December 2005

INTERVIEW – Josh Harris On Being Discipled by C. J. Mahaney

December 20, 2005

UPDATE In January of 2008, the following post was identified as the 29th most widely read post on this blog. The 30th most-read post was “How to Use the Google Calendar.” This is the first of several interviews that appeared in the top-30 list. In this interview I talked with Josh Harris about being discipled [...]

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Visit my blog relatives….

December 20, 2005

Google never ceases to amaze me. Out of all the millions of websites out there it has become very good at working out which sites belong in the same family as mine! To see David Wayne, Tim Challies, Phil Johnson and of course the Blogdom of God making up the top five is awesome as [...]

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About "punching day"

December 19, 2005

Charis was speaking about christmas the other day (it is almost all we are talking about in our family nowadays!). She said “and after Christmas day its Punching Day, isnt it Daddy…..”

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Being single over Christmas,,,,

December 19, 2005

Solo Femininity has helpful words which she writes as a single facing the holiday season alone: “When you have a hope deferred, the holidays can be a bittersweet time. Unbidden emotions–grief, confusion, self-pity, sadness–can suddenly wash over you without warning. The holiday season can be like a landmark in time–’wasn’t I here in exactly the [...]

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Anti-ESV Politicking

December 19, 2005

Parableman has an interesting post about the way ESV and TNIV advocates tend to talk past each other without understanding. Essentially these two translations differ because their aim is different. The TNIV aims to translate the sense or meaning of the bible into todays languange, whilst the ESV aims to translate the actual form or [...]

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FoodieView – The Recipe Search Engine

December 18, 2005

If you are looking for sumptious recipies that have been reviewed by others, FoodieView has some 200,000 of them. The really cool thing is being able to put a couple of ingredients in and then hone in on a certain style of cuisine- say African or Middle East and hey presto up pops an idea [...]

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New Google Tools for Firefox

December 18, 2005

JOLLYBLOGGER has links to some new Google Tools for Firefox which every self respecting blogger should be using!

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Adrian Interviews Richard Cunningham, director of the UCCF

December 17, 2005

In todays blog interview Richard makes it very clear that as far as the UK’s Christian Unions are concerned charismatics (especially from newfrontiers) are welcome but those who question the atonement ought to go elsewhere…… Adrian: It is my pleasure to welcome to my blog today the Director of UCCF in the UK, Richard Cunningham. [...]

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Are we living in the days after the last days?

December 16, 2005

Mark L makes some great points out of Peters use of Joel. I think that these passages are indeed fatal to any real cessationist view. For Joel is clear that “all flesh” will receive the Holy Spirit and prophecy in the last days. Peter is clear that he is living in the good of that [...]

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Thoughts on Narnia

December 16, 2005

I have just one thing to say to conservative christians who criticise the Narnia film for teaching an alternative theory of the atonement – ITS A STORY, NOT A SEMINARY CLASS We have watched it, and I didnt think about the nuances of the atonement once! The story is a great fantasy story which happens [...]

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Grudem on the charismatic part 2

December 15, 2005

Challies Dot Com has the second part of his interview with Wayne Grudem who believes that moderate charismatics will prevail: “What happens is over time the vast majority of God’s people come to the right decision. Then, like the Arians in the fourth century, or like the anti-inerrantist people in our lifetime, the people on [...]

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Challies interviews Dr. Wayne Grudem on charismatic gifts

December 14, 2005

Challies has published his Dr. Wayne Grudem interview I will just quote one extract for now to encourage you to go read the rest: I think we have in the twentieth century a historical aberration not essential to Reformed theology that cessationism has become the dominant view.

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The Humility Zone

December 14, 2005

The internetmonk has been thinking about the fact that people do come to very different conclusions about some issues. I would love to see more gentleness when we discuss theological issues on our blogs – anyone who ever feels that I am not being sufficiently gentle hereby has the right to send me an email [...]

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Gods Glorious multicultural church

December 13, 2005

John Kpikpi of newfrontiers west Africa joined us on Sunday and preached an excellent sermon on why the church should be multicultural. It is a challenge to many churches, and so it left us very grateful for the wonderful thing that God is doing in us at Jubilee – such a thing happening in many [...]

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Spurgeon on predestination and free will

December 12, 2005

Thanks Pyromaniac for todays dose of Spurgeon wisdom O for a restoration of preaching like this: The system of truth is not one straight line, but two. No man will ever get a right view of the gospel until he knows how to look at the two lines at once. I am taught in one [...]

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About prayer journals…..

December 12, 2005

In my email today was the following question “Can you suggest ways of keeping a prayer journal and what its content should be?” It would be most interesting to gather the views of my readers on a subject like this and indeed on prayer in general. What does your prayer life look like? What tips [...]

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Preparing a Sermon (with John Stott and Josh Harris)

December 11, 2005

Josh Harris has a great post on sermon preparation: “Call the congregation to act! Our expectation as the sermon comes to an end, is not merely that people will understand or remember or enjoy our teaching, but that they will do something about it. If there is no summons, there is no sermon! The precise [...]

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Al Mohler gives Narnia the thumbs up!

December 10, 2005

Aslan Is On the Move on Film says Al: Like many admirers of Lewis’ work, I harbored deep suspicions that the movie would not be faithful to the book. After all, the movie world has robbed and pillaged many of history’s greatest works of literature. Furthermore, given the unmistakable Christian allusions in Lewis’ work, The [...]

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Healing the charismatic rift?

December 9, 2005

Many many thanks to Justin Taylor who in a private email pointed me to an article by Vern Sheridan Poythress. Although bizzarely titled “Modern Spiritual Gifts as Analogous to Apostolic Gifts: Affirming Extraordinary Works of the Spirit within Cessationist Theology” I found next to nothing in this article that I disagreed with. If this article [...]

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The challenge remains out there: show me a single bible verse or passage that supports cessationism

December 8, 2005

Tim Challies in my comments section was outraged at my claim that cessationism does not rest on a single verse of scripture. I am sorry to be quite so provokative but in however many weeks of asking in public on my blog, not ONE blogger that I am aware of has been able to offer [...]

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