Monthly Archives: September 2007

Should we Plant Churches or Revitalize Old Ones?

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This is the questions Al Mohler tackles in his most recent post, Church Planting Movements and the Great Commission.  In the end, he concludes that planting new churches must compliment and not castigate the revitalization of older churches.  Ultimately, “churches will grow only as Christians share the Gospel with people who desperately need to hear it — and that will hold true no matter how old or young the congregation may be.”

For those of you wondering my surgery went fantastic yesterday.  My leg, which I thought would hurt the worst, is feeling great although my back feels like someone just beat me.  The stitches will come out next Friday just in time to go help and older congregation under new leadership catch a vision for being a missionary in their community.

I Cannot Believe I am Endorsing Apple

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Wow, first, I have not posted in quite a while and yet I have posted twice today.  Second, both posts have been about topics that I am not particularly fond of.  Just to give you an idea of what a shock this is to me: there is only one Apple product in my house and we received it free.  Whenever QuickTime updates and automatically installs iTunes, I immediately delete iTunes, in order to have a minimal number of Apple programs running on my PC.  Call me a PC fanboy but I am just not big on Apple.

Why then am I writing this post?  Because Apple has just released a new feature to its iTunes store called iTunes U.  At iTunes U, you can watch classes from a host of schools like Duke, MIT, Stanford, and Yale.  What I am excited about are the free classes from Reformed Theological Seminary, like the 26 session Christian Apologetics class by John Frame.  So if you have iTunes check these resources out.  If you do not have iTunes download it and check these resources out.  Have no fears Windows Media Player you are still my dedicated media player.

Preaching, Teaching, and Studying the Word of God

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I cannot stand, I mean really loathe, posting about someone else’s post but I have been busy lately and am going to do just that.  Ryan Townsend has a post over at Church Matters, the 9Marks blog, entitled ‘Preach the Word’: Tools for Interpreting & Applying God’s Word which I found to be informative.  He provides a series of questions, from several sources, which one should answer when studying Scripture.  These questions should be quite helpful to everyone.

On a personal note I have been reading many books lately and should have some book reviews up sometime soon; I have been meaning to work on that section for a while but have not gotten around to it yet.  There are also some interesting happenings in the news, which I hope to post on, in the coming future.

More Political Musings

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I was rereading J. Gresham Machen’s Christianity and Liberalism and was struck by the following quote as it relates to several things but principally its relation to politics.

A solid building cannot be constructed when all the materials are faulty; a blessed society cannot be formed out of men who are still under the curse of sin. Human institutions are really to be molded, not by Christian principles accepted by the unsaved, but by Christian men; the true transformation of society will come by the influence of those who have themselves been redeemed (158).