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> Interesting links I've found lately
1.5 TB Western Digital Caviar Green: Don’t Get One (Update 4: Turning the Corner?)
Posted On Monday, 26 Apr 2010 By David Westerfield. Under Reviews, Technology Tags: 1.5 TB, Caviar Green, Failed, Hard Drive, Harddrive, Hardware, Reviews, SATA, Technology, WD, WD15EADS, Western Digital
Update 4 (1/16/2011): Actually, they have now shipped the original drive they said they were going to send and it's in Dallas currently. Not sure what that RMA email was about with the other drive type.
Update 3 (1/15/2011): Apparently the drive type has changed unexpectedly during the RMA process to ... Read More
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Mohler Reviews John R. Franke’s New Book, Manifold Witness
Posted On Wednesday, 04 Nov 2009 By David Westerfield. Under Reviews, Theology Tags: Albert Mohler, Blog, critique, emergent, Emerging, emerging church, John R. Franke, Manifold Witness, Plurality of Truth, Postmodernism, reformed, Relativism, review, Western Christianity
Is Truth Really Plural? Postmodernism in Full Flower - Albert Mohler (A Review of John R. Franke's new book, Manifold Witness)
UPDATE (11/05/2009):
Once again, as the case has been time and again, I agree with many of the critiques and assessments of the emerging/emergent movement concerning where modern American, Western ... Read More
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American Patriot’s Bible – Words Cannot Describe II
Posted On Tuesday, 18 Aug 2009 By David Westerfield. Under Christian Culture, Reviews, Theology Tags: American Dream, American Patriot’s Bible, bible, Christian Culture, evangelicalism, Nationalism, review, Scripture
America has a rich history rooted in the Christian faith, drawing many principles from Scripture. And while this is true, it does not lend us the conclusion that America was a "Christian nation," even at our founding. Such an assumption is absurd and presents a misguided interpretation of history and ... Read More
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American Patriot’s Bible – Words Cannot Describe
Posted On Monday, 17 Aug 2009 By David Westerfield. Under Christian Culture, Reviews, Theology Tags: American Dream, American Patriot's Bible, Christian Culture, evangelicalism, Nationalism, review, Scripture
American Patriot's Bible: combining God's infallible Word with the idolatry of American nationalism.
If there is anything that really gets my blood boiling, it is any piece of merchandise or any program or movement that holds up the idea that being an American equals being a converted, born-again Christian, something plaguing ... Read More
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The Shack – A Review
Posted On Friday, 19 Jun 2009 By David Westerfield. Under Christian Culture, Culture, Reviews, Theology Tags: Penal Substitution, review, substitutionary atonement, The Shack, Trinity, William P. Young
There are so many reviews that have done a fine job of explaining the pros and cons of this book that I don't feel I need to go into this for very long.
First, I'll just say that after reading it, the picture of God's sovereignty and reasons for ordaining that ... Read More
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Liberating a Captive Church – The Foreword to Christless Christianity
Posted On Thursday, 30 Apr 2009 By David Westerfield. Under Christian Culture, Philosophy of Ministry, Reviews, Theology Tags: book, Christless Christianity, contemporary Christianity, critique, evangelicalism, michael horton, Monergism Books, review, solution
Here we are in the North American church—conservative or liberal, evangelical or mainline, Protestant or Catholic, emergent or otherwise—cranking along just fine, thank you. So we’re busy downsizing, becoming culturally relevant, reaching out, drawing in, making disciples, managing the machinery, utilizing biblical principles, celebrating recovery, user-friendly, techno savvy, finding the ... Read More
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Shack Author William P. Young Explicitly Denies Penal Substitution (MP3)
Posted On Tuesday, 10 Mar 2009 By David Westerfield. Under Audio, Christian Culture, Personal, Reviews, Theology Tags: Audio, Denial, Heresy, Interview, MP3, Penal Substitution, review, The Shack, William P. Young, William Young
Interview conducted by Kendall Adams with William P. Young, author of The Shack: http://rock-life.com/files/shakcomp.mp3
(To hear the specific denial, fast-forward 16 minutes into the audio)
I realize many people have a love affair with The Shack. I know some of those very people. They find it to have really given them a ... Read More
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How Did the Economic House of Cards Fall? (MP3′s)
Posted On Tuesday, 17 Feb 2009 By David Westerfield. Under Audio, Business, Economics, Events, History, Reviews Tags: another frightening show about the economy, Audio, bad bank, default swap, Economic Crisis, economy, giant pool of money, Journalism, market crisis, mortgage, MP3, scenes from a recession, subprime loan, subprime mortgage, the watchmen, this american life
These two three four five six radio programs on This American Life do an excellent job of giving an on-the-street perspective from the Wall Street investors to the lenders all the way down to the individual home-buyers and finally the results of the recession in everyday life. In addition, there ... Read More
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Since When Did Sesame Street Go Ghetto?
Posted On Monday, 09 Feb 2009 By David Westerfield. Under Apologetics, Culture, Reviews, Theology Tags: children's education, Christian review, review, secularism, secularization, sesame street, worldview
I used to love this show growing up. It was very influential in my early developmental years. I loved all the characters and the songs and it used to be a defining time during the weekdays when I knew my dad was coming home from work. Needless to say, I ... Read More
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MP3 Sermons on Romans 9 – John Piper
Posted On Wednesday, 04 Feb 2009 By David Westerfield. Under Audio, Reviews, Scripture, Theology Tags: Audio, election, gospel, grace, grace alone, interpretation, israel, John Piper, mercy, MP3, pharaoh, predestination, preterition, Promises, Reprobation, Romans 9, Sovereignty, Unconditional Election
If you really want to dive deep into the implications and ramifications of God's grace and mercy to us in Christ, you really need to take the time to listen to this series of sermons on Romans 9 by John Piper. It is unfortunate these passages get skimmed over, ignored ... Read More
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