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Independence Day Videos

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 11:57:40 -0700

You can learn quite a bit from a cartoon, especially if it’s a Schoolhouse Rock cartoon

Jesus Is Praying For You

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:30:00 -0700

It doesn’t matter how complicated, how desperate, perhaps even hopeless your life has become. No matter how overwhelmed you may feel by your problems, if your trust is in Jesus Christ, you can be sure that he is praying for you now and through that prayer he will provide for you the resources to bring you relief or enable you to carry on.

The most important thing that you and I need to learn about prayer is this: first of all and ultimately, prayer is not something we do but what Jesus does for us.

- Richard B. Gaffin

(via Of First Importance)

Mostly Dead or All Dead

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:52:40 -0700

Total depravity, prevenient grace, and the Princess Bride

Free Audiobook for June

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:29:10 -0700

Christ Plays In Ten-Thousand Places, by Eugene Peterson

Christ Plays in Ten-Thousand Places reunites spirituality and theology in a cultural context where these two vital facets of Christian faith have been rent asunder. This foundational book, in a four-volume series on spiritual theology emerging from Peterson’s pen, provides the conceptual and directional help we all need to live the Christian gospel well and maturely in the conditions that prevail in the church and world today.

Obama in Bush Clothing

Sat, 30 May 2009 10:46:00 -0700

Of course, Obama will never admit in word what he’s doing in deed. As in his rhetorically brilliant national-security speech yesterday claiming to have undone Bush’s moral travesties, the military commissions flip-flop is accompanied by the usual Obama three-step: (a) excoriate the Bush policy, (b) ostentatiously unveil cosmetic changes, (c) adopt the Bush policy.

There is something much larger at play — an undeniable, irresistible national interest that, in the end, beyond the cheap politics, asserts itself. The urgencies and necessities of the actual post-9/11 world, as opposed to the fanciful world of the opposition politician, present a rather narrow range of acceptable alternatives.

The Bush policies in the war on terror won’t have to await vindication by historians. Obama is doing it day by day. His denials mean nothing. Look at his deeds.

Read the rest of Charles Krauthammer’s article

(via Tony Reinke)

Should You Forward That Email?

Fri, 22 May 2009 11:59:10 -0700

(from TheNextWeb.com via Challies)

$100 Million Visualized

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:17:33 -0700

How much is $100 Million compared to our budget?

(via Between Two Worlds)

Jesus Earned Our Acceptance

Sun, 26 Apr 2009 22:22:41 -0700

“We do not have to make ourselves suffer in order to merit forgiveness. We simply receive the forgiveness earned by Christ. 1 John 1:8 says that God forgives us because He is ‘just.’ That is a remarkable statement. It would be unjust of God to ever deny us forgiveness, because Jesus earned our acceptance! In religion we earn our forgiveness with our repentance, but in the gospel we just receive it.”

- Timothy Keller

(via Of First Importance)

Don't Waste Your Life

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:06:29 -0700

A music video by LeCrae

Coldplay Video

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:41:00 -0700

Life In Technicolor

Why Is It "Good" Friday?

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

We call it Good Friday because on the first one some two-thousand years ago, Jesus fulfilled God’s plan. He took our punishment for sin and later, rose from death so that all who repent of sin and entrust their lives to Him will live forever.

Good Friday is good because, just as it was the route through which Jesus moved to Easter, it’s also the route through which all who believe in Him share in His Easter victory!

(via Hugh Hewitt)

The Point of the Gospel

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:27:00 -0700

Jesus wants the rose.

Verses Paraphrased for an Online World

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:57:14 -0700

From JoshHarris.com

James 1:19
Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to read, slow to reply all, slow to click send.

Proverbs 13:20
Whoever “friends” the wise becomes wise, but the Facebook-friend of fools will suffer harm.

The Story

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:19:56 -0700

The following pages represent the summary of a true story. It is like many good stories you’ve heard or read, but the more you read, the more you’ll realize this is not just another story - it is the story. It defines us all. It provides thought-provoking reflection to who we are and life-changing insight to who we can become.

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A Mime on Twitter

Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:14:00 -0700

Actually, it’s TheMime

(via)

Free Music Download

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:08:44 -0700

Download seven classic hymns with a more modern sound until March 25.

Page CXVI is a project started with the idea of making hymns accessible and known again. They are some of the richest, most meaningful, and moving pieces of music ever written.

C.J. Mahaney's Testimony

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:01:34 -0700

C.J. Mahaney - A Testimony to God’s Grace

Meet C.J. Mahaney

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:58:39 -0700

Learn more about the founding pastor of Covenant Life Church and President of Sovereign Grace Ministries.

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:10:57 -0700

Patrick gave his life to the people who had enslaved him until he died at 77 years of age. He had seen untold thousands of people convert as between 30-40 of the 150 tribes had become substantially Christian. He had trained 1000 pastors, planted 700 churches, and was the first noted person in history to take a strong public stand against slavery.

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Build Your Own Son-In-Law

Sat, 14 Mar 2009 12:30:00 -0700

We cannot expect young men in our culture to turn up as ready-made husbands. Our culture is broken. As a result, young men are broken. They do not have the tools they need. This is not always due to a lack of spiritual commitment. It is usually a result of a lack of teaching and discipleship. They just don’t know what they don’t know. As a result, fathers have to consider the possibility that they may, in a very real way, have to build their own son-in-law.

I had better get the book and get to work.