A friend recently told me about Reformed Theology Seminary on iTunes.  Now we can download FREE course lectures from RTS Virtual classes.  This is sooo great!  Just visit http://itunes.rts.edu to access and download courses onto your computer (or MP3 player) and keep up with the latest events.  I’ve always wanted to be able to sit in seminary classes out of curiosity.  This “RTS on iTunes U” thing allows me to get a taste of that and hear teachings by seminary professors from my iPod.  Seminary courses at the tip of my fingers, woohoo!

To  give a glimpse of some of the subjects available, so far I’ve downloaded J.I. Packer’s History and Theology of the Puritans, John Frame’s series on Christian Apologetics and History of Philosophy and Christian Thought, Richard Pratt’s Old Testament series, Frank A. James III’s series of the History of Christianity, and much more.

Happy downloading and listening…

Woo hoo!  The Sovereign Grace Ministries has made available for free all of the MP3 messages or sermons on its website!  I just finished downloading a bunch of them from their section on Biblical Womanhood and for Singles.  There’re several messages for women on learning and doing Titus 2 stuff there…   I don’t really have anyone yet right now to teach me Titus 2 things, so those messages sound exciting to learn from.  (Hopefully in the future I could meet with an older lady who would help teach me these things.)  They also have a section for men on Biblical Manhood and other subjects on Marriage and Growing in Godliness.  Hope you find them edifying.

Woohoo!  John Piper will be coming to Sacramento, California next month (October 12-13) for a Desiring God 2007 Regional Conference!  I just registered to attend a few minutes ago online.  It’ll be nice to see in person for the first time the preacher whose voice has often accompanied me during my evening jogs and whose sermons God has used many a times to remind me of His divine sovereignty and to encourage me.

The theme of the conference will be on The Pleasures of God.  It’ll be a two-day event that falls on Friday evening and Saturday.  For those who may be interested in joining to attend, you can read more and register online.  Here’s a brief info from their website:

You don’t truly know someone until you know what makes them happy. So it is with God.  We can only know the greatness of his glory if we know what makes him glad.  Therefore, we must understand the pleasures of God.

At the Desiring God 2007 Regional Conference, John Piper will navigate the biblical evidence to help us see and savor what the pleasures of God show us about him, so that we can become more like him.  This is not a conference about you.  It’s about the one you were made for—God himself.

I’m very much looking forward to attend it!

Tim (”the world’s most famous Christian blogger”) Challies is giving away free prizes again.  Click on the image below to enter the draw and receive free Reformed books.

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I found out today that Dr. D. James Kennedy of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church has gone on to be with the Lord this morning.  He passed away in his sleep at approximately 2:15 A.M. at his home.  This is a bitter sweet situation.

From Dr. Al Mohler’s blog:

The death of Dr. D. James Kennedy is yet another reminder of what the hymn writer Isaac Watts saw when he wrote that “time, like an ever rolling stream, bears all its sons away.” Dr. Kennedy died this morning at his home in Ft. Lauderdale. He had been out of the public eye since suffering a significant cardiac arrest in January.

In his latest blog, Dr. Albert Mohler offers his thoughts on what Dr. Kennedy meant to the cause of Christ–as well as some personal reflections on their friendship.  Read more from Dr. Al Mohler’s blog, which is often updated several times a day.

More details from the Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church website.

As I walked through the wilderness of this World Wide Web, I lighted on a certain blogosphere where was a blog, and laid me down in a chair to read; and as I read, I fell asleep and dreamed a dream.  I dreamed, and behold, I saw a young lady clothed in green rags (like the one pictured on the banner above ) and a bonnet, sitting on a certain chair, with her face from the window, a laptop on her lap, and a great burden of thought upon her mind.  I looked and saw her open the laptop, and read a blog therein; and as she read, she wept and trembled; and not being able longer to contain, she brake out with a lamentable cry, saying, “What shall I blog/write?”

Okay, sorry, that was cheesy, hehe. :)  I just felt being silly today for some reason wondering what I should write.  However, if you have not yet read the real, wonderful, famous 17th-century classic Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan, I hope you’ll have the chance to do so in the near future.  I think J. C. Ryle once wrote of this book, “I do not doubt that the one volume known as The Pilgrim’s Progress, written by a man who knew hardly any book but his Bible, and was ignorant of Greek and Latin, will prove in the last day to have done more for the benefit of the world, than all the works of the schoolmen put together.”

Okay, here’s another fun online quiz.  This is my quiz result… *Drumrolls*

You Are 0% Feminist

You are definitely not a feminist. In fact, you are every feminist’s worst nightmare. You believe that women belong in the kitchen…. barefoot and pregnant.

“Every feminist’s worst nightmare… Barefoot and pregnant.”  A ha ha ha…  Soo funny.  Just for the record, I actually wear sandals in the kitchen at home.

And well, I wouldn’t say that a woman basically only belongs in the kitchen, though.  I think a wife’s or mother’s primary and highest calling is to be “keepers at home” as described in Titus 2:3-4.  Reminds me of what the great Charles Spurgeon eloquently said:

Dirty rooms, slatternly gowns, and children with unwashed faces are swift witnesses against the sincerity of those who keep others’ vineyards and neglect their own.  I have no faith in that woman who talks of grace and glory abroad, and uses no soap and water at home.  Let the buttons be on the shirts, let the children’s socks be mended, let the roast mutton be done to a turn, let the house be as neat as a new pin, and the home be as happy as home can be.  (quoted from Spurgeon’s “A Spur for a Free Horse” from the February 1866 Sword and Trowel)

I’d be interested in seeing my friends’ result… so if you ever take it, let me know yours.  Men (not just women) can take this quiz, too… (mm, does that sound egalitarian? )

I had a nice worship at church on the Lord’s Day today.  It was wonderful.  My church’s denomination is the OPC.  For those who don’t know, OPC stands for Only Perfect Church.  Okay, just kidding! :D It’s the Orthodox Presbyterian Church.  I love the strictness of their adherence and subscription to the Westminster Confessions & Catechisms.  The OPC publishes a wonderful monthly magazine “New Horizons” where they have different articles related to worship, Christian education, book reviews, foreign missions, prayer calendar, news, issues in the church, etc.  Very interesting things.

One tiny column I really enjoy is “Out of the Mouth…” where readers contribute humorous wisdom their children have said.  I love the cute funny insights that little kids sometimes say!  Here are some funny ones:

In our family devotions, we were reviewing the encounter between John the Baptist and the Pharisees and Sadducees in Matthew 3.  When asked what John called those religious leaders, our son Benjamin paused for a moment and then answered, “You brood of diapers!”  –Peter Moelker (Lisbon, N.Y.)

When I saw my four-year-old son Thomas after his Sunday school class, I asked him what he had learned about.
He replied, “Angels.”
“What did the angels do?” I asked him.
He gave me an incredulous look and said, “They did what God told them to do!”  –Jim Benoit (Cedar Creek, Tex.)

At our church (Grace OPC in Hanover Park, Illinois), we sang the hymn “El-Shaddai.”  But four-year-old Bethany Johnson was confused.  So she asked one of her older sisters, “Why did Elsha die?”  –Mark deRu (Bartlett, Ill.)

I was grading some third grade Bible tests at a Christian school.  The question was, “Does anyone really get away with sin?  Why or why not?”  One pupil answered, “No, because God always knows if we have sinned.  And our parents usually find out.”  –Holly Wilson, (Indianapolis, Ind.)

Ha ha ha…  Oh, the joys of cute lil’ kids!

I love this song below sung by Steve Green.  He is my absolute all-time favorite singer in the world!  Hearing this song touches my soul and reminds me of the greatness of our Lord; of the absolute sovereignty, power, glory, and majesty of the One Who spoke this whole universe into existence.  He alone is indeed fit to be enthroned.  None can fathom or question the infinite wisdom and counsel of the Almighty.  May all glory be to God and God alone forever and ever.

God and God alone
Created all these things we call our own
From the mighty to the small
The Glory in them all
Is God’s and God’s alone

God and God alone
Reveals the truth of all we call unknown
And the best and worst of man
Wont change the Master’s plan
It’s God’s and God’s alone

God and God alone
is fit to take the universe’s throne
Let everything that lives
Reserve its truest praise
For God and God alone

God and God alone
Will be the joy of our eternal home
He will be our one desire
Our hearts will never tire
Of God and God alone

You can purchase this song from Steve Green’s album “People Need the Lord.”

It’s amazing how God works.  This past Sunday I decided to drive to the BART station to attend church.  (For those of you who don’t know, it’s the Bay Area Rapid Transit — a very fast and convenient means of transportation for where I live).  Well, I got to the station much earlier than my train arrival, so I decided to walk around and sit on a bench.  While waiting, I saw that the guy next to me had his Bible opened.  The pages of his Bible had some foreign characters printed on it.  Being intrigued, I asked, “Hi, may I ask, is your Bible in Korean language?”  Well, actually I have no knowledge of Korean, but since the characters on his Bible pages didn’t look Japanese nor Chinese, my only guess is perhaps it’s Korean. :)  We started talking and apparently he is indeed from Korea.  He said he hasn’t been in the States for that long.  I asked him what church he attends.  To my surprise he said that very Sunday morning (just hours before) was actually the first day he attended church in America.  Wow!  He told me he had passed by that church and decided to attend it.  But lo and behold… when he sat down for the worship service, it turned out to be a Spanish speaking church!  Poor guy…  He couldn’t understand a word, so he ended up sitting and praying quietly throughout the whole service.  Wow, I felt so bad for him.  He didn’t know where to find church and he thought it was a “miracle” that I came up to him to ask about church.  I was so excited, because perhaps God was using my early arrival to the BART to help him find church.  I told him that I could suggest a few good churches and, if he likes to, perhaps next week he could go to the one I attend.  He agreed to.  We exchanged e-mail addresses and, Lord willing, we’ll be attending the same church this coming Lord’s Day!  This is so awesome.  I don’t know much yet about his spiritual background or his walk with God.  He may or may not be Christian.  But I’m really excited of how the Lord may use this whole incident and the possible ripple effects it may have for his spiritual life.  This is awesome.  Praise God for His timing!