I was with all the Things they don’t like thinking I’m probably a hipster but then not at all with the Things they do like.
The whole idea is, “What is the relationship between Christianity and ‘cool’?” I guess I don’t need to be concerned about it and will let others handle it.
HT: Justin Taylor
I have trimmed the items in my RSS reader so I don’t have as many links to include in these posts. I hope you’re interested in at least one of these.
Photographs can help your blog look more appealing and help people know what your post is about at a glance. If you’re wondering where to get photos and which ones you can use legally, this article is very helpful:
How To Get Photography For Your Blog
You can also find free photos here at the link Free Photo in the sidebar under Categories (this will grow in time) and at Scripture in Pictures.
God’s Word translation (GW) has a new website.
HT: God Didn’t Say That via BBB (be sure to read those links also if you’re interested)
If you’re not familiar with it, Google has a blog search. It can be helpful to search for the name of your own blog and be notified via RSS when it’s mentioned. This way you can respond to them if necessary and know who’s linking to you. If they say bad things about you, you can tell them how much of a doofus they are.
Best of the Past: Trainer Tells All – What I Have Learned About Health and Fitness
My favorites:
Pastor Jim at Ex Libris is giving away a copy of this book. See his review post for details:
Nice post by Randy Alcorn.
Do you believe God created the earth in six literal 24-hour days?
The tragedy is that American Christianity has so closely allied itself with the government of the day that the transcendent Gospel has become submerged in the world’s values.
–David Alan Black, The Jesus Paradigm by pg. 66
Quoted in TC’s review of the book.
I hate politics. (That’s not Black’s point though.)
Here is a light version of Around the Web. See the the one Louis posted a couple of days ago which has more links.
Audio Lectures: Gordon Fee on the Epistle to the Philippians
I haven’t listened to these but read his commentary on Philippians which is excellent.
Here is another T4G video of a pastor’s study:
Ligon Duncan’s Study at Between Two Worlds
See the others at their video site on both pages.
Released This Week: By Grace Alone by Sinclair Ferguson
I read and reviewed his book In Christ Alone and thought it was one of the best books I’ve read in a long time. I’ve reviewed five books for Reformation Trust and thought I was done for a while but now this one comes up. He may become one of my favorite authors. I have his book on the Sermon on the Mount on my wish list.
We’ve all see those pictures of drops of liquid but I think these are especially interesting:
Highspeed Photography: Drops
Just think, this happens all day everyday and we don’t even realize it. God sees all of the things we can’t and enjoys them because he created them.
Mitchell Powell at ve’al timkor has written a posted called some of why i think what i do about genesis 1. Take a look and let him know what you think.
He’s braver than me!
Hebrews 10:24-25 NIV
And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds. 25 Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another–and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
I’ve heard many pastors quote this as saying you should go to church. I don’t see it that way. I’m sure there are some smaller congregations where people really are encouraging one another during their meetings at some point. But this doesn’t happen in most services I’ve been to.
Then I saw this by David Black. I hope he doesn’t mind me quoting it here. It’s from January 31, 2009, 10:30 a.m. (see how hard it is to reference these things!):
I love these verses (Heb. 10:24-25, NLT):
Let us think of ways to motivate one another to acts of love and good works. And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day of his return is drawing near.
Wow! Does this not suggest the character of our church meetings? Does this not teach us that we are to come together for the purpose of mutual edification? Does this not challenge our deeply entrenched views about “worship”? Should we not suspect The Message of a bit of eisegesis when it renders “let us not neglect our meeting together” as “not avoiding worshiping together”?
Paul’s point is crystal clear: We come together to encourage one another. How we can get “We come together to hear the Word of God preached” from these verses is beyond me.
See the rest of that day’s writing to read more on the subject.
Hebrews 3:13 says: “But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called Today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.” (NIV) Does this mean we are to go to church everyday?
I’m not at all saying I believe church gatherings aren’t important. I’m just commenting on what I’ve thought these particular verses mean.
(I used NIV because that’s what I have them memorized in and I would guess this is the translation that many may be familiar with. So I also used NIV for Hebrews 3:13 for consistency.)
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If like me, you don’t have the budget to buy John Sailhamer’s The Meaning of the Pentateuch: Revelation, Composition and Interpretation, which a few people have been raving about, you can read the introduction online at Westminster Bookstore (PDF file) and read an interview of the author at Christianity Today.
I thought these might be timely since many of us are reading through the Old Testament right now. Are there other free materials on the Pentateuch online that you like?
I recently bought a used older edition of The Handbook On the Pentateuch by Victor Hamilton that I plan on reading later on.
The Rebirth of Virtue: An Interview with N.T. Wright by Trevin Wax
I really like the content of this interview. Much of it could be applied to blogging in some ways. I won’t mention the things I disagree with because I’d be repeating myself and that’s not the purpose of this post. I imagine this would be a good book that many would shy away from.
In fact many of the negative things he mentions are things I see in the biblioblogosphere.
[W]e modern westerners – and even more postmodern westerners – are trained by the media and public discourse to think that “letting it all out” and “doing what comes naturally” are the criteria for how to behave. There is a sense in which they are – but only when the character has been trained so that “what comes naturally” is the result of that habit-forming [virtuous] training.
I’m not going to write much on it but I’ll just say it saddens me to see a lot of what goes on in blogs and lack of personal holiness, belief in God’s sovereignty, truthfulness of Scripture (this is not related to any posts within the last couple of days), not relating charitably with each other etc. I’m guilty myself of course and am always working on my attitude and how I present opinions and ideas without being disingenuous.
I’ve eliminated my Blogroll because I’m going to be reading less blogs and I don’t want to feel like I’m an Endorser of blogs or anything. This also takes stress off of deciding what to add or remove.
That sounded so stern. I really love you guys and gals.
1 Peter 1:14-16
So you must live as God’s obedient children. Don’t slip back into your old ways of living to satisfy your own desires. You didn’t know any better then.15 But now you must be holy in everything you do, just as God who chose you is holy.16 For the Scriptures say, “You must be holy because I am holy.”
Instead of repenting of the false teaching called ’seed faith’, which is part of what’s popularly known as the prosperity gospel, the seed faith idea was exalted at Oral Roberts memorial service.
Oral Roberts Memorial a Stage for Seed Faith Message
See:
NewsNote: The Death of Oral Roberts by Albert Mohler
Measuring Oral Roberts’ Influence by John MacArthur
Some say not to speak ill of the dead. His teachings need to be spoken out against because they are alive and well.
I’m going to do my best to not write anything critical for two and a half weeks, just as an exercise because I’ve gotten a little too critical lately, starting in a couple of days. So this is my last shot for a while and maybe it will last longer. I still need to work on being less critical but won’t stop speaking out against things unbiblical or what I strongly believe in.
Grant Osborne is too.
Who Was Jesus’ Grandfather?
What the two genealogies of Christ, found in Matthew and Luke, are really trying to say.
by Grant Osborne
I like to read about seemingly boring things so that I can see the significance of why they might be in the Bible although for some reason I never really get bored reading genealogies.
Someday I’d like to read a commentary on the least interesting OT book to let someone help open my eyes to important things in the text that I wouldn’t have gotten otherwise.
Let me know if you disagree with his assessment. I know there are various ways of looking at it. From what I’ve read so far I think we can rule out one was Mary’s and one was Joseph’s in Luke and Matthew which is what I always heard previous to reading commentaries and other related material.
This is the best post I’ve seen on blogging, I suppose partly because I agree with it. Some of these things, turning them positive, are aims of this blog right from the start–keeping with the blog’s theme, not thinking people care so much about ME, not posting too little or too often (although oftener is effective) etc. One thing I hadn’t thought about is #8 which is making the first paragraph strong.
Do You Make These 10 Mistakes When You Blog?
Immediately I think of blogs that do or don’t fit these guidelines. I like how all of my blogging friends don’t do #4 and 5. They always go out of their way to make people feel welcome.
As Christians, these things will better help serve our readers. Some don’t like rules and regulations and like to blog freer which is fine. It doesn’t do much good to make blogging a chore by chaining yourself to rules if you don’t like them. I do. Although I may have broken #9 with this post.
Are there other things you have found to be effective?
I found a page on F.F. Bruce:
Frederick Fyvie Bruce
This includes a lot of PDF files. Especially interesting to me right now is the wisdom literature since we’re studying Ecclesiastes in our small group. Be sure to notice there are other pages for later sections of his life.
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