Wednesday October 18, 2006

Du Jour: Mark Dever shares some wise and humble words about pride as impatience. Impatience “is a disguise for the sin of pride, the ugliest of all sins, and the most direct rejection of God’s authority and of a humble joy in His provision for me in the Gospel of Jesus Christ.”

Music: Here’s one for all the U2 fans. “Bono, the rock star and campaigner against Third World debt, is asking the Irish government to contribute more to Africa. At the same time, he’s reducing tax payments that could help fund that aid.”

Humor? Old Truth pictures the absurd, taking issue with those (he?) who believes that Calvinists are worse than Muslims.

Beauty: GirlTalk discusses distorted beauty (complete with an interesting video).

Tuesday October 17, 2006

Health: Dr. Mohler discusses a new study which seems to have found a “‘statistically significant relationship’ between autism and early television viewing in children.”

Conference: Adrian Warnock has a roundup of the liveblogging done at the recent International Baptist Conference here in Toronto.

Blogging: I forgot to post this last week. Joe Carter reflects on three years of blogging. Many of the same thoughts have been rattling inside my head as I’ve also passed the three-year barrier.

Monday October 16, 2006

Blogging: An article published by the Restored Church of God says that blogging is sinful. “Let me emphasize that NO ONE—including adults—should have a blog or personal website (unless it is for legitimate business purposes).”

Politics: This is an interesting article, getting quite candid with Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

Interview: Here is another interview with yours truly. I was also the guest on a radio show a few days ago and will post the audio when and if it is made available.

Men: Now this is important. FoxNews has an article about manly footwear and, in particular, flip flops. Are they appropriate footwear for men? “I’m always baffled at what makes men think women will be attracted to them in a two-for-$10 pair of Wal-Mart flip-flops,” he said. “No one wants to look at a man’s dirty, hairy, nasty toes.”

Friday October 13, 2006

Technology: Haven’t you always wanted to play “Space Invaders” using nothing but your brain for a controller? Well now it has been done.

Humor: Guess what you can download from www.ie7.com…

Conference: Pastor Paul will be blogging from the International Baptist Conference right here in Toronto. Among the speakers are Joe Boot and Mark Dever.

Conference: And while on the subject of conferences, Doug of Coffeeswirls fame will be liveblogging a conference this weekend as well.

Thursday October 12, 2006

Interview: Oaktreeidea.com has an interview with…me? You can read it here.

Du Jour: Mark Dever has posted a powerful quote from Richard Sibbes. “We cannot live long in this world. We owe God a death. We owe nature a death. The sentence of death is passed upon us…”

Blogging: USA Today has an article about a blogging defamation suit. “A Florida woman has been awarded $11.3 million in a defamation lawsuit against a Louisiana woman who posted messages on the Internet accusing her of being a ‘crook,’ a ‘con artist’ and a ‘fraud.’”

Theology: Mike answers those who feel Charles Spurgeon was not a Calvinist. “After wading through all the misinformation and dissimulating rhetoric coming from the Caners, one more thing has surfaced regarding Ergun Caner’s treatment of Spurgeon.”

Wednesday October 11, 2006

Web: Dr. Don Kistler (the founder of Soli Deo Gloria Publications) has a new web site. “Here we hope you will find teaching that will influence and guide your decisions, choices, and behavior. Since theology is about God, it is immininently practical by its very nature. The more we know God, the more we will seek to imitate Him and the more we will please Him.”

Du Jour: Mark Driscoll has written an interesting article about the spirituality of porn star Jenna Jameson. “The most peculiar quote she gave in the entire biography was her attempt to defend how she could be a Catholic Christian porn star: ‘No one can judge me but God.’”

Weird: Here’s the breakfast wave of the future: “the Holy Toast miracle bread stamper.”

Tuesday October 10, 2006

Weird: Biologists in the French alps found an uncracked duck egg that had several live minnows in it. They are appealing to the public to help them figure out how this could happen!

Theology: The “Open debate on Calvinism” that was to happen a week from now has, sadly, been cancelled. Mike has a roundup of the details.

Sports: Is it just me, or is this Monday Night Football crew the worst we’ve seen in a long time? Last night they were talking about ordering the women of Desperate Housewives in order of the ones they’d most want to sleep with. And I thought they were there to talk about football!

Monday October 9, 2006

Church: “The Times” has an article about Terry Waite, one of the world’s best-known Anglicans, who has begun attending Quaker services instead of Anglican ones. “The contemporary Church of England has made everybody so busy jumping up and down all the time in its services. In the days before all the changes to the services you could often remain on your knees for an entire service of holy communion. In that time you could respond spiritually in the way you wanted.”

Church: Meanwhile, on this side of the Atlantic, the “New York Times” is writing about evangelical churches that are afraid of losing their teens and are willing to do just about anything to win them back.

Conference: The International Baptist Conference is coming to Toronto next week to Toronto Baptist Seminary. Mark Dever is the keynote speaker. You can get details by clicking here (PDF file).

Calvinism: Rick Phillips of Reformation21 has some interesting things to say about “hateful Calvinism.” Calvinism without grace is indeed terrible and hateful.

Friday October 6, 2006

Conference: I don’t know what the Bonfire Conference is, but I have to admit a certain level of discomfort with a conference that gives away a door prize of a Hummer H3. Maybe it’s something Together for the Gospel should investigate next time.

Testimony: Thabiti Anyabwile (I never get tired of saying that name) has published his testimony in “Boundless” Magazine. “The label ‘righteous’ fell into all of that deep emptiness, rattling occasionally as it plummeted and banged against the hull of my heart. One thing I knew: I was not righteous, not in any essential sense.”

Du Jour: My friend Julian, who accompanied me to the WorshipGod06 Conference, has posted some reflections on the conference and on his wrestlings with the miraculous gifts.

Thursday October 5, 2006

Weird: Canada will be broadcasting a new show called “Little Mosque on the Prairie.” “Instead of raising pitchforks, tumbling down hills and selling eggs at the general store, this fictional Muslim family struggles to find its place in Canada’s vast western prairies in a post-September 11, 2001 world.”

Humor: Mumbled Musings has some funny reflections on the Calvinists at the Desiring God conference.

Driscoll: I think everyone else in the blogosphere has already posted this, a friendly discussion between Piper and Driscoll.

Weird: Some Japanese guy recently recited pi to the 100,000th digit. And I have trouble forcing myself to memorize a single verse of Scripture.