I have a new system for collecting material for my blogs which may result in more collections of not-necessarily-related items in a single post, such as this one.<\/p>\n
I’ve noticed more recently than I am bugged by worship leaders whose physical expressions seem to be directly related to the music style (and not the lyric content). I struggle to suppress the thought that maybe too much of their interest is in the melody about God and not to the God of the melody. I think that this guy<\/a> struggles with the same thing, except with worshippers in general. I think his point is very worthy of consideration. You can also read a response<\/a> by Bob Kauflin of Sovereign Grace.<\/p>\n Sometimes the people that affect you the most do so from a distance and you wonder what they’re really like. Usually their kids know best. John Piper’s son recently introduced his father before a message about Piper’s own father. I found it interesting and humorous. You can read or watch it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n That intro was part of the recent Desiring God Pastor’s Conference<\/a>, which you can listen to in its entirety here. I have heard<\/a> that it was good, but haven’t had a chance yet to listen.<\/p>\n And to wrap up this post, here’s a quote that I came across recently in a commentary on Matthew by R. T. France, concerning Matthew 10:29: Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father.<\/p>\n The pregnant phrase ‘without your Father’ has been variously translated as ‘without your Father’s knowledge’ or ‘consent’ or ‘will’ or ‘care,’ depending on the view of divine sovereignty and providence which the translator holds: does God simply know about the death of the birds (and therefore also of his people), or does he allow it, or does it happen because he has decided on it, or is the point that even in their death they are not outside his loving concern? The issue can hardly be determined by exegesis of this text, with its cryptic ending–the theology needs to be imported from elsewhere (France 2007: 404).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have a new system for collecting material for my blogs which may result in more collections of not-necessarily-related items in a single post, such as this one. I’ve noticed more recently than I am bugged by worship leaders whose physical expressions seem to be directly related to the music style (and not the lyric\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n