For everyone looking for a good, reliable and comprehensive web site to keep track of all the presidential state primaries in 2008… I recommend AOL’s web site (linked below). It is excellent and they keep you up-to-date rather well.
So, for Super Tuesday, don’t forget to visit these sites to keep track of the results.
James Grant alerted me to this new Journal of Theology. I hope you will all check out the first volume of it soon. It’s available here for free in PDF. Here is an alternate link if that PDF link ever goes away.
Please note that there is a very good article on the future of Protestantism in the Global North by D. G. Hart. I’ve created a Microsoft Document Image (MDI) file of his article found in the PDF for those of you who don’t want to bother with downloading the whole journal. Here is the MDI file. I encourage everyone to read this article if nothing else in the Journal.
Enjoy and please let me know what you think and how you see the future of the Global North of Protestantism.
Trevin has provided a helpful review of John Piper’s new book on Justification and N.T. Wright. Here are the 18 posts, in order, for all of you to have easy access to read through them. Enjoy and please let me know what you think!
1. Some Preliminary Thoughts
2. Piper’s Introduction
3. On Controversy
4. Historical Research
5. Covenant and Law-court
6. Penal Substitution
7. Defining “Righteousnessâ€
8. Imputation
9. What is “The Gospel†Anyway?
10. The Gospel is “Jesus is Lordâ€
11. Our Standing Before God
12. Justification and “The Gospelâ€
13. Justification By Works
14. Common Ground?
15. Judaism in the First Century
16. Self-Righteousness
17. The Righteousness of Christ
18. Piper’s Conclusion
Part 1 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf6JWC6B5Zo
Part 2 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGvPVN5pUI0
Part 3 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFzi5HNJ4_w
Part 4 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt3-GaP9P-w
Part 5 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46RyYFQuOYc
Part 6 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7VBmI8g3BA
This is an excellent web site for everyone interested in learning more about God and His word. Especially for those who do not have the funds or the time to train in a traditional education setting. I would encourage everyone who’s interested in learning more about the God and the Bible to visit this web site and register for a class that interests you.
Here is a list of some of the professors who offer courses at BiblicalTraining.org:
Enjoy and May God richly bless you as your study His word!
In Christ and In Defense of the Faith,
Here is a helpful video from Ron Paul’s interview on ABC’s “The View.” It was really good to watch Paul turn these women’s thoughts on their heads. Enjoy and please consider him as a serious option for the Republican primary vote coming up next year.
This month’s free audio book is available from Christianaudio.com. It’s called Dark Night of the Soul and it was written by St. John of the Cross. Use the coupon code DEC2007 to redeem this month’s free audiobook download from Christianaudio.com.
Here is some more info about the book:
With His gentle hand He wounded my neck And caused all my senses to be suspended.
Part poetic masterpiece, part mystic treatise, The Dark Night of the Soul by 16th century Carmelite monk, St. John of the Cross, addresses the feeling of being forgotten by the Presence of the Almighty that every Christian desirous of walking more closely with God must pass through in order to learn to walk by faith and not by sight.
Spiritual persons suffer great trials…by reason…of the fear which they have of being lost on the road, thinking that all spiritual blessing is over for them and that God has abandoned them since they find no help or pleasure in good things. Then they grow weary, and endeavor to concentrate their faculties with some degree of pleasure upon some object of meditation, thinking that, when they are not doing this and yet are conscious of making an effort, they are doing nothing.
Perhaps one of the most widely recognized of the mystical writings, St. John’s classic Dark Night of the Soul is not only practical theology but a beautiful balm of healing to anyone whose heart has ever echoed the words of Christ, “My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken me?â€
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Here is some info about the prize this month:
This month’s sponsor is Modern Parables. Modern Parables is “an original Bible study curriculum designed for people who like movies. It is the first in a planned series of film-driven studies on the parables. The films are uniquely designed to parallel the original parable and thereby drive the viewer back toward the Biblical text. The 12-lesson study (with 6 additional lessons on cinema and theology) uses short dramatic films that explain Jesus’ parables using the particular strength of the cinematic medium. In other words, just watching the films helps teach the historical, grammatical, contextual and interpretive elements in the parables.â€
Earlier this month I posted a review of their DVDs (read it here) and concluded “I’m grateful for this series of films, a series which I learned about only recently. I am thrilled to know that it is only the first in what is intended to be a set. I’m going to watch these films often and am certain I’ll enjoy watching them again with my children. I hope I will other opportunities to use them. And I’ll wait impatiently for Volume II.â€
Here is just one of the previews for the series of films:
This series is ideal for Sunday School classes, Youth Groups, Small Group Bible Studies, Community Outreach/Evangelism, Middle and High School Bible Classes and Home School Curriculum.
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