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December 2008

Happy Christmas One and All

December 23, 2008

I really am signing off this time! Have a great break.

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The Immediately Present Help

December 22, 2008

I know, I know — I’m supposed to be on a blogging break! But last night’s news about David Wayne was weighing on me this morning, and then I saw in my inbox this from Spurgeon’s Faith Checkbook devotion. It lifted me as only God’s Word can. May God be immediately present to you this [...]

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Jollyblogger Has Cancer, Please Pray

December 21, 2008

UPDATE December 24, 2008 Yesterday David learned that his cancer has spread to his liver and lungs. He has surgery scheduled for today and chemotherapy starting thereafter. Not an easy Christmas for the Waynes, but I was able to speak to him on the phone yesterday and he sounded in good heart. He said that [...]

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Top Referrers 2008

December 17, 2008

It’s time for me to begin my annual blogging break over Christmas. I do want to wish you all a Happy Christmas and a very blessed New Year. The year 2009 is going to be an interesting year for me, that’s for sure. I look forward to sharing it together with you. It’s amazing how [...]

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Blog Review 2008

December 16, 2008

In many ways, God graciously blessed this blog in 2008. Here are a few of the highlights: In January I took a break from blogging, but shared my most widely read blog posts each day, which actually continued beyond January. I did interrupt my break to post the following two posts, making January officially the [...]

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Personal Review of the Year

December 15, 2008

It’s that time of year again. As I have done in previous years, I thought I would take the opportunity to reflect on the year that was. This post will consider personal matters, family matters, and my church. The year began with my regular tradition of putting the blog onto autopilot to give me time [...]

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Piper What the New Birth Does For Us

December 12, 2008
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John Piper is a great preacher—not just to listen to, but also to watch. I find God stirring my heart through him every time I play one of his videos. It also reminds me of what I’m aiming for when I preach, which is “logic on fire.” I pray that God will draw many into [...]

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Everything Jonathan Edwards Ever Wrote FREE Online

December 11, 2008

I have only recently discovered what is surely one of the most helpful websites I’ve found in a long time. Most people are aware that Jonathan Edwards is a towering colossus who many consider to be the best American theologian of all time; however, almost no one I know has read more than one of [...]

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US City No. 94 – A Rochester Church

December 10, 2008

UPDATE #2It turns out that unbeknownst to this ignorant Brit, there are TWO Rochesters in the USA. One is Rochester, New York—the 94th largest city in the USA. However, as of now, no Newfrontiers church has been planted in Rochester, New York. The other city of Rochester is located in New Hampshire and while it [...]

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VIDEO – Making Sense of Christmas

December 10, 2008

This thought-provoking video was produced by gospel-loving Christians at St Helen’s Bishopsgate, a church I attended during my medical student days. I trust that you will encounter Jesus this Christmas. That’s Christmas! from andy pearce on Vimeo.

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Luther’s Moment of Conversion

December 9, 2008

Last week Lex Loizides shared this fantastic quote from Martin Luther in his church history series: “I was seized with the conviction that I must understand [Paul’s] letter to the Romans. I did not have a heart of stone, but to that moment one phrase in chapter one stood in my way. I hated the [...]

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Newfrontiers London Churches

December 8, 2008

London is by far the largest city in the UK, and depending on how you define a city, it’s either the largest or second largest in the EU. In keeping with how I’ve been listing churches in America’s biggest cities, I thought I’d share today a list of Newfrontiers churches that have their meeting places [...]

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Video of My Sermon on The Bible

December 5, 2008

A few weeks back I preached a sermon from Nehemiah 8 entitled “Back To The Word.” A video of it is now available to download. My notes and an mp3 are also available, and you can subscribe to our vodcast or podcast to get the rest of the series. A new sermon from the series [...]

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Eight Reasons To Use Facebook

December 5, 2008

Okay . . . I know how it is. Some of you are still resisting Facebook’s steady march towards assimilating the world’s entire population. I want to try to convince you otherwise! Recently someone I don’t know all that well asked me a question on Facebook about the gospel. Perhaps this means I should list [...]

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Should Christians Circumcise Their Sons?

December 4, 2008

This is the third part in my short series on multiculturalism. The first two in the series can be found here: Multiculturalism—You Are What You Eat? Does Multiculturalism Mean I Have To Eat Blood? When you mix with a number of different nationalities, you begin to realize that cultural differences are more complicated than you [...]

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Will Heaven Really Be A Place On Earth?

December 3, 2008

Many Christians simplistically believe that when we die we will “go to heaven to be with Jesus forever.” The truth is that 1 Corinthians 15 and other Scriptures make clear that we will one day be reunited with our bodies. From Revelation 21 it is clear that the heavenly city will descend from the skies [...]

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John Piper’s Most Important Book – Finally Alive

December 2, 2008

“Have I been born again?” is not a question to be answered hastily. In John Piper’s new book, Finally Alive, expect to be challenged. Piper strips away our complacency, arguing that many people falsely believe they are Christians. He begins by arguing that many who claim to be “born again” today are actually not, and [...]

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MLJ On the Mind-Numbing Qualities of Television

December 1, 2008

On Friday I shared a quote about why Piper doesn’t own a TV. I can’t find any evidence to suggest that the Doctor also abstained from this modern form of entertainemnt. There are multiple references to the things “we watch on televion” in his sermons. However, Martyn Lloyd-Jones had serious reservations about TV, as this [...]

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