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Piper hears the voice of God
Since everybody around the blogsphere is linking to this, I thought I should too: John Piper tells of “The Morning I Heard the Voice of God“.
Horrific movies
I wanna see the new Elisha Cuthbert horror flick “Captivity“, and Natalie Portman’s “Goya’s Ghosts“!
Pray for Mark
Please pray for Mark Driscoll. Whether you like him or not, he is a servant of God’s word in the Lord’s mission who needs our prayer in his suffering of exhaustion and sleeplessness.
Premillennialism
John MacArthur caused quite the uproar in the Reformed side of the Christian blog world recently by speaking on “Why Every Self-Respecting Calvinist is a Pre-Millennialist?” at the opening session of the 2007 Shepherds’ Conference. Read a summary here, and post-conference Q&A here.
“Of all people to be pre-millennialist it should be the Calvinist–those who believe [...]
A Pornified Culture
Tim Challies has a great article today about our pornified culture:
“Pornography does prevent boys from forming normal and healthy relationships with girls. Implicit in pornography is the understanding that women exist to be exploited and exist primarily for the pleasure of men. They do not need to be embraced as friends or wooed or admired. [...]
How to Lose Your Faith in University
If you’re one of the many of collge/university Christian students in North America right now, these pointers will greatly help you lose your faith while at school:
Don’t join a fellowship or church–find and join a good (o)cult.
Choose your friends with wordly, materialistic criteria in view.
Do everything possible to become sexually immoral & impure.
Don’t study–dn’t pay attention [...]
5 Pick Up Lines to Get You the Girl
Do you believe in love at first sight, or should I walk by again?
If you stood in front of a mirror and held up 11 roses, you would see 12 of the most beautiful things in the world.
If I could rewrite the alphabet, I would put U and I together.
I’m sure glad I brought my [...]
Broken
It seems that my blog’s Search and Categories function are broken. Sorry! But I don’t think I’ll be fixing those issues, until I release my revamped / redesigned blog on Feb.21. Thanks for your patience;-)
EDIT:
It is now fixed!
Ahhhhhh
Something is going on in my head. It’s weirding me out, how I’m not understanding things–or rather, just thinking too too much. I don’t know why this brain of mine is doing what it’s doing: making muddy something that’s clear. Maybe it’s just that, clear as mud! I just need some time to zoom out [...]
Mindset, motive, methodology
What I’m feeling this morning, is that my mindset and motives have changed a lot over the past year and a half… and such changes, such growth has been the cause of the change in my methods. My methodology still has a long way to go… but I’m glad these 3 things have changed. [...]
Back online
After about 5hrs of downtime, my webserver seems to be backup running smoothly. My apologies for being unaccessible for the past few hours–it wasn’t my fault–apparently some hardware issues on the server end and they switched me to new hardware.
All is fine now (I hope) and I hope to get reimbursed for the time offline! [...]
isoHunt shut down
Aww man, the lawyers finally got to them: BitTorrent search engine IsoHunt.com, created by Asian Canadian geek Gary Fung, has been shutdown temporarily by the onslaught of the MPAA lawsuit against them. Read the Slyck story here.
Other sites in its farm that are offline for now include torrentbox.com & podtropolis.com. They hope switch servers & be back up [...]
Shreiner on Baptism
This makes me even more excited about applying to Southern Seminary!
Justin Taylor interviews Thomas Shreiner about the new book on baptism he co-edited! Check it out here: it’s full of good, biblical meat
Wireless Number Portability
If you’ve been looking to switch Cell phone carriers but wanted to keep your current cell phone#, the wait is almost over!
Wireless Number Portability is coming to Canada by March 14 of this year (2007)! Read the CRTC news release from Dec.20, 2005 here.
This would be just in time for the Apple iPhone coming out [...]
Peace with God through faith
Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering [...]
Top 50 most influential Christians
The numbers are in for the latest rankings for “The 50 Most Influential Christians in America“!
Happy go-lucky Joel Osteen is yet at the unsurprising #1 spot. Personally, I’m glad to see SBC President Frank Page and Souther Seminary Albert Mohler on the list, as well as John MacArthur, John Piper, Beth Moore, and Andy Stanley =D
Passion07
Watch the main sessions to the Passion07 conference held Jan.1-4 is available here til Jan.12.
John Piper has posted his Passion07 message trasnscript online, How to Deal with the Guilt of Sexual Failure for the Glory of Christ and His Global Cause.
The great tragedy is not mainly masturbation or fornication or acting like a peeping Tom (or curious [...]
What I am
“I am the worst sinner I know. And by the grace of God I am doing better than I deserve. For I deserve the righteous wrath of God because of my sin. I deserve to be punished eternally. But in the mystery of His mercy, God sacrificed and crushed His Son on the Cross–as my [...]
Teach me, lead me
I have stored up your word in my heart,that I might not sin against you.Blessed are you, O Lord; teach me your statutes!With my lips I declare all the rules of your mouth.In the way of your testimonies I delight as much as in all riches.I will meditate on your precepts and fix my eyes [...]
Christmas Wishes
I think I’ve figured out what I want for Christmas. I’ve been doing a little research on DSLR cameras, specifically Nikon. And I’ve settled on D80, which I’ve been eyeing since rumours about it came out after the D70s release (the D200 is just overkill & way larger than my wallet). The hard part is [...]
The purpose of the Lord
Many are the plans in the mind of a man,but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand.-Proverbs 19:21
Emerging Emergent
Pulpit Magazine recently has been posting a series on the Emerging Church Movement! Many of these posts will come from John MacArthur’s upcoming book The Truth War (coming in Spring 2007).
They are currently upto part 7, and MacArthur’s posts can be currently found in part 1 and part 2, while Phil Johnson is the author [...]
How to Change Your Mind
Here are 4 steps to transforming your mind to a Biblical worldview:
1. Choose a book of the Bible. 2. Read it in its entirety. 3. Repeat #2 twenty times. 4. Repeat this process for all 66 books of the Bible.
Isn’t that easy!? Here are a few practical suggestions for putting it into practice:
1. Choose [...]
The secret to contentment
These are times when God speaks to me at just the right time. John MacArthur blogs about the secret to contentment, according to Scripture:
First, learn to give thanks in all things.
Second, learn to rest in God’s providence.
Third, learn to be satisfied with little.
Fourth, learn to live above life’s circumstances.
Fifth, learn to rely on God’s power [...]
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