Two Cheers for New Calvinists!

Justin Taylor (Between Two Worlds) hosted this blogpost yesterday, entitled, "Two Cheers for the Resurgence of Calvinism in Evangelicalism: A Wesleyan-Arminian Perspective". I found the article both encouraging and challenging. I recommend it to you...

The Wind Beneath My Blog...

We still have some tweaking to do on this blog, but so far I'm very pleased with the look. I'm even more pleased with this blog's designer - my wife.

If you want a blog designed for you, or you'd like your current blog redesigned, contact my talented wife at her design blog... http://www.onceuponablog.org/

6 Reasons Why This Pastor Is Blogging Again...

This is not the first version of Pastor on the Prairie - this is, in fact, version 2.0. I did a Wordpress thing for a year or more, but it's been an additional year or more since I pulled back the reins on that deal.

But thanks to this post by Abraham Piper, I'm back at it. You should link to and read the post to get 6 reasons plus Piper's commentary, but I'll list the 6 reasons Piper gives...

Pastors should blog...

1. ...to write.

2. ...to teach.

3. ...to recommend.

4. ...to interact.

5. ...to develop an eye for what is meaningful.

6. ...to be known.