Over the next five days, starting today, thousands of delegates will be descending upon this small island to be part of the Asia Conference 2008 where one of the highlights of the convention will be Benny Hinn and his fleecing healing session on Saturday evening.
I had meant to go to that particular session to attempt to give a first-hand report but I’m going to heed the advice of my wife, who upon hearing about my intentions earlier, asked if I was indeed mad. I still have half a mind to just go and get a first-hand look at Saint Hinn myself but there’s no other good excuse I could come up with to sneak in.
We must admit that the true Christian is a rather strange person in the eye of the unbeliever.
Like a kid on Christmas morn, my heart soared when I saw, standing at the door, the postman carrying a rather big parcel. That can only mean one thing:
There’s a good reason I posted the video sermon by Mark Kielar titled 
It’s hard to put off this column by just one more day (I had intended it to be a weekly column)! Alas, I am one day early this week so, uh, ah well, what does it matter, really? I’ve never been a blogging legalist anyhow.
“This psalm has in it as much of warmth and lively devotion as any of David’s psalms in so little a compass. As the sweetest of Paul’s epistles were those that bore date out of a prison, so some of the sweetest of David’s psalms were those that were penned, as this was, in a wilderness.
This thought has been running through my mind a few hours now, so I thought I’d share and see what you think.
In celebration of Reformation Week, Dr. R.C. Sproul’s ministry — 
It’s not surprising in these times that “Queen Mary” has been making headlines with more apparitions and the present pope — Benedict XVI — continuing in the heretical devotion to Mary that his predecessor, Pope John Paul II, emphasized. In fact, a cursory look at headlines where the pope mentions Mary tells us that such devotions are increasing in intensity:
“At the heart of Reformed Theology, at the heart of Luther and Calvin’s struggle, and in Knox and Jonathan Edwards, were men who were awakened to the greatness, to the majesty, to the holiness, and the sovereignty of God. By contemplating the holiness and sovereignty of God, they were driven to develop their doctrines of the grace of God. Because until you meet a God who is holy and is sovereign, you don’t know what grace means. I don’t think we are ever going to see a healthy evangelical church until the evangelical church is solidly Reformed, where it takes biblical Christianity seriously with a right concept of a sovereign God.
Preached Wednesday, October 22nd at the Revival Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. 
The very act of setting out Calvinistic soteriology [the doctrine of salvation] in the form of five distinct points (a number due, as we saw, merely to the fact that there were five Arminian points for the Synod of Dort to answer) tends to obscure the organic character of Calvinistic thought on this subject. For the five points, though separately stated, are inseparable. They hang together; you cannot reject one without rejecting them all, at least in the sense in which the Synod meant them. For to Calvinism there is really only one point to be made in the field of soteriology: the point that God saves sinners.
In Daniel 3:1-7, we read:
The world around us, and as we know it, is falling to pieces. There’s panic at every corner — the financial crisis is sending ripple waves across the world and being felt by millions at an unprecedented speed; there’s war (Iraq, Afghanistan) and rumors of war (Iran, Israel), political uncertainty, and the list goes on.
Knowledge puffs up. … The man who thinks he knows something does not yet know as he ought to know” (1 Corinthians 8:1–2).
An advertisement in the papers Saturday (11 Oct 2008) caught my attention with the headline screaming “Calling All Christians” directing interested parties to either call a number or visit a web site. My curiosity got the better of me and this was how I found about 
Coming soon: another “we have to make God’s Word relevant and ‘less scary’” Bible to “capture the attention of modern readers”, titled 
I’ve been giving this some thought myself — with the release of quite a few Study Bibles in the past few months including the 
On September 16, 2008, the night was clear and dry when Preston Newby and his wife, 
In response to concern at how religious blogs can quickly descend into vitriol, the Evangelical Alliance (an umbrella group founded in 1846 that represents thousands of churches of most denominations) has drawn up a set of 10 commandments for Christian bloggers based on those delivered to Moses by God at the top of Mount Sinai.
