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Dane Ortlund: Edwards on the Christian Life
Now for the real interview. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Dane’s book Jonathan Edwards on the Christian Life is the most soul-refreshing, thought-provoking, joy-generating book I’ve read this year

TWC News Austin: High School Blitz Interview with Apollos Hester
Just a wee bit hyper. Still not sure if this is a prank or not.

iDoctor: Could a Smart Phone Be the Future of Medicine?

I’ll Be Fine

KLASSEN Car Design Technology
Cultural mandate applied to the minivan.

Flying the Typhoon Through Mach Loop at Low Level

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David Murray — Fri, 19 Sep 2014 11:17:52 +0000

Book Deals

Inerrancy and Worldview: Answering Modern Challenges to the Bible by Vern S. Poythress ($0.99)

Know the Heretics (KNOW Series) by Justin S. Holcomb ($5.99)

The Attributes of God by Arthur W. Pink ($1.99)

Loving the Way Jesus Loves by Phil Ryken ($0.99)

Preparing Expository Sermons: A Seven-Step Method for Biblical Preaching by Ramesh Richard ($4.61)

The Complete Bible Answer Book by Hank Hanegraaf ($2.99)

Church History in Plain Language: Updated 2nd Edition by Bruce Shelley ($4.99)

The Leadership Dynamic: A Biblical Model for Raising Effective Leaders by Harry L. Reeder III ($0.99)

Mistakes Leaders Make by Dave Kraft ($1.99)

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown ($2.24)

Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone by Martin Dugard ($3.99)

Best Blogs

A Prayer for the Revival of Religion in Scotland | TGC

Why Your Happiness is So Important to God

BibleX: How to Research Well

Life and Hope in a World of Loss | TGC | The Gospel Coalition

Some thoughts on the Mosaic Covenant

Our New Morality | Gentle Reformation

Towards a Christian Perspective on Mental Illness

Questions and Answers about Mental Illness » Amy Simpson

Loving the Lost: Churches Without the Broken are Broken Churches | The Exchange | A Blog by Ed Stetzer

How does a pastor approach pre-marital counseling?: Practical ShepherdingPractical Shepherding

10 Ways to Exercise Christlike Headship | CBMW | The Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood

Let’s ‘Derecognize’ Colleges That Discriminate Against Christians | Acton PowerBlog

Nisbet on Motivations for Holiness

Idolatry — Making Good Things, Ultimate Things — Highlands Ministries

Luther on changing a baby’s diaper

Exalting Jesus In Ezra and Nehemiah, by James M. Hamilton Jr. | Books at a glance

Martin Bucer: Carer of Souls (Part 1) | The Christward Collective

Black to School: African-American Voices at Christian Colleges

What Marrying a Black Man Taught Me about Race and Why Ferguson Matters | TGC

The Coming Reformation of Black Churches : The Front Porch

The Harry Potter Generation

This Is The Worst Thing Ever And We’re All Going To Die. How America Panics

Pyromaniacs: A word of advice, young feller

Best Videos

God’s Technology vs. Human Technology

How to Prepare Leaders of Integrity for Public Influence

Watch News Anchor’s Courageous On-Air Admission

Typewriter Artist
This is one of the most stunning films I’ve ever seen.

Toddler Ignores Military Protocol, Greets Mom

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David Murray — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 23:30:47 +0000

Ben Jackson, Never Finished
If you only watch one, watch this one. This is the boy they said would never walk!

First Taste of Chocolate in Ivory Coast

Icheon Master Hand: Lee Hyuang Gu

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David Murray — Thu, 24 Jul 2014 21:00:51 +0000

Weekend Reading

How Dogs Love Us: A Neuroscientist and His Adopted Dog Decode the Canine Brain by Gregory Berns ($2.00). What I’d like to know is “Why And How Humans Love Dogs.” Who can decode that?

The Man Who Would Be King: The First American in Afghanistan by Ben Macintyre ($2.56). A captivating story-teller.

Renewing Your Mind: Basic Christian Beliefs You Need to Know by R. C. Sproul ($3.03)

John A. Broadus: A Living Legacy (Studies in Baptist Life and Thought) by David S. Dockery and Roger D. Duke ($0.99)

Boundaries in Marriage by Henry Cloud and John Townsend ($5.99).

Faithful Women and Their Extraordinary God by Noël Piper ($1.99)

The Storytelling God: Seeing the Glory of Jesus in His Parables by Jared C. Wilson ($1.89)

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A Biblical Theology of Sleep | The Christward Collective

7 Signs We May Be Worshipping Our Family | TGC

6 + 1 Types of Typology

The Federal Vision, Ten Questions, and the Westminster Standards

What percentage of Americans are gay?

What a Difference Six Years Can Make | TGC

Strategic Evangelism: The Power of an Invitation | The Exchange | A Blog by Ed Stetzer

10 Things I’d Do Differently if I Weren’t a Pastor Today | Ron Edmondson

Four Lessons in Fruitful Time-Management | Desiring God

What We Talk About When We Talk About ‘Birth Control’ | Christianity Today

What A Christian Woman Knows About Beauty « THE CHRISTIAN PUNDIT

How to (and how NOT to) Minister to Families Battling Cancer

Is the unwavering belief in the value of college justified? | Alex Chediak

Job is a Book About Jesus: An Interview with Christopher Ash | Bible Gateway Blog

How to share the Gospel with someone who thinks all Christians are hypocrites

7 Different Ways to Read a Book | Challies Dot Com

Ten Simple (But Critical) Questions to Consider in Marriage Counseling | Biblical Counseling Coalition Blog

BBC – Future – Can you learn in your sleep?

American Families Are Right To Be Worried About Inflation

Higher Calling, Lower Wages: The Vanishing of the Middle-Class Clergy – David R. Wheeler – The Atlantic

The Ten Simple Tools Every Car Owner Needs

Three Tricks for Dealing with Anxiety In the Moment

Videos

3 Minutes to a Proper British Accent

The Empty Pickle Jar Movie

How Playing an Instrument Benefits Your Brain

The Art of Fishing

Europe 24

Inglorious Fruits and Vegetables

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David Murray — Thu, 01 May 2014 10:00:24 +0000

Protect Your Church in One Simple Step
Having just told us how to destroy our churches, Tim now tells us how to defend them.

20 Things I Wish I knew As A College Student
So, so good. So, so late. And here’s why you should write rather than type your notes.

18 Principles From Pixar’s Culture
Trevin Wax with a great digest of the lessons he’s learned from the new book, Creativity, Inc.

Representing And Serving Clients With Zeal
If you doubt anyone could be a Christian and a litigation attorney, this might change your mind. Some big quotes in here, such as: “I love and serve my neighbor by doing my job well—which includes being a prizefighter for my clients.”

Why What The NBA Did Was Right And What Mozilla Did Was Wrong
This is a really, really important distinction to master. You’re going to need it.

Abandoned Teen Goes From Homeless To Harvard
Wonderful story.

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David Murray — Tue, 11 Mar 2014 10:00:46 +0000

The Most Difficult Ministry Decision I’ve Ever Made
This really excites me. Thabiti Anyabwile is leaving a well-established church in the Cayman Islands to plant a church in Washington D.C., with a special focus on urban African-American communities. So looking forward to seeing how God will use Thabiti in this new ministry.

I Have All The Time I Need
Tim Challies: “So let me say it again, primarily to reassure myself:I’m not busy. I have all the time I need to accomplish the things the Lord has called me to.” Amen! Here’s J D Greear on the same subject.

10 Areas Where Pastors Need to be Trained for the 21st Century
Next question – How?

7 Habits of Incredibly Happy People
I agree with all of these. Wish I practiced them more.

When Things Get Complicated Remember the Basics
Here’s a blog post I think I’ll be coming back to again and again.

Church Discipline: Principles and Reasons
Super-helpful summary by Justin Taylor. Should be pinned above every elder’s meeting.

Something More
One man’s life changed the course of history for billions of people across the globe. He is both revered and reviled, famed and feared and you know who he is without a single mention of his name.

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David Murray — Mon, 17 Feb 2014 11:00:40 +0000

Beating Burnout
Anne Marie Miller interviews Thom Rainer about burnout.

15 Ideas to Help You Evaluate Your Church Bulletin
Results from an analysis of over 100 church bulletins.

The Psalmists Rich View of Depression
Bob Kellemen surveys the Psalms and mines some welcome comfort for the suffering.

Do You Lock The Door At Night?
A classic clip from Ravi Zacharias.

Hot Bods, The Bible, and The Brain
This is an extremely important and superbly written article by Covenant Eyes’ Luke Gilkerson on the damaging impact of porn on the brain and how to reverse it.

Cruise Ship Cut in Half The Stretched 99 Feet
What a phenomenal piece of engineering.

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David Murray — Fri, 14 Feb 2014 11:00:43 +0000

5 Sure-Fire Ways to Motivate Your Son to Use Pornography
He’s not saying that if your son uses pornography it’s all your fault.

These Precious Days
Tim Challies helps us think through one of life’s recurring dilemmas: “Three days spent in Indiana, is three days spent apart from my wife and my children. It is three days away from the people I love; I will never get those days back. I have been given perhaps 7,000 or 8,000 days with my children before they move out to begin life on their own, and in going away, I permanently traded away three of those precious days.”

12 Reasons for Using Sermon Illustrations
“Few things are more difficult for a preacher than finding the right illustration, using it in the right way, and telling it at the right time. However, few things will yield greater fruit.”

Three Reasons to Keep Reading the Old Testament
Aaron Armstrong beats my drum: “The Old Testament causes much consternation among North American evangelicals. Although historically, Christians have embraced the Old Testament as being absolutely essential to the Christian life—I believe the first person to do this was Jesus—somewhere along the way, we got scared of it.”

Following Up On Forgiveness
I’d throughly recommend Ken Sande’s Peacemaker on this subject but here’s a good blog post from Kevin DeYoung: “Many Christians, influenced by Lewis Smedes and a lot of pop psychology, have a therapeutic understanding of forgiveness. They think of forgiveness as a unilateral, internal effort to get our emotions under control. But if we start with a biblical notion of God’s forgiveness, we see that such a view falls short.”

Youth Rights: A Trojan Horse for the Left’s Sexual Agenda
And if you really want to know where this is heading try what’s happening in Scotland for size. “Plans to assign every child in Scotland a state guardian could lead to good parents being penalised, an academic has warned ahead of a final vote on the issue in Holyrood later this month.

Kentucky All State Choir Sings National Anthem in 18 Story Hotel
Every night during the yearly All State Choir conference in Louisville, Kentucky, choir participants would come out of their rooms to sing the National Anthem. The 18-story Hyatt hotel gets filled with music from the lobby to the top floor.

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David Murray — Thu, 13 Feb 2014 11:00:07 +0000

Some Questions About Scientism
A must read/see for College students.

7 Disciplines of Spiritual Leaders
Reggie McNeal believes bad leaders “are a form of evil” because “they curse people by diminishing their life” and they “rob people of hope.”

Why White People Don’t Like to Talk About Race
Barnabas Piper: “The vast majority of my fellow Caucasians fall into two groups: those who don’t want to talk about race at all and those who want to but don’t know how.”

5 Reasons Why The Church Must Engage the World With Social Media
“The purposes for engaging the culture this way are the same purposes that led the church to engage with the world before the Internet ever existed.”

Sinclair Ferguson on Lessons from a Lifetime of Pastoring

Best Lessons from a Lifetime of Pastoring from Desiring God on Vimeo.

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David Murray — Wed, 12 Feb 2014 10:56:43 +0000

The Story That Writes Itself
I can’t wait until we get past all these firsts, “First Gay NFL Player,” “First Gay Mechanic,” “First Gay Plumber,” “First Gay Cleaner,” etc., so that the media can get back to some news reporting. Maybe someone could organize a “First Gay…..” Conference and just get the whole thing done once and for all rather than this depressing daily drip, drip, drip.

Same Sex Marriages and Segregation
And if you’re often on the book foot trying to distinguish opposition to same-sex marriage from racism, Jesse Johnson has three arguments to help you.

Men and Miscarriage
Here’e an oft-neglected area for ministry. Here’s a short piece by Jason DeRouchie on the same subject.

They Do It Better Than We Do
I’ve often thought this, but could never say it as well as Tim Brister who looks at his son’s baseball team’s “discipleship” skills with holy envy.

Five Lies About Your Body
Written for women but also applicable to men. Jen Wilkin highlights five lies our culture tells us about how we should perceive our bodies—and five truths from Scripture to help shift our perspective.

Reboot Buggy
I’m not really a gearhead, but I thought this was a beautifully shot film (shot in Grand Rapids and at Lake Michigan) of an amazing piece of automotive engineering. You can read more about it here.