I have recently had a good bit of disdain towards the iPhone, throwing comments around like 'If I were in the market for a phone right now I would not get the new iPhone' and 'I am tired of Apple's shenanigans with the app store and monopoly over the iPhone'. ...
January 3rd 2010
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This song was sang during communion this morning. One of the men in the church, Paul Duffin, wrote a new arrangement for it a la Indelible Grace. It is one of my favorites, especially the second verse. At the Lamb’s high feast we sing Praise to our victorious King, Who ...
December 3rd 2009
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Read this earlier while spending some time on the Word and wanted to post
It here.
“I called out to the Lord, out of my distress,
and he answered me;
out of the belly of Sheol I cried,
and you heard my voice.
For you cast me into the deep,
into the heart of the seas,
and ...
A couple of sharp jabs at my own life from Dick Keyes book, Seeing Through Cynicism: A Reconsideration of the Power of Suspicion....
Cynicism and moral apathyAnother variant of the consolation of self-protectionism is cynicism as a justification for moral apathy. If any one is looking for a respectable excuse ...
Shortly after coming over to the reformed view of Christianity I realized that the general understand of hell (and of heaven as well) were deeply flawed and unbiblical. I began discussing how an omnipresent God could have created a place where He was not present, so Hell had to be ...
I am finally making the jump and commitment to go through the three volumes of Wright's Christian Origins and the Question of God series. I understand that he is supposed to continue this on at some point so I need to go ahead and get started. I am going a little ...
March 10th 2009
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A great quote from Horton's latest, Christless Christianity:
We do not need more Christian service organizations but more churches that serve the sheep and send them out to love and serve their neighbors alongside non-Christians as employees, employers, volunteers, friends, and family members. Since we all share the awareness of God's in our ...
February 10th 2009
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It has been a long time since I have posted something on the blog. My apologies for those few people that frequent this place or at least have it linked in their RSS reader. The beginning of this year brought some changes at work as I was moved ...
January 2nd 2009
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I, like many others out there, am going to use this reading plan to make my way through Calvin's Institutes in 2009. With it being the 500th anniversary of his birth, you can expect to see many books published about the man as well as several blogs going through his ...
Carl Trueman is quickly becoming one of my favorite commentators on society and how Christians should interact with it through a biblical lens. Here is what he had to say recently:
Goodbye Larry King, Hello Jerry Springer!
The hoo-hah over President Elect Obama's choice of Rick Warren continues unabated, with most ...