Monthly Archives: March 2010

31
Mar

The spiral of sin to sin is broken

For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification. via Passage: Romans 6 (ESV Bible Online). For whatever … Continue reading →

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31
Mar

Benbacchus (Part Two of Two)

continued Benbacchus arrived in Jerusalem with many plans.  None of them involved a real rescue.  Riding by the cross fast on a horse with a javelin to skewer him as soon as he was on the gibbet was one idea.  … Continue reading →

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31
Mar

Abraham’s trust in God was counted as righteousness

After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision: “Fear not, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great.” But Abram said, “O Lord God, what will you give me, for I … Continue reading →

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31
Mar

“Common Grace” by John Murray

The subject of common grace is not only of particular but also of very urgent interest to the person who accepts the witness of Scripture regarding the total depravity of human nature by reason of sin. For if we appreciate … Continue reading →

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30
Mar

The Word for Today

Envy – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article is good though it fails to point out the difference between enviousness and covetousness.  You covet something you actually would like to take. Envy, as the frustration that someone else possesses something … Continue reading →

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30
Mar

I’ve read the Hobbit and LOTR repeatedly since childhood and this only recently occurred to me

The thematic predecessor to the Ring of Power in LOTR is not the Ring in the Hobbit.  It is the Archenstone. I know.  This is what the word, “duh,” was invented for.

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29
Mar

Could you even try to more directly contradict the Bible?

“Our task as Christians is not to try through social action or labors or endeavors of one sort or the other to usher in the new heavens and the new earth ourselves. We’re not the agents of that. That’s something … Continue reading →

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29
Mar

Does anyone say it better than Job?

Why do the wicked live, reach old age, and grow mighty in power? Their offspring are established in their presence, and their descendants before their eyes. Their houses are safe from fear, and no rod of God is upon them. … Continue reading →

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29
Mar

Running a deficit is structural to democracy, not cultural

I’m responding to another talking head I saw today on TV.  Who it was hardly matters.  They all make up two or three personalities among the hundreds of them. Saying there is a “culture of spending” among the political class … Continue reading →

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29
Mar

You can’t defend the free market on the basis of the results

For every Tolkien who is vindicated by the book-buying masses over the stupid academic and feminist elitists, there is a James Blaylock languishing in obscurity while a Dean Koontz makes millions. You just have to point out that no matter … Continue reading →

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