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Obama, McCain: Joint Appearance at Saddleback Church

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Yesterday, Dr. Rick Warren, founding pastor of 22,000-member Saddleback Church in Orange County, CA, announced that Senators John McCain and Barack Obama will be making a joint appearance at the Saddleback Civil Forum on Leadership and Compassion on Saturday, August 16. A two-hour (5-7 PM) forum with the two presidential candidates will be held in a non-debate format and will be open to the media. Per the request of both candidates, all questions will be posed by Pastor Warren, and each candidate will receive approximately one hour of direct, uninterrupted interaction with Warren before the … [Read more...] about Obama, McCain: Joint Appearance at Saddleback Church

Come Weary Saints – Review

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I've been enjoying Sovereign Grace Music for about seven years now. I love how each song exhibits a distinctive blend of theological precision and musical excellence. I love how my affections are raised in proportion to spiritual truth being more clearly apprehended. I love how the centrality of the substitutionary death, burial, and resurrection of Christ on our behalf is set forth in various lyrics and melodies. The songs help me remember that just as I received Christ (i.e., by faith), so I am to continue to walk in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith (Col. … [Read more...] about Come Weary Saints – Review

Keller/Piper on The Mysterious Distribution of Suffering

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I previously mentioned Marvin Olasky's interview of Tim Keller in World Magazine. Here's one exchange: WORLD: When logical arguments about the reason for suffering sound cold and irrelevant to real-life sufferers, what do you do? KELLER: You shouldn't say a darn thing. If you're saying someone is right in the middle of it, then I think your job is to speak when spoken to. There is no decent thing to say other than your own presence, which mediates if you are a Christian. The existential answer is that only Christianity believes that God has entered the suffering world. We don't know what the … [Read more...] about Keller/Piper on The Mysterious Distribution of Suffering

Jonathan Edwards’ Religious Affections Audio For Free

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Christian Audio is offering a free download of the audio book of Jonathan Edwards' The Religious Affections. Simply add it to your cart and use coupon code "challies08" to get it for free. (Challies will be hosting a discussion of this book, as he has previously done with other good books.) (HT: Tim Challies) … [Read more...] about Jonathan Edwards’ Religious Affections Audio For Free