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- 05/03/11
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It is a double birthday in the Challies home today, with my wife turning [something] and my youngest daughter turning 5. Question is, when there are two birthdays, do you do one cake and put both names on it? Or do you do a cake each? I’m going with the one cake this year…
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eBook Sale - At Cruciform Press we are having a Mother’s Day sale on a couple of books that mom might like.
A Praying Life - Speaking of ebooks, Paul Miller’s A Praying Life, a really good book on prayer, is available for free for the Kindle. Get it soon because it won’t be free forever.
Reformed Rap - Christianity Today puts the spotlight on Reformed rap.
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9Marks - The newest 9Marks newsletter is out and it focuses on issues related to church membership. I tend to read it for the book reviews.
Jesus Wants My Heart - Daniel Renstrom has released an EP of children’s music (iTunes only). Go ahead and buy it and you’ll be helping fund a full-length album for kids. And why not check out his other albums—they are well worth the purchase.
God’s Holiness - A sermon jam featuring Richard Ganz.
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Comments (16)
Thank you for providing the good articles and links. My only comment is that “Rap music” and Christian are mutually exclusive. See my twitter page for links to more uplifting sounds.
Jesus Wants My Heart is also on Amazon.com, for those of us without Itunes.
Tim, one cake? No way…Not only is this an opportunity to get two different cake types from the bakery, but you can take the high road in honoring your wife and daughter’s individual birthdays and preference. Be cool…two bithdays, two different cakes, two chances at a wish…double the family fun.
My dad and brother also share a brother and in an ideal world yes, we would have two cakes but we are rarely are that organised. I think one cake is usually sufficient though because otherwise we have more leftovers than we can possibly eat…
sorry that was meant to say share a birthday not a brother… sort of changes the meaning a little… OOPS!!
My sister and I share the same day….16 years apart, we have always shared a cake, one of us gets to chose the meal and the other the type of cake…I’m the oldest so I had 16 years of total domination :)
I would have two cakes or whatever one’s favorite desert is…..Birthday girls should be treated special.
Tim, I would definitely get two cakes if I were you. You are treading in dangerous feminine waters! Besides, how many times is your daughter going to turn 5 and your wife going to turn [something]?
Sermon jam - I never thought about the vast difference between the phrase “eternal security” and “perseverance of the saints.” I know eternal security, when defined by non-hypercalvinism, means well, but at face value I realize how it can carry the notion of a justified-not-going-to-hell pass to do whatever.
Tim , bad day for quotes or what . Finney was a blight on the Christian world and still holds sway , sad to say. Many excellent articles have been written to show this mans heresy and this is just one , http://www.spurgeon.org/~phil/articles/finney.htm. Plus the new DVD exposing his false teaching is available at Monergism Books website . What next , a quote from Pelagius .Just kidding.
I agree with you, Finney held to many heresies. But Tim wrote next to the quote, “(yeah, I know, it’s Finney; but it’s a great quote).” I agree with him, the quote is pretty interesting, however, the man behind it is not. So I think the usage of the quote is okay.
If you purchase a cake you should be flogged. Cakes baked by you is the only way to go. AND…. can you honestly look either of these family members in the face and say, “I only baked one”?
Don’t go for only one cake! Each girl/woman needs to be special!!
Hi Tim,
I’m glad you’re pointing folks to Daniel’s new EP.
While you’re at it, please consider doing the same for my friend Matt Papa.
He’s making some great music here in Durham, and just released an awesome new song called “It Is Finished”:
http://www.mattpapa.com
Birthday cakes - do two just to be festive. Not so you can be fair or well-bred, but so you can simply be extravagant and generous on this one day.And it is simple to do two cakes if they are bought from a bakery. However, if you only like to do elaborate decorated cakes, then I could see the dilemma if you are the one doing all the hard work on the creation of it.But get two from Costco and invite the street! It will be a blast! And you will always remember when you threw caution to the wind and splurged and got two cakes that you didn’t really need but that you blessed them with. Yay cake! : )
P.S. I said Costco because they are very very good. Especially the ones with the strawberry filling inside. The frosting is buttercream too.
To say that Rap music and Christian are mutually exclusive seems quite ignorant.
I don’t for a minute doubt that the majority of what is conveyed through rap as a whole is worldly, the question is not about how people use the genre but the genre itself.
To say that there cannot be such a thing as Christian rap music due to rap’s origins and the majority of it’s uses today would be like saying that the Bible shouldn’t be written on paper seeing as paper was invented in pagan China.
I do not particularly enjoy rap, but the reason why I am drawn to this Christian hip hop is because the genre allows for a deep saturation of theologically rich lyrics. I also enjoy hymns for a similar reason.
If you don’t like rap, that’s fine - for a long time I was dissatisfied by the fluffiness and compromise that is contained within a lot of Christian contemporary music. Christian hip hop (and hymns) are a beautiful, God given solution that that issue.
I honestly wonder how you can have such an issue with something that is so honest and at it’s core “soli Deo gloria”.