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March 19, 2012
Meet Hudson
As regular readers may recall, we've had a lot of baby drama going on lately. A number of false starts with labor, a threatened pre-term birth and a lot of general discomfort for Emily (my wife). Well, last night, after we'd finished celebrating our oldest daughter's fifth birthday, labor began in earnest. We headed to the hospital at 6:30 pm and 5 hours later, at 11:36 pm, we got to meet our son, Hudson James Armstrong:
Hudson clocked in at 7 lbs, 12 oz and 21 inches long. The doctor also...
Links I Like
Matt Papa:
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Orthodoxy of CommunitySpiritual Depression Study GuideGospel community is powerful, beautiful, authoritative. Schaeffer used the phrase "orthodoxy of community" to say that. Beautiful community is not an optional add-on for an otherwise complete, biblical church. It is as essential as its orthodoxy of doctrine.
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March 18, 2012
In Case You Missed It (March 12-18)
This week, I started running a series of daily posts called "Links I Like." How do you all like those? Are they helpful? Not so much? Give me your thoughts in the comments of this post. And while you're here, here are a few of this week's notable posts:
Notes from The Gospel Project Webcast
Book Review: From the Resurrection to His Return by D.A. Carson
The Temporariness of Modern Books
3 Things I'm Looking Forward to about The Gospel Project Webcast
Sam Storms: A Strange and Unacceptable...
A Strange and Unacceptable Paradox
There was in the church at Pergamum a strange and unacceptable paradox, an inconsistency that Jesus simply will not tolerate, then or now. . . . Whereas they had maintained their own theological convictions, they were, at the same time, tolerating in their fellowship certain false prophets who advocated licentious behavior, ostensibly in the name of Christian freedom (see Rev. 2:14–15). This simply will not do. Although they had not themselves denied the faith, they had become inexplicably...
March 17, 2012
Our Great Duty
The nature of the duties of the law is such as requires an apprehension of our reconciliation with God, and His hearty love and favor towards us for the doing of them. The great duty is love to God with our whole heart, and not such a contemplative love as philosophers may have to the object of sciences, which they are concerned in no further than to please their fancies in the knowledge of them; but a practical love, by which we are willing that God should be absolute Lord and Governor of...
Links I Like (Weekend Edition)
Al Mohler:
The print edition of Britannica is now like a Mastodon trapped in the library—about to become extinct. We will be poorer for its absence.
Wikipedia is just a few clicks away, offering thousands of articles that Britannica would never touch. But Britannica was not meant to be a collaborative effort, with readers offering their own insights. Britannica spoke with an authoritative voice, its articles checked and rechecked. The digital...
March 16, 2012
The Temporariness of Modern Books
One of the things I love about travelling (aside from coming home) is that I get some time to just focus on reading a good book. No distractions (email, Facebook, Twitter), few people talking to me… just me and my Kindle. On my way home from Nashville on Wednesday (March 14), I managed to finish reading a book that a number of folks are going to be excited about (and for good reason—it's excellent). But as I was reading it, I starting asking myself a question:
Are we writing books that are...
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N.D. Muscutt:
In truth, it is impossible for us to know for certain how much anxiety Timothy felt in taking on leadership roles in the church and community, but I personally do not think that Timothy was a timid or fearful guy. It is clear that Timothy was a young man who, though perhaps reluctant to assert his authority, was not fearful when convinced that God had a job for him to do. Paul never doubts the abilities of Timothy when he sends this young soldier...
March 15, 2012
The Primacy of Preaching
People say that the preachers stand in their pulpits and preach their sermons, but that there before them are individuals with their individual problems and sufferings. So the argument runs, you ought to preach less and spend more time doing personal work and counseling and interviewing.
My reply to this argument is to suggest, once more, that the answer is to put preaching into the primary position. Why? For this reason that true preaching does deal with personal problems, so much so that...
Links I Like
Joe Thorn:
Homosexuality and the RCA: A Call for Action, Consistency, and Faithfulness (Part 2)Hudson Taylor was a bold, yet selfless man who sacrificed much in preaching the gospel, helping to translate the Bible in Chinese, starting churches, and creating a network, and the church today is blessed by what God has done through him. In all of this we see that Taylor was a most definitely a bearded gospel man.
Following up on Kevin's first post:
Believe it or...
