Category Archives: Miscellany

Our work is faithfulness, God takes care of the fruitfulness

In this video, John Piper gives encouragement to those who may never serve more than 100 people through their ministries: Our work is faithfulness, God takes care of the fruitfulness HT: Going to Seminary Tweet

Deconstructing Postmodern Culture

A very cool spoken word piece, worth your 3:03! HT:(John Ried) Tweet

Grudem lectures through his Systematic Theology

Hey, lookie what I found! Grudem lecturing through his own Systematic Theology Book, for the Christian Essentials class at his church. A long list of downloadable .mp3s is available on the class website. Tweet

Powlison on the 5 Love Languages

I’ve been finishing up work for my Biblical Counseling class, and in Seeing with New Eyes, Powlison has a chapter that is a critique of Chapman’s ever popular The Five Love Languages. It was both surprising and eye opening, and I think he hits the nail right on the head. I don’t think I’ll be [...]

Free Piper Books

Desiring God has free books by John Piper on their website! You can access them here: http://www.desiringgod.org/library/onlinebooks_index.html Tweet

God’s Love

God’s love reached down from heaven into time and space, God’s love cared enough to redeem this sinful place. God’s love sent His truth, in flesh with human face, God’s love offered His Son to save the human race /that His glory be displayed. God’s love despised our sin, demanded Christ obey, God’s love heard [...]

A couple of convicting quotes

Here are a couple of very good quotes, taken from Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life, by Donald S. Whitney. It’s assigned reading for my Personal Spiritual Disciplines class. Consider the people who will work hard at learning to play an instrument, knowing that it takes years to acquire the skills, who will practice hard [...]

Don’t be a stumbling block

“I know that many Christians would argue that I am rejecting the package and that I should not necessarily reject Christ himself. At the moment I cannot see a meaningful way of separating the two.” This is a quote from a blog I read called de-conversion. It’s a blog for people who are skeptical about [...]

Christ Follower vs Christian

These are HILARIOUS videos!!! (well mostly, part of me cringes, too.) There is a series of six, Christ follower vs. Christian videos, that are a parody of the Mac vs. PC ads. Here’s the first one from YouTube. Tweet