Bobspotted Blogroll: July 18, 2007

~ fundyreformed

Many of you might not remember the last time you saw a Bobspotted Blogroll post. The last time I did one was in March!

Technological advancements have made me lazy in this regard. If you look left, you will notice “Bob’s Blog Finds” towards the top on the sidebar. If you haven’t paid attention to that before, you really should. Many times you may come to this blog and see no updates. If you check out Bob’s Blog Finds, however, you may see that I’ve been busy enjoying other people’s excellent blogs. And if you are interested, you can read what I’ve been reading. Better yet, you can subscribe to a feed of all the blogposts I enjoy on a regular basis. You could even do what I do, and add that feed to the side of your blog (kind of like I do with Thirsty Theologian‘s blog finds, see my left sidebar, further down). For instructions on how to make your own “blog finds”, you can start with this post.

So with such wonderful technological aids, why bother with a blogroll post? To tell you the truth, I’ve missed doing them because they’re fun. They let me highlight some great posts in a more notable way, and I can give props to some of my blogging friends. So without further ado, let me list some bobspotted blogposts.

On Fundamentalism

On Music & Worship

Interesting

  • Fred Butler often posts some interesting or hilarious content. Recently he highlighted a video of some amazing crashes in a slippery tunnel. It’s hard to explain the appeal of the video, so just check out the brief clip for yourself.
  • Jeff Voegtlin posted the list (complete with pictures) of the 2006 Women Driver of the Year awards. The awards are completely sarcastic, of course, and the pictures are quite fantastic and almost unbelievable. But then again, who hasn’t encountered the quintessential woman driver?

Huckabee

  • If you can’t tell from looking at all the Huckabee banners around here, I’m a Huckabee supporter. If you haven’t checked out the campaign blog, they have updated it. This post links to some interesting radio interviews about his campaign. He seems to be picking up steam, and there is word of he’d make a good VP. I’d prefer him as P though, and I truly feel he is one of the best chances the Republican party has of winning the general election.
  • For more info on Huckabee, this blog (check out this article by the way) and this blog are your best bets.

Theological Issues

Missions

Preaching and Preachers

Abortion and Babies

Images of the Savior

Miscellaneous

11 thoughts on “Bobspotted Blogroll: July 18, 2007”

  1. I’d like to make a suggestion (since this isn’t my own blog) on something I’ve been following for a couple of weeks. Over at Pyromaniacs (Dan Phillips, Phil Johnson, Frank Turk) have posted a couple of articles on cessationism recently. I’d suggest following the link to Dan Edelen’s “Cerulean Sanctum” from Frank Turk’s article ‘Come Hiatus or High Water’. It’s pretty good, and it should make one think, whether cessationist or continuationist (regarding the ‘charismatic’ gifts and healing).

  3. Thanks for the bobspots brother! (great name by the way…lol) I enjoyed your post on Christians and contraceptives. It was a great primer for the issue, and included some great resources. I’ll be passing the link along to my crew…

    it’s a pleasure reforming fundamentalism with you,
    ‘hank

  5. Larry,

    I read Dan Edelen’s post. He makes a good point. In fact, Brother Hank here made a similar point in the last article I link to above. It is not the most honest tack to shoot down Benny Hinn and claim to have shot down the charismatic position entirely. It sure is easy, though.

    Thanks for pointing me to that post.

    Blessings from the cross,

    Bob

  6. Hey Hank,

    Are you a former fundamentalist too? Or are you an IFB? If so I’ll add an asterisk to your link in my sidebar.

    Just wondering,

    Bob

  7. Bob-

    I’ve never been a member of either a fundamentalist church or an IFB church, however, I would describe my theological journey as consisting of a season of “fundamentalism”.

    Personally, I hate the fact that we have to give up that word (fundamentalism) to the modern day culture. To have something so rich in meaning, and history, be hijacked by those who strayed from the foundation of God’s Word, and then have to relinquish the word from our vocabulary is more than irksome to me.

    I much prefer the title of “reformed fundamentalist”, because it doesn’t throw the baby out with the bathwater…at least in my case.

    Viva la Solas!
    ‘Hank

  8. Thanks, Hank. I agree, and “reformed fundamentalist” does have a nice ring to it.

    I’ve added you to my main blogroll now, too, as I keep enjoying the content I find there.

    Blessings from Jesus,

    Bob

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  10. Bob,

    I posted the following comments at Hank’s blog:

    As one who is a ‘cessationist’, and having read all of the articles linked from/to Pyromaniacs (particularly Dan Edelen’s ‘Cerulean Sanctum’), I think it’s a bit unfair to characterize the arguments by John MacArthur, Phil Johnson, Dan Phillips, and lately Frank Turk (CenturiOn) as labelling all charismatics/pentecostals as being a bunch of Benny Hinn followers or apologists. Phil Johnson didn’t bring up Hinn until his charismatic detractor brought Hinn up in their e-mail exchange (see: https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21212024&postID=35082375834308623 ). Just declaring by fiat that the arguments of cessationists against continutationists is just a straw-man argument is rather disingenuous considering that Phil Johnson doesn’t bring up Hinn at all until after he responds to his charismatic friend who brings up Hinn in their exchange. I think that by dismissing this and calling the cessationist (Phil Johnson’s arguments) as merely blazing the straw man with a flame thrower is exaggerating to say the least. The cessationist argument is far more substantive than that, and I haven’t seen any substantive arguments for the continuation of ‘da Gifts’.

    As for those who are more ‘moderate continuationists’ (mentioned above by “Dave” who lists examples of these as being CJ Mahaney, Terry Virgo, Wayne Grudem and others), we (cessationists) are still seeking evidence by those who take the continuationist view of genuine modern (and verifiable) charismatic gifts to ’show us the money’ rather than to point to some anecdotal heresay that someone says something about something that someone did in some far away country that appears to be a manifestation of ‘da Gifts’. If God is still in the business of manifesting the gifts that were clearly evident in the Apostles’ time, then why all of the hedging against showing proof of their existence? Secondly, why only hear of these manifestations in only third world countries? Why not here, now, in America or the western world? I think that this has been hashed out by Frank Turk in his latest series on the subject at Pyromaniacs. Just show us the hammer, dude.

  11. Bob,

    And I replied as follows….lol:
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    Larry,

    As a ‘moderate cessationist’ myself, I most definitely was not trying to say that either Johnson, MacArthur, Turk, or similar cessationists do “throw the baby out with the bathwater”. If any thing, I was applauding the distinctions that they make between the two more moderate camps.

    I do apologize if the post came off as accusatory. My aim was neither to dismiss or debunk Phil’s arguments as a straw man, only to address those who apply that very same argument (as the emailer did) to folks like Benny Hinn. I actually agree with Phil, and think he did a fine job defending biblical cessationism.

    And to quote myself on MacArthur’s stance, I said:

    “MacArthur addressed the issue of their relationship [hyper- and moderate continuationist] to each other – and to the rest of evangelicalism, and did it in a way that brought the debate to the forefront…so in that regard, he did the best you can with an issue such as this.”

    You’ll find no MacArthur haters around here…I assure you…

    Thanks for the visit brother.

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