Bullet Points 08/27/07

Here are today’s bullet points:

• SBC President Frank Page on Blogs: Page has withdrawn his endorsement of the SBCOutpost blog and offers some reservations about blogs in general.

The bigger issue, Page said, is that members of local churches have taken to using blogs to carry on bitter debates about problems within their own congregations.

“It just presents a very poor and very public airing of the dirty laundry in church business,” he said. “I’m trying to tell churches, please, let’s deal with our problems in a more civil and, yes, more private fashion.”

• Archaeological Find: An archaeological dig turns up a structure built by King Solomon (HT: Jim West).

An archaeological dig led by Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary has turned up collapsed mud-brick walls burned centuries ago at a fortification built by King Solomon in Gezer, Israel.

• Piper: Pastors, Pragmatism, Pleasure, and Pride: Pastor John Piper warns his staff and other ministers of these ever-present dangers.

Pray for us concerning these three P’s: The idolatry of pragmatism that ruins the church; the pleasure in unrighteousness that refuses to love the truth; and the pride of being strong that leads to destruction.

• Huge Hole Found in the Universe: HT: Slashdot

The universe has a huge hole in it that dwarfs anything else of its kind. The discovery caught astronomers by surprise.

The hole is nearly a billion light-years across. It is not a black hole, which is a small sphere of densely packed matter. Rather, this one is mostly devoid of stars, gas and other normal matter, and it’s also strangely empty of the mysterious “dark matter” that permeates the cosmos. Other space voids have been found before, but nothing on this scale.

Also, in case you missed them, here are the other posts from today:

• Colorado Priest Caught Jogging Naked
• D. James Kennedy Retires
• Egalitarianism on the Rise in Evangelicalism

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