Friday Fun: 101 uses for a man
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From yesterday's Times. Send all complaints direct to them rather than
me....
1 Whistling at you in the street on your 41st birthday (this should be a
sta...
Signs and Wonders; Acts 19:8-21
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Jesus is real. He is powerful over evil. The lesson I want to draw is not to
expect miracles that were extraordinary even by the standard of Acts, but
that...
How to Be Relevant 500 Years from Now
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Great post here by Kevin DeYoung. Read the whole thing (and this time I mean
it!).
Some excerpts:
God's word is smarter, clearer, truer, and speaks to peo...
New Trend in Internet Fraud: Wireless Cybercriminals
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From Fox News: The newest trend in Internet fraud is “vacation hacking,” a
sinister sort of tourist trap. Cybercriminals are targeting travelers by
creatin...
Carson on Jeremiah 5
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Today, I pondered the following meditation for some time:
God challenges Jeremiah to find a single honest man on the streets of
Jerusalem (5:1), anticipat...
TOAM Session 9 - R.A.W. By P.J. Smyth
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1. Risk
When Joshua was old God told him he was old he was told that there was *still
much to do*.
Elephants are very *undomesticated*. They take risks. Th...
Video: Google to launch PC operating system
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The internet search firm Google has announced that it will develop an operating system for PCs. It is being seen as a big threat to the dominance of the soft...
The Cross, Knowledge and Love
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I’ve heard some older married couples say they love each more now than when
they were married. They say it’s because of the shared history but also
because...
The Bestest Summer Reading List Ever
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Today we’re going to create the bestest (adjective meaning to be better than
best) summer reading list in the history of humanity. What books have you
rece...
Meet Billy Raies (3)
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Welcome back to the conclusion of my interview with Billy Raies, senior
pastor of Christian Life Center in Midland, Texas. You can read part one
here and p...
Happy Birthday Mr Jean Cauvin
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Happy 500th birthday, to Jean Cauvin, better known as John Calvin. If Jesus
hasn't returned yet, what will the world be like 500 years after my birth?
In A...
Friday Fun: 101 uses for a man
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From yesterday's Times. Send all complaints direct to them rather than
me....
1 Whistling at you in the street on your 41st birthday (this should be a
sta...
Posts of the Week (10/07/09)
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- This one is interesting: Why do New Calvinists insist on
complementarianism? Kevin DeYoung explains why.
- Colin Beavan on Another way to fi...
Highlights from Brighton
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Martin & Andrew Cracker - father and son together on a mission.
Joel Virgo's message on the armour bearer.
Sharing a 'room with a view' with Gav 'chocolate...
Persevering Love
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I have been reading an excellent book on the perseverance of the saints by
Tom Schreiner (review will follow soon). He shows just how pervasive the
call to...
Freebie Friday: Bible Overview
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Steve Levy and Paul Blackham worked on this book for a good number of years
before it was published, and that is clear. The book, although relatively
short...
Shining like stars in London
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become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and
depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe
(Philippians 2...
Coptic Christian family deported
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Scene: a house in a city suburb
Time: just before dawn
Action: a group of heavily armed uniformed men and women swoop to snatch the
targets, surprising t...
Proposition Alphabet
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a. If God exists, then we would only know about Him if He let us know. b.
If, IF, God exists, then this revelation (prop. a) would trump everything
else an...
Kid’s Albums Aren’t Always Just for Kids
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I often wonder how to define the age range for our kid’s albums. For “To Be
Like Jesus,” our target age was 6-10 year olds. But on the CD we’ve
described t...
D. A. Carson sermon series on John
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Originally preached at the 1992 EMW Aberystwyth Conference.
John 3:1-16
John 6:1-71
John 1:1-51
John 11:1-57
If you download the sermons you are allowe...
The Fast For The Curious
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The best stories don’t rush to the end but enjoy the journey keeping things interesting as we tick along. So thus far in this journey we’ve established the ...
TOAM Main Session 6: Terry Virgo: THE FUTURE
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This was the big one! Massively anticipated. Hugely important. The end of
the beginning of newfrontiers...
Mark Driscoll said last year: “It isime for Terr...
Tell the World About Jesus
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Here’s some exciting news that just hit my inbox – I’m including the ‘press’
release in full
*[image: 2010 with WEA strapline] At its biennial leadership...
A Reader Writes...
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(I'm currently traveling and caring for a sick family member so posts will
be limited for a few days, but this landed in the comments on a recent post
and ...
Ashes to ashes
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Chart from The Economist
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In 1909 only 0.2% of people were cremated in England & Wales, today it is
75% (interestingly though it is only 18% in North...
A Vacation from Perfectionism
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Right now Orison, Morrow, and I are on vacation! We’ve been visiting my
parents in Erie, PA and then their lake cottage in Chautauqua, NY. Abraham
was here...
Signs and Wonders; Acts 19:8-21
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Jesus is real. He is powerful over evil. The lesson I want to draw is not to
expect miracles that were extraordinary even by the standard of Acts, but
that...
Romans 12:10
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Outdo one another in showing honor. Romans 12:10
Here is a competition where we can rightly fight for first place in line: in
honoring one another. Not ju...
Life's A Beach
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My life of late has mainly consisted of beaches. Here are some favourite
moments...
1) The Albino Debate: last Sunday afternoon we plodded down to the beac...
Day 151: You are my body broken for me
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Last night at our weekly church plant gathering we took communion. There is
something wonderfully dynamic about a bunch of normal everyday people
getting ...
Eight Challenges for Christian Leaders
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Yesterday I was in Cambridge for the TEAM (the ministry training course run
by the East Anglia Gospel Partnership) end of year lecture given by Wayne
Gru...
Book Review- The Unfolding Mystery
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It is one of those “I wish I could have been there moments”. You know the
scene. It is post resurrection. The Lord Jesus is walking with his
disciples o...
The Pastor’s Devotional Life
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The penny is finally dropping for me that the minister’s devotional life
really, really is his number one priority. On the subject, John Tindall has
some e...
Reading Scripture trinitarianly
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. . . There is no such thing as a non-dogmatic or non-theological engagement
of the biblical text, or of any text or language for that matter. Moreover,
an...
The God I don’t believe in
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Some pastoral disasters, along with many reactions to authority, have an
interesting a whiff of Sylvia Plath’s “daddy, daddy you bastard, I’m through”
abou...
Thoughts on Imputation
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Some partial, exploratory, perhaps incoherent thoughts on imputation. 1) A
recurrent charge against imputation is that it seems to rest on a legal
fiction ...
Message Audio: Real Freedom
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Here's the audio from my message at Middletown Springs Community Church in
Vermont this past Sunday.
The message was called "Real Freedom" and covered John ...
New on Theology Network
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Listening to: Nothing
New stuff up today:
1. A Table Talk with Keith Small on how Christians can get Islamic.
2. Meanwhile, the Merrie Theologiane goes clu...
Coffee and Adventures
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A bit of blog spotting here.
On Marcus Honeysetts blog, he notes how having adventures in our christian
life is important. It is easy for us to get comfort...
Michael Jackson Memorial Concert
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The guardian is offering a live blog of the memorial. That a UK broadsheet
of the calibre of the guardian is covering this story, not a tabloid is an
ind...
Satisfaction through substitution
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We strongly reject, therefore, every explanation of the death of Christ
which does not have at it's centre 'satisfaction through substitution'
indeed div...
Story #3180
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I became bitter about the whole thing when the story in the newspaper was
more about how the family had lost their fruit stand and less about how the
fruit...
John Wesley the Non-Christian
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In 1738, three years after Whitefield’s conversion, the Wesley brothers
returned from a disastrous ‘missionary’ attempt in America. John Wesley
later ackno...
Quote of the day: participation in God
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Calvin, seeming (in my estimation) to answer the Pelagian question, "May we
not, like Adam, establish ourselves as good by doing good actions?"
[Institutes ...
The Sabbath
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So, another question to the table. It is about the sabbath and what the
sabbath really is.
I was reading in Hebrews the other day about the Sabbath, about ...
Students talk about training
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Last week I posted some information about the Northern Training Institute.
But you don’t have to take my word for it. Here’s what some of the current
the s...
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Yikes! I have just realised that we didn't blog about our Napa day trip
which we went on the weekend before we went to England...
We drove up with David an...
Looking for joy-and balance-in a flickering clock
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Image via Wikipedia Most clocks flicker these days. I still have a round one
ticking on the wall in my office, but usually I rely on my phone or the
comput...
Very random whatevers.....
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It is quiet around the blogging world, isn't it, and it is quiet here too. I am just listening to "Blowing in the wind" on some tv programme..... you remembe...
Darkmatters Review - Public Enemies
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*Public Enemies (15)
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Dir. Michael Mann
Reviewed by Matt Adcock (with good friends J and G)
ONE WORD SUMMATION: *Crimtastic
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“I like baseball, movies,...
Mojo Type
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The Week in Type Let’s jump straight in with some great photos from the Type
& Media graduation exhibition. Really impressed, not only by the quality of
th...
Judges 11-12: Felix Culpa and Foci of Judges
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Judges 11: Jephthah and the Blessed Fault in the Holy Vow Jdg 11:1-40 Now
Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty warrior, but he was the son of a
prostitute...
OUR ALBUM IS OUT!
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*'Navigate The Inifinite' by Theo's Door (my band) is out now! Track
previews, band photos, and details of how to buy our album coming soon!*
5 things that I’m grateful for this week
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- Being able to see my parents next week at TOAM, can’t wait. Also, they’re
bringing me S’African mayonnaise…get in! - My J.walk youth girls…the stuff
God ...
Forgive, as you have been forgiven
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The prize jewel at the heart of the gospel is forgiveness. Our Father in
heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done on earth
as it...
La Radio
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Somewhere, buried deep deep down in the back of brain, is all the French
I've ever learned. In an attempt to bring it out into the daylight, I
decided it w...
Exodus 24.1-11: A Sermon on Covenant Renewal
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It will help to know that the service will be Holy Communion: Order 2
(Contemporary Language). “And he did not lay his hand on the chief men of
the people ...
5 things
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5 Things I love about summer. 1. The sound of wood pigeons in the distance.
Don’t know why, but the soft cooing sound makes me feel safe and happy. 2.
Neve...
Galatians Part 20 - A Missional View of Galatians
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Galatians seems to be most often read "soteriologically" - that is, the reader is looking for what the book says about how people "get saved". What does it l...
A Prayer Request & Thanks
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I’m having surgery June 30 and will need to step away from Cerulean Sanctum
for a while—maybe a few days, maybe a couple weeks. While the surgery itself
i...
Moldova 2009
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On Monday, I'm heading out for the third and final time with a team of
students to Moldova to partner with the IFES movement there, CSC.
I'm a swirl of emo...
Let it rain!
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Last Saturday members of Newfrontiers churches from East Kent gathered in a
field just outside Canterbury. Tom Shaw, the pastor of City Church
(www.thecity...
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It has been a joy over the past couple of weeks to reacquaint myself with
the writings of C S Lewis; The Great Divorce, Miracles, and - at the moment
- Su...
May he add...
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I kind of love it and kind of hate it when the Bible comes back to bite you.
A few weeks ago we looked at the tragic and farcical story of Jacob's two
wi...
A company of bell ringers
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Since the turn of the year I have had the joy of reporting of 5 people
turning to Jesus. I have the joy of telling of at least two others.
On May 21st I ha...
Praying effectively...
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Jehoshaphat's Prayer
2 Chronicles 20 After this the Moabites and Ammonites, and with them some of
the Meunites, came against Jehoshaphat for battle. 2 Some...
What Happened to the Blog?
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I just...stopped. No good reason. Just couldn't handle it. And then I got embarrassed about not visiting it, and then REALLY started ignoring it, this time o...
Where Have We Been?!
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To our readers (yes, all 3 of you) -- we're sorry we have disappeared on
here for so long! We all have found ourselves in extremely busy and
demanding seas...
Preaching to the Heart
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Acts 29 Quarterly: Preaching to the Heart Tuesday, June 02, 2009, 11:00 AM -
1:00 PM Host JD Senkbile Location Jubilee Community Church Jubilee Community
C...
Valuable Ideas and TED
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The most valuable of all that we can ever own costs us nothing. When it is
passed from one person to another, it does not diminish in quality or
quantity...
An Emphasis on Grace
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Jack Miller challenges the misconception that grace leads to being soft on
sin: I do not think that an emphasis on grace leads to a soft ministry on
sin an...
A fresh start
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It’s not been great, has it? My blogging, that is. Erratic hardly comes
close. I have so many ‘I’ve not blogged for ages’ posts that it’s become
disabling:...
The Rose
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I don’t know an awful lot about Matt Chandler, but this is a brilliant
video. We are that rose, and Jesus wants us! Amazing! Happy good friday
everyone. F...
resurrection: sense and referent
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worldview fixes referent - what happened? what is resurrection?story fixes
sense - what had happened? what will happen? what does resurrection mean?
Jeremi...
Final Days of the Residency
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Last Sunday we installed the painting to its permanent home in The Factory,
Dundonald Church. This marks the end of my residency with the Co-Mission
whic...
The Island at the End of the World by Sam Taylor
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What would you do if the end of the world was truly nigh? In this strange
and dramatic post-apocalyptic story the unnamed “Pa” takes his three
children of...
The Christ Conspiracy (Article)
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A critique of Acharya S's book The Christ Conspiracy: The Greatest Story
Ever Sold Acharya S is a skeptic with an interest in mythology who has
written a b...
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