From the monthly archives:

September 2006

DG06 – Session 4 – Mark Driscoll

September 30, 2006

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Over on the appropriately named God and Culture blog, they can wear the award proudly as first out of the block with reflections from session 4 of Desiring God’s National Conference:

“The most controversial aspect of the conference is the fact that John Piper invited the cussing pastor, Mark Driscoll, from Mars Hill Church in Seattle to be a keynote speaker. Mark spoke today on the nine areas of theology we must hold and contend for in our left hand as we hold open our right hand to be relevant to the culture. Mark will be a guest on The Paul Edwards Program this coming Monday (October 2) at 5:00 pm ET. Stream the audio of the program LIVE at:

http://www.godandculture.com.

If you are anything like me, that just leaves you hungry for more! Where is Tim Challies when you really need him?! So, I have made my first attempt to embed a YouTube video in the blog with the DGM promo video. This is well worth a watch, and is a good introduction to him. Incidentally, I have never actually heard Driscoll cuss in a sermon. I have listened to quite a few of his sermons, as well as posting an interview with Mark Driscoll here on the site, and have posted quotes and links to his articles loads of times.



DG06 – More From Session 3 with Tim Keller

September 30, 2006

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Well, the other Tim, author of Challies Dot Com, has found a wifi spot and shared his usual complete notes from session 3. Here is a sample:

“The postmodern world presents a crisis to us. The Western world is now a mission field, but a post-Christian mission field. In some ways our culture is inoculated against Christianity, just as the body becomes inoculated against disease so that we can say Western culture has a distorted memory of Christianity. “

DG06 – Session 3 – Tim Keller

September 30, 2006

Well, Tim’s pastor, Paul Martin, has beaten him to it on session 3. Paul has some great snippets, the pick of which I will share here – see “How Do we Do Evangelism in a Post-Modern World?” (Tim Keller) for the rest, and when Tim finds his pastor, perhaps he will tell him where the [...]

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DG06 – Session 2 – Voddie Baucham

September 30, 2006

Challies Dot Com has notes from the second session of the Desiring God conference:

“What is wrong with the world? Colossians 1:21 – We are what is wrong with the world! We are God’s crowning creation and yet are hostile towards the one by whom and for whom we were created. The question is not “if [...]

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DG06 – Session 1 – David Wells

September 30, 2006

Challies Dot Com is working again, and longtime readers of my blog know the score – Tim and others get to live-blog, and I get to find some interesting paragraphs and reproduce them here. I call it “remote blogging,” and this one is a corker of a quote:
“Christianity is only about this kind of Christ [...]

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Desiring God Conference Day 1

September 30, 2006

DG06 – Session 1“And here I am, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, at my second Desiring God National Conference. This convention center is a great deal busier than it was last year. The room is nearly packed from front to back with the 3130 people who are …” Challies Dot Com
And that is all I can get! [...]

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A Meeting in Milwaukee

September 29, 2006

This is Adrian’s editorial assistant, Annette, doing just a bit of “guest blogging.”
Today, on their way from Toronto to Minneapolis and the Desiring God Conference, Tim Challies and two friends (Tim’s pastor and fellow blogger, Paul Martin, from kerux noemata, and Tim’s “other” friend, Paul, an IT tech) had a three-hour lay-over in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, [...]

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The Desiring God Ministries National Conference is About to Start

September 29, 2006

I plan to do a bit of “remote blogging.” Justin Taylor has links to some quotes from the speakers and other stuff to whet your appetite.

I will keep an eye on the following Google Blogsearch

“John Piper” OR “Desiring God”

and link to whatever I can see. Tim Challies will be there “live-blogging” as usual!

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PIPER FRIDAY – A Charismatic Mandate

September 29, 2006

This week I want to direct your attention to an article from 1991 in which Dr. John Piper makes the most charismatic statements I have seen anywhere in his material, and argues for his position very clearly. If you are interested in a more extended explanation of Piper’s views, there is also a fourteen-part sermon [...]

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Joy IS the Result of Salvation

September 28, 2006

Over on First Presbyterian Jackson’s blog is a great quote from Spurgeon that supports what we have been saying about the vital place of emotion in the Christian life. Joy should flow out of true salvation (although, of course, there will be times in every Christian’s life when this joy feels more distant than others). [...]

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PROVERBS – What is the Fool?

September 28, 2006

Over the last month or so I have been publishing collections of proverbs. Today, I would like to share with you a collection of proverbs which speak of the fool. I encourage you to read these slowly and ask yourself the following questions:

In what ways am I like the fool?

How can I learn not to [...]

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The Normal Christian Feelings

September 27, 2006

Today, over on TeamPyro, Dan Phillips has written an interesting post entitled, “Worship Feelings and What If?” For me the whole post brought to my mind an illustration. Imagine that two teams are climbing a mountain on opposite sides. If they are near the bottom, they could be miles apart. They will have a very [...]

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BOOK – Surprised by the Power of the Spirit – Jack Deere

September 26, 2006

Today I begin a series of book and other resource reviews for those who want to study further following our recent charismatic debate.
I begin with this well-known, easy-read paperback. I first read this a number of years ago, and still recommend it today as a good introduction – especially for those coming from a cessationist [...]

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MLJ Monday – Something Worth Fighting For, Part 3

September 25, 2006

We now come to the third and last verse that cessationists use to deny that the baptism of the Holy Spirit is an experience separate from conversion, and the verse to which Lloyd-Jones was most anxious to reply.“For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether [...]

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