A guy I met on a bus has thrown my reasonably ordered life into chaos! Now, he’s plenty smart and by plenty I mean PUH-LENTY – and he keeps waffling on about Linux and Unix and Emacs and Python and stuff I’ve never heard of. In a somewhat futile attempt to having any clue what [...]
Monthly Archive for March, 2007
Al Mohler makes some interesting commentary this morning on Sam Harris, clanging gong for the Atheistically Deluded. http://www.albertmohler.com/blog_read.php?id=904 One point Silly Sam makes is to call our faith, in fact, any faith, ‘Iron Age.’ I’ve always had an interest in history and find the Iron Age particularly interesting, especially in terms of the Iron Age [...]
The Gospel of Tom
Posted in Too Stupid For Words on Mar 20th, 2007
From the stark, raving bonkers file comes… TOM Cruise is the new “Christ” of Scientology, according to leaders of the cult-like religion. The Mission: Impossible star has been told he has been “chosen” to spread the word of his faith throughout the world. And leader David Miscavige believes that in future, Cruise, 44, will be worshipped [...]
“Akismet has caught 328 spam for you since you first installed it.” I love the fact that I have more spam hits than I do total visits to the page. It’s nice to be popular! _________________ I get a head start on my evening devotions by reading them during lunch at work. Today’s really struck [...]
Al Mohler 'gets it' too
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 9th, 2007
A great post by Al on the hogwashery surrounding the ‘Jesus Tomb’ nonsense. ”Here is the most interesting section of the rabbi’s article: Some Christian respondents to this film have said that even discovering the bones of Jesus would not seriously undermine their faith. They say that 2,000 years of tradition does not just get [...]
Puritan Thursday: William Ames on Baptism
Posted in Baptism, Puritans, William Ames on Mar 1st, 2007
Baptism What is this sacrament of the NT all about? And who is able to be baptized? Baptism By Dr. William Ames 1. The sacraments of the New Testament follow from its nature. They are few in number, easy to prepare and observe, and very clear in their meaning. 2. They were sanctified [...]
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