Just by way of FYI, I noticed today as I opened up my blogging software that this is my 1000th A La Carte entry. It is a feature I began rather on a whim, but I guess it has had legs. I always get cranky emails when I skip a day or two, and I take that as quite a good sign.
A.J. Hamilton Testimony
“Pastor Bubba Jennings interviews Pastor AJ Hamilton at the Ballard campus on Oct. 4th, 2009. Pastor AJ shares his testimony and gives a strong encouragement for women considering abortion that God can redeem any situation.”
Finance Committee Bill
The Finance Committee bill has been filed. Maybe it would be fun to see who can come up with the best one-sentence summary of the 1502 pages of the bill.
The Pursuit of Holiness
Barry shares an illustration Jerry Bridges uses in his classic book The Pursuit of Holiness. “As we grow in the knowledge of God’s holiness, even though we are also growing in the practice of holiness it seems the gap between our knowledge and our practice always gets wider. This is the Holy Spirit’s way of drawing us to more and more holiness…”
Do We Worship a Bully?
Pulpit Magazine answers Richard Dawkins who says, “The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.”
