear and unbelief in preaching. God has used so many means to deal with this sin as it relates to preaching. One story that was particularly helpful was a story of how Corrie ten Boom’s father helped her trust God in fearful situations (as told in Overcoming Fear, [...]
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Good thoughts…
I would like to encourage all fundamentalists and former fundamentalists to feel a good breeze from the fevered landscape of controversy. It’s an article by Kevin Bauder (PDF), the president of Central Baptist Theological Seminary, across town from us here in Minneapolis.
If you are a younger fundamentalist and hope to stay one and be [...]
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Time magazine listed “The New Calvinism” as #3 on its article, 10 Ideas Changing the World Right Now
If you really want to follow the development of conservative Christianity, track its musical hits. In the early 1900s you might have heard “The Old Rugged Cross,” a celebration of the atonement. By the 1980s you could have [...]
Jonathan Dodson writes about churches taking a “simple church” goal…
The first kind of simple church ignores complexity. This kind of church calls it as they see it. There is one way to do things. They call the outs. This type of “simple church” refuses to frame the gospel in our context, insisting upon using old [...]
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Wise financial thoughts from Mark Driscoll…
The book of Proverbs, on two occasions, says, “The prudent sees danger and hides himself, but the simple go on and suffer for it” Prov. 22:3; 27:12. Since there is no one of merit indicating that the financial mess we are in will be resolved anytime soon, it is foolish [...]
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