Because my dear and only daughter squawks if I don't have one up by midnight (and I can't have that), here's a first edition. There will be additions up to noon, Texas time, as usual.
- Hokey smokes! David Murray (aka The Jolly Scotsman) shares an amalgamation of >500 online preaching resources.
- Adam Parker talks about how right, normal, and Biblical it is for a man to long for male friendship. Does not talk about how to find it.
- Here's the Director's Cut, so to speak, of the most recent sermon in the Ephesians series. It failed to record, so I re-preached it (with my lovely wife comprising the audience at church), and as they say considerably revised and extended my remarks. It closes Ephesians 1:4-6, giving fourteen reasons why election must be unconditional, plus doing some questions and answers about predestination, election, free will, evangelism, and more.
CALIFORNIA: Legislators pass law raising minimum wage to $75 an hour, and penalizing businesses $48 kajillion if they close or relocate
— Dan Phillips (@BibChr) February 12, 2015
- Remember this? 26 Ways Doing IT Support Is Better Than Being a Pastor.
- Fed up to here with clear, concise, accessible prose dedicated to taking the best cookies and putting them down where we can all reach them? Hankering for something so abstruse that even lasting through an entire sentence is an accomplishment? Good news! Jonathan Edwards' complete works are available as a free download. You're welcome.
- The last thing any Christian should be is, unfortunately, the first thing too many walking, talking, living churchgoing obstacles are: unteachable.
- Brian Williams and lies, lies, lies.
- Want a reason to cheer up and praise God? Gurnall gives us something about which we probably do not think nearly often enough.
Whether you're Katy Perry or Cathy Charismatic, do me a favor: when you tell us what "God" told you, please don't forget the air-quotes
— Dan Phillips (@BibChr) February 9, 2015
- Coming Robot Overlord Invasion: evidently Soldier 11493z jumped the gun.
- Meanwhile, sleeper cell bots are ready to serve you what appears to be perfectly harmless food and drinks.
- Tom Chantry writes of The Era of Little Girls.
- Now, for some really, really strange fire:
- It's been suggested that this be added to the next Pyro conference. To which I say: noted.
- Background on the Crusades from Kevin DeYoung.
- Unicorns in the Bible? Um... hunh.
- Hungry? You will be.
- Left off one obvious best bacon meal, though. The one that's...
- Want healing? Don't lay on the hands of some charlatan. Lay on some...
- This is pretty great. The indispensable DBTS blog brings us an article by prof Mark Snoeberger that concisely defines the major labels/categories as touching the issue of God's sovereignty and human responsibility — such as Pelagian, Semi-Pelagian, and so on.
"The Bible is human speech, humans err, so the Bible errs." "I see. So then, your statement also errs?" "Er..." #PaZang #SeeWhatIDidThere
— Dan Phillips (@BibChr) February 11, 2015
7 comments:
Thank you for the link.
I was thinking about it later in the week, and I remembered that it was Phil - here on this blog - who alerted me to the need to stand on your opinions and own them in the internet age. He made a comment I could never find again (I think it was in a meta) about pastors who hide behind pseudonyms. His point was not that there is never a place for pseudonyms, but rather that those who are called to promote the truth need to be open about their allegiances.
The internet feeds our egos in so many ways. We crave "likes," and conversely we find ways to hide from criticism. The heralds of the gospel can do better.
Tom
One of the reasons I like teampyro, its writers and commenters is I know where and on what they stand.
I long for the day when authors , writers, preachers, pastors etc will declare their allegiances to a long list of things. I want them to tell me, up front, what they believe about abc..xyz and 123 ...x.
Thank you for reminding us what Phil said "own your opinions."
So, Dan, on Edwards, is the following true:
What the Bible says in 50 words, Calvin explains in 500 and some Puritans obscure in 5,000? Or is it more how they expound than the # of words?
REM --
I know you didn't ask me, but I always find Calvin, in his exposition, to have a pretty keen thrift of words. It's his systematic theology that gets wildly verbose.
Chantry --
You have never been that kind of Puritan.
Ah, yes, my all-time favorite: Why being an IT guy is better.... I appreciate my pastors, and having been to several churches where problems have arisen, I now pray for them weekly (if not more often). A good pastor is a treasure, and there are not enough of them.
I disagree with you on almost everything Pastor Phillips but I do tend to gravitate to this blog on a daily basis. This series of some here some there is my favorite. You have a unique view, when I think I have you figured out you show me wrong. That is a compliment. I also admit I have been angry with this blog and on two occasions have said somewhat disrespectful comments and I apologize for that. I also envy folks here, you are just so sure and convinced of what you believe.
I was like that many moons ago. That is all somewhat irrelevant, my main point, I thought and spoke angry of you and yours and that is not ok, so I apologize. Take care Brian.
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