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> Interesting links I've found lately
There is a received dogma within our culture that says using labels to define who you are either politically, religiously, or any other way, is divisive and arrogant. Instead we should just amorphously state our opinions on various subjects instead of using these labels that cause divisions and splits within ... Read More
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Windows XP SP3 Released: DO NOT Upgrade Yet
Posted On Tuesday, 27 May 2008 By David Westerfield. Under Technology
Apparently, there are a number of people reporting serious problems with this service pack that have rendered some machines totally useless, in need of a total reinstall to get them to work again. You might want to hold out installing this for a little while longer. Here is just a ... Read More
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Assurance of Salvation – Applying Two Tests to Our Lives
Posted On Sunday, 25 May 2008 By David Westerfield. Under Theology
This section is excerpted from the application at the end of a sermon by John Piper. To read the exposition of the Scriptures supporting this, consult the full sermon here: http://www.desiringgod.org/ResourceLibr ... Confesses/
Let's close by applying these two tests to our own lives.
1. The test of hearing and confessing the ... Read More
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Follow your Heart – the Money Will Come!
Posted On Saturday, 24 May 2008 By David Westerfield. Under Apologetics, Christian Culture, Culture, Philosophy of Ministry, Theology
This was the title of a blog entry from a corporate New Age guru on the internet. I can only say that coming from the world, this statement makes a whole lot of sense and I seek not to critique that perspective in this entry. They say we are to ... Read More
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Original: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/st ... _eye/print
Archived: http://www.westerfunk.net/archives/secu ... ing%20Eye/
I don't normally read RollingStone Magazine, but I stumbled across a link to an article while on Bruce Schneier's security blog. In short, China is performing a social/spying experiment upon a city called Shenzhen. Every spy toy imaginable is being employed in the service ... Read More
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What Convinced You of Reformed Theology?
Posted On Thursday, 22 May 2008 By David Westerfield. Under Apologetics, Theology Tags: Bethlehem Baptist, Calvinism, convinced, Five Points, John Piper, limited atonment, reformed theology
I have asked a few people this now, and the overwhelming majority of those I asked said that what did it for them was the section on limited atonement in the position paper entitled What We Believe About the Five Points of Calvinism written by John Piper and Bethlehem Baptist ... Read More
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When Courtney and I were engaged on October 12, 2000, she was 19 and I was 21, 20 and 22 when married on June 8, 2001. As the news began spreading about our engagement, we had a lot of people cheering us on, very excited to share with us in ... Read More
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Gay Marriage, Bioethics, Oil, and the Sovereign King
Posted On Wednesday, 21 May 2008 By David Westerfield. Under Business, Culture, Economics, Environment, Politics, Theology
Women win right to children without fathers (in Britain)
Coming to grips with same-sex marriage ruling (in California)
Much can be said about all this, but only a few things are needed: we are looking at the hardening of people's hearts in the West toward not only a Christian worldview, but even ... Read More
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Dr. James White's closing statement in a debate with George Bryson over Calvinism
God is God and I am not. Who am I to answer back to God as to why He does or does not choose to save everyone, or to demand Him to treat everyone alike with the same ... Read More
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