Yeah, I was there.
It would not be too strong for me to say that this idea, put forward by the Reformers, carried on by C.S. Lewis, and championed by the DesiringGod ministry is changing my life. It is changing my approach to education, to parenting, to marriage, to everything.
“Christ is the end of the law”
Romans 10:4
Avatar is!
Just got word that I’ll be attending this in a couple weeks.
Needless to say, I’m monumentally excited.
Desiring God Pastor’s Conference 2010 from Andrew Laparra on Vimeo.
from John Piper’s ministry. Incredibly encouraging and helpful…
I’m pretty sure I’ve posted this before.
Worth another look, for sure.
From the 2006 DesiringGod Conference.
The man’s name is Voddie Baucham.
This is one reason why I required the purchase of an ESV Study Bible for my students this year, and why I hope to have the opportunity in the near future to persuade our ministry to move to the ESV as our official translation.
This is also one more reason why John Piper is one of the most important voices in evangelical Christianity.
Discovered through my dear friend Matthew Childers’ blog.
Great teaching about John the Baptist that I’ve echoed (by His grace) over the years.
Lots of poetry.
Great poetry about our great God
Here’s his most recent effort
Rejoice! Your Names Are Written in Heaven
Luke 10:17-20
The seventy-two returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!” And he said to them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall hurt you. Nevertheless, do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”
How quickly does a lightening bolt
Fall from the blackened clouds and strike the forest fair!
How powerful the fleeting volt
That vanishes at once and leaves a cinder there!
So quickly falls the ancient Snake
From his condemning height with all his cruel pangs,
When in Your name and for Your sake
We wield your mighty word and break his deadly fangs.
And as we leap to celebrate
This triumph in our hands, this best of mountain peaks,
Your voice, so calm and full of weight,
Cuts through our ecstasy, our festival, and speaks:
“Do not rejoice in this, dear ones,
That Satan and his hordes are subject to your voice,
But that, in heav’n as treasured sons,
Your names are written down. In this, in this, rejoice!
Rejoice, rejoice, my friends, my prize!
Your names are written there, in blood with my own hand.
Rejoice and sing, rejoice, arise
And leap for this: before the world, your name was planned.
Rejoice, your name is written there
Secure, and by this Lamb it is forever placed.
And thus by my own blood I swear:
Your name will never be, no never be, erased.”
“Idols tend to be good things that become god things and then turn into bad things.”
