Monthly Archives: January 2010
Happy Birthday to John Piper’s Preaching Career @ Bethlehem!!!
From Desiring God:
“Thirty years ago today John Piper preached his candidating sermon and gave his personal testimony at Bethlehem Baptist Church.” (Read More: Click Here)
Thank you God for blessing me through this man… I pray that his most fruitful years are just ahead.
Remembering Thomas Crapper…. Happy Crapper Day!!
Imagine what life would be like without a flushing toilet. Well as you waste your time thinking about that… remember to wish someone Happy Crapper Day!! Today is the 100th anniversary (of the death) of the man who made popular the flushing toilet. Yes… the “middle schooler” in me could not resist the temptation to celabrate a man with a funny name.
Weekly Web Surf (Jan 24-31)
Open Doors In the Muslim World(Gospel Coalition Blog)
“According to the Joshua Project, there are a little under 1.5 billion Muslims in the world, living among 3,317 different people groups. Scroll through this list and see how many of these people groups have 0.00% evangelical Christians. If we are serious about the Great Commission then we must be serious about reaching these groups that make up nearly 25% of the world’s population….”
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Where to now?: A ticklish week for Barack Obama (The Economist)
“THE president’s annual state-of-the-union speech, despite the fuss and standing ovations in Congress, is often a forgettable laundry list of priorities. But Barack Obama’s first proper go at the address to Congress on Wednesday January 27th as mandated by the constitution (his inaugural speech last year did not count as a state-of-the-union talk) will be watched with unusual interest…”
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11 Minutes of Action (The Wall Street Journal)
“According to a Wall Street Journal study of four recent broadcasts, and similar estimates by researchers, the average amount of time the ball is in play on the field during an NFL game is about 11 minutes….”
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Tate explores link between Saddam and Star Wars (BBC News)
“… a young American artist, Michael Rakowitz, has been investigating the connection between the monument and the movie Star Wars, and he has an exhibition at the Tate Modern in London….”
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Can Joel Osteen help you pay your bills? (CNN)
“It’s not a pulpit but a podium. It’s not an altar but a stage. There is no cross. Instead a huge globe spins, and two massive bubbling creeks flank the stage. A lighting system softens distant corners of the massive arena and spreads colored light and smoke in strategic spots. Somehow, the space that will hold 40,000-plus on Sunday morning doesn’t feel like a sports arena….”
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Freedom to spend (The Economist)
“BY THE narrowest of majorities, America’s Supreme Court ruled on Thursday January 21st that Congress may not bar corporations and unions from paying to disseminate political messages at election time. The ruling is arguably a blow for free speech, although critics of the decision quickly concluded that it would lead to big business buying elections….”
Ray Ortlund Knows How to Post…
Ray Ortlund is becoming one of my favorite people to read. This is not even something he wrote, but he knows how to post some awesomeness. From a post named “I am… nothing”
“I am royal, I am lordly, I am mighty, I am honored, I am exalted, I am glorified, I am powerful, I am all-powerful, I am brilliant, I am lion-brave, I am manly, I am supreme, I am noble.”
Adad-Nirari II, in Daniel David Luckenbill, Ancient Records of Assyria and Babylonia (Chicago, 1926), I:110, italics added.
“He made himself nothing.” Philippians 2:7
A Sweet and Bitter Providence
John Piper has a new book out. It is called Sweet and Bitter Providence.
From the Desiring God Website:
“John Piper’s newest book is an exposition and application of the major themes in the book of Ruth—sex, race, and God’s sovereignty.”
Weekly Web Surf (Jan 17 – 23)
Since (unfortunately) I find myself online for a great amount of time each week, I am starting a new feature on my blog called “Weekly Web Surf”… It will just be a few articles or things, I find online, that are interesting (or perhaps funny). Hope you enjoy!! I got the idea from one of my favorite blogs, CHALLIES.com. O and if you are in the “goon-squad,” try to read the stuff (it will “culture you up”… ha).
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The Gospel Does What Media Coverage Can’t (Gospel Coalition Blog)
“I’m grateful for the media’s coverage of Haiti’s crisis. It confronts me with graphic images of human suffering. Where I live, life is simple and safe. I have more than enough to eat each day and a comfortable place to sleep each night. Compared to most everybody else in the world, my life is very hobbit-like. For the most part, like Tolkien’s hobbits in Middle-earth, I live among peace-loving, comfort-enjoying people….”
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The man who fell to earth (The Economist)
“POLITICAL upsets don’t get much more embarrassing than the one delivered by the voters of Massachusetts on January 19th, just in time to ruin Barack Obama’s first anniversary in the White House. To lose, on a 43-point swing, a Senate seat that has been in Democratic hands since 1953 takes some doing, even in the teeth of the worst recession since the 1930s…”
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UN Afghanistan survey points to huge scale of bribery (BBC News)
“More than half the population had to pay at least one bribe to a public official last year, the report adds…”
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Youth in lawless Haiti at risk for sex trade, slavery, murder (USA Today)
“Now, Rev. Mark Driscoll, the pastor of Seattle’s Mars Hill Church who is known nationwide for his blunt talking sermons and in-your-face evangelism, has seen the sex trade revving up amid the rubble…”
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Don Miller Responds to Pat Robertson (Relevant Magazine)
“The Blue Like Jazz author confronts Robertson’s already-infamous comments about Haiti.”
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More to come…
Up and Running…
Well, after a long break I am back to posting here on the blog… so for the few people that actually check my blog, thanks for waiting.
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