This weeks free Friday is a bit of a bumper bonanza! It comes from a long time comment-or and one time post subject. Dai Hankey.
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Going Free in the Beautiful Valleys
July 31, 2009
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More from PACKMAN
July 30, 2009
Chapter 2 of Knowing God Discusses the difference between knowledge about God and knowledge of God.
Have we ever thought about the distinction? After all I can say that I know about Barack Obama but can I say I know him? Does it matter? Undoubtedly when those questions pertain to God it matters a great deal.
Dr, Rev, Mr Packer goes on to make two assertions. i) One can know a great deal about God without much knowledge of Him. ii) One can know a great deal about godliness without much knowledge of God.
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Thinking about God
July 29, 2009
This week I started a *new* book for my prerequisite reading for WEST in September. Knowing God.
Here are a few quotes for you which stood out in chapter 1:
No subject of contemplation will tend more to humble the mind, than thoughts of God -Rev. Dr.Packer Quoting Mr.Spurgeon
Concerning those who argue that thinking/studying God is irrelevant:
The questioner clearly assumes that a study of the nature and character of God will be unpractical and irrelevant for life. In fact, however, it is the most practical project anyone can engage in. Knowing about God is crucially important for the living of lives – Mr.Packer
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Dear National Waterfront Museum
July 28, 2009Dear National Waterfront Museum,
The spacious main entrance hall
I took a group of over 40 children to your museum last week. As you walk up to the building it is very impressive, has excellent facilities, and uses interactive learning methods very well.
In many ways it is a model of modern learning experience.
Yet as both a Christian and Welshman I was rather dismayed to discover that in your museum that claims:
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Christian Nihilism
July 27, 2009John Piper has spoken a lot about Christian Hedonism. That’s the idea that we should seek to indulge ourselves as much as possible in the enjoyment of God as we can, and that this is what we are designed for. It’s good and helpful to talk in these ways. I think we also need to supplement it by talking about Christian Nihilism.
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Freebie Round up & Resource
July 24, 2009As was mentioned previously a totally free Friday each and every Friday is pushing it a bit. So we promised we’d cheat and once in a while roundup what’s been given away and point you to another (hopefully Welsh) resource were you can obtain, to your hearts content, a host of freebies.
This weeks resource is the sermon repository of our very own JT (no not Justin Timberlake or Justin Taylor but Pastor Jon Thomas).
There you’ll be able to find JT expounding God’s word from such books as Luke, Psalms, Hosea an on such topics as how we treat one another, spiritual depression and faith.
You can either download the files or listen straight from the website. Let the leeching begin!
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Snobby Bookshelves
July 23, 2009
How many times have you walked into someones office/room/home and been very impressed with the books you’ve seen? You’ve run through a check list in your head an all the important ones are there. “Phew!” you think, “they’re safe.”
How many times have you done the same only gone through the to be burnt list of authors. “This guy really needs pointing in the right direction.”
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Libre Vendredi – Life Online
July 17, 2009
Hopefully the title reads free friday. I wouldn’t know, never did a days languages in school (That’s dyslexia for you!)
You may remember a while back a few posts about things like facebook, twitter and the like. JT even tried to get us to wrie a SuperHighway Code. Around about the same time we were blogging about this a fellow Welsh, Christian Blogger was looking at what he called Life Online.
That blogger was Gethin Jones and today’s give away is a compilation of those blogs.
Gethin is soon to embark on a year or two in Paris working for IFES/GBU France as he’s a master linguist.
You can find more of Gethin’s writing at either the Grace Race or I Thought It Was A Bench…
Download the pdf Life Online by clicking the picture or the link here.
(Right click ’save as’ to download)
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Recent Interviews
July 16, 2009
If it makes your brain hurt, hunting around for videos posted on different days, then don’t fear. Our 2 recent interviews (Peter Baker and Steve Levy) now have their own interview pages.
All our prognosis interviews are given their own page hidden away up there in the navigation bar. Ingeniously you have to click on interviews.
So go check out both our recent interviews and if you haven’t already then check out all our other interviews.
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Peter Baker Interview #7
July 12, 2009Here is Peter’s answer to a question we’re considering making a standard question for all future proGnosis interviews. We aksed PB, If you had two minutes to share the gospel with a non-Christian you don’t know, what would you say?
As if these last seven videos weren’t enough, there’s one more to see. I asked PB, How have you changed theologically through your years in ministry? You can find his answer here.
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