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I Hate Flying
Brian Regan is my favorite comic. Thanks to Justin Taylor for finding this gem.
What’s so great about the sovereignty of God?
I found this link to a chapter from Richard Phillip’s newest book over at Monergism. Check it out. For those of us who grew up not hearing much about the sovereignty of God it was truly a spiritual revolution to…
Worship at Metro East (3)
There are four principles that guide Metro East as preparations are made for our corporate worship gatherings: 1. Worship must be guided by God’s Word.“The Bible provides us with God’s directions for the form and content of Christian worship” (Duncan,…
Ministries, Old and New
Reading John Wyclif `On the Pastoral office’ with a ThM class this morning, I was struck by how he fulminated against the fact that clergy in his day only wanted to minister at big, lucrative, socially prestigious churches. Imagine my…
Churches Should Train Pastors
Al Mohler has written a helpful article for Tabletalk on the role that churches should play in training pastors. Sadly this is not a vision that many churches have embraced.
Planned Parenthood and Liberal Compassion
I Found this posted at Steve Camp’s blog. This is hitting the news ever so slowly. I have seen Fox News report on it but other than that it seems pretty quiet out there. Hmmmm.
And speaking of Newman . . . (David F. Wells on us)
“It takes no courage to sign up as a Protestant. To live by the truths of historic Protestantism, however, is an entirely different matter. That takes courage in today’s context.” Why? Wells answers: “The truths of historic Protestantism are sometimes…
Goin’ Country
In his interview with Derek Thomas, Sean Lucas confessed to being a fan of country music. Since he’s given the genre his imprimatur, I’ll ‘fess up, too. I, however, came to country music rather recently, when I met Tom Douglas…
All In The Family
The discouraging statistics regarding young people who leave the church after high school say more about the family, I believe, than about the church. I do think that entertainment/event driven youth ministry ultimately fails in its stated purpose. But, in…