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A La Carte (11/4)

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I am on my way to Sacramento, California this morning (with a ridiculous wake-up time of 3:55 in order to make it to the airport for 5:00 in order to make it to my flight at 7:00 in order to make my Chicago connection at 10:00 in order to get to Sacramento by 12:30 in order to speak at 2:30. But before all of that, I gathered a few links that jumped out at me yesterday:

Liquidators – “After the nuclear reactor explosion 25 years ago today that rained down radioactive material over Ukraine, Belarus, and western Russia, a corps of plant employees, firefighters, soldiers, miners, construction workers, and volunteers were called in to clean up the mess.” National Geographic has a photo gallery.

The Kingdom Gain of Congregationalism – “Congregationalism is administratively inefficient. It provokes quarrelling and divisiveness. It caters to the most immature members of a church. It cultivates individualism. It undermines pastors. And it just might add to global hunger, strife in the Middle East, and the commercialization of Christmas.”

The Old Is in the New Fulfilled – Dane Ortlund: “Seems to me that while it need not be the main point of every NT book, nevertheless every NT book in some way fulfills the hope of the OT, though each from its own perspective. One former prof of mine used to say that the NT is a 27-volume commentary on the OT. Truth to that.”

Desktop Wallpaper – The Resurgence has posted a nice desktop wallpaper as part of their growing collection.

In light of the fact that we must all die, the exact timing, surely, is of relatively little consequence.

—D.A. Carson

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