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Paul Grimmond
Paul is one of the Staff Editors at Matthias Media. He is married to Cathy and has three fantastic kids. He loves student ministry, reading, writing music and playing the saxophone, and is looking forward to meeting Jesus face to face.
Sola Panellists
- Paul Grimmond (convenor)
- Andrew Barry
- Peter Bolt
- Gordon Cheng
- Sandy Grant
- Ben Pfahlert
- Gavin Perkins
- Tony Payne
- Archie Poulos
- Nicole Starling
- Mark Thompson
- Jean Williams
- Lionel Windsor
Some other sites
we like (Why these?)
- Matthias Media
- The Briefing
- 9Marks
- Albert Mohler
- Anglican Church League
- Between Two Worlds
- challies
- David Ould
- EQUIP book club
- From the Dean
- Girl Talk
- Gordon Cheng's Blog
- Jean Williams's blog
- Lionel Windsor
- Monergism
- Moore College
- MTS
- Nicole Starling's blog
- Pyromaniacs
- The Gospel Coalition
- The Proclamation Trust
- The Simeon Trust
- The Ugley Vicar
Congrats - am looking forward to it!
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU
Great initiative guys! I pray that God will bless you richly in this…
Hi,
I pray that the Sola Panel blog will do well,
but it seems to me this comment in your introduction:
“But the Sola Panel won’t have a particular party line”
is straining credibility for an Internet audience and would be better said differently.
Grace & peace,
Terry
Hi guys - congratulations and all the best for the new venture. I think it will make a real impact.
Is there a woman who could join the chaps on the panel?
looking forward to reading.
still looking forward to reading.
MJ said:
“Is there a woman who could join the chaps on the panel?”
Chaps??!!
I’ve seen it before - too long in pommieland and they start to go “native”
8-)
Terry
Guilty as charged!
OK then:
are there any shielas who could join the blokes? I could think of a coupla smashing ones..
Oh, please. If you’re going to call us sheilas, can you please spell it proper?
Thanks for the encouragement everyone.
Terry, you may be right about ‘party line’-- there’s almost always a better way to say things! I was trying to convey that we will be writing as a bunch of like-minded friends, not as representatives of any particular Christian body or organization.
Good stuff Matthias - love your work. Helps people outside of Sydney (in weird places like Lismore...) to be ‘well-fed’. Looking forward to munching.
Nice work boys and girls.
Will slot this one in to my busy blog reading, facebooking life.
No censorship?
Are you sure about that?
Not even in the comment moderation?
Will pray that God is glorified through this blog.
Gordo has a real zoolander look happening in his photo…
Looking forward to your posts guys.
I’ve already added you to both my RSS & Blogroll.
Lord Bless.
Oh yeah guys, most recent posts must be on *top*
Craig: Not if the post is ‘sticky’!
Nice work. Shame you left out SMBC in your ‘Other Site’ section. Tut tut tut!
well done Tony
I had to laugh when you said its not about party line!
If you are looking for some topics, I am wondering what is refomed and evangelical these days.
re blogrolls and other sites - I found that you offend friends if they don;t see their blog linked.
Also interested in how do you think this will effect the Briefing circualtion if it takes off ? (or is it already effected !!)
looking forward to my daily dose
Shane
Fantastic, it’s about time. Any other ‘Christian’ forums that I have participated in on the net are either so heavily monitored you can’t navigate the pages or they are so invaded by ‘angry atheists’ that you become exhausted by continually sharpening your theological sword. It’s fantastic to be part of such a proposed high quality Christian blog. Bless you.
I’m looking forward to a bit of sonshine from the sola panel!
I enjoyed reading your first posts. God bless your efforts.
This is fantastic. I’m really looking forward to this!
Got here from Justin Taylor’s blog post about you guys on Reformation 21 blog. I will certainly subscribe to your RSS feed. Welcome to the blogosphere. Always encouraged to see more Reformed folk blogging, and I have a great deal of respect for Moore Theological College.
Great start to your site. I will link to it for sure.
Greetings from the Upper Midwest. I have subscribed and look forward to your blog.
Best wishes on all counts.
Another great site to link to is the Girl Talk blog by Carolyn Mahaney & her 3 daughters: http://girltalk.blogs.com/girltalk/
(strapline ‘Conversations about Biblical womanhood and other fun stuff)
It fits all the criteria you list for good sites above - and is specifically for women. I’ve found it really helpful.
I look forward to keeping an eye on your new blog. You should advertise it in the Briefing!
Glad to have you folks online with this! Looking forward to profiting by your thoughts and writings. God bless you!
I love you folks in Aussie land. Tony, it was great to meet with you among the folks for lunch after the Gospel Growth Conference. Been really benefiting from your materials here in Canada. I think that I am listening to Phillip almost daily as I drive around the city. Been using your tracts in evangelism, and am starting to implement your gospel growth tools for discipling others. Thank you for your ministry. Your brother,
Nick
Is it a blog or is it a marketing opportunity for Matthias Media? Is it the Sola Panel Blog or the Matthias Media Blog? Honestly, a blog sponsored by a publishing group? With no party line except for a whole list of prior committments to a Sydney-sided view of Reformed Evangelicalism? Looks compromised from the beginning.
Gim,
Matthias Media is not about marketing and about making money. They produce tools to get the gospel into people’s hands. Most of the authors do not make money off of their products; it is a service to the church. Knowing your perspective and stating your perspective clearly does not make one compromised, it makes one self aware, and straight forward.
Looking forward to seeing what comes out. Thanks.
Just to be totally transparent, two of the panel earn salaries from Matthias Media (Tony and Gordon), although their income remains the same regardless of Matthias Media’s sales. One other author, Peter Bolt, gets royalties from Matthias Media for his book “Living with the Underworld”. So if Peter keeps mentioning his book, you can rightly be a bit suspicious.
Oh, and I don’t think we’d be the only publisher in the world that sponsors a blog site. Though you’ve already seen that the panel will disagree with each other from time to time.
And, yes, it is a marketing opportunity for Matthias Media. (Although, as marketing manager I was hoping for far more space on the site!) But marketing gets a bad rap. Marketing for us means making people aware of resources they can hopefully use to help them grow the Kingdom. Is that bad?
Oh yeah, I forgot one. MTS gets some royalties from “Growth Groups” and “Passing the Baton”, and Ben Pfahlert works for MTS.
If I have misunderstood your criteria, I hope my comments will be deleted.
As a convinced Romanist you may find my comments unhelpful, particularly if this is s just a blog to support each other in your sincerely held convictions about the very meaning of the Gospel and the ministry.
With every good wish and prayer,
Robert Ian Williams, writing from Old North Wales to NSW.
PS: I have read the Hundred texts of TC Hammond.
Thanks for the info. I think transparency can help in such matters. I suppose we shall just have to put up with regular links to more The Briefing and such ploys.
hey I was wondering if you can have a feed on comments so that we can follow the discussion via feeds? is that possible?
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