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Streaming: John Piper’s address to President Obama on abortion.
Reading: The book I’ve reading lately is called Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling by Andy Crouch. It came highly recommended and has lived up to the hype two-thirds through. Here is a link to a trustworthy review.
Blogging: I think I post something from Kevin DeYoung every week, but oh well. Here is another good one called Why I am a Calvinist.
The influence of Calvinism is growing because its God is transcendent and its theology is true. In a day when “be better” moralism passes for preaching, self-help banality passes for counseling, and “Jesus is my boyfriend” music passes for worship in some churches, more and more people are finding comfort in a God who is anything but comfortable. The paradox of Calvinism is that we feel better by feeling worse about ourselves, we do more for God by seeing how He’s done everything for us, and we give love away more freely when we discover that we have been saved by free grace.
Podcasts: Want to better understand Jehovah’s Witnesses and Mormonism? The Theology Program put up free sessions at itunes. (HT: JT)
Weather Photos: Need new wallpaper for you desktop? Here are some great shots from local storm chaser Mike Hollingshead.
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Posted in Books, Commentary, News, Politics, Scripture, Theology, Weather/Climate on February 19, 2009| Leave a Comment »
A great way to listen to Scripture. I’m really liking this…download your favorite verses, chapters, or books to your ipod (or other mp3 device) to aid in your study/meditation/memorization of scripture. B.C. has a really nice site, by the way. (HT: JT)
Why I’m Not Emergent. An excellent essay on the Emergent Church by Allen Yeh from The Scriptorium Daily.
Are taking Vitamins worth it? “The public’s belief in the benefits of vitamins and nutrients is not supported by the available scientific data.” An article from NYT.
Who are the NeoReformed? Part 1, Part 2. 2 articles from Scot McKnight that I’m not sure how to make use of – especially his comment: “the NeoReformed are those who are obsessed with God’s holiness and grace and have not learned that grace makes people gracious.” I thought obsessing over God’s holiness and grace was a good thing…maybe I’ve missed the point.
Regulating CO2 as a pollutant. Roger Pielke lists some articles if you want to get more in depth with the issue. If not, just read his brief comments and you’ll realize the implications of such a move from our government.
Finally Alive. Tim Challies gives a great review of Piper’s new book.
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