Where the WMDs Went

I want to draw your attention to a must read interview (by Jamie Glazov). This could have some bearing on how you feel about the war in Iraq.

Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Bill Tierney, a former military intelligence officer and Arabic speaker who worked at Guantanamo Bay in 2002 and as a counter-infiltration operator in Baghdad in 2004. He was also an inspector (1996-1998) for the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) for overseeing the elimination of weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles in Iraq. He worked on the most intrusive inspections during this period and either participated in or planned inspections that led to four of the seventeen resolutions against Iraq.

Continue reading the interview here.

Kal El Comes Back

WB aired the first teaser for Superman Returns during Smallville last night.

Oh man, it's definitely a teaser, leaving you wanting more.

The movie comes out June 30, 2006.

You can download the teaser here.

QotD

Nathan White over at Preach the word concludes a three part critique of Johnny Hunt's recent sermon regarding the sovereignty of God with this great quote from C. Spurgeon:

"There is no attribute of God more comforting to his children than the doctrine of Divine Sovereignty. Under the most adverse circumstances, in the most severe troubles, they believe that Sovereignty hath ordained their afflictions, that Sovereignty overrules them, and that Sovereignty will sanctify them all. There is nothing for which the children of God ought more earnestly to contend than the dominion of their Master over all creation the kingship of God over all the works of his own hands the throne of God, and his right to sit upon that throne. On the other hand, there is no doctrine more hated by worldlings, no truth of which they have made such a foot-ball, as the great, stupendous, but yet most certain doctrine of the Sovereignty of the infinite Jehovah. Men will allow God to be everywhere except on his throne. They will allow him to be in his workshop to fashion worlds and to make stars. They will allow him to be in his almonry to dispense his alms and bestow his bounties. They will allow him to sustain the earth and bear up the pillars thereof, or light the lamps of heaven, or rule the waves of the ever-moving ocean; but when God ascends his throne, his creatures then gnash their teeth; and when we proclaim an enthroned God, and his right to do as he wills with his own, to dispose of his creatures as he thinks well, without consulting them in the matter, then it is that we are hissed and execrated, and then it is that men turn a deaf ear to us, for God on his throne is not the God they love. They love him anywhere better than they do when he sits with his sceptre in his hand and his crown upon his head. But it is God upon the throne that we love to preach. It is God upon his throne whom we trust. -CHH Spurgeon, Divine Sovereignty, a Sermon delivered May 4th, 1856"

QotD

"Maybe I'll adopt."

Read article here and you'll understand why this is the Quote of the Day.

YeeOUCH!!

"With Regrets, All My Love"

All of my life I've been around the ministry. When I was in high school & college, some of my most influential heroes have been pastors. And I even walked the aisle when I was 17 "surrendering" to full-time Christian service. It made my heroes proud. I was within a sub-culture of the hopeful; I was one of many "clones" who was primed to go in to the Glorious (thanks little Darrell!) ministry.

With that said, it struck a chord Wednesday when I read iMonk's latest blog entry With Regrets, All My Love. It's a powerful, personal apology from Michael Spencer to his family for going into full-time ministry.

It brings up another issue that I've been thinking about a lot for the past year. Bi-Vocational ministry.

iMonk commented:

I was only dimly aware of bivocational ministry as a young preacher. I became more aware of it as I met lots of small church pastors. The problem was this: the entire SBC approach to ministry was set in a “full time/church growth” context, with the big Texas churches and Evangelist style pastors held up as normal. Bivoc=failure.

I'm still chewing on this so, more thoughts later...

Anakin stopped by my house on Halloween...

...and he found my lack of candy "disturbing".
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Drs. Mohler and Patterson to debate Calvinism

Exciting news from the Founders Blog...

This is something you would never have dreamed about 20 years ago. Recently it was announced that Drs. Al Mohler and Paige Patterson will take a session at the 2006 Pastors' Conference prior to the annual Southern Baptist Convention in Greensboro, NC to debate Calvinism. While some will no doubt be very nervous to hear about these plans, such a debate holds promise of accomplishing much good in SBC life.

Continue reading here.