From the monthly archives:

July 2005

Challies in hot water over Rick Warren apologetics

July 31, 2005

Tim has interviewed Richard Abanes who spent the second post supporting Rick Warren and the first exposing Harry Potter. Tim has experienced a reaction which has led to him posting on being accused of being a tool of the Devil. The other posts can be found from the one I linked to in the “Related [...]

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New look for Hugh

July 30, 2005

Hugh Hewitt’s Blog has had a major redesign and even has a feed now! Looks nice.

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Blogging about Galatians – cheat sheet!

July 30, 2005

My good blogging friend gaddabout has pointed us all to Martin Luther’s Commentary on the Epistle
to the Galatians- now thats cheating, but all the best preachers will tell you they never have an original thought in their heads- I wonder where Luther got all his ideas from……..

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Blogging without authority and the "anti-success" bias

July 30, 2005

Evangelical Outpost pointed me to a great post by Catez who says:
“Recently I’ve seen posts in which the conclusions drawn are that if more than a certain number of people read a blog, or a blog appears in a certain position on a list of blogs, then this is a popular blog and this is [...]

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Courageous leadership- learning from a book by Bill Hybels

July 29, 2005

Recently I have been reading Bill Hybels book “Courageous Leadership”. Ihave found it very interesting. Bill seems to be another example of a manof God who is willing to learn practical wisdom from whatever source he canfind.
It is possible for us to know all our biblical theology but end up buildingnothing that is [...]

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New Blogger challenge: Galatians

July 28, 2005

I would love to take some of you on a journey of discovery about what goes into writing a sermon series. One of my readers asked a while back how to make a great sermon. Well, in case you didnt know already one of the great tips of sermon writing is get as [...]

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London under seige

July 28, 2005

BBC NEWS reports on the largest ever pollice operation that is under way today in London. Not since the second world war has there been such a deployment of security officers by the UK government on UK soil. All pretense that we are trying to carry on as normal has been cast to [...]

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How Google "sees" the web

July 27, 2005

Ages ago I came accross this fantastic web toy which allows you hours of fun exploring how Google sees your little corner of the web- who are your neighbours? I am surprised by some of mine but having said that they are all familiar names.

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Christian Carnival LXXX

July 27, 2005

Daddypundit has posted this weeks carnival

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Disagreeing with pyromaniac over Galatians

July 27, 2005

I have been listening to one of pyromaniacs sermons again, which I very much enjoy. I’m going to have to with great trepidation disagree with him about one point.
Phil claimed in his sermon that the visit of Paul to Jerusalem spoken of in Gal 2 is the same event as the Jerusalem council.
This [...]

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5% of British Muslims believe more terrorism would be justified

July 26, 2005

Guardian Unlimited reports :

“Hundreds of thousands of Muslims have thought about leaving Britain after the London bombings, according to a new Guardian/ICM poll.
The figure illustrates how widespread fears are of an anti-Muslim backlash following the July 7 bombings which were carried out by British born suicide bombers.
The poll also shows that tens of thousands of [...]

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"There is no such a thing as ‘Positive’ Discrimination" : Affirmative Action decried by leading Black Blogger

July 26, 2005

La Shawn Barber s doesnt think so and lays into “Positive Discrimination” with characteristic vigour and with a courage that being Black herself allows:
“Just like any member of the human race, blacks can be quite hypocritical. Back in the day when skin color discrimination harmed blacks, they righteously rebelled against it. Today, skin color [...]

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T.D.Jakes – a preacher with passionate rhetoric

July 26, 2005

The other day I mentioned T.D. Jakes and said I was surprised he hadn’t been mentioned in peoples’ lists of favorite preachers. I have found an interesting article on him from CNN – not many of the preachers listed by me or other bloggers as their favorites will be profiled on CNN I suspect! Here [...]

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Keep those favorite preachers coming in and tell me more about them.

July 25, 2005

The response has been great so far, but I am eager to hear more about the preachers that have changed your lives. Why not tell us more about them on your blogs?
Keep it positive, and better still point me to a sermon that is available online that represents the preacher at their [...]

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