Archive for February, 2007

Taylor Mali

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

Back in June of 2005 I put up a poem by Taylor Mali, “Totally like whatever, you know?” Chris Seay referenced Taylor during his talk at the Younger Leaders gathering that year and I have really come to enjoy a number of his poems. Yesterday I came across this video of Taylor reciting “‘you know?.” [...]

The Quiet Time: Advice

Monday, February 26th, 2007

The Quiet Time Series
1. Not a Cleansing Rite
2. Defined
3. My Failure
4. What is it Good For?
5. Advice
The essential elements of the quiet time are prayer to God and meditation on Scripture and this can take a number of different forms. After talking about what it is and why it is important I thought I would [...]

Monergism 2.0

Monday, February 26th, 2007

I have made good use of the Monergism website for a few years now. It is an excellent resource that links to solid reformed articles on various issues and doctrines. The website has been redesigned by the talented Challies and it looks great. Check it out.

Noteworthy Blogs

Saturday, February 24th, 2007

You may not have noticed that I now feature an “Around the Web” “Outlinks” section in the sidebar. It is simply a listing of the most interesting and most recent posts from some of the other blogs that I subscribe to. If you like that stuff there is a separate feed for those “shared items.” [...]

Friday Photo

Friday, February 23rd, 2007

Things are finally thawing out here, so I went out one night this week to shoot around town. This is an alley off of third street in DeKalb. The tilt to the picture is called a “dutch angle.” I am sure you care about that.
Heading out at night to take pictures, even for 30 [...]

Conventional Hope

Thursday, February 22nd, 2007

This past year has been rough in the SBC. There has been a lot of ugliness from varying sects within the convention and the collapse of the whole cooperative effort has been looming large in the minds of many. I went to the Baptist Identity Conference to hear from those I respect who remain optimistic [...]

The Heart of Evangelism

Wednesday, February 21st, 2007

How can I summarize my thoughts about a book on evangelism with 38 chapters? Let me start by saying that The Heart of Evangelism is an excellent resource for those who want to disciple others or develop personally in the area of evangelism. This books comes from a Reformed perspective, is practical, broken into short, [...]

A Reminder

Wednesday, February 21st, 2007

The nonsense is starting up again. I’m too tired to say much, so I’ll let the Apostle Paul remind us…
Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons, through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared, who forbid [...]

Guilt by Association

Wednesday, February 21st, 2007

One man has created a lot of unnecessary drama in the Missouri Baptist Convention recently, taking issue with The Journey’s culture and theology dialogue ministry held at a local pub. Yesterday at the SBC’s Executive Committee meeting in Nashville, TN the same guy made a motion that now calls called into question Ed Stetzer. “Whaaa?” [...]

Matisyahu

Monday, February 19th, 2007

Here are two short videos of Matisyahu: one is of his newest video, Jerusalem, and the other is him beatboxing. I imagine most of my readers are not into hip-hop, reggae, or the interesting combination of both, which is why I thought it would be a good idea to put it out there. Matisyahu is [...]