Wayne Schuller’s Blog

He has an office and a massive library/study underneath. Excellent.

He also seems to have lots of computer screens.

Lig Duncan – Study Tour from Together for the Gospel (T4G) on Vimeo.

It’s not a movie, but it asks questions about masculinity and is hilarious:

IT Crowd – Series 3 – Episode 2 – “Are We Not Men?”

Is this Australia’s first ‘new breed’ classical Christian school?

Would love to see more of these…

Classical education involves understanding the present by learning about the past through history, philosophy, theology, literature, art, Latin, Greek, logic and rhetoric. Students see an integrated big picture of Western Culture from a Christian worldview – which has a strong moral code and traditionally a high benchmark of excellence and appreciation of beauty, as well as a foundational belief in absolutism; there is a right way and a wrong way. Maths and Science, reflecting God’s character, are also strongly integrated into this big picture, distinguishing classical education from a liberal arts education.

via St Augustines.

Someone asked Doug: ”Can you show us how you organise your study?  Can you take us through a normal day in the life of Doug?”

Unfortunately Doug did not let the cameraman give us the tour of the study/library. Not happy!

Ask Doug – “How do you organize your study?” from Daniel Foucachon on Vimeo.

I’m sure that the person who asked Doug this didn’t get what they were hoping for. I imagine that guy is really frustrated.

This pastor’s study is incredible. Granted he is a key leader in the world’s largest denomination. And a godly faithful man.

Al Mohler – Study Video from Together for the Gospel (T4G) on Vimeo.

I’ve loved preaching this series on Messianic Psalms. Covered 2, 110, and 132. Others were doing 16 and 8. Would have liked to have covered Psalm 45 also. Jesus is all over the Psalms!

January 24, 2010 One King to Reign Forevermore (by Wayne Schuller) Psalm 132:1-18 (Part of the HTD Messianic Psalms 2010 series preached at Morning Service) . January 17, 2010 One Kingly Priest at God’s Right Hand (by Wayne Schuller) Psalm 110:1-7 (Part of the HTD Messianic Psalms 2010 series preached at Morning Service) . January 3, 2010 One King to Rule Them All (by Wayne Schuller) Psalm 2:1-12 (Part of the HTD Messianic Psalms 2010 series preached at Morning Service) .

Another article related to a classical or liberal arts education – this time at the tertiary level.

I find myself surprisingly in agreement with Singer’s appreciation of the humanities. My hunch though is that our current ‘job factory’ culture within university education is a direct fruit of utilitarianism. In contrast, a theistic worldview drives you participate in Adler’s “Great Conversation“.

The idea of a liberal arts education goes back more than 2000 years to Plato’s Academy. It holds that an educated citizen in a free society should have a grounding in philosophy, history, literature, the sciences, maths, foreign languages, politics and fine arts. We might say that it attempts to answer the broad questions that Gauguin put into the title of one of his paintings (a title that he in turn took from a Catholic catechism): Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? This kind of education does not train you in a profession, but it gives you an intellectual foundation to use throughout your life, whether you decide to go into medicine, law, business, engineering, or any other occupation.

via We must nurture the humanities.

I love days off with my beautiful family.

Good article. Wish I had learnt Latin and Greek in school.

Educators once believed in the classical education very strongly. Little more than a generation ago you could not get into Oxford or Cambridge without demonstrating competency in Latin, and practically every Western historical figure and writer until the 1950s was taught the classics from an early age. The line of thinking that we don't need to learn Latin and Greek because they are too hard, irrelevant, not useful or not the languages of the future would have been regarded as the argument of philistines.

via Culturally adrift without classical moorings | The Australian.

Doing some yearly IT maintenance over January. Upgraded my main hard drive from 200 gig to 500 gig (it was getting full). This contains all my photos, 18 years of email (includng gmail backup), steam games, all my documents etc.

I do two backups. One to a second hdd within the desktop (every midnight). The other to an external hdd enclosure I bring in every couple of weeks from home. The backup is of the entire system using ‘rsync’.

The only problem with the USB enclosure is that it is very slow. So I bought an esata pci card and connect via that instead. This increased my speed from about 1MB/sec over USB2 to 57MB/sec over esata. That is an increase of 50 times!

I also noticed that my internal hard drive is much faster than a few years ago. Old notes suggest I was getting about 54MB/sec in 2003, but the newer hard drives are giving me 96MB/sec.

The sustained write speeds are slower than hdparm. The external esata actually rsyncs at about 30-40MB/sec  (not 57MB/sec). But now I can update the backup in minutes, not hours.

All measurements are using hdparm under linux.

Example:

root@homoousion:/home/schuller# hdparm -t /dev/sdc1

/dev/sdc1: Timing buffered disk reads:  290 MB in  3.01 seconds =  96.22 MB/sec

In summary: if you are using external hard drive enclosures, make sure you connect via esata.

What about NAS? They are great in theory, but very expensive compared to a generic esata/usb enclosure.

This will be a great training day at Ridley on Thursday 11th Feb. The MTS network is an excellent gathering of like-minded evangelicals in Melbourne across different platforms…

MTS Vic Training Day 1 2010.pdf

He has done cool flickr annotations:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/challies/4248235677/in/photostream/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/challies/4248235113/in/photostream/

I love thinking about the shape of a pastor’s week and about their study/office.

Here is a tour by Mark Dever:

Mark Dever – Study Video from Together for the Gospel (T4G) on Vimeo.

H/T Justin Taylor

This was one of the best articles I read while studying at Ridley. In it God confirmed a bunch of important theological realities and took them even further. Peterson’s commentary on Acts is excellent, but this article will give you a great overview connecting ascension, promise-fulfillment, Christology and the Kingdom of God:

David Peterson, “Resurrection Apologetics and the Theology of Luke-Acts“, in “Proclaiming the Resurrection – Oakhill School of Theology”, Edited by Peter Head, Paternoster Press, 2008.

Finished preaching through the book of Acts. Great to get through the whole book in three ‘blocks’ over three years.

December 13, 2009 The Kingdom of God at the Ends of the Earth (by Wayne Schuller) Acts 28:11-30 (Part of the HTD Faith on Trial – Acts 2009 series preached at Morning Service) . December 6, 2009 The Shipwreck (by Wayne Schuller) Acts 27:13-44 (Part of the HTD Faith on Trial – Acts 2009 series preached at Morning Service) . November 29, 2009 Trial Before Agrippa (by Wayne Schuller) Acts 26:1-32 (Part of the HTD Faith on Trial – Acts 2009 series preached at Morning Service) . November 22, 2009 Trial Before Felix (by Wayne Schuller) Acts 24:1-27 (Part of the HTD Faith on Trial – Acts 2009 series preached at Morning Service) . November 15, 2009 Trial Before Sanhedrin (by Wayne Schuller) Acts 22:30-23:11 (Part of the HTD Faith on Trial – Acts 2009 series preached at Morning Service) .

… is the one on the Holy Trinity Doncaster Church web site announcing Andrew Reid as our new Vicar!

Watch this video of the great ministry AFES are doing at Deakin Uni in Melbourne, then click here to give them money and pray for them. I am very thankful to the Lord Jesus Christ for this work.

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QA: Organizing a library « Miscellanies.

Some of the more enjoyable recent books I have read or used this year:

(some wordpress bug is causing the images to cascade unless I put full stops in to space them out – bleh)

The Acts of the Apostles,  David Peterson, Pillar New Testament Commentaries, IVP.

Preaching through the final third of Acts this year, this new commentary has been invaluable.

Peterson has an excellent grasp of the use of the OT in Acts, and of the Lordship of Jesus as the pivotal theme.

Excellent and insightful.

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The Word of His Grace, A Guide to Teaching and Preaching from Acts

This is a really enjoyable summary of the theology and structure of Acts.

Exemplifies the very best of the Proc Trust tradition, really giving you a good sense of the ‘melodic line’ of different parts of Acts – to use the David Jackman phrase.

A great big picture look at Acts.

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Keller – The Prodigal God

Excellent confrontation with ‘elder brother’ legalism that pervades today.

Many wonderful exegetical insights that could only be discovered by a pastor-evangelist.

Destined to be a Christian classic.

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Notes from the Tilt a Whirl – ND Wilson

If you like philosophy then this is a fun ‘ride’.

Solved one theological puzzle I’ve been wrestling with for many years. That alone was worth the price of the book for me.

(I’ll have to blog the ‘puzzle’ another time)

Could be a good book to give away to well-read unbelievers. It gets under your guard.

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Calvin Sermons on Genesis 1-11

This new translation from Banner is wonderful.

So often people miss out on the best of Calvin because most retailers hock a crappy 19th C public domain facsimile translation.

This translation is readable and quotable.

His sermons have alot more applications than his commentaries, great for preachers.

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Making It All Work, David Allen

Not a Christian book but I did really enjoy the follow up to his productivity classic “Getting Things Done”.

Unfortunately Penguin Australia has a grammar nazi in management. They renamed the books as “How to Get Things Done” and “How to Make it All Work“. Lessons from rulebook of “How to Make Books Sound Dumber as if People Don’t Know the Real Title from the Net”.

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BCA have a shiny new website.

It even has a couple of really cool videos.

A great organisation.