Posted in Family, Health, Missions, Movies, Music, tagged Adam Again, friends, head injuries, Tonio K. on May 31, 2008 | No Comments »
Been a busy week here at the CavHome while I try to prepare for Sunday’s sermon. We were delighted to have Dr. & Mrs. Probst join us for dinner on their visit to Florida. They spent nearly 4 years in London while Chris worked on his Ph.D. in history. It was great to see them [...]
Posted in Ministry, tagged C.J. Mahaney, church planting, Tim Keller, Mark Driscoll, Ed Stetzer, Dwell Conference on May 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Acts 29 has the audio and notes from the Dwell Conference recently held in NYC. Here is the lowdown & links.
Tim Keller: Dwelling in the Gospel; Persuasion
Mark Driscoll: Dwelling in the Text; Dwelling Thru the Text
C.J. Mahaney: Dwelling in the Cross
Ed Stetzer: Dwelling in the Kingdom
Darrin Patrick: Dwelling with Non-Christians
Eric Mason: Dwelling Incarnationally
Sounds like a [...]
Posted in Biblical Theology, Magazines, Ministry, Preaching, Theology, Tim Keller, tagged gospel, Preaching, Tim Keller, General Revelation, Special Revelation, creation, Van Til, C.S. Lewis on May 29, 2008 | No Comments »
Leadership Journal has a new article by Tim Keller called The Gospel in All Its Forms. In it he is addressing the tension between generations and theological movments about the content of the gospel.
BTW: in a previous post about The Reason for God I mentioned him using a Van Tillian approach. He does not mention [...]
Posted in Basketball, Celtics, Sports, tagged Celtics, KG, FTs, Pistons, Ray Allen, Perkins, NBA on May 29, 2008 | No Comments »
I was ready to lose my mind during much of the first half of Game 5 between the Celtics and Pistons. Horrible, horrible calls. The inconsistency was maddening. I still can’t believe they called a flagrant foul on P.J. Brown, but one was not called on Billups for taking a shot at Perkins’ head on his break [...]
Posted in Ministry, tagged church plants, splants, insecurity, healthy churches on May 29, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Monday Morning Insight has a thread about “church pirates”. At a video taped staff meeting, Ed Young Jr. talked about those who leave a church staff to plant a new church, “stealing” members from the first church.
There are tons of comments, with some interesting thoughts. People taking different sides. One of the issues is the [...]
Posted in Biblical Theology, Books, Christian Living, Church, Counseling, Ministry, tagged gospel, Ministry, institutional church, Hebrews, Great High Priest, Paul Tripp, New Covenant, change on May 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’m prepping my sermon on Hebrews 10:19-25. My previous text, Hebrews 4:14-16, focused on Jesus’ intercessory work as our Priest. This one focuses on Jesus’ sacrificial work as our Priest and how the Old Covenant has been fulfilled in Him. As a result, we live in a new way: boldness, hope and consideration for the [...]
Posted in History, tagged freedom, peace, soliders, war, Winston Churchill on May 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would do us harm. - Winston Churchill
Thanks to all those who have served our country with honor & courage in times of war & peace. I know that peace doesn’t come without a price, and that some are [...]
Posted in Basketball, Celtics, Sports, tagged Celtics, KG, Paul Pierce, Pistons, Ray Allen on May 25, 2008 | No Comments »
I heard the analysts and commentators. They seemed to forget that despite their lousy road record in the playoffs, they had a great road record during the regular season. They seemed to forget that they Pistons have not defended their home court in the playoffs this year. They pronounced the Celtics D-E-A-D.
Hmmmm, the Celtics took [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged drugs, Government, Libertarian Party, Marriage, Pelagians, power on May 25, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I’ve been here before. My disgust with the 2-party system drives me to consider the Libertarian Party. During time outs of the Celtics game I’ve been flipping over to the Libertarian Party debate. I saw want to be Libertarian. More than any other party they seem to get the Constitution. I agree with small government. [...]
Posted in Magazines, Ministry, tagged C.J. Mahaney, The Briefing on May 25, 2008 | No Comments »
I just signed up for a free subscription to The Briefing Magazine. It is available to the first 500 requests by pastors in the U.S. and Canada. I’ve never heard of it, but C. J. Mahaney brags on it so it is probably good. A free, no-risk look. Can’t beat that! It will be interesting [...]
Posted in Christian Living, Music, Theology, Worship, tagged boldness, hymns, John Newton, Martin Luther, mercy seat, Prayer, throne of grace on May 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
John Newton has a few hymns based on Hebrews 4. I wish we could have sung them when I preached on this text.
Approach, My Soul, the Mercy Seat
Approach, my soul, the mercy seat where Jesus answers prayer; there humbly fall before his feet, for none can perish there.
Thy promise is my only plea; with this [...]
Posted in Family, Humor, Parenting, tagged whining on May 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This was one of the few good moments with the kids yesterday. Tons o’ frustration. Parenting challenges to be sure. CavDaughter was quite melodramatic throughout the day. Lots of whining, complaining, demanding and just plain ugliness from such a lovely girl.
He was pretty whiny himself. He was also in a rare mood, wanting to be [...]
Posted in Sports, tagged Celtics, Pistons on May 23, 2008 | No Comments »
Where Kicking a Guy in the Package (without a foul) Happens.
That loss last night was like a kick in the crotch. But, Detroit has lost to lesser teams at home in the playoffs this year.
Posted in Apologetics, Books, John Calvin, Theology, Tim Keller, tagged corruption, creation, God, idols, John Calvin, providence, Scripture on May 22, 2008 | No Comments »
In Book I, chapter III of The Institutes of the Christian Religion Calvin begins to discuss the knowledge of God. In this chapter he says that knowledge of God was naturally implanted in the minds of people. This would be a result of our being made in the image of God. Since we are made to [...]
Posted in Biblical Theology, Books, Christian Living, Ethics, Theology, Tim Keller, tagged gospel, Tim Keller, Prodigal sons, parable, John Frame, Ethics, Christian Living, Richard Pratt on May 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Tim Keller is coming out with another book, this one with the provocative title of The Prodigal God: Christianity Redefined Through the Parable of the Prodigal Sons. I’m not sure how that makes God the prodigal, but I’d love to find out. Keller’s work on the parable of the prodigal sons has been very helpful [...]
Posted in Adoption, Current Events, tagged accident, Adoption, Prayer on May 22, 2008 | 3 Comments »
If you are the praying kind (and I hope you are), please keep Steven Curtis Chapman’s family in prayer. Wednesday their youngest daughter, Maria (she is the one sitting on his lap and was 5), was accidentally hit by a car in their driveway. Though she was airlifted to the hospital, the injuries were too [...]
Posted in Sports on May 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
No one won the game. It was 1-1 and Manchester United won on penalty kicks (sounds like someone did something wrong, but they didn’t- see, nonsensical). I see 1-1 and think “tie game”. Come on, sudden death overtime anyone? This is not the regular season, but the championship game. In the NHL they’d keep playing [...]
Posted in Books, Theology, tagged revelation, salvation, The Shack, Tim Challies, Trinity on May 21, 2008 | 6 Comments »
When you live in a place like Winter Haven you can easily lose track of what happens in the wider world. When you are a conservative Presbyterian, this does not help either. A book may be very popular in broader “evangelical” circles and not come to your attention for quite some time.
There has been one [...]
Posted in Church, John Piper, Mark Driscoll, Ministry, Theology, tagged Matt Chandler, Mark Driscoll, John Piper, gospel ministry, relevance, Doug Wilson on May 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I listened to a great Q&A from the Resurgence Conference: Text and Context with John Piper and Matt Chandler. It was an interesting dynamic. Mark Driscoll was the one asking the questions, with some commentary. John Piper is in his 60’s and Matt Chandler is in his 30’s. They are in very different places in [...]
Posted in Books, Christian Living, Theology, tagged Creator, faith, fear, General Revelation, goodness, happiness, humility, John Calvin, Redeemer, reverence, Special Revelation, trust on May 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It has been over a decade since I’ve read The Institutes of the Christian Religion by John Calvin. I’ve been wanting to read it again, and I started today.
Today I read through Book I, chapters 1-2. Chapter 2 ends with this idea:
“Here indeed is pure and real religion: faith so joined with an earnest fear [...]
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