Highlights from the Blogosphere

• What’s Love Got to Do (Got to Do) with It? March 19, 2010
  Here are the chapter titles—along with the questions asked and answered—in Jonathan Leeman’s new book, The Church and the Surprising Offense of God’s Love: Reintroducing the Doctrines of Church Membership and Discipline. Part 1: Love Misdefined Chapter 1: The Idolatry of Love How do our common cultural conceptions of love today hinder our acceptance of churc […]
  Justin Taylor
• He’s On Fire! March 19, 2010
  NBA Jam Returns! Posts like this one:‘Kings’ Redux How the Grinch Stole Christmas from Christians Should We Feel Great About Proposition 8?
  David Dunham
• The chief end of preaching March 19, 2010
  “What is the chief end of preaching?  I like to think it is this.  It is to give men and women a sense of God and His presence.” Martyn Lloyd-Jones, quoted in John Woodbridge, editor, More Than Conquerors (Chicago, 1992), page 209. The chief end of preaching is a post from: Ray Ortlund
  Ray Ortlund
• Training and ministry opportunity in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire March 19, 2010
  Here’s a great opportunity for someone looking for an apprenticeship and training role with Dewsbury Evangelical Church in West Yorkshire. As they say: ‘Many Christians graduate from University and remain in the cities in which they studied. Meanwhile the nearby towns a crying out for gospel workers to come and join them.’ For more details go to http://dewsb […]
  Tim Chester
• The Friday Photo #29 March 19, 2010
  Just got back from Wales and the friends I stayed with introduced me to a brilliant programme called Hugin. It takes individual photos of the same scene and stick them together to make one large panoramic shot. Very clever and the outcome is very impressive (potentially!) I remembered the three shots I tried taking of a bay in Spain last summer, dropped the […]
  Simon Hutton
• No One Would Listen March 19, 2010
  In 1999 Harry Markopolos was a small-time number cruncher at a Boston firm; he was tasked with analyzing investment products. One day he was handed a prospectus outlining Bernie Madoff’s strategy and stellar results and asked to create a similar product. Very quickly he realized that such returns, consistent through good times and bad, peaks and valleys, wer […]
  Tim Challies
• Thirteen Tips for Leading the Congregation in Prayer March 19, 2010
  1. Prepare. Some traditions use set prayers. Others rely on extemporaneous prayers. Both have their place. But I believe what our congregations need most are studied prayers. These prayers may or may not be read, but will be thought through ahead of time. Public prayer is often boring because little thought is put into it. There’s no training for it, no effo […]
  Kevin DeYoung
• Can You Help Me With the Romans 8:1 Song? March 18, 2010
  This is a sketch (emphasis on “sketch”), of a new song I’m working on. Listen to it. Share your thoughts.
  Stephen Altrogge
• What are the elders talking about? March 17, 2010
  If you have ever wondered about what the elders are talking about when they get together- then come closer to the screen and I will let you be a fly on the wall for the first part of our meetings at the moment.We are reading and discussing the booklet 'A Display of God's glory' by Mark Dever - and those kind folks from 9 Marks have even made i […]
  Paul Rees
• Bible College? March 17, 2010
  MacArthur, Mohler and others talk here about the value of seminary training.  I particularly liked the balanced assessment of Rick Holland:   ”Nothing duplicates the depth and intensity of study in seminary. I’m not sure that Greek, Hebrew, Theology, and Exegesis can be learned any better than by giving three or four years of your life to them. Having said t […]
  Colin Adams