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Musings from Genesis
I have decided to read through the whole Bible, from start to finish. I was very excited to see that even as God created the earth, He had a plan for it. For example, as early as 1:11, He did not just create plants, but plants that yielded seeds — to continue a life process. […]
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Hypocracy and Other Bullshit
Matt 5:22b “Whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ shall be in danger of the council. But whoever says, ‘You fool!’ shall be in danger of hell fire.” I love the fact that English translations never translate “Raca”… they leave it there in all it’s phonetic and scandalous glory, as a two syllable sound which could […]
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Public School Teachers More Likely to Send Their Kids to Private Schools
Surprise, Surprise! Who best would know about the conditions of America’s public school system than the teachers who work there? If their opinions of the public schools are best observed from their actions, then their opinion is that the public schools are a bad choice. World Magazine’s Blog has information coming out of New York […]
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Name Calling
Instead of calling people “jerks”, which was our three year old’s name-calling word of choice, a word we frown on here at the Albrecht house, why not just call them a “jerp” instead? This is Thomas’ new name-calling word. When I yelled at him today for calling his sister a “jerk”, he informed me that […]
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The common good
We have learned to put things, issues, problems, yes – even sin in compartments with labels. It is more convenient to put a label on something and quietly store it somewhere than it is to sort it out and deal with it directly. We will, as individuals and as a society, never grow or be […]
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Partial Birth Abortion Ban Unconstitutional
U.S. District Judge Richard Kopf said the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003, was “unreasonable and not supported by substantial evidence.” What the headlines do not say, and what you have to read further to find out is that, “his ruling applied only to abortions involving a fetus that was not viable outside the womb. […]
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What Happened to Expository Preaching?
Well, the PCA web-magazine, By Faith Online may actually have restored a little bit of my faith in it. For a while, it seems that the magazine has been publishing a lot of fluff, and not much real content, but a recent article by Rev. Alistair Begg entitled What Happened to Expository Preaching? is an […]
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The Evils of Pietism
So, what is pietism, and why is it evil? Doug Wilson defines it by saying, “though piety is nothing more than simple godliness, pietism is a thorough-going sentimentalist idolatry. It is evil.” His article in the latest Credenda Agenda, on pietism explains well why protecting our children from the evils in the world will not […]
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God the Dangerous
Credenda Agenda has a new issue online with a powerful photograph on their front cover of a coyote’s corpse dangling on a barbed wire fence. The author then uses the image as a reminder of the futilty of atheistic thinking: Some might consider it a disturbing image. But we didn’t do it. We didn’t put […]
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blogs
Is not a moment of reality more interesting than all of the blogs in the world combined?
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The Nature of Marriage
As Sarah and I were driving home this past Sunday from my sister-in-law’s wedding, we were discussing the nature of marriage. I think the conversation came up because Bethany and Mike had a mini communion service in the middle of the ceremony (for just the two of them), and I had a knee-jerk “THAT’S CATHOLIC!!!” […]
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Are Government Redactions a Joke?
The Memory Hole wrote up a quick little investigation into an instance of the United States Justice Department‘s attempt at hiding information. “Redaction” is the fine art of “cleaning up” information for public release. For example, oftentimes, police reports containing information about minors will have their names blacked out to protect them. However, the recent […]
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We’re Home
I’m a little bit upset with my Internet setup at home. While I was down in Australia, I discovered that the website went down. As if that’s not enough of a pain, Sarah had already left for Indiana when it went down. My brother was sitting the house, and Sarah asked him to reboot the […]
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How to Blog
Simon World has an informal list of dos and donts for bloggers. Some of the interesting ones include #15 “Learn to spell or how to use a spell-checker.” and #22 “[P]lagiarising is encouraged” Although… I think my favorite is #36, “Logic and reason are for the weak. Knee-jerk and off-the-cuff reactions are for the blogger.” […]