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Yes, This Website Is iPhone Compatible!

 

 

Just in case you needed to know, Light Along the Journey checks out just fine on my new iPhone.  Too bad no Canadian blogger can do any of his own field testing. [...]

Christian Carnival CLXXVIII

This week’s Christian Carnival the weekly digest of what’s new in the Christian blogosphere is up here courtesy of Chasing [...]

The Essential John Piper

In preparation for Desiring God’s big $5 booksale this Wednesday and Thursday, the DG Blog has asked for some blogger recommendations from the dozens of books Dr. Piper has authored.

Well, I’ve only got 18 Piper books in my library, but here is my “essential Piper” list:

IF YOU CAN ONLY BUY ONE PIPER BOOK, then get Future [...]

The Faith of the Apostle John

Note: The following is article #17 in a series reflecting on chapters in John Piper’s book Future Grace. More information on the book from Amazon.com is available here. A list of all the articles in this series so far is available here.  

Chapter 16 of Future Grace starts with this statement:

If we go wrong on the nature [...]

Do the “Science” First

I recently attended a medical conference where the speaker said, “Do the science of medicine first, and then the art.”  By that, she meant that being a wonderful, kind, caring doctor doesn’t help your patient if you don’t know the science of the proper drug to give for pneumonia.  The science must come first, to [...]

The Spring of All Endless Joy

Seeing and savoring Christ’s glory is the spring of all endless joy.  —John Piper, When I Don’t Desire God: How to Fight For Joy

Why does that statement ring hollow to my soul so often?  My intellect assents to its truth, but my heart still doubts.

Why is that? Because I tend to fall into one of two [...]

Embracing Spiritual Beauty

Chapter Fifteen of Future Grace sheds some light on a crucial question: Who is a Christian? If you accept the evangelical doctrine of salvation by faith alone, you believe that only those who believe in Jesus Christ, who have “saving faith,” possess eternal life.

Note: The following is article #16 in a series reflecting on chapters [...]

Web Watch: The Automated Topical Bible

This is something new:  a topical Bible that is generated by a computer algorithm!  By using several programming tools from Yahoo! and the ESV Bible, this website allows you to type a word, like “marriage” or “salvation”, and pop! it generates relevant Bible verses.  Since it is dynamically generated by computer, you generally get fairly pertinent [...]

Don’t Worry, Nothing Can Go Wrong!

It’s a classic line, that you have heard both from your friends and in dozens of movies:

“Don’t worry, nothing can go wrong!” 

But as we all know, things can.  In the past few weeks I have had to field questions about a certain diabetes medicine that seemed to be safe, and then contradictory research surfaced in [...]

Piling Up Pebbles or Digging For Diamonds?

I’m not much of one for little poems found on the internet, but I stumbled across one last week that made me think:

Never take someone for granted
Hold every person close to your heart
because you might wake up one day
and realize that you’ve lost a diamond
while you were too busy collecting stones…

So, I thought to myself, [...]