Thousands of chanting demonstrators filled the streets of Jena, La yesterday. Read more here.
“It’s not about black and white. It’s about right and wrong. I would like to see these young men set free,” said Martha Kelly, 64, of Alexandria, La. Amen!
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Justice
A Blog to Add
Randy Alcorn of Eternal Perspectives Ministries is blogging here.
Here’s his description:
About Jesus, Scripture, the Christian life, heaven, discipleship and BOOKS, both fiction and non-fiction. I’ll share what I’m learning, reading and writing. I’ll talk about my family. I’ll read every comment, and wish I could respond more. Thanks for visiting. Follow Jesus. If you [...]
Piper on Biblical Counseling
Piper’s definition of biblical counseling from The Journal of Biblical Counseling, Winter 2002:
God-centered, Bible-saturated, emotionally-in-touch use of language to help people become God-besotted, Christ-exalting, joyfully self-forgetting lovers of people.
Civil Rights March for Jena Six Today
Read more about it here on NPR.
For more stories from NPR on the Jena Six case click here.
Especially interesting is the interview with two pastors (one white, one black) talking about the role of the church in the case.
Throwing Rocks at People’s Houses
Check out this great post by Brent on Driscoll and finding a healthy balance in reaching our culture with the Gospel.
Mornings in the Gospels
One of my two final courses for my degree is Gospels. I’m digging the mix of the Puritans (my other class) and walking through the stories of Jesus. I’m taking this class through the RTS Virtual campus and I have to say it has been a great experience so far. My routine is to listen [...]
Test 1 2 3, see if this…
Test 1 2 3, see if this posts to my blog from jott on my cell phone.
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Imprecatory Psalms
That’s the fancy name for those Psalms that you just aren’t sure what to do with? You know, the ones that call on God to destroy the wicked and for vengeance on one’s enemies. For years I kind of skipped over those verses.
JT has been posting on John Day’s book Crying for Justice: What [...]
Backup
I just backed up my computer. I feel good though I need to be more diligent with backing up - once every two months is better than not at all but I would still lose a lot of irreplacable data.
What is your backup plan? What program do you use?
Racism Today!
I am almost at a loss for words. I know racism exists today but as I watched this video about the Jena 6 case in Louisiana there is a part of me that cannot believe this is actually going on today! Please watch it and please pray for justice. And please be reminded that there [...]
