Don’t have time and too busy.
But if fascination with the collapse of …. a lot of things still to be determined in extent sometimes gives way to fear, here’s something. Just because God’s taking down a lot of people doesn’t mean you or your family will be included:
Do not be afraid of sudden terror
or of […]
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I won’t vote for Obama, but this makes me want to:
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I’m pretty sick of questions about whether Palin should be a ruler or whether she is compromising her motherhood by running for office and “neglecting” her children.
First thing. Nothing in Genesis 1 or 2 dictates that every man must or should marry and have children. In fact, it is perfectly compatible with Genesis 1 and […]
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Here’s the story from the San Francisco Chronicle:
Safety pins and screws are still lodged in 15-year-old Ami Ortiz’s body three months after he opened a booby-trapped gift basket sent to his family. The explosion severed two toes, damaged his hearing and harmed a promising basketball career.
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Police say they are […]
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This post is true and necessary and cathartic (if tragic) on so many levels, I really don’t know what to say.
But I do want to point out what I thought was her most ominous observation:
In recent conversations with a couple of my girlfriends, I expressed an extreme disinterest in Christian guys of my generation.
“I’ve pretty […]
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Perhaps I should say this more plainly than I have in the past. Big-name (in the Calvinist ghetto) Reformed theologians who complain about the influence of the blogosphere on the discourse and propagation of theology are in the bowels of Tridentine thinking.
Reformed theology was never about textbooks. It was about pamphlets. It […]
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Therefore welcome one another as Christ has welcomed you into the glory of God.
– Romans 15.7
Note that my translation of the Greek is slightly different than that of the common English Bibles. In my opinion, this exhortation has a eucharistic overtone since it is the climax of an argument beginning in Romans 14.1 about […]
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Reading without unbiblical chapter divisions can really bring things to light:
Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them. Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep. Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your own sight. Repay no […]
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I totally missed something when it happened that is ancient history in blog years.
This is a totally brilliant post.
Steve has some disagreements, and I like some of his observations. The sexual and the economic are one in an important way.
But I still think Doug’s arguments can stand even if we account for this. I […]
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I can think of only one. I have no wisdom on how much weight to give it in the decision making process. Here it is:
In a mainline liberal denomination you will be in a perpetual war against unbelievers who deny essential doctrines like the deity of Christ or his resurrection, etc. But by some iron […]
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Here’s the text.
(BTW, I love the substantial interaction on Hebrews, monergism, etc, but I’m not at the point where I can offer substance. I just have resources for quickie posts like this one.)
First: Why does wisdom boast so much? I doubt it is because she’s inviting the test that, if you embrace her, […]
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In a rejoinder to this post I wrote, a blogger writes:
The eternally elect persevere to the end and inherit eternal life, but not all regenerate, justified, and adopted Christians are eternally elect; therefore, non-eternally-elect Christians always fall away.
But I never said that these who fall away were truly regenerate, justified, or adopted. I often use […]
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According to Chad Van Dixhoorn’s excellent lecture on the debates over imputation at the Westminster Assembly, Vines made a statement that was closer to Roman Catholicism than Protestantism. Vines, in opposing the need for the imputation of the active obedience of Christ claimed that the difference between being restored to the state of innocence, […]
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Proponents of requiring a belief of the Imputation of the Active Obedience of Christ at the Westminster Assembly asked if being restored to the position of Adam in the garden was sufficient to inherit eternal life. Gataker, who opposed IAO, agreed that it was not sufficient. But he claimed that it was adoption, […]
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Story of Joseph, the first:
Joseph is given a garment and authority. The garment is taken away from him and used as false evidence that he is dead. He is sold into slavery.
Story of Joseph, the second:
Joseph is given authority over Potiphar’s house. But he refuses the wife’s s
