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Social NetworksThe Economist has a special report dealing with social networking sites like Facebook. While generally positive in tone, the article does raise a few concerns. It’s Not Just a “Guy Problem”“My life changed forever when I was 21. I’d been curious for years to see what the big deal was about pornography. One afternoon…
Haiti Three Weeks Later“Tomorrow [note: this is from February 1] will mark three weeks since the massive January 12th earthquake in Haiti, and tent cities remain full, even as some businesses and factories are beginning to reopen in Port-au-Prince. Now that massive amounts of aid have arrived, distribution problems have cropped up and are being…
Amazing, Extraordinary, AmazingThis is brilliant. Some fun-loving soul took Steve Job’s recent iPad announcement and essentially stripped it down to its adjectives, editing the whole speech down to 3 minutes. The result is oddly hilarious. Is There a Jihadist in Your Church Nursery?Russell Moore: “This past Sunday’s New York Times magazine features a story about…
Chandler on Suffering WellAssociated Press wrote an article about Matt Chandler and his battle with a brain tumor: “Chandler’s lanky 6-foot-5-inch frame rests on a table at Baylor University Medical Center. He wears the same kind of jeans he wears preaching to 6,000 people at The Village Church in suburban Flower Mound, where the 35-year-old…
iPad’s Identity CrisisThis seems like quite a fair review of the iPad: “The bottom line is this: the iPad has an identity crisis. It’s not quite a serious e-reader, and it’s not quite a serious tablet PC. It’s probably great at handling multimedia, but it’s not nearly portable enough to be considered a portable media…
Get Outta My Face!Rick Horne’s book Get Outta My Face!–How to Reach Angry, Unmotivated Teens with Biblical Counsel is available today only for just $8 from the link above. I reviewed it here. My Dad’s Message to Me on the Day He DiedRay Ortlund shares his father’s final words for him. How To Meditate on…
The Online Life of Kids“The fact that children and teenagers now spend a good deal of their lives connected to electronic devices is hardly news. We are now accustomed to the knowledge that teenagers are seldom seen without wires in their years and a cell phone in the hand as they multitask their way through…
The most Abortion-Targeted Neighborhood in AmericaHere is a video of John Ensor in Los Angeles, laying out Heartbeat International’s life-saving vision for the urban centers of America. Interview with R.C. SproulAlex Chediak interviews R.C. Sproul on his latest book Surprised by Suffering: The Role of Pain and Death in The Christian Life. Public Passion vs…
The Gospel-Centered MarriageI’d like to commend to you Paul’s sermon from this past Sunday. As my buddy Julian said, “If you are married, ever intend on being married, want to know more about gospel-centred marriage, or know someone who is married, I cannot recommend enough that you listen to this sermon on gospel-centred marriage. You…
Haunted by HaitiMark Driscoll: “On Thursday morning James MacDonald, who leads a wonderful church and Bible-preaching ministry, called me to brainstorm some ideas he had to get involved and help direct other pastors and churches to do the same. As our conversations, texts, and emails continued, by the day’s end we had decided to take…
Mars Hill at FourteenMark Driscoll offers reflections on the fourteen years since he started planting Mars Hill Church. “They say that dogs age much faster than humans. This month Mars Hill is fourteen years old in human years, and roughly seventy in dog years, which is what it really feels like.” The Future of the…
Why Remembering Is Such a Big DealZ quotes David Powlison on why remembering is such a big deal in the Bible. Last WordsOver at 10MillionWords I wrote a review of George Carlin’s autobiography Last Words. “In the end, Carlin did not live long enough to finish his memoirs. Someone had to piece together his notes,…
The Man With 400 Children“[Kirk] Maxey, 51, happens to be one of the most prolific sperm donors in the country. Between 1980 and 1994, he donated at a Michigan clinic twice a week. He’s looked at the records of his donations, multiplied by the number of individual vials each donation produced, and estimated the success…
Top Ten Signs Your Sermon Isn’t Going WellHere’s an early morning LOL for you. The Age of Privacy Is OverI think we all know that there are growing concerns about the internet and privacy. Here Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg says as much. And just think how much information Facebook has about all of us. Deeper Into…
Prayer CrossThis comes from the “truth is stranger than fiction” file. Secret History of AmericaThis sounds like some outrageously revisionist history. “Director Oliver Stone’s upcoming Showtime documentary miniseries ‘Secret History of America” promises to put mass murderers such as Stalin and Hitler ‘in context.’ ‘Stalin, Hitler, Mao, McCarthy — these people have been vilified pretty…
Patrick Henry HughesI enjoyed this little video about Patrick Henry Hughes: “Patrick is a remarkable young man who was born without eyes and without the ability to fully straighten his arms and legs, making him unable to walk. Additionally, two steel rods were surgically attached to Patrick’s spine to correct scoliosis.” (HT:Z) Six Books for…
Church … VirtuallyLeadership Journal writes about the new and growing phenomenon of virtual church. “Recently a number of churches have made the leap beyond multi-site and satellite campuses. They have launched internet campuses, making every living room, dorm room, or coffeehouse with wi-fi an extension of the church.” Hume’s Gentle Faith“Brit Hume’s comments on Fox…
Mohler’s Top News Stories of 2009Dr. Mohler looks at the top news stories of 2009. “How will 2009 be remembered? Looking back over the year, ten major developments seem most important to me from this vantage point. A few years from now, 2009 might be remembered differently, but these markers stand out as 2010 begins”…
Euan MurrayThis was good to read in an article about a sports star: “Euan said: ‘It’s basically all or nothing, following Jesus. I don’t believe in pick ‘n’ mix Christianity. I believe the bible is the word of God, so who am I to ignore something from it?’” He recently announced that he will no…
You Did What?You may have heard about the ax-wielding Muslim who tried to kill infamous Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard. He was at home caring for his granddaughter when a man broke in seeking to kill him. This part blew my mind: “He did not have time to collect the child from the living room before…