Think Wink.

On March 14, 2008, a couple–Jeremiah and Kenan Bradford–that used to go to my church and now pastors a Baptist church north of KC, became the proud parents of Miriam Bradford. This little girl was born at around 4:30 am on 3/14/08 via emergency C-section. Both mother and baby had an infection and the doctors didn’t know what it was initially. The bacteria was identified and treatment began. That following Monday (March 17, 2008), Kenan was released from the hospital and was finally able to see her baby for the first time as the baby was transferred to a children’s hospital. Miriam began to make progress towards a recovery but late Saturday morning on March 22, 2008, baby Miriam died in her parents arms. My pastor and music pastor performed the funeral for baby Miriam. The following sermon is based loosely around the message given at the funeral and deals with suffering and how to minister to those who suffer as well as what should our response be when God does not answer our prayers and in fact the exact opposite happens. It was very good.

Ben Witherington and Denominational Humor

Dr. Jerry Falwell

Paul and Original Sin

Here are some links for today.

Last summer, Dr. Daniel Wallace led a team that found a cash of never-before-seen Greek manuscripts for the New Testament. Here is a link to Dr. Wallace’s blog post on the find and a video link covering the story. Greek New Testament Manuscripts Discovered in Albania.

Video from a local news affiliate in Dallas/Fort Worth; H/T: Denny Burk.

Here is a good question asked by Eric Carpenter, “Where are all the Calvinist Troublemakers in the Southern Baptist Convention?“; H/T The Contemporary Calvinist.

Augustine

The New Captain America

Another look into euaggelion

I come to the conclusion of my brief stint in Ezra 7:10 and following the use of the infinitives in the text. We have covered the first two infinitives: “to study” and “to practice it.” Let us now turn to the third infinitive of Ezra 7:10,

For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the Lord, and to do it and to teach his statutes and rules in Israel.

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Ezra’s Infinitives Part 2

Ezra’s Infinitives

A New Way of Doing Devotions for this Year?

This is an amazing sermon preached at FCC two Sundays ago. I love it. Enjoy and be richly blessed by it.

What can I say?

Reviewing Spider-Man 3

This Is So Unreal.

Here are a couple of videos that feature Tim Keller lecturing from his new book The Reason for God and then taking Q&A. Magnificent.

Google

H/T: Tim Challies

Berkeley

H/T: Denny Burk

Preaching is a Means not an End.

That’s a Good Question

Musical Roots

Continuing in the series on Ezra’s infinitives found in Ezra 7:10. Let us put the text before us,

For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the Lord, and to do it and to teach his statutes and rules in Israel.

Today we are looking at the second infinitive: to do. Last time we looked at “to study the Law of the Lord.” There we saw that to study the Law was to seek Yahweh by studying Scripture. Today we are going to look at the second verb.
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Ezra’s Infinitives

Ezra’s Infinitives Part 3

A New Way of Doing Devotions for this Year?

This past week Ezra 7:10 has really been a focus of my attention and study. The text reads,

For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the Lord, and to do it and to teach his statutes and rules in Israel.

What struck me was the movement of the text in its infinitives: “to study,” “to do it,” and “to teach.” What makes this movement so compelling is what precedes this text in Ezra 7:9, “For the good hand of his God was on him.” Why was the good hand of the Yahweh upon Ezra, “For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the LORD, and to do it and to teach his statutes and rules in Israel.” In this three-part series, I want to examine each infinitive and how performing these actions led to the good hand of Yahweh to be on Ezra.
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Ezra’s Infinitives Part 2

Ezra’s Infinitives Part 3

June 13 is the relaunch of the Hulk movie franchise with the Incredible Hulk starring Edward Norton, William Hurt, and Liv Tyler. Here is the teaser in hi-res. Not sure what I think of who the Hulk is fighting at the end of the clip, but I like Norton and the Hulk looks good–I don’t know after the last Hulk movie how excited I am for another.

Here’s the video.

Behind the Scenes of the Incredible Hulk

July 4th and Optimus Prime

Iron Man Trailer

Liberalism, Jesus, and Eschatology

That is much better!

The Demands of the King

I know who I am going to vote for in November. One person I cannot vote for is Barak Obama. His record on abortion is abysmal, to put it nicely. Here is an open letter by Sherif Girgis to Barak Obama that is very good and gets to the heart of the issue of abortion.

Click here.

H/T: Denny Burk

Everyone Loses It At Some Point

Clinton and Carter’s New Initiative.

Ecclesiastes and the Election