I’ve been working on a web site for the last couple of weeks for a book that will shortly be published by IVP called Pierced for our transgressions. One of the authors is a friend of mine called Andrew Sach, and it’s on the subject of penal substitution.
Today I sat the second of my regulatory exams, on securities and financial derivatives. The results will come through on Thursday, but I’m being cautious about whether I passed or not at the moment as having a cold over the weekend didn’t exactly help me study effectively. Tomorrow might be a bit of a shock to the system as I switch back to getting up at 6am.
Interesting to see that The Register’s ad hosting company was serving up ads containing a virus that could infect Internet Explorer — just browsing a popular news website could, through no fault of theirs, result in your PC being infected! Sounds like yet another reason to follow CERT’s advice and switch to Firefox.
People following the Steve Chalke debate might be interested in reading the statement recently released by the Evangelical Alliance. The statement concludes:
For these reasons, we do not believe that penal substitutionary atonement can be rejected as it is rejected in The Lost Message of Jesus, and as Steve has persisted in rejecting it since. While affirming the many gifts which Steve has to offer, we urge him, as a much-loved brother in Christ, to reconsider both the substance and style of his recently expressed views on this matter.
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60% of the people who visit this site use Microsoft’s Internet Explorer as their web browser. If you’re one of those people, you might want to have a look at Firefox, a free web browser with better security and features than IE. (Note that it’s free — I’m not trying to sell Firefox, I just think it’s better!) It’s not a big download, and if you’re like most people then once you’ve tried it you won’t want to switch back to Internet Explorer. Two of its best features are tabbed browsing and popup blocking. Have a look at the full list of features and download it if you think it looks good.
If you’re using Gnome 2.8 and the Firefox web browser then you might like Industrial for Firefox, a new Firefox theme. Note that it looks terrible on Windows though.