October 2008
9 posts
New Typepad Blog →
I love tumblr but the features aren’t as robust as I’d like them to be so I’m moving over to typepad.com, which will be my last move (it actually costs money to maintain so I’m gonna have to keep it for at least a year). No more moves after this one for a long time. Sorry for the inconvenience. Please follow the link above or point your browsers over to
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Popping out pups
“Dear Pulpiteer,
I have a friend who has been married for a few years. They don’t have kids and he claims it’s because his wife has medical problems. I believe that they are sinning. Please confirm my suspicions.
Sincerely,
The Valliant Quiver-filler”
Dear VQF,
You are a moron. Who are you to impute motives onto someone else’s circumstances? What do you...
Return
Well I’m back from the CREC Pastor’s Conference in Houston. It was a great time of spiritual refreshment for me and I was glad to meet so many like-minded brothers in the ministry. The theme was “Father Hunger”, which deals with how one must minister to people who have a natural hunger for the Father’s love and will often replace Him with something less than the...
Book Review
A Primer on Worship and Reformation: Recovering the High Church Puritan
by Douglas Wilson
Published by Canon Press (www.canonpress.com)
Release Date: November 11, 2008
At a brisk 68 pages it’s hard to really evaluate Douglas Wilson’s latest book which proposes true Reformation can only come through faithful worship without giving away much of the content. Certainly there are a number of points...
Congrats to our newly baptized sister
It was my privilege to baptize our little sister Jennifer Wang yesterday. May God bless you in your spiritual growth and may he continue to be glorified in your life Jennifer!
Politics
Tomorrow Canadians will be going to the polls to find out who will run this Country Federally. It’s been interesting to watch. There is a Socialist-lite party known as the New Democratic Party whose sole goal it would seem is to maintain a minority government so that they can peddle their influence as swing vote holders. Their platform is based on complaining about those in power without...
Married and stupid
Our College and Career group are reading a book on Emotional Purity. Through it I have been reminded of the plight of the single person and their second worst enemy (the first being themselves): the happily married couple who insists that everyone must be married in order to be as happy as they are. There is no greater disservice a married couple can do than to instill by their actions and...
Stealing Church growth
There seems to be a church growth strategy based on sheep stealing. Pastors are actively going out there looking for those who have something to complain about and enjoy contrasting themselves to the disenfranchised soon to be former ministry team. Pastors who practice this sort of “church growth” and then brag about how they’re “growing” are morons. Anyone who goes out there looking for...
Race relations
Upon signing on at Toronto Baptist Seminary (TBS) someone asked me in light of TBS’s reputation for Reformed teaching why I decided to go there. I didn’t quite understand the question and upon further pressing of the matter it finally came out: Reformed folks have the reputation of being small minded racists. Now mind you what he meant was not out and out cross burning, N-word-using,...
September 2008
12 posts
Doug Wilson writes on Atheism in Canada's National... →
Many thanks to Clint Humfrey who points out this wonderful article in the National Post in response to an article by Chris Hitchens about his own private stock of atheism.
Dead sea scrolls coming to the ROM!
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The Dead Sea Scrolls are coming to the Royal Ontario Museum this June! I can’t wait to actually see these live (dead?) in person.
Catching up is good
I have been busy as of late due to ministerial and life pressures but I also have three manuscripts to go through for review purposes. They’ve been sitting on my desk for far too long, staring me down every time I settle down to other work. I’m determined to finish this task within the next month. The good part is that they’re Canon Press books which pretty much guarantees a...
Eating together
As a church Holy Word is quite unusual in that we provide a lunch after every service. Though we have an English and a Chinese Congregation with separate services we come together after it’s all done and fellowship around a common meal. Eating together in any church but especially in an “ethnic” church is an important part of fellowship. The willingness to eat anything...
The Vertical Bed
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For those of you who need to nap just about anywhere here’s the vertical bed. Reminds me of the time I drove my wife’s cousin to the airport at 6 AM. While I was asking an airport attendant about his flight he fell asleep while standing! I had to drag his luggage AND his sleeping behind through two terminals finally throwing him into the arms of a flight attendant at his gate.
As...
MTV Multiplayer » Hallelujah: ‘Guitar Praise’... →
It’s real!!! Guitar Praise is for reals. And the Guys over at Multiplayer blog have a copy with pictures of it’s unboxing (which is nerd speak for “opening the packaging”).
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Doug Wilson takes on Nathan Busenitz’s article in Pulpit Magazine on preachers and coarse language.
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Doug Wilson has been having a tough time keeping deformed reformers from twisting scripture all over this Sarah Palin and leadership issue. Enjoy this post.
On criticism
I’m not one to take criticism too lightly. I’m my own worst critic. Though I act like I’m thick skinned things get to me. Hence I’m here at 1:33 AM taking a break from looking over tomorrow’s work to write this after which I’ll go right back to slogging over things that have been set for two weeks. Being less than God-glorifying in the pulpit keeps me up at...
Reboot
What better way to start anew than with a new blog! And on a new site to boot. I hope the transfer won’t be too much trouble. This site makes blogging dead simple so I’m gonna give this one a try. See you soon1