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I’ve decided to turn off the comments. Though I get few comments from real readers, I usually have numerous spam comments to go through, which is pretty time-consuming. Anyway, readers can always send an email. Let me know if you think this is a terrible idea.

Regarding guest posts, there are some good possibilities for the next few weeks. Stay tuned on that.

A friend of this blog emailed to ask if I would respond to Tim Challies’s post, “Counterfeit Bonhoeffer.” I wish I were qualified to, as I believe that it isn’t Eric Metaxas, but the liberal “experts” who have hijacked Bonhoeffer. But I’m not an expert, far from it, and so I’ll avoid a response. I will say that when one reads Bonhoeffer’s works, it’s hard to place him in the same category with the other liberal German “theologians.”

I’ll be away from my computer next week, so I won’t be answering emails during that time. Please know if you send one that I’m not ignoring you.

Here are some links that are worth your time:

Have you been to Persis’s blog, Tried With Fire? Her posts are consistently worth reading.

Here’s some “Encouragement for those who enjoy teaching young children to learn.” Musing of an Ex-School Teacher.

Check out Hillsdale College’s latest Imprimis to read an interview with Bob Beltz of Walden Media. Mr. Beltz talks about their latest film, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.

There’s been a lot of talk about what is and isn’t in the Constitution lately. Why not test your knowledge with this Constitution Quiz? When you complete the simple ten question quiz, you’ll have an opportunity to take the 50 question expert quiz. Perhaps you’ll be the next “Constitutional Whiz Kid.” How did you do?

Not so well? You can download a printer friendly transcript of the Constitution and all 27 amendments here. Go ahead. You can read all of it in about 30 minutes.

Are you willing to post a short book review? Here’s a place for Christian bloggers to get free books.

No source of wisdom is worth anything if not used. A Bible that is honored, revered, and passed down to the next generation, but never read, instead of producing wisdom, encourages ignorant idolatry. Unread books are clutter. And life events that we don’t learn from are wasted.

Learning takes effort. We must seek, as the proverb says. We have to read, look, ask, and listen. We must think, and think some more. Wisdom won’t fall in the lap of the lazy, though a loaf of bread, or a roof, may.

“Perhaps, just as I was certain you can’t choose to believe anything, Woody was certain belief was a choice,” (Gina Welch, In the Land of Believers, pg. 58).

“I guess I had started seeing it in a different way, that you were supposed to accept Jesus out of gratitude, not cowardice,” (Gina Welch, In the Land of Believers, 59).

I won’t bother putting these quotes in context. In context or not, they show that Ms. Welch, who is not a believer, is using her mind, and by using her mind, she is closer to orthodoxy than the believers who were trying to evangelize her. I wonder how different her conclusions would have been had she spent months in church with Dever or Sproul rather than Falwell.

I will be away from the computer for a week, so you won’t hear from me. However, Mark Tubbs, editor of Discerning Reader, has agreed to be added to this blog as an author. I’m excited about that, as I’ve wanted to have someone else writing here for a while. Mark is ideal. He’ll certainly raise the standards of this blog. Below is Mark’s profile from Discerning Reader:

Mark Tubbs moonlights as a book reviewer, a natural extension of his main hobby of reading. Otherwise he can be found doing his day job as a Bible college registrar, after three years of teaching high school English by distance. He lives near Vancouver, British Columbia, with his wife and three children: five year-old Kenny, three year-old Lydia, and one year-old Leo. Mark grew up Baptist, learned the importance of missions in the Christian & Missionary Alliance, grasped the gospel of Jesus Christ in Sovereign Grace Ministries, and is now on the path to become a pastor – some day, some way.

I’m on Twitter. Now what?

Greg at Gospel Driven Disciples reflects on The Purpose of our Lives.

I really enjoyed reading this story at the Upward Call.

Eddie Eddings adds a little humor to the holiday.

Brian Hedges, who reads more books than any of us, lists his top ten favorites of the past year here.

And Frank Turk gives some good advice here.

“Please cancel my subscription immediately. After several years of enjoying World, we are irreversibly put off by the influence of John Calvin…”

There also happens to be an interview with J.I. Packer in the December 5th issue. “In his ninth decade, J.I. Packer continues to point a distracted evangelicalism toward the right path.”

David Jacks, owner of Reformation Shirts and Theological Pursuits Bookstore, is generously sponsoring a Reformation Day T-shirt giveaway.

Simply leave a comment on this post or send an email to be entered.

Five winners will be announced on Reformation Day (October 31). I will contact you via email or through your blog and request your shipping address, size, and selection. Your shirt will then be shipped from Reformation Shirts in Fort Worth, Texas. If the style you select is not available in your size, I will ask you to make another selection.

Many thanks go to Mr. Jacks. Please remember Reformation Shirts and Theological Pursuits Bookstore when doing your Christmas shopping!

Update: There are several different T-shirts to choose from. Don’t forget to check out the selection at the Reformation Shirts link above.

Update # 2: The winners have been announced in a separate post.