tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35319845971567463512024-03-19T05:43:20.673-07:00All 2 GodFrenchman exiled in France with a Bible (and some books)Stéphane Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17735002443067282612noreply@blogger.comBlogger197125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3531984597156746351.post-8797332847535735532011-03-08T14:34:00.000-08:002011-03-08T14:34:05.076-08:00What's the Greatest Book on Marriage?Other than the Bible? Several women I trust told me it was <a href="http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/book/9780310242826/Sacred-Marriage/a_aid=Etrangersetvoyageurs">Sacred Marriage</a>. My fiancée and I have been reading it and it is indeed good. Really good. I haven't read any others, so don't know about the whole best thing. But God did use it to mend our engagement.<br />
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The Book depository is having <a href="http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/book/9780310242826/Sacred-Marriage/a_aid=Etrangersetvoyageurs">a special 29% off</a>. They have free world wide shipping. So I think they're actually cheaper than Amazon. And if you buy it there, I also get 5% :-) But you may also just want to go to <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Sacred-Marriage-What-Designed-Happy/dp/0310242827/ref=lh_ni_t_">Amazon to check it out yourself</a>. <br />
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PS. This post exists because I just recommended the book to a friend. I thought I'd share it with you too.Stéphane Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17735002443067282612noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3531984597156746351.post-53625350910069867292011-02-20T11:25:00.000-08:002011-02-20T11:26:09.283-08:00Finding Love In The Best PlaceWhat is love? If we look to ourselves, we'll never be able to really answer that question. God answers the question in 1 John 4:10. I studied the verse in my Bible Arc course.<br /><br /><blockquote>"In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins."</blockquote><br />Here is the passage video:<br /><br /><iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/10341103" frameborder="0" height="300" width="400"></iframe><br /><a href="http://vimeo.com/10341103">1 John 4:10</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/biblearc">Bible Arc</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.Stéphane Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17735002443067282612noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3531984597156746351.post-33276088570160250732011-02-14T14:35:00.000-08:002011-02-14T14:37:13.113-08:00A Great Bible-Study ToolQuick post before I head to bed. Just finished studying a passage in Proverbs. The Bible study method I used is called "arcing". You can find out more about it at <a href="http://biblearc.com/">Bible Arc</a>.<br />
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In the meanwhile here is the video of the "trainer". Yup, after you finish studying the passage, you can watch the video to see how you did. PS: the website isn't as old as the video makes it out to be. :-)<br />
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<a href="http://vimeo.com/10426594">Proverbs 2:1-6</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/biblearc">Bible Arc</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.Stéphane Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17735002443067282612noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3531984597156746351.post-79537473180037487852011-02-13T14:19:00.000-08:002011-02-13T14:19:47.767-08:00Should Jesus remain the "Son of God" in Arabic Bibles?Last week I spent hours enjoying tea and conversation with a muslim friend. He had many questions. Frankly, I often did not know how to answer. For I could sense how differently my north african friend would respond to the standard "evangelical answers". His most pressing question was clearly: "How can the Bible say that Jesus is the Son of God?" For a muslim, "Son of God" implies God had sex with Mary.<br />
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Christianity Today has <a href="http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2011/february/soncrescent.html">an article by Collin Hansen</a>, on the "Son of God" controversy among arabic world bible translators. I highly recommend the article. You can find it <a href="http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2011/february/soncrescent.html">here</a>.<br />
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After reading that 7 page article, you'll be interesting to follow the debate on <a href="http://www.edstetzer.com/2011/02/scripture-translation-and-mini.html">Ed Stetzer's blog</a>. To wrap it all up, you can than read <a href="http://www.edstetzer.com/2011/02/the-son-of-god-and-ministry-to.html">the excellent article by a man named "Rod</a>".Stéphane Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17735002443067282612noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3531984597156746351.post-58806855659528904292011-01-20T22:39:00.000-08:002011-01-20T22:39:13.628-08:00Tim Keller About The Lord of the RingsJust read this quote regarding JRR Tolkien and The Lord of the Rings, in a<a href="http://www.desiringgod.org/blog/posts/dg-live-with-tim-keller"> recent interview of Timothy Keller</a>.<br />
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<blockquote>Tolkien has helped my imagination. He was a devout Catholic—and I am not. However, because he brought his faith to bear into narrative, fiction, and literature, his Christianity—which was pretty ‘mere Christianity’ (understanding of human sin, need for grace, need for redemption)—fleshed out in fiction, has been an inspiration to me.<br />
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What I mean by inspiration is this: he gives me a way of grasping glory that would otherwise be hard for me to appreciate. Glory, weightiness, beauty, excellence, brilliance, virtue—he shows them to you in some of his characters.<br />
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When people ask: how often have you read Lord of the Rings?, the answer is: I actually never stop. I’m always in it.</blockquote>(<a href="http://spurgeon.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/keller-on-tolkien/">Via</a>)Stéphane Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17735002443067282612noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3531984597156746351.post-54021871486327373142011-01-16T02:49:00.000-08:002011-01-16T02:49:35.099-08:00Before I pick up my Bible in earnest<b>C. S. Lewis:</b><br />
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For my own part, I tend to find the doctrinal books often more helpful in devotion than the devotional books, and I rather suspect that the same experience may await others. I believe that many who find that ‘nothing happens’ when they sit down, or kneel down, to a book of devotion, would find that the heart sings unbidden while they are working their way through a tough bit of theology with a pipe in their teeth and a pencil in their hand.<br />
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<b>B. B. Warfield:</b><br />
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Sometimes we hear it said that ten minutes on your knees will give you a truer, deeper, more operative knowledge of God than ten hours over your books. What! Than ten hours over your books on your knees?”<br />
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HT: <a href="http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/justintaylor/2011/01/14/devotion-and-doctrine/">JT</a>Stéphane Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17735002443067282612noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3531984597156746351.post-28817710768432525262010-11-30T05:56:00.000-08:002010-11-30T05:56:43.361-08:00A Brilliant Quote on Preaching<style>
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</span></div><blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -1cm 0.0001pt 18pt;"><span lang="EN-US">“How utterly dependant we are on the Holy Spirit in the work of preaching! All genuine preaching is rooted in a feeling of desperation. You wake up on Sunday morning and you can smell the smoke of hell on one side and feel the crisp breezes of heaven on the other. You go to your study and look down at your pitiful manuscript, and you kneel down and cry, "O God, this is so weak! Who do I think I am? What audacity to think that in three hours my words will be the odor of death to death and the fragrance of life to life (2 Cor 2:16). My God, who is sufficient for these things?"</span></div></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -1cm 0.0001pt 18pt;"><span lang="EN-US">John Piper in </span><a href="http://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/0801065046?ie=UTF8&tag=etrangeetvoya-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1642&creative=19458&creativeASIN=0801065046">The Supremacy of God in Preaching</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.fr/e/ir?t=etrangeetvoya-21&l=as2&o=8&a=0801065046" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important;" width="1" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -1cm 0.0001pt 18pt;"><span lang="EN-US"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -1cm 0.0001pt 18pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><b></b></span></div>Stéphane Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17735002443067282612noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3531984597156746351.post-81424160942208156382010-11-26T13:24:00.000-08:002010-11-26T13:24:42.635-08:00Apple is REALLY killing itJust thought I would pass on the news. 36% of people planning on buying a laptop in the next 90 days, are planning on a mac.<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim/2010/11/25/changewave-research-macbook-11-10.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="211" src="http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim/2010/11/25/changewave-research-macbook-11-10.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Is Apple ever going to stop? I must admit, I wish Apple wasn't so popular. I liked the good old day, when owning an iBook was cool. Now it's just "normal".Stéphane Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17735002443067282612noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3531984597156746351.post-57068418950669860322010-09-13T14:05:00.000-07:002010-09-13T14:05:59.946-07:00This Blog Know How to WriteEvery once in a while I read the blog 6 Year Med. The woman writes very insightful posts that choke me up.<br />
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Here is a recent post about <a href="http://sixyearmed.com/?p=878">her last year</a>. This is good.Stéphane Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17735002443067282612noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3531984597156746351.post-85347104408254596052010-05-17T10:56:00.001-07:002010-05-17T10:56:04.066-07:00To All My Football Friends…<object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/sVGtB9j7QCg&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/sVGtB9j7QCg&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object>Stéphane Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17735002443067282612noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3531984597156746351.post-21616233799715103702010-05-08T15:18:00.000-07:002010-05-08T15:18:01.204-07:00In Paris for the WeekendA friend of mine is getting baptized tomorrow. She became a believer during the summer of 2009. I love baptisms. Its a sign of life: God still saves today. Grace is evident in her life.<br />
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For a little piece of French culture, I live two hours away from Paris. For a Frenchman, that means that traveling to Paris is a rare and special occasion. Two hours is a long trip (I'm exaggerating slightly). In anycase, French certainly don't live on the road like Americans.<br />
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By the way, I love Paris!Stéphane Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17735002443067282612noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3531984597156746351.post-91539862528341217392010-04-08T14:42:00.000-07:002010-04-08T14:42:43.406-07:00Maybe this blog has a few more breaths in it…Perhaps by popular demand (thanks Mark for your email) this blog will remain open a while longer. We'll see…<br />
Anyhow, if you're looking for a laugh, a smile or a little bit of French trivia, I invite you to read my little brother's blog: <a href="http://sarcasticfrenchie.wordpress.com/">Sarcastic Frenchie</a>. I've been enjoying it!Stéphane Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17735002443067282612noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3531984597156746351.post-29481546744245391542010-03-21T13:20:00.000-07:002010-03-21T13:20:07.425-07:00This Blog is Closed!!!Hello everyone!<br />
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This blog is closed (until I change my mind). After several weeks (or was that months?) of not blogging in English, I figured I should just give it up altogether.<br />
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If you're a family friend and want to still stay in touch, I invite you to <a href="http://fermekapi.blogspot.com/">visit the family blog</a>. The most <a href="http://fermekapi.blogspot.com/2010/03/wedding-in-family.html">recent post was full of wedding photos</a>!<br />
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If you're an ex-OMer, just remember, life is short, eternity is long and we'll be catching up soon.<br />
If you're just a mysterious guest in search of truth and still don't know the blogs of Justin Taylor and Tim Challies, just google them. They have the greatest blogs!<br />
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Finally, a little word about what's up on my side of the Atlantic. I'm nearly done with school… praying that my classmates would repent and turn to Jesus… and will resume regular blogging in French at <a href="http://tout2dieu.wordpress.com/">http://tout2dieu.wordpress.com</a><br />
In the USA, everyone these days is blogging. In fact, I often wonder who is actually meeting people in real life and doing the work of a good evangelist. It's quite the opposite in France. There are very few Christian blogs/sites and I think I can contribute to the growth of the church here in my small way. Recently, I type "inerrancy of the Bible" in google.fr and my blog still came up 5th (more than a year after having written on the subject)!<br />
I'll also try to write 1 or 2 articles a month on the Apologetics blog of some friends: <a href="http://www.raisonsdecroire.org/">RaisonsdeCroire</a>.<br />
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If you just want to write, I would love to hear from you! Just email me at: <a href="mailto:tout2dieu@gmail.com">tout2dieu@gmail.com</a><br />
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In His grace,<br />
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Stéphane KStéphane Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17735002443067282612noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3531984597156746351.post-34171203466706926282010-03-11T02:27:00.000-08:002010-03-11T02:27:05.376-08:00Wedding in the Family… Guess Who?Mom has just posted <a href="http://fermekapi.blogspot.com/2010/03/wedding-in-family.html">some photos of my grandfather's wedding</a>. I'm sure you'll enjoy them if you know us!Stéphane Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17735002443067282612noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3531984597156746351.post-48066632306588543102010-02-08T15:46:00.000-08:002010-02-08T15:46:15.350-08:00Cool Church in Hot Country: Yeah man…<div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">World's best team? Jérémie just posted some news and photos on his blog. Last Sunday, he visited a church in Jamaica. But it wasn't just a visit, they were asked to run the whole service. You can <a href="http://currentnewsforyou.blogspot.com/2010/02/yeah-mon.html">read the whole story on his blog.</a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq_mCf2daDCIq8rjtkjKdpMUdZ4wF57oYFdPcJZaL4xvJCDmoctEQDLuO-kM8g9Zy8BBPZc7NojysN3D9HdIfRaYC5JAs1Nj7zmmxXif-yky9yeTm18dRCYvktk1yGOWwLK6cGeUeAZzIy/s320/Montego+Bay,+Jamaica+Feb+2010+045.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq_mCf2daDCIq8rjtkjKdpMUdZ4wF57oYFdPcJZaL4xvJCDmoctEQDLuO-kM8g9Zy8BBPZc7NojysN3D9HdIfRaYC5JAs1Nj7zmmxXif-yky9yeTm18dRCYvktk1yGOWwLK6cGeUeAZzIy/s320/Montego+Bay,+Jamaica+Feb+2010+045.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">PS. Staying in the family. Sunday night </span><a href="http://fermekapi.blogspot.com/2010/02/sushi-time.html" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">we had a very enjoyable Sushi-party</a><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">. Thanks Rachel for all the hard work!</span><br style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Well <a href="http://www.albertmohler.com/2010/02/01/hijacking-the-brain-how-pornography-works/">here is the post</a>. Al Mohler comments on a book he's just read called <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0830837000?ie=UTF8&tag=fidelitas-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=0830837000" target="_blank"><em>Wired for Intimacy: How Pornography Hijacks the Male Brain.</em></a></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Here is a quote from the book that I found very helpful, because it was very true:</div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"The simplest explanation for why men view pornography (or solicit prostitutes) is that they are driven to seek out sexual intimacy," he explains. The urge for sexual intimacy is God-given and essential to the male, he acknowledges, but it is easily misdirected. Men are tempted to seek "a shortcut to sexual pleasure via pornography" and now find this shortcut easily accessed.</i></div><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Here is </span><a href="http://www.albertmohler.com/2010/02/01/hijacking-the-brain-how-pornography-works/" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">the whole thing on Al Mohler's blog</a><i><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I work for a French Christian Publisher. Recently, one of our books (</span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Manga-Messiah-Tyndale/dp/1414316801"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Manga Messiah</span></a><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">), has won a prestigious award. I've been busy informing the media… Well no, they're informed and I spend my time answering their questions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This morning I was interviewed on a Catholic radio station</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">.</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> It was a good time. I made the occasional "blunder", but overall I'm pleased with the outcome. This was my first time on French Radio, so it will also take a bit of time to get used to the language tricks and the new data (BLF and not OM Ships).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Have a great day!</span>Stéphane Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17735002443067282612noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3531984597156746351.post-58772042939407718472010-01-11T12:26:00.000-08:002010-01-11T12:39:51.959-08:00When Science Blasphemes Less Than Religion<span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've come across a terrific video. But before I post it, I thought of this as-terrific quote. How are we doing Christians? </span><br /><blockquote><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">"</span></span>I do see the design of the universe as essentially a religious question. That is, one should have some kind of respect and awe for the whole business. It's very magnificent and shouldn't be taken for granted. In fact, I believe that is why Einstein had so little use for organized religion, although he strikes me as a basically very religious man. <i>He must have looked at what the preachers said about God and felt that they were blaspheming. He had seen much more majesty than they had ever imagined, and they were just not talking about the real thing. My guess is that he simply felt that religions he had run across did not have a proper respect for the Author of the universe.</i>"</blockquote><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Charles Misner, General relativity theory scientist (as quoted in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Let-Nations-Be-Glad-2nd/dp/080102613X">Let the Nation Be Glad </a>and in </span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.preachingtodaysermons.com/supofgodinpr.html">this sermon on the Supremacy of God</a></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">)</span><br /><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span><br /><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's the video that brings us from planet Earth, across the entire known Universe and beyond.</span><br /><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10px;"><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/17jymDn0W6U&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/17jymDn0W6U&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span><br /><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span>Stéphane Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17735002443067282612noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3531984597156746351.post-52952776891637743722010-01-09T15:19:00.000-08:002010-01-09T15:19:55.783-08:00Not Too Late To Read Your Bible!Today, I posted something in French regarding Bible reading plans. As I'm heading to bed, I saw that Desiring God has also posted something quite useful. So here is a copy/paste:<br />
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We're now a week and a half into 2010, but it's not too late to start a read-through-the-Bible-in-a-year plan. After all, you have more than 50 weeks to catch up on what you've missed. Or treat your year as January 10, 2010, through January 10, 2011.<br />
Below are several good options.<br />
<a href="http://www.navpress.com/uploadedFiles/15074%20BRP.dj.pdf" style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Discipleship Journal</strong></a><br />
NavPress's Discipleship Journal plan has been the most used at Bethlehem for years. I'm back at this one again in 2010, and I would highly recommend it. There are four daily readings (the year starts with Genesis, Psalms, Matthew, and Acts), but it's only 25 days each month—which leaves some margin for missing here and there when life gets busy.<br />
<a href="http://www.ransomfellowship.org/publications/notes_biblereadingprogram.pdf" style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><strong>For Shirkers and Slackers</strong></a><br />
If "margin for missing" is what you know you need, then this plan from Ransom Fellowship might be right for you. Maybe you've tried the other plans in the past and stalled out again and again. This plan assigns certain genres to certain days of the week and breaks biblical books up into sections you can read in one sitting—so without reading everyday, you can still make measurable headway. Pace yourself well and do some extra reading, and you might even finish long before 2010 is over.<br />
<a href="http://www.esv.org/assets/pdfs/rp.one.year.tract.pdf" style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><strong>M'Cheyne</strong></a><strong> </strong><br />
This is the classic plan, designed by Robert Murray M'Cheyne (1813—1843), the well-remembered Scottish minister who died before his 30th birthday. The plan has readings for every day of the year and will take you once through the Old Testament and twice through the Psalms and the New Testament. (Don Carson's daily devotionals called <a href="http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/loveofgod/" style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><em>For the Love of God</em></a> are based on the M'Cheyne plan.)<br />
<a href="http://www.esv.org/assets/pdfs/rp.esv.study.bible.pdf" style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><strong>ESV Study Bible</strong></a><br />
Like the Discipleship Journal plan, the ESV Study Bible plan has you reading in four places: 1) Psalms and wisdom lit, 2) Pentateuch and Israel's history, 3) Chronicles and prophets, and 4) Gospels and epistles.<br />
<a href="http://www.esv.org/assets/pdfs/rp.chronological.pdf" style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Chronological</strong></a><strong> </strong><br />
With a reading for each day of the year, this plan from Back to the Bible aims to take you through Scripture in chronological order.<br />
<a href="http://journeyon.net/sites/default/files/documents/BibleReadingPlan.pdf" style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Engage Scripture</strong></a><strong> </strong><br />
This new plan from The Journey in St. Louis looks very good. Also check out The Journey's <a href="http://journeyon.net/engage/scripture/reading" style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Engage Scripture page</a> for videos and pdfs giving background info on the biblical books, as Pastor Darrin Patrick takes his congregation through the Bible in 2010.<br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Audiobooks are a great way of listening to something good in all walks of life: driving, jogging, while attending class or spending quality time with family. OK, I know you know what are the right moments for this. Enjoy!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">PS. This version is abridged… AHHHHHH!!!! Forgive me!</span>Stéphane Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17735002443067282612noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3531984597156746351.post-63421695369521483772009-12-15T13:29:00.000-08:002009-12-15T13:29:29.928-08:00Cold orthodoxy and Emotionalism<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<b>Cold orthodoxy</b> is the result of absorbing doctrine without gratitude.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Emotionalism</b> is the result of gratitude without doctrine. We need both.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the former tendency leads to an obsession with intellectual data with-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">out expression in love, humility, charity, goodworks, and genuine wor-</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(Michael Horton)</span>Stéphane Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17735002443067282612noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3531984597156746351.post-9027344063757205172009-12-07T14:00:00.000-08:002009-12-07T14:09:43.318-08:00A Bunch of Nuts Serving the King Nut<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jérémie is off serving onboard the Logos Hope (as you may know). And now he's off the ship for an inland team. They'll be dramatizing a lot… the Gospel. You can read </span><a href="http://currentnewsforyou.blogspot.com/2009/12/drama-challenge-team.html"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">all about it on his blog</span></a><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> (or hope for more news soon).</span><br />
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