Recently a friend told me that his child wasn’t able to take communion yet, because he couldn’t properly prepare himself. I could spend time dismantling the reasons alleged to prove that a Christian child has any need to prepare himself in the manner assumed to be out of his reach. First Corinthians 11 [...]
I don’t have time to analyse the problem, but look at the quotes and see if you recognize how they are opposed to one another:
First, Lewis:
I believe in political equality. But there are two opposite reasons for being a democrat. You may think all men so good that they deserve a share in the government [...]
YouTube – The Tragic Case of Rachel Hoffman.
hat tip
Wikipedia entry (I’m assuming this will get updated)
Rant deleted. This is a bigger problem than the war on drugs or many other things. But I’m not going to discuss the cultural rot Rachel’s abduction and enslavement represent.
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Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
My review
rating: 5 of 5 stars
This is one of my favorite novels and I need to re-read it. The plot was both hokey and epic. It needed to only be minimally interesting however (though it was much more than that) because it was a an anarcho-capitalist world. [...]
“I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.” –H. L. Mencken
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Yet he articulated why it is an essential Christian teaching and even a practice.
Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
via Thomas Paine Quotes.
So Thomas Paine the atheologian has something to teach the theologian. I’m pleasantly surprised.
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One thing about the so-called “Federal Vision Controversy” in the PCA is that it really gives you insight into the nature of parliamentary democracy, the will to centralism, and the inescapability of oligarchy in every and any supposed type of government. I recently read Who Killed the Constitution?: The Fate of American Liberty from World [...]
YouTube – Muslim Demographics.
Obviously, statistics can be misused and “facts” can be alleged that are exaggerated. The video inserted above is hardly “sober.”
But then, academic pretensions can be no less manipulative and are no less likely to promote deception. I think the demographic story here is more true than not, at the very least.
Which leads [...]
I don’t have any hopes for any currency tied to a government behaving so recklessly. I hesitate to say this, but some of the high-level corruption we’ve seen is actually beyond third-world.
I say this with no schadenfreude. It is deeply, traumatically, disturbing to find so much rot at the heart of the global financial [...]
Here’s a quickie idea for preaching and for reading the Bible from the pulpit.
Never, ever, use words such as “salvation” or “saved” or “redeemed” etc. Never.
Use “deliverance” or “rescue.” Say “liberator” rather than redeemer, just as most translations do for Moses in Acts 7.35 (but hats off to the ESV for being consistent).
Also, in [...]
He wrote:
But that is not the worst. If the justification of exemplary punishment is not to be based on dessert but solely on its efficacy as a deterrent, it is not absolutely necessary that the man we punish should even have committed the crime. The deterrent effect demands that the public should draw the moral, [...]
His website can be found here, with blogs, links to buy books he has written, links to articles in magazines, etc.
Peter continues to be an amazing Christian personally and an amazing scholar intellectually in a seamless fashion that preaches the wholistic gospel louder than his eloquent words. I highly recommend this minister of the Gospel [...]
Nothing really creative on my part:
In August of last year, Brad Krause of West Allis, Wisconsin was planting a tree in his own backyard when he was ambushed by police.
Krause’s next-door neighbor, the type of timorous busy-body upon whom the Homeland Security State’s snitching apparatus depends, had called the police to complain that Krause [...]
The biggest thing I would fear would be a resurgence of small-government conservatism. Accusing them of pure hypocrisy and ignoring the fact that they might have just learned something can only work so long.
If I were Obama or Pelosi I would work on having a stockpile of ways to attack Bush and something about [...]
Note: I ripped all of this off from Mish.
Lets revisit September 16, 2008 and the merger of Bank of America and Merrill Lynch:
The two chief executives – Ken Lewis, of Bank of America, and John Thain, of Merrill Lynch – batted away sceptics yesterday. The pair insisted that the first discussion had taken place on [...]
Passage: Exodus 1 (ESV Bible Online).
So what were “the midwives”? A nun-like order of unmarried women? I’m assuming that Shiphrah and Puah were not the only two but were over many others serving the numerous Hebrews (or else serving all Egypt including the Hebrews). When God gave the midwives families, does this only refer to [...]
Abel-Mizraim gets dropped into the narrative of the last chapter of Genesis. It is all about mourning the dead and burying them (rather than allowing blood to cry up from the ground). Also, immediately after the name is mentioned, we have the brothers approaching Joseph, fearful of revenge.
But Joseph is forgiving, and thus [...]
YouTube – Is TARP a Criminal Enterprise ? part 1/2.
YouTube – Is TARP a Criminal Enterprise ? part 2/2.
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I’ve mentioned Boston’s attempt to add to Westminster’s doctrine. We should look at his arguments. Here’s the first:
Because of the apostle’s testimony, Gal. iv. 24, “These are the two covenants; the one from Mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage.” For the children [...]
Shorter Catechism
Q. 43. What is the preface to the ten commandments?
A. The preface to the ten commandments is in these words, I am the Lord thy God, which will bring thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, if you will obey me in all things and never sin.
Q. 44. [...]
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