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 Book Reviews (26)

Book Review—The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church
A Deconstruction Reading List
The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory – Book Review
Defending Democracy from Christian Nationalists
The Problem of Hell
Praise him with the κιθάρα…
A Reformed identity
Two Mountains: Sinai and Zion
The Covenant of Works and the Covenant of Grace
Was Shakespeare a Closet Calvinist?
Chapter 2.5: God’s Freedom in Covenant
What Is Distanciation?
"God and Foreign Relations"
What’s "The Big Idea?"
The Necessity of Reprobation: without it, God would not be God
The End for Which God Created the World
Switchfoot on Prince Caspian
Foundations of Grace
Giving Is a Party
A New Agenda for our Talk
"Apprehending God"
The High Price of Packer Pride
"Removing the Veil"
Simplicity and Surrender
"The Blessedness of Possessing Nothing"
I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For, No. 2

 Deconstruction (17)

So what happened?
Book Review—The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church
A Deconstruction Reading List
Annihilationism and Your Pet Cat
When I was an Agnostic
Theodicy, Slavery, and CSA
Thoughts on Dystheism and the Sacrifice of Isaac
The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory – Book Review
Dystheism vs. Theodicy
Music for fun vs. music for religion
The Odyssey of Theodicy
Faith and depression
Put another way…
How Reformed Theology taught me to be a Freethinker
A Chronology of Deconstruction
Some quotations to help you understand me
I have become a theistic evolutionist

 Depression (9)

Faith and depression
Still
Eleven facts about guns in the U.S.
47% and proud
The Man-Month vs. the Human Narrative
Go, live your dream/Your dream stinks
The Dabbling Imagination
"Blessed are those who mourn…"
Recovering from a "Spiritual Tempest"

 Family (30)

So what happened?
Ava is now at driving age
The Ten Commandments of the Late Mr. Hitchens
Eleven facts about guns in the U.S.
Updates
MRI
Thanksgiving Prayer
Baxter Isaac Lord
Camera
Daddy date
Baby registry time!
Guess who’s one!
Ava is a Puritan!
Now we are 30…
John Piper on Familial Commitment
Congratulations Crissy!
She loves her little gym!
Our Ava
Ava Marie Lord
The best "Our First Christmas" ornament ever!
My Day: LiveJournal Style
Al Mohler’s got Newsweek’s number
First Mommy, Mommy First
First Love…
We have a due date!
“From my mother’s womb you have been my God”
Butte County Lightning Fires Update
My First Father’s Day
Our beautiful, romantic new bed/ding
My family loves me!

 General (64)

Moving to Medium
Rethinking my GTD strategy
Fixing a loose wheel on a reel mower
The Divine Right of Authoritarianism?
Day of protest
The state of things
How to spot a false prophet
Life More Abundantly
No man is indispensable
What Happened to the Fertile in Fertile Crescent?
Welcome Baxter Isaac Lord!
Blogging as Niche Journalism
Taking in a little league game
My new zippy commuter!
My interrupted jog…
Propserity Preachers and the Economic Downturn
Earthquake Forecasting
Beautiful weather
Christian at the head of the NIH
Google Latitude: It Works!
MacArthur on the Dangers of Innovation
1984 Down the Memory Hole
Our Little Chargers Fan
At the Chico Air Show
Huh?
"Do I offend?"
Google Latitude for iPhone
All moved! (again)
Play time
Writing As I Learn
To go against conscience is neither right nor safe
The Wolf and the Lamb
Ava’s feeding herself!
Ninja coding: it’s legendary
Saturday morning Photo Booth
2 piglets
Gmail Autopilot…
The Tinkerer’s Gracious Wife
Barbie the Deceiver
Andi, Moriah has a message for you!
Our First Family Christmas Tree
Podcasts on the iPhone
The Holy Grail of baby gifts
Ready
Cat on a guitar
Last picture of Finnegan
Preaching to the choir…
Scenes from the Chico Outlaws game
Jetta headlamps…
New Car Take 2
New Car
Fuel's down!
No such thing as chance
Christina's birthday
Happy Firefox Download Day!
My awesome wife…
How do you rate as a 1930s-era spouse?
A happy guy enjoying God’s gifts…
My first viral video (if you can call 280 views viral…)
Wisdom Teeth, or My Mouth Hurts Really Bad
Update…
The IRA is Disarming
Prayer
I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For

 Local (17)

According to E&E News, Trump used Politics when Deciding Whether to Render Aid in the Camp Fire
Concerning Fires
The morning after the Dec. 6 storm
Chico Bag Ban: Lawmakers Pleased…
Holy Week starts off with acts of Christian terrorism
Public transit #fail
Public transportation is good for your health
Lydia Schatz cause of death
The Devil Who Made Them Do It…
Fear not; you are of more value than many sparrows…
Corporal Punishment and the Two Kingdoms
Butte County Lightning Fires Update
Butte County Lightning Fire Complex – Stay Inside!
The Sovereignty of God and the Humboldt Fire
Okay, so it’s still going…
Contained!
The 2008 Humbolt Fire

 Marriage (16)

Pearl: “Created To Need A Help Meet”
September 15, 2007, the first day of the rest of our lives
Happy V Day
Accuracy and Truth Are Not the Same
The Threefold Cord
Happy Anniversary!
Honeymoon pic
“From my mother’s womb you have been my God”
Our beautiful, romantic new bed/ding
My wife is a poet
My family loves me!
Five Months
The Bridal Shower Game
Big news and stuff…
What Reformed-Types Look for in a Woman
Killing Our Idolatrous Desires

 Music (34)

Greengrass Vol. 11
Greengrass Vol. 10
Owning Your Accomplishments
Music for fun vs. music for religion
Today’s playlist
Summer of ’13 playlist
My 2012 Top Tracks
Beastie Boys Minus One
Playlist for the weekend
Spotify Top 20
Greengrass, Volume 8 (a Spotify playlist)
Greengrass, Vol. 7
Greengrass, Volume 6 (a Spotify playlist)
Greengrass, Vol. 5: St. Paddy’s Edition
Here’s a tip for users of iTunes and Spotify: Use Last.fm too!
Greengrass, Vol. 4
Celtic Fiddle Festival
Greengrass, Vol. 3
Greengrass Vol. 2
Greengrass, Volume 1
With Spotify, we are all Cameron Crowe
Béla Fleck, Edgar Meyer, Zakir Hussain
Jon Hopkins: Insides
Praise him with the κιθάρα…
iTunes Smart Playlist "all" vs. "any" issue
A piece of bluegrbutt history…
Is your church a stench in God’s nostrils?
The difference seven years makes in the life of a believer, or how your theology affects your worship
Switchfoot on Prince Caspian
Getting back in the saddle
Update…
The High Price of Packer Pride
Pressing On…
Cathedrals and Alleyways

 Parenthood (32)

Ava is now at driving age
The Ten Commandments of the Late Mr. Hitchens
Eleven facts about guns in the U.S.
Binders full of Romney’s disconnection with human beings
The dangers of shopping with toddlers
Westminster Shorter Catechism, Q. 1 (Take 2)
Updates
Ava’s learning the catechism!
Snow day at the Lords’ residence
Biblical Feminism
I Have Issues With…
Marriage stats and prayer
Hide-and-Go-Seek
Baxter, cross-processed
Camera
A Perfect Day
Lydia Schatz cause of death
Schatz Case Updates
Christians unite against child abuse
Local DA provides more details to the big city reporters
Pearl still claims innocence, for himself and his followers
Authoritarianism, isolationism, and their theonomic roots
The brokenhearted sinner
Baby registry time!
The Devil Who Made Them Do It…
Fear not; you are of more value than many sparrows…
Corporal Punishment and the Two Kingdoms
Why I’m considering a VW GTI
Ava playing
My Day: LiveJournal Style
We have a due date!
“From my mother’s womb you have been my God”

 Politics (18)

According to E&E News, Trump used Politics when Deciding Whether to Render Aid in the Camp Fire
The Eschatological Roots of Our Predicament
The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory – Book Review
Defending Democracy from Christian Nationalists
The Ten Commandments of the Late Mr. Hitchens
Eleven facts about guns in the U.S.
47% and proud
Holy Week starts off with acts of Christian terrorism
The Washington Post speaks the truth on climate change
Tennessee education bill
Palin Ignites New Debate On GOP Support For Israel
"The End of Christian America"?
Required Reading
Al Mohler’s got Newsweek’s number
Why a Woman Shouldn’t Run for Vice President, but Wise People May Still Vote for Her
Political Activism
"Let those who vote, as if not voting…"
How do you put your family-values money where your family-values mouth is?

 Programming (20)

New Atom Feed
Office Space
The telecommuter’s whiteboard
Cloud-based Visual Studio 6.0 IDE with IE 8
Millennium Systems award
Lorddesign.net 3.0
Open-source coding standards wiki
GitHub: for a more social independence
The Man-Month vs. the Human Narrative
Extending your EC2 boot drive in Windows 2008 R2
Perks of self-employment
Optimizing jQuery selectors for ASP.NET controls
Love what you do and make the world go ’round
Go, live your dream/Your dream stinks
The Dabbling Imagination
Visual Studio in the Cloud
Abbreviations Considered Harmful
On Phoning It In
Don’t waste your life playing Guitar Hero when you could be learning guitar for real
A piece of bluegrbutt history…

 Random Rants (41)

“It will stop on Election Day”
Romney’s Weekly Blunder
The Road Goes Ever On…
I am a victim of church abuse
Chaos in the public square
Driscoll goes all Nehemiah on their asses
categories != tags
Facebook and the Polarization of America
Abusive churches: what happens to those who leave?
Driscoll’s profile of Patricius
My new hero
My Day: LiveJournal Style
Hearst and Graham…
Hello, World (or, I posted my first ever videoblog)
Clichés are so cliché…
Bonus Baseball in San Francisco
Reconciling Hurricane Katrina with God’s Providence
Man, this sucks…
I’ve moved…
Punk Rawk!!!
Road trip…
You do what you can…
As Unto the Lord…
‘My sheep hear my voice’
New Digs…
The Denominational Theory of the Church
John & Jen Brookman
"What Mortification Is Not"
God-Centered Worship
My blog gets a new look
Grace, Restoration, and Blank Slates
The Community and the Call
Wrestling with God
No Angel…
"The Test of Loyalty"
HELLO, WERE YOU BORN IN A BARN?!?
So much for "The Glory of Christmas"…
Cathedrals and Alleyways
Not of This World
The Paradox of Honesty
What Oswald Said…

 Reformed Theology (118)

How Reformed Theology taught me to be a Freethinker
Westminster Shorter Catechism, Q. 1 (Take 2)
Ava’s learning the catechism!
Sunday Night Theology: Law and Gospel in Colquhoun and Wright
I am a victim of church abuse
In which Rachel Held Evans likes N.T. Wright so much she concludes he must not be a Calvinist
Piper’s Retirement
Driscoll goes all Nehemiah on their asses
Authority vs. Authorship
Briggs on the relationship between the gospel and our obedience to Jesus’ commands
Verbal Inerrancy, Word for Word, or, How Conservative is Fundamentalism, Really?
Calvary Chapel and Fundamentalism
I have become a theistic evolutionist
Charles A. Briggs on Bibliolatry
I Have Issues With…
Marriage stats and prayer
Blogging Church Discipline
Thanksgiving Prayer
Two Kingdoms: Natural Law, Common Grace and the Spiritual Nature of the Church
Social Justice and the Christian
Law & Gospel
Attributes of a Healthy Church
The Marks of an Abusive Church
Historic Confessions vs. the Contemporary Statement of Faith
Diversity and the Nature of the Church
Why not “Mainline”?
No Christian had any notion of a secret rapture before 1830
Against Dispensationalism
The Two Kingdoms and the Death of Bin Laden
Single-Issue Politics
"God Lisps": Calvin on the Incarnational Nature of God’s Word
Are you worldly?
Natural Revelation and the Framework Hypothesis
John Piper on why he’s taking a leave of absence
More than Five Points
Was Tertullian a Reformed Baptist?
Links for Church Reform
Praise him with the κιθάρα…
Dual citizenship is not antithetical
Clark on Two-Level Subscription
Authoritarianism, isolationism, and their theonomic roots
A Reformed identity
Corporal Punishment and the Two Kingdoms
Update
Begg on Stonewall Jackson and the Fourth Commandment
Why the Reformed are not Millennarian
The First Resurrection of Revelation 20
Some interesting quotes, and a response
The Resurrection of Believers: Already and Not Yet
True Saints or Hypocrites?
"My kingdom is not of this world…"
Christianity and Popular Culture
The Law in Romans
Kim Riddlebarger on "Issues, etc."
B. B. Warfield on Revelation 20
Two Mountains: Sinai and Zion
The Covenant of Works and the Covenant of Grace
Was Shakespeare a Closet Calvinist?
The Expository Genius of John Calvin
Break Down the Walls
Holier Than No One
Chapter 2.5: God’s Freedom in Covenant
Why I won’t be going to the Shepherd’s Conference any time soon, Part 2: John MacArthur
Why I won’t be going to the Shepherd’s Conference anytime soon, part 1: Phil Johnson
R.C. Sproul on Vocation
CT and the Christian Sabbath
Jesus died for our sins
What Is Distanciation?
Insofar as They Are Supported by Scripture
"God and Foreign Relations"
External links
Kim Riddlebarger mp3s
Words for the Wind
What’s "The Big Idea?"
Elders in every church…
The Solidarity of Humanity
Do not destroy the work of God
Reformation and Diversity
The First of the Sabbaths
Go ahead and choose your idols… but I and my family will serve Yahweh
The Creation Ordinances
Two Hermeneutics: Covenant Theology vs. Dispensationalism and the Fourth Commandment
Reformed Theology: The Christian Sabbath
Ecclesiastes 3:14-15 (ESV)
Christ Our Sabbath Rest
Unity Amid Differences
Sam Waldron on Adopting the 1689 LBC
The New Calvinism is making a global impact
"O, How I love Jesus, because he first loved me"
Required Reading
Order of Elective Decrees, Part 3
What remarkable robots we would be…
"We have gone back to the old school…"
The Order of God’s Eternal Elective Decrees, Part 2
The disciples did not get it because of Total Inability
Mark Driscoll on the History and Doctrines of the Emergent Church Movement
Every good gift is from the Father
Plan A: Glory and Grace
The most spectactular sin ever committed
B.B. Warfield on the Supralapsarian Controversy
The Order of God’s Eternal Elective Decrees, Part 1
Thankful that we live in a universe where God knows what he’s doing
Baxter on Monergistic Soteriology
"Let those who vote, as if not voting…"
Is your church a stench in God’s nostrils?
The difference seven years makes in the life of a believer, or how your theology affects your worship
John Piper on the Prosperity Gospel
Why Baxter Is Cool
First Love…
The Necessity of Reprobation: without it, God would not be God
The End for Which God Created the World
The Beauty of a Will Enslaved
What I’m listening to
The Sovereignty of God and the Humboldt Fire
What Reformed-Types Look for in a Woman
Some thoughts on Particular Redemption
Giving Is a Party
Thoughts on the Film "Luther"

 Religion (92)

The Eschatological Roots of Our Predicament
Book Review—The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church
A Deconstruction Reading List
Annihilationism and Your Pet Cat
When I was an Agnostic
Theodicy, Slavery, and CSA
Thoughts on Dystheism and the Sacrifice of Isaac
The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory – Book Review
Dystheism vs. Theodicy
Music for fun vs. music for religion
The Odyssey of Theodicy
Faith and depression
Put another way…
How Reformed Theology taught me to be a Freethinker
A Chronology of Deconstruction
Still
Piper/Meyer transition timeline
The Ten Commandments of the Late Mr. Hitchens
On Christmasism
N.T. Wright: Scripture and the Authority of God
I am a victim of church abuse
Harold Camping’s got nothing on Chuck Smith
Pearl: “Created To Need A Help Meet”
Volitional Love
Pete Enns on the Dark Night of the Soul
John Piper on why he’s taking a leave of absence
Praise him with the κιθάρα…
Begg on Stonewall Jackson and the Fourth Commandment
Palin Ignites New Debate On GOP Support For Israel
Eschatology Panel at Bethlehem Baptist Church
Jonathan Edwards, Healer of Rifts
What the LCMS says about Body Modification
Chuck Smith on avoiding the reign of antichrist
A sure sign that you are a spiritual prig
"So also my heavenly Father will do…"
"If one has a complaint against another…"
Ray Ortlund, Jr. on the Lord’s Day
Chapter 2.5: God’s Freedom in Covenant
Mark Driscoll on Planting Mars Hill
Shakespeare as a Christian Writer
The Lord's Day in The Valley of Vision 2
The Lord's Day in The Valley of Vision
Kim Riddlebarger mp3s
The Threefold Cord
The First of the Sabbaths
The Lord’s Day in The Valley of Vision
Ecclesiastes 3:14-15 (ESV)
Dave Owen's obituary
Year's End
Church Discipline Run Amok
B.B. Warfield on the Supralapsarian Controversy
Nativitatis Sola Christos
Is your church a stench in God’s nostrils?
The difference seven years makes in the life of a believer, or how your theology affects your worship
First Love…
The Necessity of Reprobation: without it, God would not be God
The End for Which God Created the World
Challies: "Every Word of God"
Challies: Betraying God in Worship
What Reformed-Types Look for in a Woman
Some thoughts on Particular Redemption
The Christian in the Shop Window
Intentional Poverty
Zen and the Art of Control Freaking
The Discipline of Disillusionment
Reconciling Hurricane Katrina with God’s Providence
Simplifying things
A New Agenda for our Talk
passion…
Spiritual Bankruptcy
The Initiative Against Despair
Pressing On…
The trouble with Scottish Presbyterians
Killing Our Idolatrous Desires
Our Future Hope!
“Weep with those who weep” (Rom. 12:15)
My Utmost…
Relief for Southeast Asia
Wrestling with God
Missions Update
Winter Intercession
Some still recognize a need for irrelevance…
On Sunbathing
Re:ality
Merry Exmas, Acirema!
Thoughts on the Film "Luther"
Sex and the Supremacy of Christ
Choosing God’s Will
Sometimes You Can’t Make it on Your Own
Faith Like a Book
Jacob’s Presumption
"As far as the east is from the west…"

 Running (9)

Yearly Holiday Running Streak
Brooks Cascadia 6
Merrell Barefoot Road Gloves
Micah “Caballo Blanco” True’s Untimely Death; Evolution of Runner’s High
Gearing up for Half Marathon
MR10: Runner’s World Editor’s Choice
Kinvaras Were Meant to Have Thin Insoles
Battle of the Vibram-soled Trail Runners
Barefoot no more

 Social Justice (23)

Tolerance of intolerance
“It will stop on Election Day”
Binders full of Romney’s disconnection with human beings
47% and proud
Romney’s Weekly Blunder
Holy Week starts off with acts of Christian terrorism
Just as healthcare reform finally starts to work, the Supreme Court appears poised to destroy it
Chaos in the public square
Briggs on the relationship between the gospel and our obedience to Jesus’ commands
Probably no man has ever …
Biblical Feminism
I Have Issues With…
The GOP: Conformity to the Pattern of This World
Some fighting words
Facebook and the Polarization of America
Two Kingdoms: Natural Law, Common Grace and the Spiritual Nature of the Church
Social Justice and the Christian
Against Dispensationalism
Single-Issue Politics
A Time to Kill…
How do you put your family-values money where your family-values mouth is?
Giving Is a Party
You do what you can…

 Technology (62)

The reign of poop
Jekyll Migration
New blog home
Evernote GTD notes
2012 in review
Pomodoro
Applifry Mockup #1
The telecommuter’s whiteboard
Windows 8?
Lorddesign.net 3.0
Open-source coding standards wiki
GitHub: for a more social independence
The Man-Month vs. the Human Narrative
Extending your EC2 boot drive in Windows 2008 R2
Perks of self-employment
Optimizing jQuery selectors for ASP.NET controls
Visual Studio in the Cloud
Abbreviations Considered Harmful
Playlist for the weekend
Spotify Top 20
Greengrass, Vol. 5: St. Paddy’s Edition
Here’s a tip for users of iTunes and Spotify: Use Last.fm too!
Greengrass, Vol. 4
With Spotify, we are all Cameron Crowe
Google finally produces Blogger iOS app
Facebook and the Polarization of America
I’m blogging.
BlogPress iPhone app review
Essential iPhone Apps
Trillian for iPhone update
iPhone stuck pixels
eBuddy for iPhone
iTunes Smart Playlist "all" vs. "any" issue
The Art of Singletasking
New Media vs. Old Media in Iran
iPhone 3.0
Challies and Monetization
Don’t waste your life playing Guitar Hero when you could be learning guitar for real
A piece of bluegrbutt history…
Educational technology
Calendar Synchronization
New Google web browser
Cool trick for blocking ads in Windows Live Messenger
All moved!
iPhone 3G vs. Wi-Fi comparison
Podcast setup, Old-skool
My MacBook died…
Fwd: Add my location
This is interesting and unexpected…
It’s not just our company…
Feed Readers: Why I’m Switching
New iPhone announced
New blogging format
Un-Delling Your Dell
Mythbusters: The Tailgate Hypothesis
Back in Space
The Ethics of Open Wi-Fi
Dell Dimension 2350 mods, continued…
New blog launched for a buddy
Modding a Dell
Kill Your IE!
My great web hosts…

 Work (18)

Office Space
Pomodoro
The telecommuter’s whiteboard
Open-source coding standards wiki
GitHub: for a more social independence
The Man-Month vs. the Human Narrative
Perks of self-employment
Love what you do and make the world go ’round
Go, live your dream/Your dream stinks
Calendar Synchronization
All moved!
Waiting in line at the Auctiva Family BBQ
It’s not just our company…
Chico
The good news… part 2
Update…
job sitch
Simplifying things