What I was Reading MacArthur's Millennial Manifesto, by Sam Waldron He Is Not Silent, by Al Mohler Confessions of a Christianized Pagan by Steven J. McInerney To the One Who Conquers: 50 Daily Meditations on the Seven Letters of Revelation 2-3, by Sam Storms Christianity in Turkey: A Narrative of the Protestant Reformation in the Armenian Church, by the Reverend Harrison Gray Otis Dwight Mrs. Paine's Garage, by Thomas Mallon God's Way of Reconciliation, by D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones A Harmony of the Gospels, Robert Thomas and Stan Gundry The Last Men's Book You'll Ever Need, by David Moore The Evangelical Heritage, Bernard Ramm Culture Shift by Al Mohler Why We're Not Emergent: By Two Guys Who Should Be by Kevin DeYoung and Ted Kluck Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Vincent Bugliosi This Little Church Stayed Home, Gary Gilley Half-hours with William Hendriksen The Day Kennedy Was Shot, Jim Bishop The Arians of the Fourth Century, John Henry Cardinal Newman Everything Must Change, Brian McLaren The Five Dilemmas of Calvinism, Craig R. Brown The Life of John Calvin, Theodore Beza The Truth War by John MacArthur Temptation: Resisted & Repulsed, by John Owen (abridged and simplified by Richard Rushing) A Tale of Two Sons by John MacArthur Straight from the Fridge, Dad: A Dictionary of Hipster Slang by Max Décharné Notes on the Parables of Our Lord by Richard Trench The Future of Justification by John Piper The Day Lincoln Was Shot by Jim Bishop Finding the Lost Cultural Keys to Luke 15 by Kenneth E. Bailey Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer, by James L. Swanson The Work of the Holy Spirit, by Abraham Kuyper The ESV Journaling Bible 7 Things You Better Have Nailed Down Before All Hell Breaks Loose, by Robert Wolgemuth Becoming Conversant with the Emerging Church, by D. A. Carson Praise Habit, by David Crowder Christianity and Progress, by Harry Emerson Fosdick Divine Songs, by Isaac Watts Pulling the Eye Tooth from a Live Tiger: A Memoir of the Life and Labors of Adoniram Judson, by Francis Wayland Getting the Gospel Right, by Cornelis P. Venema President Kennedy Has Been Shot Chosen for Life: The Case for Divine Election, by C. Samuel Storms The Most Famous Man in America, by Debby Applegate Arminian Theology:Myths and Realities, by Roger Olson SBTS Journal (Summer 2001), "Confronting Postmodernism" Death at the Priory: Sex, Love, and Murder in Victorian England by James Ruddick Uncle Jack, by Tony Williams with Humphrey Price Greetings in Jesus Name!: The Scambaiter Letters, by Michael Berry "After Patriarchy, What? Why Egalitarians Are Winning the Evangelical Gender Debate," by Russell D. Moore God's Plan for Israel, by Steve Kreloff Overcoming Sin and Temptation, by John Owen—Kelly Kapic and Justin Taylor, eds. Walking with the Giants, by Warren Wiersbe The Rage and The Pride, by Oriana Fallaci Robert Lewis Dabney: A Southern Presbyterian Life, by Sean Michael Lucas The Force of Reason, by Oriana Fallaci Henry Ward Beecher: An American Portrait, by Paxton Hibben Credenda Agenda, vol. 18, no. 3 Above All Earthly Pow'rs, by David Wells Redefining Christianity, by Bob DeWaay The Old Evangelicalism, by Iain Murray Mark Dever's and Paul Alexander's The Deliberate Church C. J. Mahaney's Humility: True Greatness Vishal Mangalwadi's Missionary Conspiracy: Letters to a Postmodern Hindu Peter Masters' Missionary Triumph over Slavery NT Wright's "On Becoming the Righteousness of God" Ann Coulter's Godless Robert W. Oliver's History of the English Calvinistic Baptists

What was on my iPod "Les Chansons des Roses," by Morten Lauridsen Knoxville: Summer of 1915, by Samuel Barber "A Pastoral Perspective on the Emergent Church," by Mark Driscoll Borodin String Quartets nos. 1 and 2, by the Borodin String Quartet Sinfonía India, by Carlos Chávez Mahler's Fifth Also Hat Gott Die Welt Geliebt,BWV 68 The Essential Cilla Black I Miti Musica, by Ennio Morricone Ágætis Byrjun, by Sigur Rós "Wonderland by Night," Bert Kaempfert Theme from "Nicholas and Alexandra," by Richard Rodney Bennett "King of Mambo," Pérez Prado "Jodhaa Akbar" soundtrack "King of Mambo," Pérez Prado Ennio Morricone's score for "Once upon a Time in the West" Complete orchestral works of Maurice Ravel, performed by the Montréal Symphony Orchestra, Charles Dutoit conducting Quartetto Gelato: Aria Fresca Florence Foster Jenkins The Very Best of Burt Bacharach Aaron Copland: "Appalachian Spring" Mr. Acker Bilk Gilbert O'Sullivan "A Puritan Devotional" (Podcast) Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain—Fly Me off the Handel "The Long and Winding Road," The Beatles Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major, BWV 1050, Marlboro Festival Orchestra, Pablo Casals; Peter Serkin, et al. Mendelssohn: Octet, Op. 20 "Songs of Praise": Mantovani Orchestra "Dancing Day," John Rutter "This Man Receives Sinners" John Piper on John 15 Stephen Johnson's reading of the KJV "Carols from Clare," John Rutter "The Pirates of Penzance," Arthur and Sullivan (Joseph Papp's prouction soundtrack) "Six Caribbean Pieces," by Arthur Benjamin Mahler's Fourth Symphony (Solti, Te Kanawa) "Carmina Burana," Orff "Enigma" Variations, Elgar Concerto for Orchestra, Bela Bartok Pilgrim's Progress read by Max McLean Sinfonietta, Leos Janácek Bach: "Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit" (Actus Tragicus—BWV 106) "Dead Skunk," Loudon Wainright III Stevie Wonder: The Definitive Collection Röyksopp: "Remind Me" Francis Poulenc: Sept Répons des Ténèbres British Tuba Concertos Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks Lux Aeterna" by Morten Lauridsen "Le Boeuf sur le toit," Darius Milhaud "Ue O Muite Aruko (Sukiyaki)," by Kyu Sakamoto The Dudes over at "Relevant Podcast" interrupt their jokes and commentary about cheesy popular culture to deliver a passionate rant about "fundamentalist" blogs and how they need to focus more on Jesus Emergent Soup "The Third Man" Soundtrack '50s Instrumentals Grieg's Lyric Suite Bruckner Symphony no. 4—"Romantic" Artie Shaw, "Frenesi," Tommy Dorsey, "Opus One" The World of Favourite Hymns Bach Violin Concertos, Jonathan Rees and the Scottish Ensemble Astrud Gilberto Rhett & Link Rahman: "Sivaji" Soundtrack Friel goes off on one of my sermons Rahman: "Guru" Soundtrack Morricone: "Bad Orchestra" Weird Al: "You're Pitiful" Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem, James Levine/CSO "Lo Mejor de lo Mejor," Pérez Prado Alec Baldwin has a message for TeamPyro 78 Man (check out: "She's Lazy, She's Lousy, and She Loves It") A seal jumps the shark . . or vice versa. Whatever. This is spectacular. Leonard Bernstein, "Candide" (complete) Yet another wonderful recording of BWV 79 "Home"—Christian Ebner Bach Cantata #79 (my favorite recording of this; thanks to Jay Morrisette who converted the LP to mp3 for me) "Home"—Christian Ebner "Phil Johnson makes me sick" Good Morning, Starshine Jubilation: Christopher Parkening and Jubilant Sykes Shepherds' Conference 2007 Bach Cantata: "Nun Komm, Der Heiden Heiland", BWV 61 Arvo Pärt's "Passio" "Au fond du Temple Saint," (Duet from Bizet's The Pearl Fishers), Jussi Björling and Robert Merrill Classic Hymns, Tim Zimmerman and The King's Brass "Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet," by Gavin Bryars Overture to "The School For Scandal", Op. 5, by Samuel Barber "Dacoit Duel," by A. R. Rahman "Three Great Imputations," by S. Lewis Johnson Charles Ives, Symphony no. 3, "The Camp Meeting"; Leonard Bernstein; New York Philharmonic "Itchycoo Park," by The Small Faces Todd Friel interviews Lutheran Seminarians Charles Ives, Symphony no. 2, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken, Michael Stern Taal: The soundtrack Anders Miolin's Ravel transcriptions Benjamin Britten: Courtly Dances from "Gloriana," Julian Bream Consort Wind Music of Holst and Vaughan Williams, LWO, Dennis Wick Rachmaninoff's 2nd Symphony, Wm. Steinberg conducts the Pittburgh Symphony "Weasel Stomping Day," by Weird Al Rhosymedre: R. Vaughan Williams's adaptation of the traditional Welsh hymn tune adapted by the Ron Davis Trio "The Third Man" soundtrack "Never hit your Grandma with a shovel (it makes a bad impression on her mind)", by Spike Jones Telemann: Tafelmusik Peter Warlock's Capriol Suite, Chris Parkening, guitar Mahler's Symphony no. 1 in D major "Titan" Bach's Cantata BWV 79: "Gott der Herr ist Sonn und Schild" "Nun Danket Alle Gott," Sigfrid Karg-Elert Gabriel Fauré's "requiem Alberto Ginastera's "Estancia" A Celebration—Sir Neville Marriner The Best of Pérez Prado Henryk Gòrecki's "Symphony of Sorrowful Songs" Strong Bad's Garage Sale Edvard Grieg, Lyric Suite Robert Hale and Dean Wilder "Tres Tangos for Bandoneón & Orchestra," by Astor Piazzolla Todd Friel dismantles an apostate TMC alumnus "Ten Shekels and a Shirt" by Paris Reidhead this brilliant bit played by the Freakishly Tall One on his Wednesday broadcast Music for one apartment and six drummers Zippo Tricks Messages from the DG Conference Huddersfield Choral Society: "The Hymns Album" Covenant: Loose Cannon S. Lewis Johnson on Galatians 5:1-12 The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (Soundtrack by Michael Boddicker) Idiot Stew Ray and Todd chat with Rabbi Schmuley Mendelssohn: "Elijah" (oratorio) Todd Friel's thoughts on a Nooma Video Mark Dever on Ruth Balalaika Favorites Glazunov: The Seasons Steve Kreloff's podcast from Verse by Verse Ministries Mark Dever on Ruth 1 Emergent Podcast: "Stanley Hauerwas talks about medicine, death, and the Christian community." Baby Gramps Chris Hand's Podcast: "George Whitefield; his life and ministry" S. Lewis Johnson on Galatians 5 John Piper on Augustine John Piper's "Charles Spurgeon: Preaching Through Adversity" Ingrid Schlueter's SliceCast #3 Freakishly Tall Todd Friel The iMonk's podcast #11 Spike Jones's "Dinner Music for People Who Aren't Very Hungry" John Piper's sermon on Luke 18:9-14 John Rutter's "Requiem" Francis Poulenc's "Gloria" Ennio Morricone's score for "Once upon a Time in America" Bach cantata: "Wo Gott derr Herr nicht bei uns hält" (BWV 178) "Internet Monk Radio" Canteloube: "Songs Of The Auvergne" "Way of the Master Radio" Podcast Carlos Chávez's Sinfonía India Ravel's "Le Tombeau de Couperin" S. Lewis Johnson's "My Children, Persevere in Grace" Rev. David Bruce's "What Works, What Doesn't and Why" Frank Turk's Da Vinci Code series from Total.Truth "A Conversation with Cryin' McLaren of the Divergent Church Movement" Desiring God's Video interview podcasts Ralph Vaughan Williams's "Rhosymedre" Perez Prado's "Cuban Originals" Arianna Savall's "L'amor" HomeStar Runner's Podcasts Gian Carlo Menotti's "Sebastian"

Links that made me smile Creative gardening Intelligent (and funny) design Kirk Cameron: "I'll Only Kiss My Wife" The Quest for every beard type Sweet computer Where materialistic indeterminism will get you (HT: Eddie Exposito) A well-behaved tyre How to pierce a balloon without it popping Sometimes graffiti can make things look better The amusing facts about Google The Mac-PC campaign heats up Head and shoulders, knees and toes Supercilious gay bishop starts to scold "divisive" Anglicans, and then . . . B. Scientific shows you how to "contextualize" Chad Bresson on the myth of silence This poses some challenges to humanistic notions about how we know and perceive things The claw machine Codex Sinaiticus Penny stacking Hang over Manhattan How to write like a PyroManiac—namely, Frank Saw this one coming Abraham Piper: 22 words about Christlike masculinity. Me (in a word): Bingo Cargo Cult Lives On John Voight (yes, the Midnight Cowboy) sounds like Ronald Reagan How big is google? Another unfortunate real-life meat-chub incident The world's most unusual swimming hole Pompeii: A Virtual Tour Turns out you can nail jello to the wall (ht: Todd Friel) Questions Not the kind of creature you'd want for a pet I want one of these Trapped! (not for the claustrophobic) Thar she Blows! (not for those with weak stomachs) The Human Marvels Ouch. amazing picture of a volcanic eruption. (HT: Garet Pahl) Dissidens: "The difference between these people and a hot air balloon is just the balloon." Children vs. Artists This is not how I want to go out, but (watch to the end) that's the way I want to be remembered. Meat-chub justice Gary North: Come Back to Us! Hoffeditz wins initial appeal at Cedarville U. Wiki this Guess My Crime (HT: Fred Butler) Mad futbol skilz The Best Sandwiches in America Greg Gilbert's reviews of the Nooma travesty Ron Gleason answers John Armstrong—and James Jordan loses it in the meta What is the world coming to? Dissidens gives Beavis and friend a little home-schooling Harvard's Postmodern Curriculum (ht: JT) Dying Speeches and Bloody Murders Not frozen ground-beef-chub violence, but close Douglas Groothuis on Franky Schaefer's indiscretions Let the Wookie Islamist Win PBS on the Emerging Church Things Other People Accomplished When They Were Your Age Strength and Honor (HT: Dan Cruver) The postmodern Taliban PC-police strike again Spectacular icebergs The Japanese Narrow High Jump Update on Johnny MacArthur's amazing football career Right up my alley Dissidens on the evangelical movement the Welsh hymn Dissidens refers to in a comment attached to his post (just above) American Ruins PostModern Television Shirley . . .? Big Bird sings the alphabet Immigration Gumballs Buttonarium Mars Bluff Forget pit bulls; here's a fight worth watching In case you thought deep-fried Twinkies sounded like the worst possible junk food People's Court Jim Bublitz has a dead-on parody of the trash-talk anti-discernment blogs N.T. Wright Gets It Wrong How Pencils Are Made O-Mazing Grace A Plague of Biblical Proportions The Forevertron Taliban Girlie Boys: Graven images in heavy mascara Lauren McCain (one of the VTech shooting victims) HT: John Farese and Christmas catalogues Christmas catalogues Buffet The Idea Generator Engrish Barcode stuff The History of Baseball in Orange Crate Art Pachelbel Bedtime Superlatives Top 10 Coast Guard Rescues A History of Perpetual Motion Respect your elders (ht: Fide-o) Christianity Today links to our posters; some of their commenters aren't laughing Crash tests My Emergent Guilt Shocking! Is Bono doing anything good for Africa? 747 coming in low (check the "related video" links for more) Dissidens on coherence, meaning, and tradition—with an exhortation for hymn-writers A Pyromaniac's dream machine Speaking of Benny Hinn and Tourette's Syndrome . . . Suffer the Little Children . . . to Leave? Why "Nothing" Is Important, by Doug Wilson Robert Saucy on ECT The coming environmentalist police state "Gall in the Family"—Mark Coppenger on Chris Seay's Faith of My Fathers Packer on "smartypants notions like 'divine child abuse'" Possibly the ultimate perversion of sanctification: Self-mummification Dog day afternoon—Pecadillo finally weighs in Neil Shay is desperate for traffic. Honk as you drive by his blog today De at "Thinklings" makes a funny and poignant point about how we tend to pray Division in the No-Lordship Camp Identity thief gets slap on the wrist Paul Nicklen Photography Big day in Tulsa An incredible machine Frog turns into prince Redeeming the Time Western "culture" passed the point of no return in January 1960. Here is a videotape of the moment it happened This should be interesting This is why I love YouTube Something deep James White on the myth of "the patristic consensus" Beckwith now resigns his personal membership in ETS; his wife thinks he (and Rome) have been treated shoddily Excavating the backyard So much for limbo The last enemy that shall be destroyed Classic TV Ads If you still aren't sure why puinishment and propitiation are vital aspects of the atonement, read Adrian's great series Hats off, gentlemen. A travesty. "Pearls Before Breakfast" iMonk gets one right (times 5!) "The plasticity of the brain" Facing the Giants Pretty underground One day on the Paris Underground. . . Not J. S. Bach, but poignant nonetheless RetroLife a disturbing neck tumor John Piper heard God speak! And I know this is true, because I got the same message! 20 Things You didn't know about. . . This is more than a tad disturbing Bet you can't do this this is amazing video of a lunar transit of the sun, courtesy: NASA A Canadian Defense Minister's brilliant solution to global warming Free Classical Music Downloads Stringfever Bolero I want a keyboard like this Live flight tracking A toaster for pirates Finally! It's about time someone published the instructions for making these things. Mormons and Catholics have got one another's backs, it seems If they had the SuperBowl in India, this would be one of the TV ads, and this would be another one. The best-ever online edition[s] of Foxe's Book of Martyrs Oops! Someone at the BHT is actually making sense. Tominthebox News Network R. Scott Clark's "Heidelblog" A very poignant drama about neighbors The Trunk Monkey: Better than OnStar phonoarchive.org The most incredible hockey turnaround ever James White is here to pump—[clap]—you up. Ah, yes. The glory of high-church liturgy. The original Ronald McDonald The evolution of speechballoons in comics Goggles The Woman Who Thinks Like A Cow Reg Kehoe & His Marimba Queens Dwarf-tossing: more costly than it used to be Silly String? Pecadillo returns: It's hard out there for a cop Pray for RTS president Frank James's brother Adrian Warnock tells me a wonderful secret our meeting is again punctuated by disaster What Constance Cumbey thinks of Texe Marrs Bounced. Giant Bat-Eating Centipede Not the way to reform Anglicanism. (HT: Greg Hanke) Worst. Burglar. Ever. (HT: Greg Hanke) Yeah, OK. But—why? If all theonomists were this sensible, the "religious right" wouldn't be such an embarrassment "Sprouts; sprouts; leave them all out. This is the veg I can do without—come on!" Some of our commenters have been reading this, I think What evangelistic gimmickery looks like to the lost Coinimoes Unleash these guys on your browser window Here's a brilliant Firefox fix if you have trouble reading Steve Hays's unformatted posts at Triablogue "Bus Plunge" Space.com on Jeff Williams Reason number 3,467 why I don't trust atheistic scientists Youch! On Reformation Day? Wow. Another gem from Bollywood Pecadillo goes back to his blog's roots; remember this? The Orchestra: A User's Manual At last; a site for homeschool dads James White on his favorite gadfly/chameleon antagonist, Paul Owen Cool pictures of the shuttle launch, probably from a high-flying jet (Jeff Williams, who was there, says they definitely were not taken from the ISS) An Italian frescoe in ultra-hi-res 50 Books You Should Leave on The Shelf It could happen to me Bob Newhart uses the same counseling technique I use "Orthodoxy and me," by Rod Dreher Mexico's government shields diocese that covered for pedophile priests Why the "Restored" Armstrongist Cult hates blogs Only skin deep: How that beauty on the billboard got there Proof that God exists Amazing lightning photo 99 Rooms My favorite English cathedral is being held up by duct tape Warfield on the difference between contextualization and compromise Slo-mo PyroMania Complete History of the Middle East in 90 Seconds Colliding With Death at 37,000 Feet, and Living You thought TBN was bad? Try Christian Science TV Pistol Packing Preachers Psycho-Pentecostalism Kung Fu Ninjas cannot defeat the RubberMan (but rubber cement can) Hindi movies always amuse me—but rarely this much The JollyBlogger on the real priorities of the Christian battle Here are some of the most spectacular cloud photos you'll ever see Doug TenNapel, creator of Earthworm Jim, is hardly "TR," but his evaluation of Emergent-style neo-liberalism is spot on A seriously cool photo A bunch of seriously cool photos Huh? Famous Divinity School Dropouts An Oxford don is pretty sure we are living in the Matrix Todd Friel reviews his debate with atheist Dan Barker James White, Sam Waldron, and Rich Barcellos discuss the wrongs of Wright and other termites eating away at the Protestant understanding of justification Centuri0n on the Emerging Sideshow Good question from Doug Wilson: "Why should Christians and Muslims make an alliance to beat up on the god of the philosophers?" How the 21st-century terrorist jihad was born The messages on Jim Rockford's answering machine Two of my all-time favorites in a battle of the bands! Charles Sebold's "Little known facts about James White" Nate B.'s "What's Wrong with Wright's Critics?" "You Know You Are Not Reformed If . . ." A classic example of how the medium often obscures the message Patches the horse Eric Costa's "Learning from People with Bad Theology" "Hezbollywood—CNN admits staging of photos by Hezbollah" Ben Witherington's "Justification by Doubt" Cute Overload The testimony of a former KKK terrorist An insightful review by Doug Wilson, which has already produced some squealing protests Mike Osborne's even-handed review of Thomas Merton Dr. Samantha Punch, lecturer in sociology Scot McKnight has some hard words for the Emerging fringe Joe Thorn's photos One of the Macks quotes Geoff Thomas on "The New Perspective" Doug Wilson's pithy observation about the latest kitsch at Purgatorio Nate Busenitz's "Liberalism Warmed Over" Frank Turk's "A separate peace [1] James White points to a newspaper article whose second paragraph eloquently sums up what's wrong with Anglicanism nowadays. Nate Busenitz singlehandedly pulls "Faith and Practice" back into the "stellar" category of my blogroll Michael Riley's "Spurgeon on the priority of regeneration to faith" Steve Hays on "Making the world safe for hypocrisy" Daniel Allen's "Sacred Blue" A Sign of the Times The BHT jumps the shark Pecadillo on LA baseball fans Purgatorio unmasked. Dissidens' "In Praise of Blogging" Pecadillo links to one of his typical fans Gary Gilley's series on the Emerging Church Joe Sobran's "St. Paul and the Liberal Agenda" Ingrid Schlueter keeps shining the light into the darkness Purgatorio's "ESV 'To Do' Bible" TulipGirl's "Ezzo Week 2006" Paleoevangelical's "What I Really Like About Fundamentalism" Frank Turk's "Don't start with me"

Links that made me groan Several layers of illustrations about human depravity here Swedish Twins Play Frogger on the Motorway Doug Pagitt discovers the Po-Motivators® "Luck" "I'm a PC! . . ." but not really Anne Lamott sends some postmodern love to Sarah Palin "Emerging/Emergent/Emergence": Doug Pagitt explains it all Yet another reason not to be an Anglican The anti-theft lunch bag Campolo: "What the Bible is really about" One of my relatives, no doubt. Another meat-chub incident! This time the crime is compounded with rubbing spices. The pastor's lie was bad enough; the commenters' "Oh, well" attitude is appalling Drowsy driver Here's how our blog must look to someone caught in the matrix of postmodernism The Great Church Sign Debate We represent the lollipop guild Postmodernity's desiccated fruit, part 1: Emotional nihilism "They needed new metaphors to understand their journey" I hate when I'm forced to take a more conservative point of view than the fundamentalist bloggers "Ideologies birthed out of the experiences of dead white men" For those who thought McLaren couldn't get any more condescending . . . Brian McLaren: Spiritual advisor to Obama No wonder Some of the worst advice on personal evangelism I've ever seen Contextualize this A secular reporter weighs in on the turmoil at Cedarville. Yikes. Sometime Pyro commenter Art Boulet sounds off for CT re: Westminster's current troubles Contextualization run amok I-35? Isaiah 35:8? Look: I was born and lived my entire pre-teen life within walking distance of I-35. This is just one more reason not to take CBN seriously. Yeesh The new design is appropriately dark Keith Olbermann—blowhard, left-wing nutbag propagandist, and consummate hypocrite—bleats and whines and bullies. Time to get that job selling seed, Keith

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