Archive for February, 2007

John Frame leading the Reformed out of modernity

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

In Doctrine of the Knowledge of God, Frame constructed a cogent argument against Charles Hodge’s claim that the task of a theologian was to arrange the facts of Scripture in their “proper” order, like a scientist. That was an important move to give us exodus from modernity.
But almost as important, perhaps just as important, [...]

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Peggy

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

Just added Peggy Noonan’s archive to my website links.  I should have been reading her all along for the last few  years.  If I had time I’d link the columns I’ve just run into that make me feel like I’ve robbed myself by not keeping up.  But I don’t have it.
I almost want to compare [...]

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Jennifer’s blog!

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

Finally has a feed to which one can subscribe.

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Distractions and reminders

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

New post up at my other blog here.

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Yuck!

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

Any ideas what happened to this blog? The monthly archives look fine. I can’t tell how this mess is possible.
Part Two
OK, I tried to copy the Jollyblogger by adding the scripts from badged.net in my posts.  I experimented with this one.  It stripped out everything but the ending script tag which somehow reached [...]

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Forcing different environments on one place

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

I continue to be torn as to whether 30boxes or Tasktoy should be my home page. Actually, so far Tasktoy has been the winner, but I keep  second guessing myself.
One of the features on Tasktoy I felt was totally unnecessary was the different “locations” you could pick: work, home, errands, and groceries. It [...]

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A new blog for certain topics…

Monday, February 26th, 2007

The Connect Our People blog is up and running. The first entry is more about paper than cyberspace. In any case, there will be no more blogs in this category, except perhaps to let you know I have written something new over there.

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The hastening death of the theological journal

Monday, February 26th, 2007

On my blog that I refuse to name or link from here any more, I mentioned something I think I can helpfully point out here.
Jandy has a really helpful review of blogging and 18th-century periodicals. What I want to point out is that the technology and the aura of institutional authority go hand in [...]

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Outreach and Sacraments

Saturday, February 24th, 2007

I almost missed this brief entry, but I’m glad I didn’t. It is gold.
What do outreach and the sacraments have to do with one another? In a word: guilt–”us” with two much and “them” with none.
In my opinion part of the none-guilt problem is that the entire Protestant world has developed a centuries-long [...]

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Economic reality for authors

Friday, February 23rd, 2007

Chris, found this (I guess he checked his feed reader before I did) and it is quite educational.
1999: About $400, from Agent readers
2000: About $1000, from Agent readers
2001: About $1100, from Agent readers and a short story sale at Strange Horizons
2002: About $1000, from Agent readers
2003: About $6000, from Agent readers and from first part [...]

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Scarier than Moses (and more gracious too)

Thursday, February 22nd, 2007

I have to admit, I simply can’t make any sense of this post.
According to the writer to the Hebrews, the giving of the law to Moses was accompanied by darkness, by tempest, by thunder, and by threat. Moses “exceedingly feared and quaked,” we are told. Its preamble notwithstanding, the function of the Decalogue was to [...]

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Staring the problem of evil in the face of a child.

Wednesday, February 21st, 2007

Please pray for Calvin’s classmate.

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No more contamination.

Wednesday, February 21st, 2007

I’m tired of idiotic issues tainting the public nature of this blog for sane people, whether Reformed or not or Christian or not.
That stays here.
Only time it gets linked from this site.

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Hey, my real estate agent has a blog

Wednesday, February 21st, 2007

I any of you are looking for a house in Saint Louis, I highly recommend her.

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Decided to use a different website after all

Wednesday, February 21st, 2007

If you would like to show your support you can put the link button on your website somewhere. (Can someone show me how to put code to be copied on this blog? It doesn’t use the codes for the less than and greater than signs…)

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Stop the tape

Wednesday, February 21st, 2007

I haven’t read the rest of this entry but I have to just add my testimony here:
“One side tends to argue that genuinely Reformed doctrine teaches one covenant before and after the fall, the imputation of Jesus’ passive obedience only, and faith that justifies because it obeys. The other side in contrast holds that the [...]

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Why don’t I let my boys have fun?

Wednesday, February 21st, 2007

Reading this review, reminds me of some minor event that sort of became an epiphany for me. And I’ve done nothing about it.
It happened because Calvin had band. He had to play at the local private high school (I signed a paper about not revealing names on the internet–for security reasons that, I [...]

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Pontifical Council for Social Communications?

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007

Wow!
I haven’t had a chance to look at this report yet, but I have to say it looks like the Vatican has its act together.
The Church’s interest in the Internet is a particular expression of her longstanding interest in the media of social communication. Seeing the media as an outcome of the historical [...]

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John Calvin from his commentary on Psalm 25.8-11

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007

David is not here speaking of the character in which God acts towards mankind in general, but what his own children find him to be. We have already seen in Psalm 18:26, that he is stern and severe towards the obstinate and rebellious; and even though he act with kindness towards them, in mercifully exercising [...]

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Other precedents

Monday, February 19th, 2007

This invocation of J. C. Ryle is interesting. However, all you have to do is compare Ryle to John Calvin or Turretin and Pictet, or Zacharias Ursinus, and a much different story is immediately evident.
In my opinion, we should remain Confessional rather than innovating.

Necessity of New Obedience
Westminster Standards & Sacramental Efficacy

And, in fact, that [...]

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