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Monthly Archives: February 2007
Television, Movies, the Internet, Power Outages, and Christianity
I ran across a comment by Jonathan Edwards (who else? ) over at Tim Challies’ blog and it got me thinking. Here is the relevant excerpt from his comment: As I thought of the idea of ridding myself of unlawful … Continue reading
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Tagged Children, Entertainment, Home, Internet, Life in general, Movies, Pop Culture, Postmodernism, Television
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This is a love story: a very short (and possibly unfinished) work of fiction
Author’s Note: This is not a new piece. I wrote it a few years ago, and while I’m still not totally happy with it, for some reason, I like it very much. So, occasionally, I get it out, reread it … Continue reading
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Tagged Beauty, Despair, Fiction, Language, Life in general, Love, Poetry, The Unlived Life, Uncategorized, Virtue, Writing
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The Dangers of Professional Clergy and Institutionalism
Over at the GeoffRe(y)port, there is an interesting post on the unintended consequences of professional clergy. As I understand it, the problem is not so much with the elder(s) being supported by the church, as it is with what happens … Continue reading
Why is that man smiling: Reason, Insanity and Pleasure
About ten years ago, on one of the first nights of my EMT/Paramedic clinicals, we had a mental patient in the ER for a few hours. He was a little fidgety man that smiled a lot, muttered under his breath … Continue reading
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Tagged Death, Decay, Despair, Home, Insanity, Life in general, Responsibility, Sin, Writing
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Faith and Works
Over at A Servant’s Thoughts, Frank Ritchie has a solid post about modern evangelism’s limp wristed approach to salvation. Do yourself a favor and go give it a read. Then come back here and let me know whether or not … Continue reading
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Tagged Church, Decay, Evangelism, Faith, God, Hell, History, Holy Scripture, Obedience, Reformed, Religion, Scripture, Sin, Theology
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God, Grammar, and the Precision of Scripture
I don’t have time to go into it in depth right now, but the following passages should be read and their implications considered anytime we wonder about the precision of Scripture and how seriously and literally that we should take … Continue reading
The First Type of Evangelism
Our church’s verse for the year is “He that winneth souls is wise”, and while I have no problem with Scripture or focusing on winning souls, I’m a little underwhelmed with the modern concept of “soul winning”. And no, I’m … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Fathers, Mothers
Tagged Children, Church, Daughters, Evangelism, Faith, God, History, Holy Scripture, Home, Jehovah, Life in general, Love, Obedience, Postmodernism, Religion, Responsibility, Salvation, Scripture, Sons, Theology
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The Best Story, the True Myth, a poem
Over at Bittersweet Life, Ariel has posted a poem about the choice we make each day in how we see the world. Here’s a snippet: Every story that has inner beauty, That strikes a note and holds it In our … Continue reading
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Tagged Authors, Faith, God, Inspiration, Life in general, Love, Poetry, The Unlived Life, Writing
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Love is… spinning?!?
I stumbled across this around Valentine’s Day and thought it was extremely cute (in a very masculine sort of way). Note that the site that this web comic comes from has the following warning in its page footer and should … Continue reading
Tagged Comics, Love, Pop Culture
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Questions about Mega Churches
I’ve always been skeptical of mega churches. It was built into me growing up: the idea that things get unwieldy when they get too big, that the head can no longer know what the whole body is doing. Without really … Continue reading
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Tagged Church, Elders, Evangelism, Faith, God, Holy Scripture, Mega Churches, Pastors, Religion, Responsibility, Scripture, Theology
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