Posted in Personal Thoughts on Sep 30th, 2006 5 Comments »
Tim Keller spoke at plenary session 3. I must say that I will definitely need to listen to this message again because there is so much to digest. SO this summary will definitely not be as cohesive as it should be. But I’ll try to do the best I can. I [...]
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I would say some of the best times (well they all have been thus far) were the 2 panels. The first panel was with the pastors, John Piper,Tim Keller, Mark Driscoll with Justin Taylor moderating. Here is a clip of the panel. To get the full manuscript, you can at SB’s blog. [...]
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It’s been such a blessing to hear the worship during the conference. I must say that the music is not necessarily my style, but worshipping through hymns with over 3000 people is so wonderful. What a blessing it is to lift up the glory of Jesus through song. It has been quit [...]
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I must admit, I didn’t know much about Voddie Baucham so I didn’t know what to expect. Since the DGM conference has so few people of color, given some of the jokes he gave concerning his race and the audience’s lack of color, I know it was obvious to him as well as to [...]
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Posted in Personal Thoughts on Sep 29th, 2006 3 Comments »
Here are some quick video clips of the conference. Just to whet your appetite…
Intro
Singing with All
More Singing
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Posted in Personal Thoughts on Sep 29th, 2006 3 Comments »
So tonight was the first plenary address by David Wells and what a great start of the conference. We sang some songs of worship that lifted up the glory and supremacy of Jesus. And then John Piper came up to introduce David Wells. I had David Wells as a professor at Gordon and [...]
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Posted in Personal Thoughts on Sep 29th, 2006 2 Comments »
Today, I spent the day with my friend Steve taking some pictures of downtown Minneapolis. It is surprisingly a beautiful city. The air was a bit crisp and you definitely got as sense of autumn. But it was very nice nonetheless.
We’re now sitting in the convention center waiting for David [...]
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So here I am in Minneapolis. It’s actually a beautiful cityscape, at least from a downtown perspective. However, there definitely is a dearth of people. Looking for a restaurant, there was not much to eat. My friend Steve and I were walking around town trying to find something, but alas, there wasn’t much open [...]
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Posted in Photography on Sep 26th, 2006 2 Comments »
Some of you know that I have begun to explore the wonderful world of photogrpahy. What I have found though is that (as G. I. Joe once said, “Picture-taking is half the battle”) merely taking pictures is not enough. You have to also understand the processing side as well, or else what you [...]
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Dane Ortland makes a great point on a follow-up to an article I wrote on ‘Christian Celebrityitis.’ He writes:
I see in my own heart the tendency to so easily Corinthianize: “I follow Paul,” “I follow Apollos,” - “I follow Piper,” “I follow Keller (Driscoll, Mahaney, MacArthur . . .).” Let us remember Paul’s words [...]
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