February 2010
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Six practical steps to fasting. →
January 2010
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Quotes of the Day
“My message to these groups who are inexplicably offended by a pro-woman, pro-child, pro-life message airing during the Super Bowl: please concentrate on empowering women, help with efforts to prevent unexpected pregnancies, stay consistent with your message that for too long women have been made to feel like sex objects in our ‘modern’ culture and that we can expect better in 2010.”
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Top Ten Truly Moving Films of 2009 →
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Quotes of the Day
“Yesterday I sat and watched liveblog coverage of the long-awaited announcement from Apple. To no one’s great surprise, they unveiled their newest device, the iPad. While everyone knew this tablet device was coming, everyone had wondered exactly what it would be. Apple has high standards when it comes to devices like this one and I, for one, was prepared to be amazed. Alas, I was...
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How to Wreck Your Chruch in Three Weeks
Ray Ortlund:
Week One: Walk into church today and think about how long you’ve been a member, how much you’ve sacrificed, how under-appreciated you are. Take note of every way you’re dissatisfied with your church now. Take note of every person who displeases you.
Meet for coffee this week with another member and “share your heart.” Discuss how your church is changing, how you are being left...
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WatchDog Scratch Interruption Win.
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Be Wary of "Messages" from God
Donald Gee of the (charismatic) Assemblies of God denomination, quoted in Just Do Something, Kindle location 568-74:
[There are] grave problems raised by the habit of giving and receiving personal “messages” of guidance through the gifts of the Spirit…. The Bible gives a place for such direction from the Holy Spirit…. But it must be kept in proportion. An examination...
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You're Really Not a Christian
From a debate between atheist Christopher Hitchens and unitarian Marilyn Sewell (via Joe Carter):
Maryiln Sewell: The religion you cite in your book is generally the fundamentalist faith of various kinds. I’m a liberal Christian, and I don’t take the stories from the scripture literally. I don’t believe in the doctrine of atonement (that Jesus died for our sins, for example). Do you make and...
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Quotes of the Day
“Odd isn’t it? Freedom, they cry! Liberty and equality for all and don’t you attempt to force your view of morality on others. And yet it is that very same group that is now demanding that CBS not allow this perfectly legal and approved spot to air. Their desire for freedom is so specifically and narrowly defined as their own right to destroy inconvenient human life that the...
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So it's a giant iphone. Uh, I don't get it. →
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Mohler and Keller on The Shack
Coincidentally, both Al Mohler and Tim Keller came out with reviews of The Shack today. (I was especially surprised to see Keller tackle it as he’s reticent to get involved in things like this.) But not coincidentally, they find major flaws in it.
Keller:
[H]ere is my main problem with the book. Anyone who is strongly influenced by the imaginative world of The Shack will be totally...
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What Wisdom Is, And Isn't
Kevin DeYoung, in Just Do Something, Kindle location 742-47:
Wisdom is the difference between knowing a world-class biologist who can write your papers for you and studying under a world-class biologist so that you can write the kind of papers he would write. Too many of us want God to be the world-class scholar who will write our papers and live our lives for us, when God wants us to sit at...
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20 Ways to Make Your Church Adoption-Friendly →
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I Wish John Mayer Was a Christian
From Stuff Christians Like: He’s already got the tattoos.
He’a almost done with money.
He’s funny.
He gets that sometimes he looks like a jerk.
He’s talented.
He’s connected to a huge slew of other celebraties.
We could turn him into a worship leader in about 4 seconds.
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Dead man in coffin saved by undertaker. →
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Fight the Accuser
Martin Luther, commenting on Galatians 1:4 (via Ray Ortlund):
When the devil accuses us and says, ‘You are a sinner and therefore damned,’ we should answer, ‘Because you say I am a sinner, I will be righteous and saved.’ ‘No,’ says the devil, ‘you will be damned.’ And I reply, ‘No, for I fly to Christ, who gave himself for my sins. Satan, you will not prevail against me when you try to...
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For sure we should try to make Heavy Metal a... →
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Quotes of the Day
“Also, he’s an unabashed pro-life supporter; his mother, Pam, was advised by her doctor late in Tebow’s pregnancy to abort the baby because it was a dangerous pregnancy. Her refusal led to Tebow’s compelling life — and also to a 30-second Super Bowl commercial by Tebow and Pam (sponsored by Focus on the Family) that will add to Tebow-mania.
“On Friday I spoke...
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The First Movie Shot Entirely By Chimps
I.e. the best movie in the history of earth.
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WatchAwesome Prank Backfire.
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WatchQuote of the Day #2.
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Quote of the Day
“The magnitude 7.0 earthquake that struck Haiti nearly two weeks ago, and dozens of aftershocks, including a 5.9 temblor at dawn last week, has turned Port-au-Prince into a city deathly afraid of the indoors. “During the day, the people remaining in the capital chip away at crumbled homes, stand in long lines to get money from banks or relatives overseas, scrounge for food and...
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WatchMark Driscoll and Churches Helping Churches in Haiti.
Unreal.
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Two Ways to "Accept Jesus"
Ray Ortlund:
You and I are not integrated, unified, whole persons. Our hearts are multi-divided. There is a board room in every heart. Big table. Leather chairs. Coffee. Bottled water. Whiteboard. A committee sits around the table. There is the social self, the private self, the work self, the sexual self, the recreational self, the religious self, and others. The committee is arguing and debating...
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But What About the Children?
Pasted below is a long section from an article in USA Today on kids in Haiti and how they are coping with life now after the earthquake. It is so much worse than we know, and I have little capacity to understand it all. I am angry at God, but know also that he cares for them more than I do. This world is broken, he knows. And he will fix it through Jesus. My only prayer this morning is that...
Watch6th Grade Teleprompter FAIL.
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A Sinner on His Deathbed
J.C. Ryle:
Ask the dying sinner, stand by his bedside and inquire of him, whether it proves a comfortable and supporting thought that he has cared more for the world than for his soul. Perhaps you never saw the deathbed of one who had not got his feet upon the rock. Oh! It is a fearful, instructive, soul-moving sight! When the heart begins to beat faintly and the eyes grow dim, when friends are...
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WatchJoy Amidst the Destruction.
HT: Z
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Conan's Goodbye
Pretty darn gracious.
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Of Course Spanking is Good For Kids
Mmmm. Music to my ears:
[P]arents who still use physical discipline keep it on the down-low. That’s not just because spanking is no longer politically correct but because some lawmakers are attempting to ban even the most benign swat. Massachusetts and California successfully resisted attempts to ban spanking in 2007, but some 25 countries—from Austria to Venezuela—have banned any and all...
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Quote of the Day
“In short, you didn’t come from an embryo, you once were an embryo. At no point in your prenatal development did you undergo a substantial change or change of nature. You began as a human being and will remain so until death. Sure, you lacked maturity at that early stage of life (as does an infant), but you were human nonetheless. ’Living things do not become entirely different...
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WatchAndy is a friend of mine, and there could be an opportunity for you to help. This message just went out to his church (emphasis mine):
“It has been a whirlwind week for Beth and I. On Tuesday many of you learned that we have been working since last March to adopt Wislandie Aurélien, a darling 8-year old from FCC’s missions partner Hope for the Children of Haiti in Port-au-Prince. It...
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Anniversary Links
Only a few posts today. Here are some resources so you can “know.”
Mugged by Abortion.
Accusing and Excusing for 37 Years.
An interview with Robert P. George.
Sign up for the Virtual March for Life.
Why Pro-Life Presidents Matter.
The Pro-Life Comeback of 2009.
The front lines:
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A Day For Mourning, A Day For Hope
It has been 37 years since Roe v. Wade.
I often think that I am living in Nazi Germany, with concentration camps and gas chambers and crematoriums out my back yard.
Did you know that Dachau was not the name of a concentration camp, but the name of a city? That means well meaning, kind-hearted, probably Christian German men and women lived out relatively normal lives while Jews endured...
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Tonight Show Feud Jokes
Conan:
“Hosting ‘The Tonight Show’ has been the fulfillment of a life-long dream for me. And I just want to say to the kids out there watching, you can do anything you want in life. Unless Jay Leno wants to do it, too.”
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“Hello, I’m Conan O’Brien, and sorry if I’m a little late … I had a job interview at Lady Foot Locker.”
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“My name is...
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The Truth Behind the American Idol Auditions →
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WatchBible Based Rick Roll.
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A web technology that helps you memorize Bible... →
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Pray for the Girls of Haiti
If you can only pray for one thing with respect to the hell that is Haiti, pray for the young girls. The sex trade was rampant before the earthquake and may be even worse now. Mark Driscoll, who just returned from a visit there, retells a harrowing scene he witnessed in a USA Today interview:
We were downtown loading up our film crew. There were no police, no medics, to be seen by a huge park...
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God's Will Is that You Read and Understand the...
John Newton, quoted by Kevin DeYoung in Just Do Something, Kindle location 678-82:
In general, he [God] guides and directs his people by affording them, in answer to prayer, the light of his Holy Spirit, which enables them to understand and to love the Scriptures. The Word of God is not to be used as a lottery; nor is it designed to instruct us by shreds and scraps, which, detached from their...