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March 2006

March 31, 2006

links for 2006-03-31 Funky Dung Joins the Fray My post on Catholicism bouncing off my mate, Dave Anthony, seems to have stirred up something of a hornet’s nest – perhaps I have more Catholic readers left than Evangelical Cessationists . . . ? (tags: catholic cessationist) Gambling: Covetousness Distilled to Its Very Essence “Gambling places [...]

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March 31, 2006

links for 2006-03-31 Funky Dung Joins the Fray My post on Catholicism bouncing off my mate, Dave Anthony, seems to have stirred up something of a hornet’s nest – perhaps I have more Catholic readers left than Evangelical Cessationists . . . ? (tags: catholic cessationist) Gambling: Covetousness Distilled to Its Very Essence “Gambling places [...]

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Piper Friday: A Cause to Live for

March 31, 2006

Todays Piper is a classic piece about the choice we all need to make – what is the one thing that we are going to live for? This piece reminds me of my pastors sermon from a while back entitled One Thing and of Sam Storm’s book by the same name. A Cause to Live [...]

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March 30, 2006

links for 2006-03-30 Anthony Bradley on the Forgotten Side of Sin “Many traditions have reduced sin to rebellion and have skipped over the fact that people have been sinned against in ways that have left them living as the walking wounded, often acting out sinfully as a way to self-medicate pain.” (tags: sin pastoral) Blind [...]

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March 30, 2006

links for 2006-03-30 Anthony Bradley on the Forgotten Side of Sin “Many traditions have reduced sin to rebellion and have skipped over the fact that people have been sinned against in ways that have left them living as the walking wounded, often acting out sinfully as a way to self-medicate pain.” (tags: sin pastoral) Blind [...]

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Blogging the gifts- a readers question

March 30, 2006

I havent forgotten my blogging the gifts series, and will get to faith shortly. But I know many of you are longing for the bit on tongues so here is a prelude in the form of a reader-submitted question. I would be interested in your responses to the following either here or on your blog [...]

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The root of Catholicism’s error and a lesson for us

March 30, 2006

David Anthony says : “Just been reading Luke 11v27-28. This along with 8v21 are Jesus prophetically speaking into where Catholicism will go wrong centuries later. A woman declares ‘blessed be the mother who gave birth to you’ and look at Jesus’ reaction. Rather than agree that Mary ought to be revered he says ‘blessed rather [...]

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March 29, 2006

links for 2006-03-29 Pyros in Space! Reminds me of the Muppets! C’mon, any of my readers got an occupation that can top astronaut? No? I thought not! (tags: pyromaniacs) Fundamentally Reformed’s 100th Post The importance of expository preaching straight from Disney. Is Gambling OK? Don’t Bet on It! Phil Johnson explores Biblical principles and the [...]

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March 29, 2006

links for 2006-03-29 Pyros in Space! Reminds me of the Muppets! C’mon, any of my readers got an occupation that can top astronaut? No? I thought not! (tags: pyromaniacs) Fundamentally Reformed’s 100th Post The importance of expository preaching straight from Disney. Is Gambling OK? Don’t Bet on It! Phil Johnson explores Biblical principles and the [...]

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Living the Cross Centered Life by CJ Mahaney – a book every Christian should read

March 29, 2006

Every now and then an author writes a book that so hits the mark that I conclude that in my humble opinion every Christian should read them at least once in their life. This year Mahaney has gone and written two. Regular readers of my blog will remember my review of Humility and my interview [...]

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March 28, 2006

links for 2006-03-28 The Gospel summarised His love (he provided the sacrifice), our sinfulness (we’ve been separated from God by our sin), His provision in Christ (his life and death) and our response (we need to hear this word preached and respond to it in repentance and faith) (tags: gospel) Calvinism debate A debate on [...]

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March 28, 2006

links for 2006-03-28 The Gospel summarised His love (he provided the sacrifice), our sinfulness (we’ve been separated from God by our sin), His provision in Christ (his life and death) and our response (we need to hear this word preached and respond to it in repentance and faith) (tags: gospel) Calvinism debate A debate on [...]

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Mark Driscoll publicly apologizes to Brian Maclaren & Doug Pagitt

March 27, 2006

Since I foolishly set myself up recently as some kind of unofficial tone police” for the Blogdom of God, I was a little surprised that no one has picked me up on an apparent inconsistency. You see, I have been written very positively about Mark Driscoll without ever raising my one nagging thought about the [...]

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March 27, 2006

links for 2006-03-27 God or Not is no more…..?Go tell em you want it to live on, or am I the only theist blogger who is sorry this has passed away? CJ gets to the very heart of the issueCJ has laid out the most important questions facing the church today: “What is the gospel? [...]

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Will Blair fight on for a fourth term?

March 27, 2006

BBC NEWS reports: “Downing Street is trying to play down remarks by the prime minister that it was ‘a mistake’ to announce he was not standing for a fourth term.” Nothing is ever straight forward in politics. Blairs original decision not to stand for a forth term was I am sure designed to deflect some [...]

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Challies on emotion in worship

March 27, 2006

Challies had better watch it – he is almost sounding like a charismatic! “True worship relies on both feeling and understanding, or as Jesus said, on spirit and truth. Worship that is devoid of feeling and emotion will be dead worship, for the God we serve is worthy of feelings that express His worth. It [...]

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MLJ Monday Sealed with the Spirit #2

March 26, 2006

Sealing with the Spirit, Part 2‘In whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise.’  (Ephesians 1:13)              *              *              *               *Last week, in the first MLJ Monday, Lloyd-Jones, in his exposition of Ephesians 1:13, defined in careful detail what the term ‘seal’ embodies and how we can understand this term.  In this week’s quotes, [...]

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March 24, 2006

links for 2006-03-24 Afghan Christian Convert: “We think he could be mad”. “He is not a normal person. He doesn’t talk like a normal person.” His reply: “They want to sentence me to death and I accept it, but I am not a deserter and not an infidel. I am a Christian which means I [...]

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Piper Friday – Jesus horrifying commands

March 24, 2006

Piper is in Cambridge at the moment on sabattical – just a few miles away from my house. He has an interesting post entitledHow to Respond to Horrifying Sayings of Jesus: “One of the things I am doing at this point in my sabbatical here in Cambridge, England, is reading through the four Gospels and [...]

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More variegated than you think: the Emerging Church

March 24, 2006

Over on Crosswalk.com there is an interesting post which seeks to define 3 different groups within what is called the “Emerging Church”: “I believe that some are taking the same Gospel in the historic form of church but seeking to make it understandable to emerging culture; some are taking the same Gospel but questioning and [...]

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