http://www.achristianmanifesto.com/thoughtsandadventures Christian conversation about pressing issues of the day from a couple of knucklehead Missouri Baptists. Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:25:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en PD#10: Lil Wayne's new album Tha Carter III has now gone double-platinum, selling two million copies in the first nine weeks of its release. It passed one million copies in the first week alone. These are huge sales, especially in our day of digital music purchasing where people buy singles but not ... http://www.achristianmanifesto.com/thoughtsandadventures/2008/08/20/slouching-lil-wayne-goes-double-platinum/ PD#9 I am sitting out on my back porch this morning as the sun gets ready to inaugurate a new day. Birds sing and dance in the dew-laden grass, looking for that proverbial early worm they are entitled to. Maybe they can forget about the worms for awhile and feast instead ... http://www.achristianmanifesto.com/thoughtsandadventures/2008/07/27/considering-birds/ St. Louis is my hometown, and always will be in my heart. For the last seven years I have pastored the most wonderful group of Christians at Providence Baptist in Rock Hill. But when the sun rises tomorrow morning, a moving company crew will show up at my family’s house and ... http://www.achristianmanifesto.com/thoughtsandadventures/2008/07/13/transition-time/ I will be gone for the month of June. Big changes are taking place in the life of my family right now - exciting and wonderful events. And, with those changes comes a press on my time and schedule for the next 4-5 weeks. I may see many of you ... http://www.achristianmanifesto.com/thoughtsandadventures/2008/05/24/taking-off-june/ O MY GOD, Thou fairest, greatest, first of all objects, my heart admires, adores, loves Thee, for my little vessel is as full as it can be, and I would pour out all that fullness before Thee in ceaseless flow. When I think upon and converse with Thee ten thousand delightful thoughts spring up, ten thousand sources ... http://www.achristianmanifesto.com/thoughtsandadventures/2008/05/17/puritan-prayer-of-thanksgiving/ Sources say Avery Willis will be nominated by John Marshall (Springfield, Missouri) for SBC President. Click HERE for story. http://www.achristianmanifesto.com/thoughtsandadventures/2008/05/05/avery-willis-to-run-for-sbc-president/ Sources say that Johnny Hunt will be announcing on Tuesday (May 6), Ted Traylor nominating. http://www.achristianmanifesto.com/thoughtsandadventures/2008/05/05/johnny-hunt-to-run-for-sbc-president/ PD#9: Wow! There is a lot of buzz in the “religion & politics” news this week regarding Barack Obama and his pastor former pastor Jeremiah Wright I understand that a pastor feels a burden to show courage and boldness in the face of hostility towards personally-held beliefs, but you’ve got ... http://www.achristianmanifesto.com/thoughtsandadventures/2008/04/30/jeremiah-wright-liberation-theology-and-thabiti-anyabwile/ PD#8: A short video clip of John Piper's gem from 2000... "the seashell story"... Don't Waste Your Life. http://www.achristianmanifesto.com/thoughtsandadventures/2008/04/26/dont-waste-your-life/ PD#7: On the cross of Calvary, God poured out his wrath on Christ, in the place of sinners. Do you think that such a notion is a “twisted version of events,” or “morally dubious,” or a “huge barrier to faith”?Do you think that the doctrine of penal substitution, God punishing Christ in ... http://www.achristianmanifesto.com/thoughtsandadventures/2008/04/25/the-atonement-debate/