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02/15/10--21:08: Free Audiobook: Machen’s Christianity and Liberalism (chan 1786552)

The folks at ReformedAudio.org have just completed an audio version of J. Gresham Machen’s classic work Christianity and Liberalism. It’s available in 11 MP3 files and runs 5 hours 44 minutes and 36 seconds. They are making the audio and a PDF of the book available free of charge. To learn more about Christianity and [...]

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02/18/10--21:24: Centrality of the Gospel in the Life of the Believer (chan 1786552)

Tullian Tchividjian articulates beautifully one of the most transforming truths I’ve ever learned: the gospel is central in the daily life of the believer. It is well worth 2 minutes and 25 seconds of your time. Tullian will be speaking on this subject at the upcoming Association of Biblical Counselors annual conference, whose theme is The Gospel Revolution: [...]

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02/23/10--21:28: Creation, Evolution, and the Age of the Earth (chan 1786552)

I’ve seen several posts recently on the subject of creation, evolution, and the age of the earth. If you missed them and are interested in these kinds of discussions, you may want to give them a read. Do you believe God created the earth in six literal 24-hour days? by Randy Alcorn Why I’m Not a Creationist [...]

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02/28/10--17:23: Together for the Gospel Live for $5 (chan 1786552)

I stumbled across a blog post this week (can’t remember where) that had a video embedded of the men from the Together for the Gospel Conference in 2008 singing “Before the Throne of God Above.” I probably watched it a dozen times or more, I enjoyed it so much. So I went to go check [...]

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03/01/10--00:13: Cost of Discipleship and Fifty Reasons Why Jesus Came to Die—Free (chan 1786552)

ChristianAudio.com offers by The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Fifty Reasons Why Jesus Came to Die by John Piper for free this month. Use coupon code MAR2010 for the first and MAR2010B for the second. You’ll have to place two separate orders since you can’t use two coupon codes at the same time. [...]

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03/15/10--11:00: Open an ING Checking or Savings, Get $25 (chan 1786552)

For the last two-and-a-half years I’ve been using ING Direct as my primary bank for checking and savings. They offer lots of great benefits, and they’re all free. Since I pay just about everything online, I have less and less need for a traditional bank. In addition to paying nearly all of my bills, I [...]

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03/24/10--22:37: A. A. Hodge on the Importance of Doctrine (chan 1786552)

Justin Taylor mentioned two books on the importance of theology earlier today—one new and one old: The Trials of Theology: Becoming a “Proven Worker” in a Dangerous Business (Amazon), edited by Andrew Cameron and Brian Rosner, and Helmut Thielicke’s A Little Exercise for Young Theologians (Amazon). Both look good. There’s also been a lot of buzz recently about [...]

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03/25/10--21:53: Peter Hitchens: The Rage Against God (chan 1786552)

Peter Hitchens (blog), brother of the well-known atheist Christopher Hitchens (website), talks about his faith and his forthcoming book The Rage Against God: How Atheism Led Me to Faith (to be published by Zondervan and due out on May 1) in these two videos. They’re an interesting watch. The first is only 2:08. If you [...]

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03/27/10--09:00: The Story of Zac Smith (chan 1786552)

I encourage you to invest four-and-a-half minutes of your day watching this powerful and moving video about Zac Smith’s cancer, faith, and God. The Story of Zac Smith from NewSpring Media on Vimeo. Here are his concluding comments: “This I do know. If God chooses to heal me, then God is God, and God is [...]

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04/13/10--00:21: The Fall Explains Homosexual Animals (chan 1786552)

Scientists and advocates of same-sex sexual and marital relationships are making much of recently observed homosexual behavior in animals, and some are suggesting that it proves that homosexuality is genetically rooted and natural (or at least not unnatural) for both animals and human beings. As Al Mohler explains, The political implications of the issue are clear—those [...]

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04/19/10--09:12: How to Use Greek and Hebrew in Blog Posts (chan 1786552)

If you use Greek and Hebrew in your blog posts, here’s a tip that will help you make it look good and give you the ability to make changes across your entire site in just a few seconds. There are two main things you need to do. Step 1: Add Styles to Your Style Sheet [...]

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04/26/10--07:00: Greg Bahnsen Lectures and Debates on YouTube (chan 1786552)

On Saturday night I discovered the Greg Bahnsen channel on YouTube, which has five video lectures (in 32 parts) and two audio debates (in 20 parts). Greg Bahnsen delivered the video lectures in 19911 as a five-part series, Basic Training for Defending the Faith (Amazon | Monergism), to soon-to-be college students. I spent a little while listening [...]

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04/27/10--07:00: Free Episode of Planet Earth in HD (chan 1786552)

If you’ve never gotten around to watching BBC’s Planet Earth yet, now’s your chance to check it out for free—and in HD—and find out what you’ve been missing. Amazon Video On Demand currently has Planet Earth: Season 1, Episode 1: “From Pole to Pole” (49:16) available as a free download—both the standard and HD versions. And it’s [...]

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05/11/10--08:45: Save $60 a Year on Your Internet (chan 1786552)

If your internet service provides a cable modem for you to use to get your internet from the wall to your computer, they’re probably also charging you $5 a month for the modem rental (like Comcast has been doing to us for the last two-and-a-half years). Save yourself the $60 a year by buying this [...]

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05/16/10--20:55: Logitech Webcam Pro 9000 for $55 (chan 1786552)

Living thousands of miles away from where we grew up (Ohio and Minnesota), we’ve been incredibly thankful for modern technology that allows us to have face-to-face conversations with our families. We almost exclusively use Skype now instead of our mobile phones to communicate with our parents and siblings. A really cool new feature coming in [...]

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05/30/10--21:09: Memorial Day vs. Trinity Sunday (chan 1786552)

Today was a special day in many churches around the world. Some churches in the US anticipated Memorial Day and remembered those who have fought to defend our nation’s freedoms. Others celebrated Trinity Sunday and reflected on the Christian doctrine of the Trinity—God’s being both one and three. Some may have done both; others neither. I’m [...]






06/10/10--21:30: Was the Oil Spill an Act of God? (chan 1786552)

Rick Warren tweeted earlier today, “When people call an ocean oil spill caused by human drilling ‘an Act of God,’ THAT, friends, is taking God’s name in vain!” To my surprise, I enjoy a lot of what Warren tweets, but in this case I think he has it precisely backwards. Failing to attribute to God [...]






06/11/10--03:00: Calvin on God’s Permissive Will (chan 1786552)

After reading my post on Zac Smith’s cancer a while back, a friend of mine saw a link in the sidebar to a related post, “The Grace of Cancer,” and left a comment challenging my choice of words when I repeatedly said that God gave cancer to a man from our church to bring him [...]






06/15/10--22:20: Luther on the Necessity of Good Works (chan 1786552)

I’m involved in a discussion where the claim was made that the Protestant church has distorted the gospel by removing the necessity of good works for salvation—something the early Christians unanimously affirmed. Luther was singled out as one who cared nothing about good works—at least not in the context of salvation. I pointed out this section from [...]






06/16/10--20:05: More Than One Third of the Internet Is Porn (chan 1786552)

A recent study by Optenet finds that more than one in three pages on the web is pornographic, and it’s growing at a faster rate than last year. Predominant content on the Internet is pornography, which makes up 37% of the total number of Web pages online, according to a new study published by Optenet, [...]