Archive for October, 2004

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Thursday, October 28th, 2004

Don’t have time to write as much as I’d like to about today, because tomorrow we’re off to Charlottesville to spend time with many of our dear friends in our adopted hometown. But I can’t let this day just pass without recording it in some way.
Today, in just this one day at Westminster Seminary, Karyn [...]

Why Vote If You Are Disillusioned?

Thursday, October 28th, 2004

In all the noise of this election cycle, the following made abundant sense to me.
Why vote if you are disillusioned? (John Piper’s pastor’s column this week.)
This article is a summons to vote on Tuesday, November 2, though you may be
disillusioned by both presidential candidates. It is good to be
dis-illusioned if the illusion is that Bush [...]

One Way Days, Part 2

Monday, October 25th, 2004

Larry Norman - Only Visiting This Planet
Probably the greatest Jesus Music album of them all. Revolutionary. Larry with full studio production, but not as overproduced as some of his later stuff. This was back when a Christian could do biting social commentary and not get banned by the bookstores. Here’s what the creator of the [...]

One Way Days, Part 1

Saturday, October 23rd, 2004

Some probing from my friend JDR got me all nostalgic about the early days of Jesus Music. I decided to do a retrospective of the albums from the 70s, long before anyone heard the term CCM, that had profound effects on the LSW and me.
I have close to twenty albums to cover, so I’ll do [...]

What Hath I Wrought?

Saturday, October 23rd, 2004

According to sitemeter:
Sacred Journey
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A first for everything

Thursday, October 21st, 2004

In all my years since high school, I don’t think I’ve ever intentionally “cut” a class, other than for sickness. Next Monday night will be my exception.
“Dynamics of Biblical Change” will have to dynamically change without me, because Indelible Grace Tour Band is coming to town! They’ll be at New Life PCA Glenside on Monday, [...]

Purge, Baby, Purge!

Thursday, October 21st, 2004

Today I whiled away two hours of valuable study time purging my blogroll to the left. A somewhat painful chore, like deciding who gets left off your Christmas gift list each year.
Mostly, I dropped blog links that haven’t been regularly updated. A real shame, since a few of them show promise as truly interesting writers.
I’ve [...]

Happy Birthday WTS!

Wednesday, October 20th, 2004

Tonight my seminary, Westminster Theological of Philadelphia, held a celebration of worship in honor of this 75th year of its faithfulness to God and his word.
Here are some quotes from the speech of the founding president, J. Gresham Machen, at the opening convocation in 1929:

“The Bible is the centre and core of that with which [...]

Why is church the way it is?

Thursday, October 14th, 2004

A BlahOnline article titled “Christendom Era Church DNA Flaws” lays out what the author sees as three hindrances in most local churches to being “missional,” to actually having an impact for the Gospel on their communities.
You can read the article to get the first two, but I’m going to focus here on the third: [...]

You know your wife is a seminary student when…

Wednesday, October 13th, 2004

…she leaves you messages on the ‘fridge in Hebrew magnet letters!