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      • Happy New Year!
        12/31/08
        Wow, 2008 went by fast with a lot of dramatic events. I pray this year is productive for the church in ministering the Gospel to a dying world, that the Lord would continue to prod us all toward holiness and, that by His grace, we would find the final freedom and acceptance in the promises of the Go

      • A Honest Criticism of My Own Life
        12/30/08
        (Original): http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/art
        (Archived): http://www.westerfunk.net/archives/theo

        After reading this article by Keller, and reading more in The Discipline of Grace by Jerry Bridges, I feel like too many times, what I write on here fits the mold of what Keller an

      • Driven By Purposes or Promises? - Michael Horton
        12/29/08

      • Babylon the Great and Our Souls' Final Satisfaction
        12/29/08
        "And the merchants of the earth weep and mourn for her, since no one buys their cargo anymore, cargo of gold, silver, jewels, pearls, fine linen, purple cloth, silk, scarlet cloth, all kinds of scented wood, all kinds of articles of ivory, all kinds of articles of costly wood, bronze, iron and

      • How Fascinating - Unintended Pragmatic Results
        12/28/08
        "Most Americans who have an opinion about Warren like him and his '" - Fred R. Conrad

        (Original): http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/opinion/28rich.html
        (Archived): http://www.westerfunk.net/archives/chri

        Who do you think this quote came from? A uber-critical

      • A Beautiful Picture of Justification
        12/27/08
        "Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord, and Satan standing at his right hand to accuse him. And the Lord said to Satan, 'The Lord rebuke you, O Satan! The Lord who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Is not this a brand plucked from the fire?' Now

      • The Downside to Blogging
        12/26/08
        One thing I have increasingly observed and noticed among people who comment or send me messages is that they perceive my blog to be my entire summed up thinking. In all reality, this site is like 1/10 (perhaps an even higher ratio, like 1/15) of my total summed up spiritual life. That is to say, my

      • One of My Favorite Songs From Boards of Canada
        12/25/08

      • What Is Christmas About? - The Good News of An Objective Salvation
        12/24/08
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        In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. This was the first registration when Quirinius was governor of Syria. And all went to be registered, each to his own town. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the town of Nazareth, to Jud

      • Christless Christianity - Michael Horton
        12/23/08

      • Isn't It Ironic? Don't Ya Think?
        12/23/08
        I find it ironic and funny to see so many emerging/emergent types so freely and publicly proclaim their "humble" service to others, I guess as if to say, "Look, I'm doing my part to help the poor and disenfranchised, what about you?" Sounds like the very selfishness, self-ri

      • John Piper Caught Throwing West-side Gang Sign
        12/23/08

      • The Worldview of New Age Business Leadership Guru Lance Secretan
        12/23/08


        This is a brief clip of one of Lance Secretan's presentations to a group of corporate employees. Notice how at the beginning of this clip, he disregards anything Christianity had to offer in history as an explanation for natural and supernatural reality. He doesn't even mention

      • On Caroline Kennedy as Senator
        12/22/08
        Do I really need to comment on this? If she even gets selected as an option for the Senate seat, that will be the biggest power play in history of someone with a only a family name for credentials, who has absolutely no political experience, and no solid, proven work experience. She can't even

      • The 'I Am Second' Campaign - A Review
        12/21/08
        (Original): http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent
        (Archived): http://www.westerfunk.net/archives/chri

        Being an evangelical Christian in our culture and at the same time being bombarded with these techniques of the evangelical church of which I am apart, in the name of witnessing on

      • A Great Summation of the Entire Bible and Particularly the Gospel
        12/20/08
        I found this on the front page of theopedia.org:

        "The message of Christianity is that the God who created the heavens and the earth identified himself with the people of Israel and related to them in a way that pointed to the needed coming of the Messiah. This Messiah would atone for

      • A Call To Move Forward - The Practical Results of Seeker-Sensitivity
        12/20/08
        As Carl Trueman on Reformation21.org and Al Mohler on almohler.com have pointed out recently, something is so fascinating with the recent wave of criticism by the left of Obama asking Rick Warren to perform the invocation at his inauguration (which I must give Obama credit on being a consistent rela

      • Illustrating Total Depravity
        12/19/08
        News as entertainment dominates our culture. It has for quite a while. This can be clearly seen in the recent Caylee Anthony story, the little girl who was allegedly killed by her own mother. Of course this is an unbelievably sad story and the pain caused by such a tragic act is tremendous for all p

      • CNN Meteorologist: Manmade Global Warming Theory 'Arrogant'
        12/18/08

      • The Great Divine Conundrum
        12/15/08
        "O Lord, according to all your righteous acts, let your anger and your wrath turn away from your city Jerusalem..." - Daniel 9:16

        In light of God's justice and righteousness in the Old Testament, how he poured out his wrath on the nations surrounding Israel and even on Isra

      • Plaid - E.M.R.
        12/13/08

      • A Perfect Example of a Postmodern Religious Perspective
        12/12/08
        Original: The Gospel of Will Smith - Newsweek.com
        Archived: The Gospel of Will Smith - Westerfunk.net

        I love Will Smith. I think he's such an awesome actor. But we part ways on issues concerning Jesus. We do not worship or speak of the same Jesus together. Al Mohler pointed this

      • Something I Have to be Careful About - Cynicism Toward Evangelicalism
        12/12/08
        http://www.christreformed.org/telling-p - Dr. Kim Riddlebarger

        Some things in this article really spoke to me about my own sinful tendency toward cynicism concerning evangelicalism. I'm very discouraged with the movement and where things are headed. I made that clear in my recent pos

      • True Change or Politics as Usual?
        12/11/08
        As I was watching CNN this morning before work, they came on with the story about the Illinois Governor and possible ties with people inside Obama's transition team and those inside his newly minted cabinet. The CNN headline read, "True Change? Or Politics as Usual?"

        I hav

      • Where Did the Mighty Green Push Go?
        12/11/08
        Oh yeah, that's right ... it was all marketing anyway, a facade ... and when the economy crashes, marketing and advertising are the first things to get cut. Plus, when the economy is down, there's no money to be made, because the green push only works when the economy is doing well. Hmm, w

      • Warren: Try Trusting Jesus for 60 Days ... Or Your Money Back, Guaranteed?
        12/10/08


        Now I know Warren was joking in the video when he said this, but seriously. Wow. Thanks for this, Rick. That is exactly how your presentation comes across in all reality.

        I must say, with Warren being a spokesman for Evangelicalism, I'm a bit ashamed of this Gospel presen

      • More Than 650 Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims
        12/10/08
        This is just too good not to comment on:

        (Original): http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?
        (Archived): http://www.westerfunk.net/archives/scie

        Just read some of the quotes from top-level, international scientists at the UN conference on climate change. Unbelievable. To t

      • Where Are We Headed? Praise God He's in Control of All Things
        12/08/08

      • The End Point of the Five Points
        12/07/08
        We in the Reformed community talk incessantly about the Five Points of Calvinism like there is no tomorrow (from here on referred to simply as the Five Points). I'm even doing that in this blog post in fact. This is not without good reason, but I believe the Five Points themselves, if not kept

      • The Calvinistic Resurgence in America - Humbly Thank God, Cease All Boasting
        12/06/08
        http://www.banneroftruth.org/pages/arti

        "To this reviewer the Reformed Faith means four things. First, there is a love for Martin Luther and what God wrought through him in the amazing re-establishment of the doctrine of justification by faith and clarity about salvation which has it

      • Contentment - A Puritan Prayer from The Valley of Vision
        12/04/08
        Heavenly Father, if I should suffer need, and go unclothed, and be in poverty, make my heart prize Thy love, know it, be constrained by it, though I be denied all blessings. It is Thy mercy to afflict and try me with wants, for by these trials I see my sins, and desire severance from them. Let me wi

      • Believing in Grace or Resting in Grace?
        12/04/08
        I have now finished reading John Piper's response to N.T. Wright concerning justification, entitled The Future of Justification. While I could go on about some of the things said in it, there was one particular point that struck me. In critiquing Wright's understanding of first century, Se

      • Thoughts on Piper's Book, The Future of Justification - A Partial Review
        12/02/08
        In the past, just doing a cursory reading of some of N.T. Wright's statements on justification, I thought that I could at least grasp a basic concept of his understanding of this centrally important piece of the Gospel message. Then I picked up Piper's book. Now I'm even more confused

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