Just a couple of things I’ve wanted to mention but haven’t fit anywhere else… Music: – A couple of weeks ago I received Asleep in a Storm, the latest album from Sovereign Grace Ministries. “Produced by Jeremy White, a member of Grace Church (San Diego, CA), the CD features a fresh take on nine previously…
A couple of nights ago I received the second endorsement for The Discipline of Spiritual Discernment. As I mentioned the first time an endorsement came in, I will continue to share these because, in many ways, I feel that this book was a community effort as readers of the site prayed for me, encouraged me,…
A recent article at Psychology Today is getting a lot of attention. I noticed it at a couple of blogs and then saw it come across the wire at Digg, so it is being widely read. The article offers “Ten Politically Incorrect Truths About Human Nature.” In the preamble the authors, Alan S. Miller and…
Friday July 6, 2007 Supplies: You know you need want some of these–MegaSticky oversize sticky notes. Islam: A titch off-color, perhaps, but having lived in Scotland I got a real chuckle out of headlines like this one. You just don’t mess with the Scots. “A HERO cabbie who took on the Glasgow Airport terror suspects…
Several weeks ago I completed a brief project building a website for a church called Jacob’s Well, an upcoming church plant in Middlesex County, New Jersey and a part of the Acts 29 Network. As I was building the site I didn’t think much of the name, of its origin or its important. That changed,…
Thursday July 5, 2007 Islam: An interesting article at Yahoo in which they discuss “a socio-economic trend in which wealthy [Islamic] families highly educate their sons, who sometimes become radical and have the education they need to become leaders.” Environment: The “Chicago Sun Times says “Alarmist global warming claims melt under scientific scrutiny.” Du Jour:…
Last night in the news I caught a headline titled something like “Eltron Rocks Royal Tantrum.” It seems that Elton John, having just arrived at a concert venue where he was scheduled to sing before a live audience of tens of thousands and a televised audience in the millions, had his car stopped about fifty…
Wednesday July 4, 2007 Music: Fans of Caedmon’s Call, The Normals or Andrew Osenga will want to download this free EP that was released a few days ago. Books: An interesting little article at Publishers Weekly says that female pastors are becoming fashionable in Christian fiction. Theology: Charles Schultz (creator of Peanuts) comments on the…
Tuesday is review day over at Discerning Reader. This week we’ve posted four new ones. I’m guessing that the one which will prove of most interest to readers of this site is Leslie Wiggins’ review of Shopping for Time by Carolyn Mahaney and her daughters. “The Mahaney women invite you to pull a chair up…
I have long been fascinated with Abraham Lincoln. I first encountered him during a family vacation in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Touring the battlefields and the surrounding area we came to that place where he delivered the Gettysburg Address which has rightly gone done in history as one of the greatest English literary accomplishments. A few years…
Tuesday July 3, 2007 Jobs: If you are a programming geek, Desiring God may just have a job for you. Interview: Trevin Wax has a fresh interview with Caedmon’s Call. Du Jour: Russell Moore has posted a good commentary dealing with creationism, the gap theory, and reconciling Scripture and the scientific data. Music: Bob Kauflin…
While July 1 is Canada Day, the nation actually seems to take July 2 to remember the birth of our nation. All the stores were open yesterday and are closed today. So today seemed like a good time to thinking about the day. I do not have a lot of customs on this site, but…
Monday July 2, 2007 Books: The DG blog shares the almost unbelievable results of their recent sale. Children: An article in the Telegraph shows, to no one’s great surprise, that babies are not quite as innocent as they may appear. Conference: Brett and Alex Harris have released a video promoting the Rebelution Tour, now underway.
The doctrine of penal substitution doesn’t, on the face of it, sound too glorious. It is a doctrine involving curse, punishment, blood and death. It is little wonder that people object to it so strenuously. Indeed, this teaching has been at the very center of a rift within the church–a rift that seems to be…