Mark Horne

Every year on this night I witness the unholy abomination of little children choosing green plastic candy over good chocolate.  The spirit groans within me.

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I haven’t had a chance to look much at this site, Regensburg and the Spirituali, but it promises to be interesting.  Much of the Diet of Regensburg was a non-starter between the Roman Catholics and the Reformed and the Lutherans (Melanchthon).  But on justification they reached a formula that with which all could agree.  Calvin [...]

If you immediately condemn anyone who doesn’t quite believe the same as you do as forsaken by Christ’s Spirit, and consider anyone to be the enemy of truth who holds something false to be true, who, pray tell, can you still consider a brother? I for one have never met two people who believed exactly [...]

I am spending my old age in exile, far away from my native country, banished from my church I loved so dearly, my school, and my city—where I was able to accomplish a few things by God’s grace—separated from my beloved friends and brethren: all of this in order to live now in a [...]

And so for the most part they seem to have learned only these things from the gospel of Christ: first to reject the tyranny of the Roman Antichrist and the false bishops.  Next, to throw off the yoke of any kind of discipline, penitence, and universal religion which was left in the papacy, and establish [...]

Not near Easter.  But I don’t care.  The message is omniseasonal.
YouTube – Historical Resurrection of Christ? NT Wright responds (HD).

The fact that people who claim Christ as Lord gnash their teeth at Wright’s popularity is….  words fail.
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Part One
Part Two
You promised more about Jesus, Holiness, and the Politics of Jesus.
Yes, but I haven’t had time to write about that, so I took that out of the last line of part two in this series.
You had questions about specific issues.  And thought I hate to go out of order, it might be good [...]

Mark Horne » Blog Archive » A puzzler from my writing project.
Tolkien lost both pretty early and I now realize I should have included C. S. Lewis.

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My political opinions lean more and more to Anarchy (philosophically understood, meaning abolition of control not whiskered men with bombs)—or to ‘unconstitutional Monarchy.’ I would arrest anybody who uses the word State (in any sense other than the inanimate realm of England and its inhabitants, a thing that has neither power, rights not mind); and [...]

I don’t believe in the welfare state.  This program should never have started up.  It claimed compassion but what it ended up doing is allowing people to “farm out” (for free!) their responsibilities to their relatives.
And now after we’ve created a dependent populace of whom some (how many?) have no other recourse, we take away [...]

(I decided to repost this with a picture)
If it surprises you that I would write this, then you need to distinguish metaphysical individualism from intellectual independence and integrity. It might help to read Nevin’s scathing attack on “sects” in his series entitle “Antichrist” where he talks about how much groupthink one gets in American [...]

These are staggering figures when you consider that the Left currently dominates the Executive Branch of the US Government, both Houses of the United States Congress, the federal bureaucracy, huge swathes of local government in many big cities, academia, the public school system, and most of the establishment broadcast and print media in America. The [...]

Euangelion: J.I. Packer the “failure”?.
My first instinct was to say what I think about Trueman, but I’ll let that pass.
History always seems inevitable, like a series of falling dominos.  But you never know what might happen if a dominoe is taken out of the series.  Are the two on either side close enough to keep [...]

What is neat about this project is that I’m actually writing a book under my own name. I think I’ll wait a bit before I tell you more about it. But in the meantime, here’s something for you all to guess at:
What did all these writers have in common (other than the fact [...]

Passage: Jeremiah 12 (ESV Bible Online).
I don’t have time to research this, but it seems that God’s voice is, at some point, mourning his own disinheritance.  Israel’s sin despoils his heritage leaving him impoverished.  (So at the end he says that he won’t allow it to last).
Also, at the end, in the ESV, I’m getting [...]

He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and treated others with contempt: “Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other [...]

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What rein can hold licentious wickedness
When down the hill he holds his fierce career?
We may as bootless spend our vain command
Upon the enraged soldiers in their spoil
As send precepts to the leviathan
To come ashore. Therefore, you men of Harfleur,
Take pity of your town and of your people,
Whiles yet my soldiers are in my command;
Whiles yet [...]

YouTube – Munk Debates: Hernando De Soto argues in favour of the motion (3 of 15).

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Be sure to compare the linked story in the image to this one.

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