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Monthly Archives January 2007

Abortion

Today marks the 34th year since the Supreme Court issued its ruling for Roe v. Wade.
Justin Taylor quotes Richard John Neuhaus saying that Roe v. Wade is “the most consequential cultural and political event in American history in the past half century,” establishing “an unlimited abortion license that wiped from the books of all fifty [...]

Posted 22 January 2007 † Jason § Home Life ‡ Comments (2)

Biblical Counseling Resources

I’m thankful for this season where my job allows me to spend time reading and wrestling with issues in the counseling realm. As such, I am always hunting for great resources when it comes to counseling (how people change, theology of change, how to help people change, how to personally change, where does God and [...]

Posted 20 January 2007 † Jason § Gospel Life ‡ Comments (7)

Motivation to Read Romans

Want some motivation to read Romans? I don’t think anyone says it stronger than Luther in his Preface to his commentary on the book!
“This Epistle is really the chief part of the New Testament and the very purest Gospel, and is worthy not only that every Christian should know it word for word, by [...]

Posted 16 January 2007 † Jason § Not Sure Where to File ‡ Comments (0)

Take the First Year Off

My good friend Jonathan Dodson, who is planting a church in Austin, TX, just had a great article published in Boundless on taking the first year of marriage off. Shawnda and I did a similar thing and wouldn’t do it any differently - it has been foundational for our marriage.

Posted 11 January 2007 † Jason § Home Life ‡ Comments (1)

Repentance

Here is the Westminster Confession of Faith definition of repentance. Makes me ask, 1) Do I repent this way? 2) Do we promote this type of repentance in our evangelism?:
“By Repentance a sinner, out of the sight and sense, not only of danger, but also of the filthiness and odiousness of his sins, as [...]

Posted 10 January 2007 † Jason § Not Sure Where to File ‡ Comments (0)

Josh Harris on Purity - Part 1

Started listening to Josh Harris’ first message on Purity from this past Sunday at Covenant Life Church this morning. He is preaching from Proverbs 5 and addressing the whole family. Great resource. Listen or download here.

Posted 10 January 2007 † Jason § Gospel Life ‡ Comments (0)

Apple iPhone

I can’t think of anything technologically cooler! Update: Kevin Cawley got his today and you can too!

Posted 09 January 2007 † Jason § Not Sure Where to File ‡ Comments (6)

State of the Blog

I’ve been wrestling for the past few days with the Lord over the profitableness of my blog and the blogs I read and how I can be a good steward of it all. Justin Taylor’s post last week and the two quotes he included hit me hard:
“The blogosphere is the friend of information but the [...]

Posted 04 January 2007 † Jason § Not Sure Where to File ‡ Comments (7)

Passion ‘07 Streaming

The Passion conference is streaming their main sessions (both worship and talks) for a limited time. Check them out here. I’m currently listening to John Piper on “How to Deal with the Guilt of Sexual Failure for the Glory of Christ and His Global Cause”.
Update: Just finished the message and cannot recommend it highly [...]

Posted 04 January 2007 † Jason § Gospel Life ‡ Comments (0)

Great Tunes

I had found Semper Reformanda Records awhile back through Drew Goodmanson’s blog but just revisited it and haven’t been able to stop listening to all the sample tracks they have on there. Go to ‘artists’ and download them all!
Or to make it easier here’s the links to one of the artists that I’ve been [...]

Posted 02 January 2007 † Jason § Church Life § Gospel Life ‡ Comments (4)