May 2006

Links for May 31, 2006

May 31, 2006

Mathew Sims on the T4G Statement, Part 4 (Tags: T4GB) Mathew Sims Gets to Part 5. . . and I’ve only posted one . . . still this T4G statement is sure making for some interesting blogging! (Tags: T4GB) “If any single quote could encapsulate why I am not a Christian, this one, by C. [...]

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T4G – What’s the Big Deal About Women Elders?

May 31, 2006

Mark Dever has a great post over at the T4G blog which hammers home their reasons for prioritising the complementarianism versus egalitarianism issue in their statement. You might feel that the issue of whether or not women should hold the position of elder is a relatively minor point of theology. These guys clearly do not! [...]

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Links for May 30, 2006

May 30, 2006

“What we are doing right now is fighting for joy. We are fighting to believe in God and not in ourselves … That’s why we’re singing right now: because we’re fighting for joy in what He has done, not what we have done.” Bob Kauflin at New Attitude (tags: SGM) “The Old Testament is a [...]

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Mathew Sims – T4G Blogger Extraordinaire

May 30, 2006

I don’t know how I missed what this guy has been up to, but I wanted to feature Mathew Sims over here. Perhaps his blog wasn’t featuring on Google Blogsearch it is now. He is fairly STORMING ahead in a romp through the T4G statement, and is an inspiration to the rest of us sluggards [...]

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A London Blogger

May 29, 2006
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Links for May 29, 2006

May 29, 2006

New Attitude session 2 Mark Dever on the Bible (tags: SGM dever) God is our refuge Sunday’s message at Jubilee was on Ps 46 and is well worth a listen. (tags: sermon)

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Lloyd-Jones Monday – Is the Bible Authoritative?

May 29, 2006

Well, so far the Doctor is doing quite well in joining my challenge to blog through the Together for the Gospel Statement. Last week he explored the importance of doctrine itself. Today he addresses the same issues raised in the first article of the statement we are examining together, which addresses the authority of Scripture. [...]

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Introducing Dave Pask – A Good Friend and Regular Reader of This Blog

May 29, 2006

Thanks to the other Dave, for a hilarious post and picture of Mr Pask. I thought I would share this here simply to get my own back on my good friend. Sadly Dave P. knows the truth about how shallow I am – for years now, almost every time we have a conversation, at least [...]

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T4G – The Introduction and When to Give Up the Fight

May 29, 2006

Well, time flies. I can’t believe it is now two weeks since I launched my challenge to blog through the T4G statement and I STILL haven’t posted my own first post! I get the feeling that this is all going to take awhile. Still, I do think the document is worthy of an extended examination [...]

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Links for May 28, 2006

May 28, 2006

New Attitude Blog Read about this conference, which is happening RIGHT now – Josh Harris of Sovereign Grace is leading the conference, and some of the T4G usual suspects will be there! (tags: SGM T4GB) Carolyn McCulley blogs about New Attitude (tags: SGM harris) Josh Harris’ opening talk at New Attitude A plea for “humble [...]

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T4G – My Response to the Panel Discussions

May 27, 2006

Well, I now draw to the end of my series of posts responding to each of the audio sessions available from Together for the Gospel. These posts, together with all my other ones about this conference, are linked in a single round up post. Today I want to reflect a little on the panel sessions [...]

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Top 50 Blogs Who Link Here

May 27, 2006

Every now and then I struggle to understand why people keep coming to read my blog. Well, thanks to google analytics I have the chance to thank some bloggers who keep sending people my way. Believe it or not, I haven’t really been able to tell where my traffic actually comes from up until now. [...]

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Women in Church and the Power Paradigm

May 27, 2006

In quite possibly his best post ever entitled, Women in Church and the Power Paradigm, David Wayne contends that Christianity does have a kind of hierarchical view of the role relationships between men and women in the church/home, but that this view does not imply that women are oppressed in Christianity. I just had to [...]

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T4G Merchandising – After the mp3s, Now the Sneaker!

May 27, 2006

Here it is, this season’s hot property for all theological types. I give you the T4G shoe! Yes, seriously! See Air Jordan T4G for more information.

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T4G – My Response to C.J. Mahaney’s Talk

May 27, 2006

As regular readers of this site know, C.J. is something of a hero in the faith to me. I have interviewed him on the blog before. His recent talk at T4G, like all of them, is available as an mp3 download, has been summarised by Tim, and I have included a few quotes here previously, [...]

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WWPB – A Message to Bloggers from the Apostle Paul

May 26, 2006

I was directed recently to the last verse of this segment which is something of a life verse for a very good friend of mine. But ever the good Bible student, I went and looked at the context. Boy, is this a message us bloggers need to hear! I think this is a great introduction [...]

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Links for May 26, 2006

May 26, 2006

How Do We Grow in Physical Expressiveness? Part 1 Bob Kauflin explores how to respond to the Biblical commands throughout Scripture of bodily expression as the natural outpouring of the heart. (tags: music worship) How Do We Grow in Physical Expressiveness? Part 2 “Outward expressions are no sign one way or the other that someone [...]

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Mark Driscoll Defines Reformission

May 26, 2006

Musings of a Missional Madman has a great quote: “‘Reformission is a radical call to reform the church’s traditionally flawed view of missions as something carried out in foreign lands, and to focus instead on the urgent need in our own neighborhoods, which are filled with diverse cultures of Americans who desperately need the Gospel [...]

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John Piper Friday – Using Our Mouths to Impart Grace

May 26, 2006

I am convinced that everything Piper says here about speech applies equally to blogging. The trouble with blogging is it has all the immediacy of speech with all the permanence of writing! We should be even more careful about what we write online than we are about what we say offline. In this sermon on [...]

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Death by Ministry – Driscoll Explains the Pressures

May 25, 2006

Death by Ministry is a fantastic post by Mark Driscoll on the pressures of pastoral ministry and what to do about them to prevent becoming just another statistic like these: Fifteen hundred pastors leave the ministry each month due to moral failure, spiritual burnout, or contention in their churches. Fifty percent of pastors’ marriages will [...]

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