John Piper on Rick Warren and the Desiring God Conference

When I went to the Youtube page to grab the embed code for the Desiring God Trailer that I just posted, I noticed a video on the side that sounded interesting. Watched it. Thought I would pass it along. (Even though I don't think that the Piper Warren thing is a big hullabaloo anymore.)

Think

I always enjoy the Desiring God Conference trailers. By themselves, they teach me. I can't imagine what it would be like to go to the actual conference. Would love to go though. Anyway, here is the trailer, definitely worth a watch.



[HT: Justin Taylor]

English

A few weeks ago I posted this little video of Tim James running for Governor in Alabama.



I can't help but also show you this video of a Tim James parody. My favorite part is when he talks about Starbucks.

Living Faith: In Trials

Last Sunday I tackled James 1:2-4.  I had a cold and was feeling miserable, so I can't vouch for the clarity of the sermon, and I am pretty sure that I drooled on the microphone at least once, but in case you are interested in following along as I tackle the book of James... here is this last week's message:

Living Faith: In Trials

I chose the title "living faith" because I feel like that is the key theme throughout this book.  If I wanted to come up with a cool, hip slogan for this series, it would be "Living your faith... OUT LOUD!"  Then I would have to make t-shirts with this slogan and get everyone at my church to buy one.  The "living your faith" part would have to be in the typewriter font, with the "out loud" scrawled at a slant in a more hand-written font.  In small letters I would have to have "the book of James".  Hmm... I should try this!

Anyway, Live your faith out loud.

my couple of tadpoles

I went out to the church to put add some branches to the burn pile.  While we were there, my boys discovered a pond, teeming with life.  Literally hundreds of tadpoles.  So, I snapped some pics of my little tadpoles looking at those hundreds of tadpoles.

Here is the little church "pond"

They spent the entire 30 minutes that I was there in this same position.

I wish I had a better camera with me.  the colors in this picture were so vibrant.

Click this one to enlarge, so you can see the hundreds of tadpoles in the water.

Being boys, they cannot resist picking up the tadpoles.

Asking him what they felt like, "well... wormy."

Born Again

"We are not born again by repentance or faith or conversion: we repent and believe because we have been born again." 

- John Murray

[HT: Monergism Books]

Ask Paul Tripp!

Ever wanted to ask Paul Tripp a question?  Well, tomorrow, from 7 - 9 pm you will be able to.  Desiring God ministries is hosting the live event on their website.  Read more about it:

Click the picture to go to the site.

To ask a question, just use the hashtag #askpt on Twitter, or email askpt@desiringGod.org.

[HT: Justin Taylor]