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by Phil JohnsonSo despite what I said the other day, the archives will be available this month. Dan Phillips checked and found a way to turn off the comments without turning off the whole blog.Todd Friel, host of "Wretched," learns about TeamPyro's Month Off (Click picture to Listen)So many loose ends; where does one start? Frank had one more post left in a series on the gifts. I'm tempted to say that series has ceased, but I know that would provoke an argument. I'm pretty sure he intends to finish it when we get back to blogging, but at the moment he has more important and more far-reachin... [read more]
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by Dan PhillipsAs PyroManiacs is about to "go dark" for nearly a month, some of our gracious readers find themselves looking at a gap in their routine.Of course, Frank and yr obdt svt are not vanishing off the face of the earth, we'll both keep the coffee on at our places, and you'll be welcome. But many daily routines will change, if only a bit.Minor as it is, changes do bring to mind the daily menu of our lives: the agenda of distractions, imposed from without and from within, that pushes minutes to hours, hours to days, days to weeks, months, and years — and, ultimately, impels newbor... [read more]
add to discussionby Phil Johnsonince our longest-ever hiatus is only a couple of days away and Dan and Frank no doubt have major posts yet to come, I'm going to try to clean out my bottom drawer without getting in the way. To start with, here are a few stray PoMotivators®:
add to discussionYour weekly dose of Spurgeonposted by Phil JohnsonThe PyroManiacs devote some space each weekend to highlights from The Spurgeon Archive. The following excerpt is from the sermon "A Home Question and a Right Answer," preached Sunday evening, February 5th, 1882 at the Met Tab in London. Spurgeon was dealing with Jesus' challenge to the disciples in John 6:67: "Do you also want to go away?" say deliberately that if I go away from my Master I can expect nothing but the hottest wrath of God for ever. Unhappy, unhappy wretch, to have preached to such multitudes, if I deny ... [read more]
add to discussionSome Clarifications and Follow-upsPlus Some Observations about Apostasyby Phil JohnsonFirst, an urgent prayer request: A member of the TeamPyro community, Pastor Terry Stauffer, lost his precious 14-year-old daughter in a senseless murder Saturday afternoon. Please keep him and his wife Juanita in your prayers. (Here's an article from the Calgary Herald with some details.)riday I spent the morning at the dentist (again!) and the afternoon visiting a friend whose wife is in the hospital with a very serious and painful form of cancer. I was surprised to see the amount of activity in the combo... [read more]
add to discussionby Phil Johnsonhis evening Darlene and I went to the Hollywood premiere of Kirk Cameron's movie:We gave it two thumbs up.The film was made by Sherwood Baptist Church in Albany, GA—the same church that made "Facing the Giants." I'm sure a lot of secular reviewers will complain that "Fireproof" is too preachy, because the gospel is at the heart of the story, and it's not slipped in there subtly or couched in euphemisms. It's very direct.That's what I liked best about it. It's a great story, well-told. If you are a guy, take your wife. She'll love it. Big time.That's all I'm going to say ... [read more]
add to discussionby Dan PhillipsIf you've been an alive Christian (which should be a tautology) for more than five years, you've already had the heartbreak. If you've been a faithful pastor, you've had it many times. Goes like this:You tell an unbeliever of Christ, giving it your faithful and loving best. Or you warn a professed believer of some dreadfully foolish or sinful path he's taking. In both cases, you tell him something from the Word of God — that Word that (we are told) is powerful: living, active, sharper than any two-edged sword (Hebrews 4:12).And what happens?Nothing.Nothing, or worse. He shr... [read more]
add to discussionA real(?)-life moral tale with some poignant lessons for our post-evangelical friends.by Phil Johnsonongtime readers will remember a character who posted in our comment-threads for several months as "Touchstone." He's one of only half a dozen people or so who in three years' time have managed to get permanently banned from commenting here. He was banned for (among other things) repeated acts of recreational profanity. I hated banning him, because he was more interesting than the typical miscreant who invades our meta. But it seemed he wanted to get banned, because his rule violations were d... [read more]
add to discussionby Dan Phillips"How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple?How long will scoffers delight in their scoffingand fools hate knowledge?23 If you turn at my reproof,behold, I will pour out my spirit to you;I will make my words known to you.24 Because I have called and you refused to listen,have stretched out my hand and no one has heeded,25 because you have ignored all my counseland would have none of my reproof,26 I also will laugh at your calamity;I will mock when terror strikes you,27 when terror strikes you like a stormand your calamity comes like a whirlwind,when distress and angu... [read more]
add to discussionby Phil JohnsonFound in my e-mail out-boxIf I had a nickel for every e-mail like this I get . . .(First posted Tuesday, September 13, 2005)From: Phil JohnsonTo: Andrew M______Subject: Re: Logical fallacies in "Defeating Darwinism"Dear Andrew,Many thanks for your message. You wrote:> Dear Mr Phillip Johnson,> > I have read with interest your book> called "Defeating Darwinism"That's not my book. I'm Phillip R. Johnson. The book was written by Phillip E. Johnson, who teaches law at Berkeley. The starting point of my bio at the Web site where you found this e-mail address explains a... [read more]
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