Capitol Hill Podcasts
Capitol Hill Baptist Church, one of my favorite churches, has a new podcast page. Lot’s of stuff well worth listening to. Check it out HERE.
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You MUST listen to this!
I posted a link to this back in 07 and just had to revisit this incredible story…Stop whatever you are doing and check it out HERE.
A Good Perspective on the New Perspective
Kevin DeYoung provides a very helpful annalysis of N.T. Wrights perspective on the doctrine of justification. Check it out HERE, HERE, and HERE.
Blog 139: 3.19.8 – 3.19.12
Romans 14:14 is an initially perplexing but important verse. First, no external things are unclean/unholy in and of themselves. Second, if your conscience (even incorrectly) deems something unclean/unholy, then to violate one’s conscience is a sin. Therefore, even if we…
Friends of Calvin
So far I have surprised myself by sticking to my intended reading list for the Summer, and have just finished Machiel A. Van Den Berg’s excellent paperback, Friends of Calvin. This collection of twenty-four of Calvin’s colleagues, contemporaries, relations, friends…
More Pennington
Hi Phil, Thanks for the warm comments re: The Decline and the suggestion of including James Pennington in future revisions. Pennington is a hero, and like you I appreciate his ministry. I continue to think that in so much of…
What Makes Church Boring
Church isn’t boring because we’re not showing enough film clips, or because we play an organ instead of guitar. It’s boring because we neuter it of its importance. Too often we treat our spiritual lives like the round of golf…
Blog 138: 3.19.1 – 3.19.7
Calvin regards the doctrine of Christian liberty as a teaching of primary importance. Without a proper understanding of it, we cannot truly know Christ, the truth of the gospel, or peace within. But people have strong, strange reactions to this…
Just for Fun
https://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=3156959&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=ffffff&fullscreen=1 Bathtub IV from Keith Loutit on Vimeo. This is not annimation or stop-motion. This is real photography. It’s called “tilt shift.” “Tilt-shift lenses sit off-center of the film (or sensor) plane of your camera to produce photos with extremely…
She actually said it!
“Yes, the ruling about that surprised me. [Harris v. McRae — in 1980 the court upheld the Hyde Amendment, which forbids the use of Medicaid for abortions.] Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was…