I am 2. Who are you?

I began blogging two years ago today. Thanks to Bobby who suggested it (please pray for him and the family at the moment as they wait on troubling medical tests).
To mark this momentous occasion, I am blogging this entry from my mobile phone. Get me. Surfing the cutting edge of the information super-highway and such.
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Watch out for the Bible Bloggers

“38 Jesus said “Watch out for the Bible Bloggers.  They love to parade their stats and gain comments from their adoring readers, 39 to be linked on all the best sites and highly ranked on Technorati. 40 They devour the weak and vulnerable and, for a show, make lengthy posts.  Such men will be punished most severely.” 
(Mark [...]

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You’re in good company

Just so my regular readers know, you’re vastly outnumbered on this blog by image searchers (so wordpress tells me).
The most popular searches  are ‘kebab’, ‘waterfall’, ‘puffer fish’, ‘fat cat’ and ‘ned flanders’…

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…which, I think you’ll agree, represents with eloquent simplicity the profound and far-reaching concerns of Christ the Truth..

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10 reasons blogging might be ok after all

In the last 48 hours the following has happened in my blogging world

I’ve been part of a fascinating discussion on a cutting-edge topic in contemporary theology.  And little old me got to sit at the table along with PhD specialists and theological educators in the field.  Great fun.
I’ve been able to help someone via email [...]

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A little web surfing and spiritual poverty will come upon you like a robber

If watching this for 7 minutes saves you from another 7 minutes of wasted web-surfing, it’s done it’s job.

Full sermon here.
ht prognosis.
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Christ Alone, Grace Alone, Revelation Alone

I’m halfway through Mike Reeves’ excellent lectures on a theology of revelation.  Go and listen now if you haven’t done already.
Maybe I should put them somewhere prominently and permanently on the blog because they explain much better than I can the thinking behind ‘Christ the Truth’. 
To be an evangelical theologian is to have your method [...]

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Feeding the monster

As I began this week, the prospect of blogging struck me as a foul burden.  For some reason the phrase ‘feeding the monster’ flashed across my semi-wakened consciousness.
Has it come to this?  Blogging is now a beast to be placated?
I have over 60 draft posts in some state of readiness for publication.  One of them is [...]

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Nice and Christian

Those two things aren’t the same you know.  But often we forget that.  Especially as we try to live in community.  I mean, think about it – what helps our Christian communities function? 
Surely we get along because we all play nice, right?  Empowered by the gospel of course.  We have to add that caveat.  But now [...]

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Disagreeing with brothers and sisters

Yet another conversation containing the names Goldsworthy and Blackham has collapsed under the weight of pointed comments that got out of hand. And I was the chief commenter.
[deep exhale]
And this is precisely why people hate the issue being brought up.
It aggravates old wounds.
Wrong response 1:  We should be able to discuss such things dispassionately.
No, actually.  If [...]

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Piper or Darwin – Who is the more controversial target?

The figures don’t lie.  My post dissing Darwin has just received its 70th comment.  It has caused twice as much of a stir as my next most controversial post – Piper’s theology of glory.
Pause for thought?
 
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Most commented

At 41 69 comments and counting, the evolution of a creationist is now my most commented upon post.  I might have known. 
 
(Update: my points were reposted here and at last count it had 99 comments – though no-one seems to have interacted with my points!)
 
Anyway, here’s the top ten in terms of comments:
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First Place
(69 comments)
 
 The evolution [...]

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This year

Alongside the usual rants about trinity, OT, Christ-centredness and preaching I’m planning on writing about:
Pastoral care (in particular mental illness)
Pornography
Apologetics
Islam
Marriage
Mission
What will you be blogging about in 2009?
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Blogging personality

Further to previous discussions on personality (here, here, here, here)…
This site will tell you your Myers-Briggs type based on analyzing your blog. 
(ht: Biblical Studies and Technological Tools)
It came up with INTP for me.  I’m officially ENFP but my E and T are quite weak so that’s a pretty good guess.
Does it get you right?
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PS I’ll [...]

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Happy Blogday to me

One year ago I stumbled into blogging the way Aaron stumbled into idolatry.  I just clicked a few buttons at WordPress and out came this blog. (Ex 32:24)  Resemblances to that foul incident could be multiplied.
Anyway, thanks to Bobby for suggesting I start this.  Personally, I think his tactic was to stop me spending so much [...]

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Who will be my 1000th comment???

There may be a prize, you never know!
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Some blogging encouragement

I checked my spam the other day and found great encouragement:
Well I think you are a genius and the post is marvelous.
Brightened my day no end.  The fact that it came from a man calling himself “Penis Enlargement” is neither here nor there.  I have instructed my filter to allow all such positive comments in [...]

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