Monthly Archives: March 2011

31
Mar

Economic suicide policy and promoting foolishness

Notice the misguided policies of the Fed and FDIC though. By preventing all bank runs for decades, the Fed instilled an artificial and undeserved confidence in banks. It would be far better to disclose banks in trouble, let them go … Continue reading →

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31
Mar

The social problem of sloth

He who gathers in summer is a prudent son, but he who sleeps in harvest is a son who brings shame. via Passage: Proverbs 10 (ESV Bible Online). Why shame? Why not hunger? Perhaps because the family must look for … Continue reading →

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31
Mar

Evidence that Lewis was worshiping wrong

“Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses.” via Quote by C.S. Lewis from Weight of Glory. I love Lewis. I think he is worth more than several Reformed theologians that wisdom … Continue reading →

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31
Mar

Childhood is slavery

For those of you who have been following this blog, you know I’ve been listening to Proverbs a lot and it has affected my blogging and teaching (at least in content, I’d like to think it has had some other … Continue reading →

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31
Mar

Not justified by works of the law, being chosen, being circumcised, being a son of Abraham

Amos 3.1-2: Hear this word that the LORD has spoken against you, O people of Israel, against the whole family that I brought up out of the land of Egypt: “You only have I known of all the families of … Continue reading →

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31
Mar

Wisdom means rule means skill at dominion

“By me kings reign,” says Wisdom (Proverbs 8.15). But also by wisdom does one become a metalworker or any other kind of craftsman: The Lord said to Moses, “See, I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, son … Continue reading →

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30
Mar

Abortion diminishes

While he can feel sympathy for the frightened young girl, Vanauken says, now “I know Marion and her children, too.” Had Davy undergone an abortion, Marion and her “three bright and beloved children, would never have existed at all.” This … Continue reading →

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30
Mar

Israel’s failure as a nation

In Deuteronomy 4 Moses spelled out Israel’s mission to the nations: Keep them and do them, for that will be your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who, when they hear all these statutes, will say, … Continue reading →

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30
Mar

Paul on the Lord’s Supper: include everyone equally and so discern the body rightly

PART ONE But in the following instructions I do not commend you, because when you come together it is not for the better but for the worse. For, in the first place, when you come together as a church, I … Continue reading →

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30
Mar

Is the adulteress a temptation to wage class warfare?

And behold, the woman meets him, dressed as a prostitute, wily of heart. She is loud and wayward; her feet do not stay at home; now in the street, now in the market, and at every corner she lies in … Continue reading →

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