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Holiday Peacemaking
This week, I received a mailing from Peacemaker Ministries that included an “Operation Peace on Earth” calendar with thought-provoking daily assignments for “holiday peacemaking”. Holidays can be stressful for some, as are forced to see people whom they have avoided for the rest of the year. The calendar goes from 11/21 through 12/25 and a […]
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Blinded by the Beam
This story made the CNN headlines today. A father in New Jersey called the police to report his 16 year old daughter, who stumbled in ‘drunk and unruly’ around 2:45am. When the police got there, she claimed she felt threatened by her dad and led police to his 600 vial stash of cocaine and an […]
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Power Outage
Sigh… power went out this morning right after we left for church. Didn’t get back home until this evening, which means the system was down for over 12 hours. I reconfigured my server to remember that the system is powered on when it loses power, meaning when the power comes back on, the server will […]
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Locus Ab Auctoritate Est Infirmissimus
Well, our complaints about recent actions by the IPC Session have finally been received, and Sarah and I are meeting with a committee from Heritage Presbytery one week from today (Dec. 4). Since the complaint has been received, and based on numerous statements from members of the Session, and from the Clerk of Session that […]
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Orthodox and Catholics Together?
The schism between the Orthodox Churches and the Roman Catholic Church make the Protestant/Catholic split look like a minor disagreement. It surprised me, then to see the recent news about Pope John Paul II returning Orthodox relics to the leaders of the Orthodox Church. For those of you who don’t have the Christian Schism scorecard, […]
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If the Federal Vision Were a Beer
Doug Wilson has posted a review of Guy Waters’ new book, Justification and the New Perspectives on Paul, and he seems to agree with the author who seems to agree with Gaffin. Wilson vents his ongoing frustration with the usual irony: Now, when we Federal Vision troublemakers are sitting there listening to the discussion between […]
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So, What Do You Really Think?
While I have no plans on seeing the movie, this review of Alexander in the Marin Independant Journal has probably cemented my resolve not to go. The reviewer don’t mince words when describing how much he hates this film. “Alexander” takes one of world history’s most interesting characters and tabloidizes him with speculation on his […]
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Quotes on Thanksgiving
“When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?” – G.K. Chesterton “The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day […]
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Protect Yourself This Thanksgiving
While the Thanksgiving holidays have traditionally been a celebration of the blessings that God has given us, and a yearly time set aside to thank our Provider and Creator for his gifts, our modern litigious society has caused gracious hosts to worry whether their serving of a meal could force them into the poorhouse. Fear […]
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Electrical Bananas
This morning, between 4 and 5 AM, the power went off and on at least three times. It actually woke me up. It was the whole block, not just our house. I stood in one of the rooms that overlook the city, and I saw a huge flash – but no noise. Then, a number […]
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Everyone Needs the Gospel
This is… interesting. I stumbled on Molatar’s Castle from BoingBoing . The site has the goal of “spreading the Gospel in the werewolf and furry communities.” I really don’t know how to comment on it, so instead, I’m just going to post a few choice quotes. You can take from this what you choose. As […]
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Parenting in 2004
I don’t recall my parents ever saying this… perhaps it might have helped. My son, Thomas, is now prone to sneaking into the office to use the computer. I called him over after an episode of disobedience this evening, and told him that if he did it again, that he would a) get a spanking, […]
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They Didn’t Know?!
One one hand, this story has a “well, duh…” element about it. On the other hand, it’s dumbfounding how disfunctional our federal government, and how we continue to accept it. CNN has a story about the Senate barely catching language in the 2005 spending bill that would have allowed two Republican congressmen, one from Florida […]
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Japanese Food
TokyoNov2004/PocariSweatadFood in Japan is unlike western food – where everything is segregated on the customer’s plate. Things are piled on top of each other, even to the extent of having fried food sticking out of soup. Interesting things I ate:
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Helping God Along?
Have Premillennial Dispensationalists become discontent with simply watching the prophetic events unfold around them, and decided to help try speed up God’s timetable? In a well-written article entitled “On the Road to Armageddon“, Timothy Weber discusses how much of America’s foreign policy is actually based on the false views of Dispensational Theology. The online article […]