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 <title><![CDATA[If We Go Seeker-Sensitive...]]></title>
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 <description><![CDATA[I'm posting this video here so that <a href="http://www.communityefc.org/index.php/CEFChome/about_us/">Pastor Mike Shea</a> can see what kind of things he'll be obligated to do if <a href="http://www.communityefc.org">our church</a> ever decides to go seeker-sensitive.<br />
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P.S. This is Ergun Caner, President of Liberty University.]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:16:29 -0400</pubDate>
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 <title><![CDATA[Katrina Relief video]]></title>
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 <description><![CDATA[In December 2005, a small crew of workers from <a href="http://www.communityefc.org/">my church</a> went to Slidell, Louisiana to help with the hurricane relief effort being spearheaded by <a href="http://www.sgfellowship.org/">Sovereign Grace Fellowship</a>. A member of one of the first work crews put together a video to document the early relief effort. This excerpt shows what the damage looked like when we were there, and Pastor Eddie Exposito explains his involvement and vision for ministry in the affected areas.<br />
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The need for workers is still great. Find out about the ongoing relief effort and how you can become involved at <a href="http://www.sgfellowship.org/homeland.shtml">http://www.sgfellowship.org/homeland.shtml</a><br />
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 <pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2007 12:13:22 -0400</pubDate>
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 <title><![CDATA[More X-Treme Cycling]]></title>
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 <description><![CDATA[I made a camera mount for my bike and decided to give it a real midwest workout.<br />
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 <pubDate>Mon, 6 Aug 2007 15:10:04 -0400</pubDate>
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 <title><![CDATA[Central IL Cyclemania]]></title>
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 <description><![CDATA[Dr. James White is always going on and on about how he <a href="http://www.aomin.org/index.php?itemid=2041">rides his bicycle up and down South Mountain</a> and other cool places in and near Phoenix, AZ. Sure, Arizona is scenic and all, and has mountains and stuff. However, as <a href="http://5pointers.wordpress.com">markfrench</a> shows in the video below, there is plenty of heart-pounding cycling action going on in Central Illinois:<br />
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True, there are no 150-300 foot dropoffs, but there are plenty of risks that provide a constant adrenaline rush. For example, one false move could land you face first in the soybeans, or worse, the corn. If you didn't turn first. It could be really bad.<br />
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Thanks for the video, Mark!]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 14:01:00 -0400</pubDate>
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 <dc:creator>Eric Nielsen</dc:creator>
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 <title><![CDATA[SPOTTED: When Is Abortion Racism?]]></title>
 <link>http://www.agent000.com/index.php?itemid=73</link>
 <description><![CDATA[This past Sunday, Pastor John Piper preached a message of great importance for all who love the gospel, and believe that its message is to every tribe, tongue, people and nation. He makes it clear that the issue of abortion is not merely a personal issue, nor a political issue, but is a gospel issue.<blockquote>"Planned Parenthood is the largest abortion provider in America. They were founded by Margaret Sanger whose “Negro Project” in the 1930s was designed to reduce the births of black children....Today 78% of Planned Parenthood clinics are in minority communities."</blockquote><blockquote>"In the name of Jesus Christ and rooted in the gospel of his death and resurrection for sinners (including abortionists and pastors), my aim is to stigmatize abortion by associating it with racism. I would like you to link abortion and race the same way you link lynching and race. My aim is that those who abhor racism will abhor abortion—“Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good” (Romans 12:9). My aim is that abortion would be as culturally taboo as racism is. My aim is to hasten the day when being publicly pro-choice will be as reprehensible as being publicly racist. My aim is to hasten the day when declaring yourself pro-choice would be like declaring yourself a white supremacist."</blockquote><br />
Amen! May that day come quickly. I urge you strongly to avail yourself of John Piper's <a href="http://www.desiringgod.org/ResourceLibrary/Sermons/ByDate/2007/1951_When_Is_Abortion_Racism/">recent sermon "When Is Abortion Racism?"</a>.<br />
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Another useful resource is George Grant's <a href="http://www.freebooks.com/docs/39ba_47e.htm">Killer Angel: A Biography of Planned Parenthood's Founder Margaret Sanger</a>.]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jan 2007 20:56:56 -0500</pubDate>
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 <title><![CDATA[SPOTTED: Grudem and Piper on Profanity]]></title>
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 <description><![CDATA[Tim Challies has written <a href="http://www.challies.com/archives/002318.php">an article that provides a synopsis of a recent interchange between John Piper and Wayne Grudem about profanity</a>.<br />
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<a href="http://www.desiringgod.org/ResourceLibrary/QuestionsAndAnswers/ByTitle/1942_At_the_Passion07_breakout_session_you_used_language_that_seemed_inappropriate_to_some_Will_you_explain_why_you_did_that/">John Piper's explanation about why he sometimes uses profanity</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.desiringgod.org/ResourceLibrary/Articles/ByTitle/1945_Wayne_Grudem_on_Offensive_Language/">Wayne Grudem's response to John Piper's explanation</a> ]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2007 11:09:40 -0500</pubDate>
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 <title><![CDATA["The Title Of The Song"]]></title>
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 <description><![CDATA[The music itself is not executed well, but the song is hilarious!<br />
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 <pubDate>Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:47:58 -0500</pubDate>
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 <title><![CDATA[Thanksgiving/Christmas Gift To My Readers]]></title>
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 <description><![CDATA[<img src="http://www.agent000.com/images/chomper.gif" align="center" title="Chomper" width="640" height="400" border="0"><br />
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Way back in 1995, I wrote the music for a PC video game called "Chomper". Chomper is a clever game in the Pacman genre--except this time, you have to maneuver through a huge, scrolling maze. I spent hours tweaking sounds and playing with the musical arrangements so that the same music would sound OK on every sort of sound card someone might have--from a Soundblaster Pro (i.e. FM-based electronic beeps) to a full-fledged General MIDI instrument, like the Roland MT-32. Chomper was released as a shareware game in the DOS days, just as Windows 95 was taking off. For my work, I think I only earned around $100 and a copy of Microsoft Office, but it sure was a lot of fun.<br />
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I'm putting a copy of Chomper here on my blog so that my legions of faithful readers can enjoy it, provided that they are geeky enough to get it running. To run Chomper on a modern computer, you'll probably need to use an  <a href="http://dosbox.sourceforge.net">emulator like DOSBOX</a>, which is available for several platforms. To have it run well within an emulator, you'll need a fast computer--Chomper needed at least a fast 486-class machine, and ran even better on a Pentium!<br />
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<a href="http://www.agent000.com/binary/chomp10.zip" title="Download Chomper">Download the game</a><br />
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Once you have the zip file expanded in DOSBOX, run INSTALL.BAT, which should take you through the rest of the setup.<br />
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For sound, choose the Sound Blaster 16.<br />
For music, choose the SoundBlaster Pro -- Yamaha  (of course, if you have a Roland MT-32, you should use that instead!)<br />
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If you use the keyboard to play, it's the arrow keys to move, and CTRL to roll fast (provided you have cleared a path, that is).<br />
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Enjoy, and leave a comment if you actually get the game working!]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2006 16:29:08 -0500</pubDate>
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 <title><![CDATA[WHY GOD WOULD HAVE MANY OBSCURITIES IN THE SCRIPTURES]]></title>
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 <description><![CDATA[Our adult Sunday School class is studying the clarity (or perspicuity) of Scripture as we work our way through Wayne Grudem's <i>Systematic Theology</i>. For last week's class, we began to address the issue of difficult passages in the Bible, and how they relate to the doctrine of Scriptural Perspicuity. William Whitaker's 1588 work, <i><a href="https://aomin.org/bookstore/shop.html?shop=books#1342">A Disputation on Holy Scripture</a></i>,  addresses this question briefly in the following excerpt, which I read to the class last Sunday.<br />
<blockquote>WHY GOD WOULD HAVE MANY OBSCURITIES IN THE SCRIPTURES.<br />
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...Now the causes are such as follows:<br />
</blockquote><blockquote><i>First</i>, God would have us to be in constant prayer, and hath scattered many obscurities up and down through the scriptures, in order that we should seek his help in interpreting them and discovering their true meaning.<br />
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<i>Secondly</i>, he wished thereby to excite our diligence in reading, meditating upon, searching and comparing the scriptures; for, if everything had been plain, we should have been entirely slothful and negligent.<br />
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<i>Thirdly</i>, he designed to prevent our losing interest in them; for we are ready to grow weary of eashy things: God, therefore, would have our interest kept up by difficulties.<br />
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<i>Fourthly</i>, God willed to have that truth, so sublime, so heavenly, sought and found with so much labour, the more esteemed by us on that account. For we generally despise and contemn whatever is easily acquired, near at hand, and costs small or no labour...But those things which we find with great toil and much exertion, those, when once we have found them out, we esteem highly and consider their value proportionally greater.<br />
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<i>Fifthly</i>, God wished by this means to subdue our pride and arrogance, and to expose to us our ignorance. We are apt to think too honourably of ourselves, and to rate our genius and acuteness more highly than is fitting, and to promise ourselves too much from our science and knowledge.<br />
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<i>Sixthly</i>, God willed that the sacred mysteries of his word should be opened freely to pure and holy minds, not exposed to dogs and swine. Hence those things which are easy to holy persons, appear so many parables to the profane. For the mysteries of scripture are like gems, which only he that knows them values; while the rest, like the cock in Aesop, despise them, and prefer the most worthless objects to what is most beautiful and excellent.<br />
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<i>Seventhly</i>, God designed to call off our minds from the pursuit of external things and our daily occupations, and transfer them to the study of the scriptures. Hence it is now necessary to give some time to their perusal and study; which we certainly should not bestow on them, if we found every thing plain and open.<br />
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<i>Eighthly</i>, God desired thus to accustom us to a certain internal purity and sanctity of thought and feeling. For they who bring with them profane minds to the reading of scripture, lose their trouble and oil: those only read with advantage, who bring with them pure and holy minds.<br />
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<i>Ninthly</i>, God willed that in his church some should be teachers, and some disciples; some more learned, to give instruction; others less skilful, to receive it; so as that the honour of the sacred scriptures and the divinely instituted ministry might, in this manner, be maintained<br />
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...Other causes more besides these might be adduced; but it is not necessary to enumerate more.<br />
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William Whitaker, <i>Disputations on Holy Scripture</i>, (Philadelphia: Soli Deo Gloria Publications, 2000), pp. 366-367.</blockquote>]]></description>
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 <comments>http://www.agent000.com/index.php?itemid=69</comments>
 <pubDate>Sat, 18 Nov 2006 12:34:16 -0500</pubDate>
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 <title><![CDATA[SPOTTED: Calling him "lord"]]></title>
 <link>http://www.agent000.com/index.php?itemid=68</link>
 <description><![CDATA[Dan Phillips has posted an excellent article about <a href="http://teampyro.blogspot.com/2006/11/calling-him-lord-or-blacks-and-women.html">Biblical submission of wives to their husbands</a>. This is something that my wife Sandy has studied in some depth (significantly more than I have), and what she has learned and put into practice has been absolutely transformational in our marriage. Dan does a good job of articulating a number of the things that Sandy tries to communicate to the Christian women she comes in contact with. I encourage you to click on the links that Dan provides to articles written by Christine, a single, young woman whose future husband will be very blessed!]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Fri, 10 Nov 2006 16:08:22 -0500</pubDate>
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