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A couple of days ago I mentioned a conference I am speaking at tonight. If you think of it, pray for me today, would you? This is a conference well outside “the usual” crowd I tend to speak before. Many of the other conference speakers are new monastics, people who preach a social gospel, and so on (other speakers include Shane Claiborne, Leonard Sweet, and others). I generally enjoy speaking at such events so I am looking forward to it, but still feeling like I’ll need an unusual amount of prayer. The format is simple: we each have a few minutes to present a letter giving our most urgent message to the church. I intend to simply speak about getting the gospel right, about making sure that the gospel we preach is the gospel of the Bible. Depending how you look at it, that’s either a tremendously cliched or tremendously exciting message.
Flirting With Silly Bandz - Say it ain’t so! “Silly Bandz, the rubber bracelets that are all the rage among grade-schoolers, are getting grown-up treatment at the city’s bars and clubs.”
Tripp on Twitter on Grace - Timmy Brister has put together a roundup of some of Paul Tripp’s best tweets on the subject of grace. Yes, some people tweet really, really well.
Please Don’t Use the Dictionary - Andy, an editor for IVP, says “It's one of the most common and one of the dullest tools that writers or speakers pull out of their toolboxes--quoting a dictionary definition when trying to make a point.”
A Thing Called the Internet - I feel like doing this too.
Don’t Waste Your Life - Yes, you’ve probably seen this sermon jam before. I have too. But I enjoyed watching and listening again.
Only once in sacred Scripture is an attribute of God elevated to the third degree. Only once is a characteristic of God mentioned three times in succession. The Bible says that God is holy, holy, holy. Not that He is merely holy, or even holy, holy. He is holy, holy, holy. The Bible never says that God is love, love, love; or mercy, mercy, mercy; or wrath, wrath, wrath; or justice, justice, justice. It does say that he is holy, holy, holy, that the whole earth is full of His glory.—R.C. Sproul
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Comments (10)
At least the Yellow Pages are always available, do not require electricity, and let me control what I want to look at.
Glad you’ll be at the conference and speaking on the subject you have chosen. The attendees certainly will get nothing of that sort from the other two speakers you mentioned by name.
The silly bandz story has to be some sort of apocalyptic sign.
Not only is quoting the dictionary definition boring, but sometimes it can lead to false conclusions in preaching. I have seen too many preachers (some of them who have the education that they should know better), give the Webster’s Definition for a word in the Bible as if it is the standard definition. Forgetting (or conveniently not caring) that the word is a translation of the Greek, Hebrew, or Aramaic.
http://www.studyyourbibleonline.com/theology
I will be praying for you Tim.
I think it should be worth mentioning in one of your a la carte blogs that Lecrae’s latest album was as high as #3 and is currently #4 on the I-Tunes top album chart.
I am praying for you right now Tim & will be tonight.
“Therefore thus says the LORD: “If you return, I will restore you, and you shall stand before me. If you utter what is precious, and not what is worthless, you shall be as my mouth.” Jer 15:19
So tonight, will you be performing a song, poem or interpretive dance?
Interruptive dance Melinda, interruptive dance.
oh man, I’m gonna miss it!
Seriously though, check out the website. There will definitely be some interesting “letters”.
I too hate when people quote the dictionary as an authoritative source, as if that’s a logical argument. Using definitions to clarify the TERMS of a discussion is good, but not for deciding what is in scope or out of scope for understanding, for instance, a biblical passage.
Case in point - a commenter at Debunking Christianity thinks that the OT ‘lies’ when it claims that rabbits ‘chew the cud.’ He can’t grasp that, though the english word ‘cud’ means regurgitated food, the fact that rabbits eat their own pellets could be considered ‘rechewed food,’ and that this broader definition may be a more accurate translation of the original Hebrew.