Thoughts of a Christian Husband, Father, and Pastor
Okay, so maybe he’s not quite at Challies status yet, but Paul McDonald continues to faithfully blog his adventures in summer evangelism. It’s been quite an encouragement to read along! If you haven’t checked it out yet or haven’t looked in a while, make sure you go look at Good News for Toronto.
On Monday at the Toronto Pastors Fellowship, during the Q&A, Tim Challies was asked to give a brief review of the bestselling book, the Shack. Note that this review was given off-the-cuff in a Q&A session. Tim has done a thorough review of the book for you to read here. But, if you’re lazy and [...]
Yesterday was the March meeting of the Toronto Pastors Fellowship–and it was a blessing! Friend and fellow church-member, Tim Challies, brought the charge, ‘Pastor, Train Your People to Think Biblically!’ The audio and text are now both available online. Click here to check out the paper and the mp3. Here’s an excerpt: I think we [...]
I haven’t posted in a while. Well, I’m no Tim Challies, but I didn’t need a post-count to figure that out. But really, I haven’t posted because of the usual culprit: The Tyranny of the Urgent. Busy-ness has come to town again, and things get dropped. That stinks, but it appears at this point to [...]
If you live in the States, this will be of particular interest to you. If you, like me, live in Canada… then it may or may not be. The move titled Fireproof (website, Challies dot com review) will be released all throughout the States (but apparently not in Canada) in two weeks. I was able [...]
It seems that in theology, as in the rest of life, we’re constantly riding a pendulum. The more we run from doctrinal error that we see in others, the more likely we are to fall into the opposite error ourselves. If we reject an over-emphasis on God’s love as the basis of his character, we [...]
And the site is live! Check out the new website for the Toronto Pastors Fellowship. Thanks to Challies for the design. Make sure to pass on the word–and please, let your pastors know!
I just had to post these. They’re some pictures taken from the nursery of our church on a Wednesday night. The older kids in nursery are longingly watching the GraceKids classes outside playing games. It’s awesome. (At least I thought they were looking at the other kids playing… on second thought, maybe they were trying [...]
Tim Challies linked to a very interesting article from the Wall Street Journal on the topic of global warming / climate change, and how we get the numbers that are used to ‘prove’ that the earth is, in fact, getting warmer. Here’s a little excerpt: The fear of a sudden loss of ice from Greenland [...]
Tim Challies’ a la carte has some insightful reviews today of Ben Stein’s new documentary called Expelled. They are here and here. I’ll embed the trailer below. It definitely looks like it’s worth checking out! (Try the super trailer…)
Believe it or not, I’m still alive and kicking. It has been a busy several months and this blog was clearly sacrificed on the altar of urgency for a time. To be honest, I’m never sure if it’s more responsible to cut the blog in order to stay on top of things better in my [...]
Attending WorshipGod06 (run by Bob Kauflin and Sovereign Grace Ministries) with Tim has given me lots to think about. Ever since Tim and I got back I’ve been mulling over the issues with regards to the ‘sign’ or ‘miraculous’ gifts. Here are some random thoughts I’ve been chewing on… 1. 1 Corinthians 13.8-13. This is [...]
Tim Challies recently posted some reasons why God will not answer our prayers. About the same time I was wondering about unanswered prayer and got to thinking that perhaps much of what we call unanswered prayer is really prayer that we simply don’t see answered. The reasons for this could be legion, but here’s one [...]
My friend Tim and I are leaving this morning to attend WorshipGod06, put on by Sovereign Grace Ministries. I don’t know that I’ll be blogging at all while I’m gone, but check Tim’s blog for regular updates as he live-blogs all the goings-on.
I don’t know why, but for some reason over the past couple of decades it has become trendy to only sing parts of songs. It makes no sense. How can you follow any kind of flow of thought when you’re taking chunks out of the middle? You’re destroying an artist’s work and ripping the people [...]
Tim Challies has been live-blogging the T4G Conference. There have been many interesting posts (from many interesting messages), but this one from John MacArthur caught my eye. John, in his message, was discussing 40 years of gospel ministry at his church. He identifies several benefits from expository preaching in the church: Having discussed the benefit [...]
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