Posted in Personal Thoughts on Jan 30th, 2007 4 Comments »
Richard Pratt, formerly with Reformed Theological Seminary, is trying to create a seminary where a person can get a free M. Div. for the whole world. The classes are being translated into 6 languages. This is their missions statement:
Third Millennium Ministries (IIIM) is an Evangelical Christian parachurch ministry in the Reformed tradition (read [...]
Posted in Personal Thoughts on Jan 30th, 2007 No Comments »
Assembly Speaker Pro Tem Sally Lieber, D-Mountain View, said she plans to introduce a bill this week outlawing anyone from swatting children age 3 and younger. Violators could face up to a year in jail or a $1,000 fine. I guess that would put the many Christians in the State of California, should the [...]
Posted in Personal Thoughts on Jan 27th, 2007 2 Comments »
We began our study on Paul’s letter to the Romans in our small group. Boy what a powerful letter on the greatness of the Gospel of grace, it almost brought me to tears on the first night. We’re actually using Tim Keller’s study on Romans. You just pay for the rights to [...]
Posted in Personal Thoughts on Jan 25th, 2007 No Comments »
I have learned about food…
1. How strong my physical appetite truly is.
2. How much our society centers around food.
3. How entitled I feel about eating anything I want.
4. How blessed I am to be able to eat anything I want because I can afford to.
5. How little I spend in [...]
Posted in Personal Thoughts on Jan 24th, 2007 No Comments »
For anyone who thinks that abortion is not really that important of an issue, please watch this video. HOWEVER, please note this video has some graphic images. So if you are faint of heart, you might not want to watch. But if you think you can stomach it, you should watch this. [...]
Posted in Personal Thoughts on Jan 24th, 2007 1 Comment »
I received this sermon from Desiring God yesterday by John Piper entitled, “When Abortion Is Racism.” The sermon alone gave much food for thought. Thinking about abortion in light of the Gospel was also a compelling idea. JP wrote:
Before we go further into abortion and race, let’s look at our text and [...]
Posted in Personal Thoughts on Jan 24th, 2007 No Comments »
Shua and I watched the movie, Yesterday, last night. It’s about the AIDS pandemic in Sub-Saharan Africa. It’s a bit slow and totally in Zulu so there are subtitles. To someone like me, however, who actually spoke a few words in Zulu (okay, 2 words), it was quite heart-warming. It gives [...]
Posted in The Church, Theology on Jan 18th, 2007 4 Comments »
When I as in seminary, I had a professor (Greg Beale) who said that he was 60% believer’s baptist and 40% paedo-baptist. The more you study baptism and its biblical and theological outworkings, the more you understand his statement. Both positions have valid arguments. Both positions have major questions, especially in wrestling [...]
Posted in Personal Thoughts on Jan 17th, 2007 8 Comments »
Sorry to the few of you who read my blog. I felt like I was being consumed by it and the Lord was asking me to take a step back from. I’m coming back though shortly. I just needed the breezer. I wanted to make sure that I was more into [...]
