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SALT CELLAR (2/8) TIM CONWAY: THE WILL OF GOD A PURITAN'S PRAYER: A MINISTER'S PREACHING THE SIN OF KILLING TIME SPANKING GETS A GOOD REPORT CARD TODD FRIEL: A MESSAGE TO MORMONS & JEHOVAH WITNESSESI am all for Christians being involved in politics. I have never been shy regarding that. Nor have I been shy in stating that Islam is an evil, violent religion…it is. However, we must never forget that the Gospel is the power of God. Not morality, not political activity, not community service, nothing….nothing but the Gospel. – JT
“ACT! for America debuts its promotional video originally shown at its June 2009 Congressional Briefing in Washington DC. The event was attended by 13 Senators and Congressmen who briefed ACT’s Chapter Leaders, major donors and leading business people from around the country. Since the production of this video, ACT has grown to 80,000 members and 365 ACT! Chapters nationwide.”
New Book Release: A Sincere and Pure Devotion to Christ
Devotional works from Dr. Sam Storms: “These meditations on 2 Corinthians will help readers grow in their devotion to Christ and find their joy in him.
Second Corinthians is unique in the New Testament in the way it portrays the sufferings of Paul and the supremacy of Christ. The apostle’s affection for the Corinthian church and his endurance through hardship for their joy testifies to his deep devotion to Christ. Paul’s example and instruction in this letter inspires us to find our joy in Jesus.”
Diego “Nightmare” Sanchez, a prominent Christian fighter in the Ultimate Fighting Championship league gives his reasons for shedding the blood of others, including a definition of ‘being missional’ in this video. Hmm.
An Obituary for the Emerging Church
“The Emerging Church, A Controversial movement inspiring many the past 10 years, Dies at 21
MINNEAPOLIS — The Emerging Church, the controversial Christian movement that inspired many to plant churches, leave behind their faith and question authority, died in her sleep Thursday following a short illness. She was 21 (according to some sources)…”
The Problem of Evangelical Biblical Illiteracy
Satan’s use of Scripture in tempting Jesus is clear indication that a merely cognitive level of biblical literacy does not automatically result in the formation of a Christian character.
Tea Party: America’s Third Great Awakening?
“America’s prior Great Awakenings, in the 18th and 19th Centuries, were religious in nature. Unimpressed with self-serving, ossified, and often corrupt religious institutions, Americans responded with a bottom-up reassertion of faith, and independence.
This time, it’s different. It’s not America’s churches and seminaries that are in trouble: It’s America’s politicians and parties. They’ve grown corrupt, venal, and out-of-touch with the values, and the people, that they’re supposed to represent. So the people, once again, are reasserting themselves.”
“This blog is about Gadgets alone. For the reformed gadget geek.
Not only do I hope to review some of the latest cell phones, techno devices and gadgets on the planet. I also hope to review and discuss ways these new devices can be used to further the Gospel.”
My Master God,
I am desired to preach today,
but go weak and needy to my task;
Yet I long that people might be edified
with divine truth,
that an honest testimony might be borne
for thee;
Give me assistance in preaching and prayer,
with heart uplifted for grace and unction.
Present to my view things pertinent to
my subject,
with fullness of matter and clarity of thought,
proper expressions, fluency, fervency,
a feeling sense of the things I preach,
and grace to apply them to men’s consciences.
Keep me conscious all the while of my defects,
and let me not gloat in pride over
my performance.
Help me offer a testimony for thyself,
and to leave sinners inexcusable in neglecting
thy mercy.
Give me freedom to open the sorrows of thy people,
and to set before them comforting considerations.
Attend with power the truth preached,
and awaken the attention of my slothful audience.
May thy people be refreshed, melted, convicted,
comforted,
and help me use the strongest arguments
drawn from Christ’s incarnation and sufferings,
that men might be made holy.
I myself need thy support, comfort, strength,
holiness,
that I might be a pure channel of thy grace,
and be able to do something for thee;
Give me then refreshment among thy people,
and help me not to treat excellent matter
in a defective way,
or bear a broken testimony to so worthy
a Redeemer,
or be harsh in treating of Christ’s death,
its design and end,
from lack of warmth and fervency.
And keep me in tune with thee
as I do this work.
(Taken from ‘The Valley of Vision: A Collection of Puritan Prayers,’ edited by Arthur Bennett)
Why Puritan Prayers? Here’s why.
“Only fools idle away their time.” Proverbs 12:11
Idleness is a complicated vice. Yes, I say VICE!
First it is a most wasteful vice. It wastes time, which is more precious than rubies; it wastes a man’s mental faculties; it wastes property.
Idleness is a disgraceful vice. How reproachful is it in a being made to be active, to spend life in doing nothing, and to throw away his mental powers in sloth.
Idleness is a criminal vice. God has commanded us to be active, and will call us to account for the sin of killing time.
Idleness is a dangerous vice. Doing nothing is next to doing evil–and is sure to lead to it. From its very inaction it ultimately becomes the active cause of all evil. “The Devil tempts all men; but the idle man tempts the Devil.”
Idleness is a wretched vice. An idle man is the most miserable of all God’s creatures. Woe be to the man who is doomed to bear the pain and penalties of a slothful disposition.
“And we urge you, brothers, warn those who are idle.” 1 Thessalonians 5:14
- J.A. James, “The Young Man’s friend and Guide Through Life to Immortality
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A Kinder, Gentler Focus On The Family
Jim Daly, who will assume the mantle from James Dobson, has a different methodology and set of priorities than his predecessor. “Adopting a broader agenda and a softer tone also gives Focus on the Family a less distinctive niche in evangelical politics. Mr. Daly’s bridge-building style is similar to that of such evangelical leaders as pastors Rick Warren and Joel Hunter.”…”On abortion, Mr. Daly said he wouldn’t spend much energy fighting for a ban—though that remained his ultimate goal—but would emphasize adoption.”
Most Fattening Super Bowl Grubb
In defense of guacamole, it’s a good kind of fat. Someone had to say it.
No Early Release For Baptist Missionaries
“PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Ten U.S. Baptist missionaries charged with child kidnapping returned to jail Friday after failing to persuade a judge to grant them provisional release pending the outcome of their case, their lawyer said.”
North Carolina Public Schools – “Forget the Founding Fathers”
“Forget George Washington, James Madison, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln—nothing meaningful happened in America before 1877. That’s the lesson North Carolina public high schools may start teaching…It will be as if the American Founding never happened.”
From Virginia Baptists embracing the emergent church to an alleged luxury cover-up involving popular SBC pastor Ed Young, Jr.
Amy Henry of Worldmag.com reports on a recent Wall Street Journal article that gives the thumbs up on spanking children. Good for them. – JT
“This just in (sorry, kids): Spanking children makes them happy.
According to a recent Wall Street Journal article by Mollie Ziegler Hemingway, a new study by Calvin College’s Marjorie Gunnoe found that teens who were spanked as children ended up with a “sunnier outlook,” were “better students,” had “more positive academic records and optimism about their future,” and volunteered more than their unspanked peers. In fact, Hemingway wrote, “the never-spanked group never scored the best on any of the 11 behavioral variables analyzed.”
Hemingway mentioned two extremes in the spanking camp, No Greater Joy’s Michael Pearl on the spanking side and ParentingInJesusFootsteps.org on the non-spanking side, as well as Scriptural proof texts for corporal discipline. Before anyone accuses her of abuse, Hemingway jumps in with admonitions of balance, reminders to use all of Scripture for discipline, not just the verses about the rod, and for this, we salute her. Too many—like the woman I know who swatted her children 400 times for telling a lie—vehemently adhere to passages on the rod outside of the context of their balancing counterparts: not provoking our children to wrath and being sure we put on humility, gentleness, and forgiveness in our parenting.
Flit.com encourages you to shop online the same way you would at a mall – by store. Whether your shopping for a black dress or bacon (just for example), premium or value products, Flit.com is pretty cool and a lot more fun than using the ol’ search engine. Watch the short introduction video if you want to become a ‘power flitter’-er.
Todd Friel of ‘Wretched’ renown invokes the Granville-Sharp rule in explaining to Mormons and Jehovah Witnesses why, biblically speaking, they cannot be Christians.
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Updated! 2/5/10 – Vandal Caught! 
Patrolman Kirk Whelan pats down the alleged vandal, Coddington Borax, who was found leaving town with a grenade costume and several cans of spray paint in the back seat of his Buick. Borax, a known anti-Calvinist activist who has sworn publicly to “sow the seeds of discord” in the Reformed community, was kicked out of a police line-up by one of his victims, Humphrey the mule. Further details to come.
Gazingstock resident Marge Hindenburg snapped this photo of an unknown vandal defacing the side entrance to the Sacred Sandwich Publishing Co. around 9 p.m. If you recognize this man, please contact Sheriff Lazenby at the Nodaway County Courthouse.
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“Angry, Extremist Teabaggers”
The National Tea Party Convention begins today and ends Saturday with a keynote speech by Sarah Palin. The Democratic Governor’s Association is apparently not too happy, calling the movement ‘truly dangerous’. Party on people.
The Seductive Deception of the Call to be Missional
One of the better, and more biblical, articles I’ve seen on what it means to truly be ‘missional’ by Mike Ratliff.
Are you Protestant? Baptist even? Never actually seen a ‘false prophet’ that you know of?
Allow me to introduce to you, Kim Clement. Watch this please.
This is a false prophet. He’s real, not imaginary, not theory.
Look at the charisma, look at the crowd. See how many are being deceived in one place. Think of Hell…. Note that the man says the Haiti earthquake was meant for America at 1:57.
Narrated by Voddie Baucham, it’s a film that looks promising. Look for a review down the road. – JT
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