What I Read Online – 10/27/2011 (a.m.)

• Videos for the everyday pastor – Reformation21 Blog

  • Carl’s right we need more videos dealing with everyday pastoral issues for reformed ministers. Let me give you some of the hot potatoes we’re all struggling with.

     

     

     

    Collection – bags or box at the back?

     

    Communion – Big cups or shot glasses?

     

    Lecterns – Clear plastic or wooden writing desk?

     

    Announcements – Before or in the middle?

     

    After service refreshments – Biscuits or Cake?

     

    Coffee – Instant or real deal?

     

    Bookshelves in the minister’s study – Ikea Billy Bookcases or freestanding shelves?

• Christianity.com: What should I look for in a local church?-Mark Dever – Education Videos

  • What should I look for in a local church?-Mark Dever

• Christianity.com: Why is it important for Christians to join a local church?-Mark Dever – Education Videos

  • Why is it important for Christians to join a local church?-Mark Dever

• Christianity.com: How do I know that I’ve been called into ministry?-Mark Dever – Education Videos

  • How do I know that I’ve been called into ministry?-Mark Dever

• Christianity.com: What is atonement?-Mark Dever – Education Videos

  • What is atonement?-Mark Dever

• Christianity.com: What is church discipline and why is it important?-Mark Dever – Education Videos

  • What is church discipline and why is it important?-Mark Dever

• Christianity.com: What books would you recommend on the topic of Church history?-Mark Dever – Education Videos

  • What books would you recommend on the topic of Church history?-Mark Dever

• Christianity.com: Why do we rarely see church discipline initiated over sins like gossip or pride?-Mark Dever – Education Videos

  • Why do we rarely see church discipline initiated over sins like gossip or pride?-Mark Dever

• Add Water’s Quantum Forces to the List of Things that Are Finely-Tuned for Life | Proslogion

  • If water didn’t have such nice properties, life as we know it would not be possible.
  • In other words, one of the many reasons life as we know it can exist is that there are two competing quantum-mechanical effects in water, and they work together so that water can have its life-giving properties! For me, this indicates two very important facts. First, the Creation that God gave us is fantastically complex. Even something as mundane as water is governed by such complicated interactions that we only now have a good idea as to why hydrogen bonding between water molecules works so well. Second, not only are the major characteristics of the universe finely-tuned so that life can exist, even the quantum forces in water have been finely-tuned so that life can exist. What an amazing design!

• Christianity.com: What is the gospel? Is it relevant for Christians after they are saved?-Mark Dever – Education Videos

  • What is the gospel? Is it relevant for Christians after they are saved?-Mark Dever

• Christianity.com: Is it possible to love Jesus without loving the church?-Mark Dever – Education Videos

  • Is it possible to love Jesus without loving the church?-Mark Dever

• AlbertMohler.com – Does Joel Osteen Not Know, or Does He Not Care?

• Church Size: The Fault Line in the Movement | 9Marks

• Covenant Theologian: Heinrich Bullinger by Steven Lawson | Ligonier Ministries Blog

• Those dogs that never seem to bark – Reformation21 Blog

  • Issues raised by visiting old people who are housebound or living in elderly care homes.

    Issues raised by that church member who is a faithful attender but descending slowly into the fog of Alzheimer’s disease.

    How to conduct a funeral for a small child who has just died of cancer.

    How to comfort the parents of said child.

    How to help the man or woman in the boring, undignified but necessary job (say, lavatory cleaning) to find dignity and glorify God in their work situation.

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