April 2006

links for 2006-04-30 Michael Spencer – the iMonk For me Michael’s flashes of sheer brilliance outway my disagreement with some of the things he says. This is a voice to listen carefully too, discard the error and cling to the truth. Prepare to be challenged and to disagree! (tags: blog cool)

Provocations and Pantings is collecting a list of bloggers who either attended Together for the Gospel, or would have liked to attend and are in agreement with its aims. I just signed up . . . what about you?

Always Reforming: Together for the Gospel says the following: First, I was convicted regarding my fears, inadequacies and sins as a preacher of God’s word. All the men who spoke emphasized that fact that a preacher must fearlessly proclaim God’s word, no matter what the consequences…Second, my appreciation for the redeeming grace of God expressed [...]

Bob Kauflin reglects in Worship Matters on together for the Gospel: “The take away is this: when we concentrate on what really matters in our relationship with God the unity He has given us with Himself and each other through the Gospel – peripheral issues fade into the background. Maybe that’s how it’s always supposed [...]

links for 2006-04-29 Who Was Saved How? Were the Old Testament saints saved in the same way the New Testament saints are? Lig Duncan thinks Paul would have thought the question should be: “Are the New Testament saints to be saved the same as the Old – that is by grace alone, though faith alone? [...]

Postscript Posthaste shares his thoughts about the panel sessions from T4G.  Read this, then dont forget to pop over to my last post on this subject and tell the guys nicely that we want, no change that we NEED these panel sessions and the rest of the conference on DVD!   What they have done [...]

Over at rhettsmith.com the “kickback” has begun. He really doesn’t like one of the articles in the T4G assertions document, which has been placed online unofficially. He feels that gender distinctions in the ministry role is nothing short of discrimination, and whilst welcoming the strong stand against racial discrimination in the document, argues “as Christians [...]

I guess that the T4G organisers would be delighted with this assessment by Fideo-O of the conference: “I have attended more than a hundred conferences in my twenty years of ministry. I directed a few conferences over the years as well. I know the burden of knowing and communicating a conference vision/theme, of organizing the [...]