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This is strange stuff.  Here’s the article: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,25689-2135354,00.html

-Auburn University Graduate
-Southern Seminary Student
-Guitar Picker
-Uncle to the greatest nieces in the world
-Chess Master (at least over Scott)

Here’s an awesome game, turn up the volume and try to get to level 4
http://fun.sdinet.de/flash/games/lab.swf

Article on CNN

I doubt they have a problem with maintaining a pure church there.  I’ve got a test to study for but hopefully more to come later.

I recently listened to these on my way to and from Georgia to visit family.  This stuff is really good and don’t let the title throw you for a loop.  Here’s two recommendations; one for the married men, the other for us single guys.

For the Married Men on the Song of Solomon by CJ Mahaney

For the Single Men on how to date/court/etc…by Mark Dever and friends

Watch this video it’s hilarious.
http://26thman.blogspot.com/2006/02/perils-of-drinking.html 

Albums
Continuum - John Mayer
Sam’s Town - The Killers

Preachers/Speakers
John Piper
-His ‘Men for Whom the World was Not Worthy’ is especially good, they are quick overviews of the lives of great Christians in the past that we may learn from.
C. J. Mahaney
Tim Keller (of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in NYC)
Mark Driscoll of Mars Hill Church in Seattle

If you have a second and your boss isn’t looking check out these sites:

What a Christian Operating System would look like

Church Christmas signs from a few years back

A rip on Pat Robertson

Read Along With Me:
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
The Bruised Reed by Richard Sibbes
When I Don’t Desire God: How To Fight For Joy by John Piper
Favorites (Religious):
Desiring God (Updated) by John Piper
The Pleasures of God by John Piper
The Life and Diary of David Brainerd (his journal accounts of his missionary activities with Indians from 1718 to 1747)
Bondage of the Will by Martin Luther (Upon reading this you will certainly believe in the ‘T’ of TULIP)
Confessions of St. Augustine (His account early life and conversion; written as a prayer to God)
Surprised by Joy by C. S. Lewis (Account of his journey in life from atheism to Christianity)
Knowing God by J. I. Packer (Basic, easy to understand book on the attributes of God)

Favorites (Nonreligious):
Anything that Patrick McManus wrote (short humorous outdoor stories)
Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West by Stephen Ambrose (Account of Lewis and Clarke’s expedition out west)
Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II’s Most Dramatic Mission by Hampton Sides (Capture and rescue of American POWs in the Philipines during WWII, made into a movie recently called ‘The Great Raid’)

Just Finished Reading:
The Mortification of Sin by John Owen
Generation Kill by Evan Wright
The Doctrine of Repentance by Thomas Watson
-If your not sure what repentance is read this book, if you think you’ve been good at repenting read this book and let it put you in your place, very convicting.
Band of Brothers by Stephen Ambrose
-Account of Easy Company’s battles in WWII as Paratroopers. Even if you don’t read the book the Band of Brothers (Dts) miniseries by HBO is worth watching.

“In the sphere of religion, as in other spheres, the things about which men are agreed are apt to be the things that are least worth holding; the really important things are the things about which men will fight.”
-J. Gresham Machen, Christianity and Liberalism

“Never forget that when we are dealing with any pleasure in its healthy and normal and satisfying form, we are, in a sense, on the Enemy’s (God’s) ground. I know we have won many a soul through pleasure. All the same, it is His (God’s) invention, not ours. He made the pleasures: all our research so far has not enabled us to produce one. All we can do is to encourage the humans to take the pleasures which our Enemy has produced, at times, or in ways, or in degrees, which He has forbidden.”
-C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“Be a sinner and let your sins be strong, but let your trust in Christ be stronger”
-Letter from Martin Luther to Melachthon, August 1st, 1521

“Peace if possible, truth at all costs”
-Martin Luther

“[He] who loves not a woman, wine, and song remains a fool his whole life long”
-Martin Luther

“Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused. Men can go wrong with wine and women. Shall we then prohibit and abolish women? The sun, moon, and stars have been worshipped. Shall we pluck them out of the sky.”
-Martin Luther

“When I have found intense pain relieved, a weary brain, and calm refreshing sleep obtained by a cigar. I have felt grateful to God, and blessed his name.”
-Charles H. Spurgeon

“The addition of the vine is owing to God’s superabundant liberality.”
-John Calvin

“He that looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast in his heart.”
-C. S. Lewis

“Oh, if I ever get to heaven it will be because God wills, and nothing else; for I never did anything of myself but get away from God.”
-David Brainard, April 1st, 1742

“It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.”
-Charles H. Spurgeon

“We’re not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us, we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.”
-C. S. Lewis

“God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself because it is not there. There is no such thing.”
-C. S. Lewis

“If I discover within myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.”
-C. S. Lewis

“He that returns to sin by implication charges God with some evil. If a man puts away his wife it implies he knows some fault by her. To leave God and return to sin is tacitly to asperse the Deity.”
-Thomas Watson, The Doctrine of Repentance

“Because of mercy men presume and think they may go on in sin, but should a king’s clemency make his subjects rebel?…God will hardly show those mercy who sin because mercy abounds.”
-Thomas Watson, The Doctrine of Repentance