Here are some creatures I ran over this week. They were good!

• Ann Coulter’s article on Jerry Falwell’s passing is good stuff. Teaser:

From the news coverage of Falwell’s death, I began to suspect his first name was “Whether You Agree With Him or Not.”

Even Falwell’s fans, such as evangelist Billy Graham and former President Bush, kept throwing in the “We didn’t always agree” disclaimer. Did Betty Friedan or Molly Ivins get this many “I didn’t always agree with” qualifiers on their deaths? And when I die, if you didn’t always agree with me, would you mind keeping it to yourself?

Let me be the first to say: I ALWAYS agreed with the Rev. Falwell.

• Check out this “free online touch typing speed test“. On my third attempt I scored 66 wpm with no errors. (HT: Timmy Brister)
• My brother returned to blogging after a brief hiatus.
• Jonathan Moorhead spoke at our church while in East Tennessee last weekend.
• My dad started a very promising series of posts on a man named Ranulfo Coto. He lived in a remote village in Mexico with only a Bible, but he proved to be more orthodox in his beliefs than many missionaries!
• I recently read Breaking the Missional Code by Ed Stezer and David Putman. My friend Jeff Wright also read it and posted a review with which I am in basic agreement. Given that I have been to lazy to write a review myself, please read Jeff’s review and attribute it to me. :)
  

Here are a few links from around the web that I have enjoyed this week.

• Joe Carter provides his thoughts on using the RSS reader as a blog reading tool.
• BPNews provides a Q & A with Chris Stovall, an attorney with the Alliance Defense Fund, about the federal hate crimes bill recently passed by the House of Representatives.
• Albert Mohler writes about a missionary to the American Episcopal Church from Africa.
• A fascinating article on Salon.com about the British historian Alistair Horne titled “Bush’s Favorite Historian.”
• An excellent message by Steve Lawson on Romans 11:33-36 on the topic of “Target Audience” at last year’s Ligonier Ministries’ Pastor’s Conference.  Guess who Lawson says our target audience should be?
• A Reuters news story citing a recent study which states that the typical “stay-at-home” mom is worth $138,095.00.
• King Herod’s tomb discovered.
• John Rush reviews James Sire’s new book Why Good Arguments Often Fail.

Here are some important and interesting items which I recently ran across on the information super highway:

• Tom Ascol responds with a Christlike, but concerned spirit to Jerry Falwell’s recent inflammatory comments calling the doctrine of limited atonement heresy.
• My dad, Garry Weaver, of Amazing Grace and Old Chevys has also responded to Falwell’s tirade with an excellent post titled “The Men Who Would Be King.”
• Thabiti Anyabwile shares his top ten tips for talking about race.
• Albert Mohler discussing ten great Christian biographies. I love biographies and I plan to follow up Dr. Mohler’s post with a post of my own in the near future.

These are some of the posts that stand out to me on the Internet this weekend:

• My dad offers a great post on why a Calvinist would go to the mission field.

• Dr. Haykin offers an insight from his pastor on the connection between history and prayer.

• Thabiti Anyabwile promotes himself (just kidding!).

• Bret Capranica is posting a series of posts on his own “Expository Convictions”.

• Dr. Haykin again on “Puritanism: The Real Thing”.

• My brother has had several great posts this week: Calvangelism, Calvinism and Supernaturalism, Calvinism and Supernaturalism Revisited, and Is the Gospel Reformed?

• Many will wish that Nathan Finn would have stuck to church history when they read his attack on worldliness in “Greed or No Greed?”.

Enjoy! I’m off to prepare my sermon on Matthew 3:1-12.

This are some important/informative posts/stories that you need to know about:

• My friend and fellow-blogger Ray Van Neste responds to this article by Steve Sjogren at Baptist Press and Tennessee’s Baptist and Reflector (But I don’t know whose picture that is on the Baptist Press site.). Thanks Ray for your righteous indignation at this all too common practice!
• Christianity Today has finally posted their much discussed (on the blogosphere anyway) article on the resurgence of Calvinism. It is titled “Young, Restless, Reformed.” This excellent article begins with an account of a twenty-one year old female’s first encounter with John Piper’s preaching (He “scared” her.). HT: JT
• Dr. Michael Haykin gives some suggestions on “A ONE-VOLUME HISTORY OF THE CHURCH.” (He’s the one yelling it, but it’s ok because he gets excited about church history.) An addendum to the above post is here.
• Tim Challies on “Planned Neglect.” Good thoughts!
• D.J. Cimino on “Qualifications for Bloggers.”
  

• Check out this guy’s (my brother) recent posts on the law. Good stuff!
• Dr. Ascol is back and blogging on “Confessional integrity and theological education”. His last three posts are good stuff! Closely related to the chapter summary on James Boyce that I will be posting later today.
• Dr. Russell Moore answers the question, “Why Evangelicals Support Israel?”
• 9 Marks has posted an article by David Powlison on “Praying Beyond Health Concerns” (HT: Denny Burk).
• Anthony Carter has posted a list of resources for “Studying Pilgrim’s Progress“. Thanks! (HT: Justin Taylor).
• My dad still hasn’t posted anything!!!

Here are some interesting items that I ran across recently:

• Timmy Brister posts on this ABP news story which states that Mark Dever will allow his name to be put forth as a nominee for 1st Vice President of the Southern Baptist Convention when it meets next month.
• My brother, Jeremy Weaver (a.k.a., the Doxoblogist), posted a few quotes from his reading of the Early Church Fathers.
• Church member, D.J. Cimino, links to and comments on an incredible statement about Pat Robertson on the 700 club website.
• Tim Ellsworth provides a picture of Pat Robertson to match the above story.
• Charlie Henderson finally began posting his outlines from his Sunday night series in the book of Acts over at WBBC Bloggers.
• John Rush posts about having a “weighty” ministry.
• My dad, Garry Weaver, posted a needed reminder about patience and perseverance in ministry.
• Mark Driscoll posted some helpful advice on how not to experience “Death by Ministry.”
• Tony Kummer interviewed Joey Allen about his children’s book series which teaches theology to 4-7 year olds.
• Scott Lamb of Wisdom of the Pages had the first of what will be a series of “Truth in Art” articles published in Baptist Press today. Great stuff!

Here are some creatures that I have run into recently on the Information Super Highway that I think everyone should sample:

• Al Mohler on what funeral music says about us.
• Doug Wilson on the marks of a Pharisee.
• A couple of reviews of Walk the Line (the new movie about Johnny Cash) that make me want to see it. Click on the following names for their reviews: Chuck Colson and Russell Moore.
• My brother, the Doxoblogist, has been inducted into the blogger’s equivalent of the Hall of Fame.
• Monergism has a new Hall of Contemporary Reformers. Check it out!
• Phil Johnson posts a highlight from the Spurgeon Archive which shows Charles Haddon Spurgeon’s belief in an universal aspect to the atonement.
• Jeff Wright has posted several posts recently on the Tennesse Baptist Convention and its relationship to Carson-Newman and Belmont.
• Bob Kauflin of Sovereign Grace Ministries has a new blog called Worship Matters. Check out this post on Songs for the Hard Times which includes an offer of a free download of a new song from Sovereign Grace Music called “God Moves“.
• Everyone needs to keep an eye on The Pearcey Report “a website of news, comment, information, and worldview.”

Be sure to spit out the bones!