Spurgeon is the Exception that Proves the Rule
Wes Hill, guest posting at Abraham Piper's microblog 22 Words, writes: I’ve never understood the phrase, “the exception that proves the rule.” An exception proves there isn’t a “rule” to begin with, right? Here was my suggestion: Ok, try this: The general rule is that ministers of the gospel should get formal training or else their sermons are going to be exegetical bunk. Charles Spurgeon is the exception that proves the rule, because though, yes, he did not get formal training, he read so...
Gotta See
I hardly ever post YouTube videos, but this is amazing. Man's God-given powers are amazing. God is amazing. HT: Wes Hill
Outsourcing Prayer
"Information Age Prayer,” provides “a subscription service utilizing a computer with text-to-speech capability to incant your prayers each day.” For $3.95 a month, you get “the satisfaction of knowing that your prayers will always be said even if you wake up late, or forget.” Protestants click here. Jews here. Muslims, presumably, must turn their computer speakers toward Mecca. Catholics can get a special deal: Hail Mary’s at just 7 cents each. Actually, Protestants, click here.
Enduring Counsel from B.B. Warfield
I regularly return to this enduring counsel from B. B. Warfield—required reading for all BJU seminarians who take Systematic Theology: A minister must be learned, on pain of being utterly incompetent for his work. But before and above being learned, a minister must be godly. Nothing could be more fatal, however, than to set these two things over against one another. Recruiting officers do not dispute whether it is better for soldiers to have a right leg or a left leg: soldiers should have both...
Mark Ward’s Miracle Word-Macro Wonder
The MWMWMW is now available for free—for a limited time only (till the Internet dies, I guess). Use this macro to 1) sharpen up any Word document and 2) impress nerdy people with proper use of a) en dashes and b) em dashes. This macro replaces -- with —. It also removes spaces surrounding em dashes, makes all hyphens between numbers into en dashes, turns all quotation marks and apostrophes into curvy quotes (as long as you have "Smart-quotes" turned on), replaces all double spaces with single...