Thank you Noel Heikkinen for sharing this video. Noel is doing a series on the Old Testament, and reminds us that each time Jesus resisted Satan he quoted from (what we call) the Old Testament scripture.
What do you think?
One of the most read bloggers on the internet gave me a good piece of advice back when I first started blogging. He said “Find a theme and a design that works for you and leave it alone.”
I have tried to do that. The Master’s Table has not had a face lift since the doors opened in May of 2008. I’ve been wanting to switch to a 3 column theme for some time for a couple of reasons. One is that the sidebar ran so far down the page on my 2 column theme, and the design was just so narrow. My Other Blog is done in Andreas 9 which I love except for one thing; the headers above each widget are too close to what’s above them, and not close enough to what they are meant to label. It’s a small thing, and I don’t want both blogs to look alike anyway. BTW, find some other blogs in Digg 3 and then ask me how I got the title to look like that.
So, to make a short story long, this is the new look of The Master’s Table. What do you think?
p.s. If you’re in a reader, jump over to the actual site for a minute. Thanks a bunch.
Ash Wednesday, Lent, (and p.s. Mardi Gras)
Ash Wednesday
Ash Wednesday occurs 46 days before Easter, 40 days if you don’t count Sundays. This year it fell on February 25th. This marks the beginning of Lent, a time of preparation for Holy Week. At an Ash Wednesday service, part of the ceremony is placing ashes on the forehead as an outward symbol that you will be observing Lent. During the 40 day period something is given up, anything typically important to the individual, and more time spent in prayer, worship and meditation. Lent is about preparing ourselves spiritually to observe Holy Week, the days between Palm Sunday and Easter. Continue reading
Tips for Creating MP3’s
I have to thank Challies Dot Com for sharing this link, so that I can share it with my audience.
Faith By Hearing is the first 4 column blog I’ve ever seen. Digital Etiquette for MP3 Creators gives some tips on how to do a better job of turning sermons and lectures in MP3’s that are both easy to find and of a manageable size. I appreciate the advice, and perhaps many of us would do well to heed it.
Faith By Hearing has an extensive catalog of sermons and teachings by many well known speakers, some of whom may surprise you. Their site will be added under the Useful Resources links, and I highly recommend spending some quality time there.
Upside Down
Watch the video all the way through. At the end the message is “reversed.”
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Hindsight is 20/20
Hindsight is 20/20 means that anything you look back on is easier to understand that it was at the time. We make decisions in the now, then sometimes realize later we acted too quickly, neglected certain facts, or else were simply uninformed. Hindsight being 20/20, we would have done things differently if we could just have seen the big picture. Continue reading
Jesus is Christ
Not just Jesus Christ. Jesus is Christ.
I’m not sure if it’s the title or what. On March 1st I posted the sermon I preached that morning Peter Confesses Jesus is the Christ. I’m not hung up on stats, but that particular post has only been viewed 3 times in the past 10 days. Personally, I feel it’s one of the better sermons I’ve preached in quite a while, yet almost no one read the blog post.
Like I said, maybe it’s the title. The post has little to do with Peter, and more to do with our understanding of what Christ means. It is particularly appropriate with Easter approaching. So may I politely suggest giving this post another try. No pressure.
The Wilderness of Sin
In Exodus 16 the Hebrews wandered into the Wilderness of Sin. My Bible teacher and preacher friends shouldn’t even need me to make this analogy. There it is. They literally entered the wilderness in the region of Sin.
It could have been the Mountain of Sin, the Valley of Sin, the Municipality of Sin, but no. The place was known to people in the region as the Wilderness of Sin. How often do we willingly wander through the Wilderness of Sin knowing full where we are and how to avoid it? What an illustration, and the Bible has already made it for us.
Biblical Survey
I will soon begin a series of posts that will effectively be a survey study of the Bible. I’ve been leading a study of Mark’s gospel since August, going verse by verse in each chapter. I have posted a couple of times from Mark, but shy away from creating a Bible study of Mark online. One reason is that the Internet Monk has been posting a study of Mark at Jesus Shaped Spirituality. My study would either be redundant of what he is posting, or everyone would realize that his was better than mine 🙂 Either way.
My next post will be on the creation week and the fall. Biblical Survey will become a new category, and perhaps down the line could become it’s own blog. I’m thinking in an ideal world (which this is not, but hypothetically) that posting 2 or 3 times a week could get one through the major points of the Bible in about a year or so. I plan to continue blogging theology on a regular basis, posting sermons and the such like, so the survey topics would be in addition to.
Peter Confesses that Jesus is the Christ.
And Jesus went on with his disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi. And on the way he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that I am?” And they told him, “John the Baptist; and others say, Elijah; and others, one of the prophets.” And he asked them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answered him, “You are the Christ.” -Mark 8:27-29
I want to unpack Peter’s statement here that Jesus is the Christ. There are two questions we need to answer; 1) What does Peter mean by saying that Jesus is Christ, and 2) What does it mean to us that Jesus is the Christ. Continue reading
