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Wednesday April 12, 2006 Music: Here is a song that, if you listen to it, will be playing in your head all day (whether you want it to or not…and you probably don’t). Family: Dr. Mohler discusses a rather shocking new book. “When that discernment evaporates, desire is all that remains. When such a desire…
Tuesday April 10, 2006 Just for kicks I thought we would do an all-Emergent A La Carte for today. Emergent: Yesterday I attended a meeting in which my friend Paul presented a paper on the Emerging church. I thought he did a very good job of representing and critiquing this movement. He will be incrementally…
Monday April 9, 2006 Film: Justin Taylor passes along an email telling Christians how to respond to the Da Vinci Code movie. Theology: John Hendryx of Monergism fame writes about “The Historicity of the Resurrection.” Humor: “Bin Can Can” is a short film showing what happens to our trash cans when there is no one…
Thursday April 6, 2006 Education: Justin Taylor quotes Mortimer Adler on “The Pain of Learning.” “One of the reasons why the education given by our schools is so frothy and vapid is that the American people generally–the parent even more than the teacher–wish childhood to be unspoiled by pain.” Creation: National Geographic has an interesting…
Friday April 7, 2006 Help: If there is a PHP braniac out there who could spare the time to answer a couple of my questions, I should would appreciate a little bit of help with a project I’m working on. Contact me if you are willing and able to help! Culture: Joe over at Evangelical…
Wednesday April 5, 2006 Da Vinci: Alistair Begg agrees that Christians should be prepared to defend against Da Vinci. “Please do not misunderstand me when I tell you how disappointed I am with our featured book this month, The Da Vinci Deception. My problem is not with the book (it’s helpful), nor with the author…
Tuesday April 4, 2006 Pornography: Slice of Laodicea reports on Christian Pornography. “A publisher is soliciting descriptions of ‘godly’ passion in the married bed with a special appeal to pastors wives to share their ‘stories’.” Humor: WestJet, Canada’s favorite (and only profitable) airline, has asked customers to contribute to realizing gains in fuel efficiency. “Beginning…
Monday April 3, 2006 Du Jour: Dluxe’s world discusses, among other things, Purpose Driven Pets. “If we are imagining that our longing in heaven will be for Snoogums the Chihuahua, I think we have a problem.” Family: Sovereign Grace’s Family News Extra Online reports on Capt. Hans Kirkman who is serving his family while serving…
Friday March 31, 2006 Technology: Dennis Forbes has some interesting analysis of domain names. The long and short of this is that all the good names are long gone! Technology Bonus: Fosfor Gadgets lists the top 10 weirdest keyboards of all-time. I want one of the laser keyboards! Quote: Here is some April Fool’s wisdom…
Thursday March 30, 2006 Humor: The Museum of Hoaxes counts down the top 100 April Fool’s Day hoaxes of all time. A personal favorite is Burger King’s left-handed whopper. Warren: Saddleback Church recently celebrated it’s 20,000 baptism. This is quite an accomplishment, but as many have pointed out, the requirements for baptism are so minimal…
Wednesday March 29, 2006 Video: Some enterprising soul put a video camera near a bald eagle’s nest on Hornby Island, near Vancouver, British Columbia. You can watch it here. The video is very good quality, though there isn’t a whole lot going on! Book: It seems that Girl Talk, written by Carolyn Mahaney and Nicole…
Tuesday March 28, 2006 Film: Newsweek discusses the rising popularity of bloody horror films. “Some critics–smart ones like New York Magazine’s David Edelstein, not just nervous Nellies–argue that the trend verges on “torture porn.’” Du Jour: C.J. Mahaney has asked the Together for the Gospel guys two good questions: “What is the gospel? What is…
Monday March 26, 2006 Humor: Members of the Church of Nazarene of West Palm Beach delivered some old fashioned vigilante justice to a marauding thief. PalmBeachPost reports. Praise: The case against the Afghan Christian, Abdul Rahman, has been dismissed and he is likely to soon go free. Paul, among many others, reports. Afghani Muslims have…
Friday March 24, 2006 Evangelism: I’m proud of my sister. When she gets an idea into her head, look out! She has gotten the ladies in her neighborhood mobilized! Humor: When the Reformed speak in tonuges. (HT: TulipGirl) Music: Here is a song that I am quite sure will not be winning any songwriting awards.…
Thursday March 23, 2006 Sexuality: The Daily Mail reports that “Children exposed to sex in TV programmes, films, magazines and music are more likely to engage in sexual activity than those who are not, according to research out today.” Is this news? Bible: ESV Blog celebrates the 549th anniversary of the first Bible coming off…
Wednesday March 22, 2006 Purpose: Ken reports on the latest Purpose Driven gimmick. “For only $3.99/month you can receive a short devotional thought from The Purpose Driven Life on your mobile phone daily.” Sign me up! Emergent: Brian McLaren is at it again. “So for people who feel, for example, that the Westminster Confession perfectly…
Tuesday March 21, 2006 Du Jour: Al Mohler covers a New York Times article discussing the plight of black men. Children: C.J. Mahaney has a wonderful article in which he discusses how he helps prepare his son (and himself) for Sunday worship. “My approach to preparing Chad for the Sunday meeting has been informed by…
Monday March 20, 2006 Emergent: Phil Johnson points us to an article that seems to suggest that Gilbert Bilezikian, one of the founders of the megachurch movement, seems ready to hop to the emergent bandwagon. “If you tried to name the five people who have done more than anyone else to shape theories of ministry…
Friday March 17, 2006 Humor: The Thirsty Theologian laments finding out that one of his heroes is flawed. “It happens to all of us at some point at least once. Depending upon your degree of admiration for the fallen one, it can be quite devastating.” Theology: J.D. Wetterling’s weekly blog is, as usual, well worth…
Thursday March 16, 2006 Entertainment: Al Mohler discusses his newfound love for the game Sudoku. “Oh yes! Just one more and I can stop. No, one more after that. And another. Oh, who can break this habit?” I’ve tried the game and, while I appreciated the amazing difficulty inherent in such a simple game, it…