October 2005

Quake Death toll now nearing 80,000

October 21, 2005

Blogotional has picked up on my plea for more disaster relief. He seems to have grasped the point that it is in our own best interests to show the Muslim world we care about the dying hoardes. My dream seems to have helped prompt him to write. We cannot discriminate about where we send our [...]

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Sermon feedback – dealing with rejection

October 20, 2005

Something that seems to be of God is happening this week. If the truth be told, I have never had so much feedback on any audio sermon I have posted online as I have already had from Sunday’s one entitled “Good News for the Rejected”. Some of the comments have been so encouraging, and others [...]

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La Shawn Barber speaks of what it means to be a christian

October 20, 2005

Some people have queried whether it is right to call certain top blogs “christian” when they mainly focus on politics. Personally, when I see someone as popular as La Shawn willing to stick her neck on the line with a post like here recent one What It Means to Be a Christian I am very [...]

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Quake ‘is UN’s worst nightmare’

October 20, 2005

BBC NEWS has more damning news from the UN about our lack of response to the people of kashmir: ‘This is not enough. We have never had this kind of logistical nightmare ever. We thought the tsunami was the worst we could get. This is worse.’…….. ‘Tens of thousands of people’s lives are at stake [...]

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Somebody help us……

October 19, 2005

I had a dream last night.In my dream I was sitting on top of a steep hill with my wifeMany other people were also there sharing romantic momentsSuddenly my wife began to slipI grabbed her handsShe felt like she was slipping from my graspAll the love I have for her welled up within meAnd I [...]

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It is time for us to help Kashmir

October 18, 2005

The BBC reports that India and Pakistan seem to be trying to work together to help the HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS of people who still have not received help following the terrible quake. And yet it quietly reports that the international community do not seem to have yet truly risen to the task: The United Nations [...]

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What used MPV shall I buy?

October 18, 2005

I urgently need to buy an MPV for my family of six. Am reading up and asking around and trying to decide what sort to go for. I wonder if any of my readers have any advice for me that might help?

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Find Related Blogs

October 17, 2005

Technorati have developed a new system where whole Blogs can be tagged with certain subjects enabling a directory of blogs that are related by subject to be found. These are the lists that I have signed up with, why not follow the link and sign your own blog up for the subjects that you blog [...]

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Announcing two new Warnie Award winners

October 17, 2005

Every now and then you discover a blog and you think, “why o why wasnt I reading this before?” Today’s warnie award ceremony brings you not one but two of these. Both of these blogs seem to have been touched with the influence of Piper to a greater or lesser extent. Both of these blogs [...]

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Which bible translation is the Bloggers favorite?

October 17, 2005

I thought I’d try a little experiment today. Searching Google Blogsearch for the acronyms of bible translations, then ranking them by number of hits. In the blogosphere we can become so insular and read only blogs that agree with us. As a result I might for example come to the conclusion that the ESV was [...]

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Stop the presses: Adrian quotes from the New Living Translation!

October 16, 2005

Carla has been very kind about todays sermon: “Today I wasn’t able to go to church, so this afternoon I sat down and listened to Adrian Warnock preach on the good news when feeling rejected. I’ve never listened to one of his sermons before, but let me just tell you, this one is very good. [...]

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There’s plenty of life left in the churches

October 16, 2005

George Carey has been announcing the imminent death of what he calls “The Church” but I suspect may mean the Anglican Movement. Over at the Telegraph is an interesting article which quotes GK Chesterton: ‘Five times in the last 2,000 years the Church has to all appearances gone to the dogs. In each case it [...]

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Good News When Feeling Rejected – blogging through Galatians

October 16, 2005

My next sermon in the series on Galatians is now available to listen to online in MP3 format. The talk was entitled- Good News when feeling rejected. Part One of this series is also available from a few weeks back. Here are the notes I used- Good news when feeling rejectedGal 1:11- 2:16 Intro REFER [...]

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GOD or NOT?

October 15, 2005

The Evangelical Atheist has a post calling for more believers to submit to the next God or Not carnival: Submissions so far for the next edition of the GOD or NOT Carnival has been very heavy on the atheist side. While we definitely do still need more atheist submissions, this post is primarily meant for [...]

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Lecture on atonement

October 14, 2005

A reader suggests this lecture on the atonement

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More on "The cookie thief"

October 14, 2005

Earlier in the week I quoted a poem which I found on girltalk called The cookie thief Interestingly, thanks to a commentator, google and amazon I have discovered that this story appears in print. The poem appears in Condensed Chicken Soup for the soul, and that book is cited as the source of the poem [...]

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Schreiner on penal substitution

October 13, 2005

HT and Kudos to Bluefish and Reformation 21 Blog: In 2006 InterVarsity Press will publish a book containing Four Views on the Atonement, edited by James Beilby and Paul Eddy (both of Bethel College in St. Paul). The contributors will be Greg Boyd (“Christus Victor” view), Bruce Reichenbach (“Therapeutic” view), Joel Green (all views are [...]

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More on the Atonement

October 13, 2005

In Reflections of the Times Carla has it dead right. There simply isn’t a more important issue facing the church today than the atonement. It is absolutely critical that more of us examine this matter more fully and become clear about what we believe that bible says and why we believe that. Go and read [...]

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God Blog Con Blogging

October 13, 2005

I may not be there, but I can read the blogs and so can you! There has been a whole lot of blog posts already. I found many many posts by searching Google Blogsearch for “GodBlogCon”. You can follow along there too if like me you are geographically challenged and thus prevented from attending. The [...]

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Another blogchild

October 13, 2005

Another good freind who I have been nagging for ages to have a blog has now launched James The Disciple. Will he make it to his second post I ask myself?

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