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Changes in the IM Podcast + New Year’s greetings. (Sorry for the bad mix at the end. I’m still learning how to use new software.)

 

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Podcast 31 Answering some listener mail. Very good questions on Creationism and Christian Morality.
The podcast website is Coffee Cup Apologetics.
All the episodes of Coffee Cup Apologetics are now on iTunes. Go to iTunes and search for “Apologetics.”
LINK: Why I’m Not A Young Earth Creationist.

 

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I don’t know much about Sydney Anglicans, so I’m not in any position to say anything about the truthfulness of this interesting comment found on the Light of the World, A City on a Hill website. What I will say, however, is that the commenter is a bright fellow saying some very perceptive things about […]

I preached this message- or a version of it- this morning at a church nearby.
“What Now?”
A Sermon for the First Sunday after Christmas, December 30, 2007
First Presbyterian Church, London, Kentucky
Michael Spencer, preacher

Scripture: Matthew 2:12-19, John 1:1-18
As our students were preparing to leave school the Friday before Christmas, we had a power outage. There’s nothing like […]

How about some 2008 Predictions?
1. Barak Obama will defeat Mitt Romney for President and evangelicals who refused to vote for Romney will be blamed. The GOP’s conservative coalition will fragment significantly as a result. Democrats will accuse anyone who refuses to vote for Obama of being some kind of racist. Frightening racial incidents related to […]

Get out the ginger ale and order pizza. It’s time for the coveted Internet Monk “Favorite Blogs of the Year” list.
This year’s list majors on personal blogs by writers you need to be reading. These are bloggers I enjoy, look forward to and respect. They put together blogs that demonstrate what blogging can be […]

UPDATE: One of the reasons we go down this road every year is to laugh a bit and tell one another it’s OK. (Those of us in the evangelical wilderness need this. The rest of you talk amongst yourselves.) But we also do something else, which for a few is always difficult: we give ourselves […]

There’s been a bunch of detailed reviews of Multnomah Bible professor Paul Metzger’s book Consuming Jesus already out there. (Be sure and check out the Scot McKnight-Darryl Dash debate for one.) I’m not going to try and weigh in on the issues better people are discussing. I may sound a little “Joel Osteen on Larry […]

You are invited to add your insights on the similarities of these three stories.
Three stories. Three men in the second half of life.
Story one. An almost perfect man loses everything. Unknown to him, God is in a contest with Satan, proving that the this man’s righteousness is no fluke. He loses family, wealth and health. […]

John Armstrong questions the concept of Christian hedonism, and interestingly, is immediately told that conversation shouldn’t happen. Sound familiar to anyone?
BTW- I heard the confrontation of Colson’s talk on “Duty” by Piper that Armstrong refers to. It was at a Ligonier Conference years ago. The room went into shock at Piper calling out Colson, and […]

This is the season of “Best of” lists, and I’m sure Pierced For Our Transgressions by Steve Jeffery, Michael Ovey and Andrew Sach will be on more than a few lists. In the past year, Pierced For Our Transgressions may be the best-reviewed, highest recommended book in the Reformed blogosphere.
It was also one of the […]

UPDATE: Check out what Williams really said when he used the word “legend.” Talk about a hit piece. Sad.
Here’s the Transcript. Check out the deliberate misquoting.
UPDATE II: Here’s Williams just a few days ago when asked if he believed in the virgin birth.
Yes; I believe that the conception of Jesus was a moment when the […]

An Advent/Christmas devotion and greetings.

 

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UPDATE: Rev. Dowd has graciously joined the comment thread.
Thank God For Evolution! is available as a free pdf download. If you haven’t read the book and don’t plan on it, please keep your comments about the book and the author appropriately humble. Don’t expect a creationist debate in the comments of this post. Also, I […]

In the first place the situation in the actual world is much more complicated than that. The world does not consist of 100 per cent Christians and 100 per cent non-Christians. There are people (a great many of them) who are slowly ceasing to be Christians but who still call themselves by that name; some […]