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A nice compendium of core conversations at the Gospel Coalition website.
Christ-Centered Worship: Letting the Gospel Shape Our Practice by Bryan Chapell looks like a required pre-order (due out in fall ‘09).  HT:  JT.  Look for it to be reviewed EX vilis CATHEDRA.
Hart on Crouch.
A Pain Poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay.  A helpful tool for [...]

Following yesterday’s post, I also have appreciated the imagery of Psalm 131:2, which Pastor Jon read last Sunday.
But I have calmed and quieted my soul,
Like a weaned child with its mother;
Like a weaned child is my soul within me (ESV).
On this verse Charles Spurgeon quotes the following comments from Thomas Manton:
 Though the weaned child has [...]

De-baptism–I imagine there will not be any debates over mode.  Instead of sprinkling, pouring, and immersing, it might be shredding, burning, and erasing.
Tri-perspectivalism and church planting, or what kind of churches not to plant.  I don’t like these broad categories, but it is a launching point for good discussion.  A link for those seriously interested [...]

There are a couple passages from the Psalms whose imagery deeply ministers to my soul. One I love is found in Psalm 130:6.
My soul waits for the Lord
More than watchmen for the morning,
More than watchmen for the morning.
A night guard walking his post on the top of a city might greatly long for morning to [...]

C. J. Mahaney, in the other cheap seats, interviews David Powlison.  Powlison’s view of time, as pointed out by Justin Taylor, resonates with me as well.
Veith on vocation.
On freaking out the church treasurer.  I imagine this happens a bit already at NHBC.
Why Johnny Can’t Preach (an interview with the author), a book about the impact [...]

(Warning: this blog post has absolutely nothing to do with theology.)
Everyone is trying to save money these days. This week has introduced two brand new ways into my life.
First, about 1.5 weeks ago we heard a bird stuck in the duct work that connects to one of our bathroom exhaust fans. So after about a [...]

Proving once again that a vast chasm exists between academia and the real world, Notre Dame has decided to grant an honorary doctorate to a POTUS with a radical pro-abortion agenda.  This is causing quite a stir among the Irish faithful and is a matter of separation to boot.  The president of ND responds, as [...]

On Sunday, we took a third look at idolatry as we continued our trek through the Lenten season and focused on our need for self-examination and repentance.  Gary Beale’s work, We Become What We Worship, is a guiding text in the study.  Beale’s thesis is that we come to resemble what we revere, either for [...]

In his article, “The Biblical Gospel,” D. A. Carson integrates the Gospel into the over-arching trajectory of the Bible’s plot line. (Note how he also identifies God’s love as being at the center of His glorious Being.) This summary clarified my thinking and stirred my heart.
Thus the gospel is integrally tied to the Bible’s story-line. [...]

If I’m going to quote “The Princess Bride” earlier in the week, why not go ahead and site this memorable line (among many) from “Napoleon Dynamite“?
Here are several other links that I thought were spot on, reinforcing what I’ve been trying to articulate this week.
Tony Reinke has a great post on what “glory” really means.
And [...]

Trinitarian Salvation according to Francis Schaeffer.
You might be an evangelical if….hilarious.  And a complimentary piece.
How many of these have you read?
The New Calvinism.  A nice compendium of linked resources here.  And this as well from Driscoll.
Tedd & Margy Tripp have a new book out entitled, “Instructing a Child’s Heart.”  Tedd is the author of “Shepherding [...]

How can the essence of God’s unique person (i.e., His holiness, His godness) be benevolent goodness or love? If this were the case, how did He live out this love before creation? Wouldn’t that have required someone to love?
Exactly.
Jesus prays in John 17:24: “Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may [...]

The thesis of Greg Beale’s work, We Become What We Worship: A Biblical Theology of Idolatry, is “we resemble what we revere, either for ruin or restoration.”  Following Beale’s text, yesterday at church we took a hard look at how Jesus builds on the theme of idolatry in the Gospels through his use of Isaiah [...]

I’m reminded of this line from “The Princess Bride” when I think about the biblical word “holiness.”
Holiness “connotes the essential nature that belongs to the sphere of God’s being or activity and that is distinct from the common or profane” (NIDOTTE, 3:879). In other words, it has to do with what sets God apart as [...]

With men like this…a look at an incident in the life of General David Petraeus.
In his book, We Become What We Worship: A Biblical Theology of Idolatry, Greg Beale’s thesis is that whatever we idolize eventually transforms us to resemble the object of our affections. For example, God’s judgment on Israel is that they [...]

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