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A La Carte (9/24)

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Monday September 24, 2007

Felicity Margaret Piper
John Piper has requested prayer on behalf of his son, Abraham, who heads up content on the Desiring God blog, and on behalf of Abraham’s wife Molly. Felicity was due to be born this week but was stillborn on Saturday night. “This seems so preventable. By God and by man. Yes. So easy. But neither man nor God prevented this. Man, because he did not know it was happening. God, because he has his wise and loving reasons that we wait to learn with tears and trust.”


Movabletype 4 vs WordPress 2.3
Jesse gives bloggers ten good reasons to upgrade to Movabletype 4 rather than WordPress 2.3.


Not in Love with Jesus
John Stackhouse is not in love with Jesus.


Family Integrated Churches
Jim Hamilton shares a Q & A on family integrated churches.


Warnock on Owen
Adrian Warnock is expending a lot of effort in blogging through some John Owen.


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