C.J. Mahaney’s Testimony

HT=Take Away the Stone

The Rebels Guide to Joy

A ‘teaser’ from a series from Mars Hill Church titled The Rebels Guide to Joy: The Life of a Saint, a sermon series on Philippians

As an aside, Come thou Fount is perhaps my favorite hymn.

Another ‘teaser’ from the series….

From the William Cowper intro:

• “William Cowper met Jesus while in an asylum suffering from depression. His life was marked by a constant struggle with anxiety and depression yet in the midst of that struggle he found great joy in knowing that his pain was architected by a sovereign God who was leading him ever closer to Jesus. Out of this troubled life came beautiful and vivid poetry, including Cowper’s most famous work “There is a Fountain Filled with Blood”.”

Mark Dever interviewed by Ed Stetzer at Whiteboard church growth conference

Part 1
Stetzer to Dever:”….this is not your normal crowd. I told a friend…..you kind of stuck out here like Joel Osteen at John MacAurther’s Shepherds conference, but just the other direction.”

Very gracious and interesting interview.
Part 2

Where lies our treasure…..

John Piper speaking eloquently, powerfully and clearly, with powerful conviction, on stewardship, on discipleship, on the role of money/possessions in the life of a disciple of Christ.

On a far less profound note, perhaps I need, after having viewed this video, to reflect a bit on my perspective of what I recently defined as word-count eisegesis. Maybe I need to eat some of my words.

Paul Washer speaks on nominalism and the wide way

“…the saddest place is the biblical south, where everyone has just enough religion to send them to straight to hell.”

This Is Sparta!!

We has three cats in our house.

Interesting clip from ER

Found this video at Kingdom People. Much low-hanging fruit for commentary in this powerful clip. Here is my ‘off the cuff’ spin: Lovely people for the most part who adhere to a liberal theology. Their system of belief just has no substantiative answers to big questions.

John Piper - Test Yourself: Football or Christ?

Nicked this from Provocations and Pantings, Tim Brister’s blog

• 2 Corinthians 13:5
  Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?-unless indeed you fail to meet the test!

“The Cup” by C.J. Mahaney

I leached this video from Irish Calvinist. Humbling…….

John Piper on the prosperity ‘gospel’

Sometimes, when I find myself sprawled out on the couch and channel surfing, I will occasionally, out of curiosity, pause and briefly watch programing on the Trinity Broadcasting Network. I find myself fascinated by the more egregious examples, the pulpit prostitutes, of the prosperity ‘gospel’ in much the way a bird may be fascinated by a snake. At best, TBN sometimes unintentionally endorses doctrinal error and confusion; at worst, they enable con games that prey on the credulous in the name of the ‘gospel.’

As an addendum, I truly desire to maintain an irenic, gracious tone as I ‘blog’, to be respectful, but sometimes, when I listen to millionaire ‘evangelists’…………….