Over the last few days since Apple announced their new tablet device, opinions have been mixed but most folks are being critical of the device and it’s apparent “shortcomings.” I believe that the main reason that most people aren’t meshing with the idea of the iPad (I hate the name, for the record) is that they fail to understand what Jobs tried to stress in his presentation on Tuesday. The iPad is not meant to REPLACE your iPhone or REPLACE your MacBook/iMac. It is a new, third category of device. Apple has been developing this device for years. I’m sure they have thought of most of the issues folks are complaining about but I think they have intentionally developed a product that compliments the Apple product line rather than making any of it redundant. Apple still wants folks to want/need a MacBook Pro or an iMac. It makes no sense for them to do otherwise.

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“Leavened or un-leavened bread for the Lord’s Supper,” - Conversations with Doug Wilson from Daniel Foucachon on Vimeo.

What say ye?

A friend of mine named Josh Stockment said something interesting on twitter tonight. He said:

“Sometimes happy endings are not happy at all, but they are still endings. This does not mean that they are the wrong endings, or that a better ending slipped by. Perhaps in a broken world, imperfect endings are at times the only way to close a story. They are the only endings that fit. They are the best endings.”

This got me thinking.

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I’ve decided that my posts on Sunday’s will deal with different elements of the Lord’s day. They may be anything from simple quotes to more editorial type posts. In any case I hope that you will find restfulness as well as plentifulness in our Lord’s Day.

The Lord’s Day should, for a Christian, be a day of resting and feasting. A day to celebrate all the good that the Lord has granted to us.

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The ability to communicate real, non-watered down, truths to children is a a more and more forsaken art these days. So many Christian children’s books these days simply tell kids to be nice or to share. Children need to hear the gospel as much as adults do and one of the best ways of communicating the truths of the Gospel to them is through stories and allegories. R.C. Sproul has written such a story. The Prince’s poison cup speaks about the cost of the cross for Jesus and our role in making that necessary.  I have posted the audio of the entire book here. It’s about 16 minutes long but I feel that it will be well worth the time spent. I’m working on some posts defending allegory and defending fiction and hope to have those out soon. For now, enjoy R.C. Sproul reading his book, “The Prince’s Poison Cup”

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I saw two very different football players give verbal “praise to God” in two very different ways this past week.

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I really appreciated this letter written in 2002.

Source can be found at this Link

Recently a number of leaders in the Protestant community of the United States have urged the endorsement of far-reaching and unilateral political commitments to the people and land of Israel in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, citing Holy Scripture as the basis for those commitments. To strengthen their endorsement, several of these leaders have also insisted that they speak on behalf of the seventy million people who constitute the American evangelical community.

It is good and necessary for evangelical leaders to speak out on the great moral issues of our day in obedience to Christ’s call for his disciples to be salt and light in the world. It is quite another thing, however, when leaders call for commitments that are based upon a serious misreading of Holy Scripture. In such instances, it is good and necessary for other evangelical leaders to speak out as well. We do so here in the hope that we may contribute to the cause of the Lord Christ, apart from whom there can never be true and lasting peace in the world.

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