Yazan: ayong | 29 July 2010 | No Comments
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As many know, C.S. Lewis, author of a space trilogy known as the Ransom series, speculated on the possibility of life on other planets in his essay “Religion and Rocketry,” published in The World’s Last Night: And Other Essays. Moreover, the Vatican in the last few years has an expressed an openness to the possibility [...]
Yazan: ayong | 29 July 2010 | No Comments
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As a follow up to what I posted on Monday, here’s an example of focusing on the content without ignoring the container. This is a video from the WorshipGod08 conference, where Ryan Ferguson is reciting Psalm 25, using the English Standard Version (ESV) translation. It’s about 4 minutes and very moving. If you want to [...]
Yazan: ayong | 29 July 2010 | No Comments
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Retiring Netherlands bishop Tiny Muskens (not to be confused with any inhabitants of Middle Earth) offered the following proposal to the religious world: “Allah is a very beautiful word for God. Shouldn’t we all say that from now on we will name God Allah? … What does God care what we call him? It is [...]
Yazan: ayong | 29 July 2010 | No Comments
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Jonathan Mitchell, “A Letter…to His Friend” (1649), quoted in Charles E. Hambrick-Stowe, The Practice of Piety: Puritan Devotional Disciplines in Seventeenth-Century New England, p. 91: And truly when I am most near God,I have no greater request than thisfor my self and you, that God would useany means to make us see things really as [...]
Yazan: ayong | 28 July 2010 | No Comments
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On July 28, 1881, J. Gresham Machen was born in Baltimore, Maryland. The second of three sons born to Arthur Webster Machen and Mary Gresham Machen, Gresham was raised in an affluent Southern Presbyterian home, and his family attended Franklin Street Presbyterian Church, an influential Old School congregation. His upbringing nurtured him less in the [...]
Yazan: ayong | 28 July 2010 | No Comments
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Thomas Watson, The Art of Divine Contentment, p. 13: Self-examination; for a man to take his heart, as a watch, all in pieces, to set up a spiritual inquisition, or court of conscience, and traverse things in his own soul; to take David’s candle and lantern (Ps. 119.105) and search for sin; nay, as judge, [...]
Yazan: ayong | 27 July 2010 | No Comments
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Here’s today’s helpful hint: take notes during the sermon . . . It’ll help you stay awake. It’ll help you remember what was said. And, for heads-of-households, it’s a great way to make sure that everyone understood the sermon by going over the notes later with the family. Digg Stumble Upon Del.icio.us Buzz
Yazan: ayong | 27 July 2010 | No Comments
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If we are to use the term “separation between Church & State,” we must do so honestly, remaining faithful to the original context: Thomas Jefferson was writing to Baptists who were being persecuted by an officially Congregationalist state government. Thus, he was not calling for a wall that protected the government from the church, but [...]
Yazan: ayong | 27 July 2010 | No Comments
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WELCOME TO THE CONTINUING COLLAPSE!Exposing Government Schools: The Youth Ministry of the State Churchof Secular HumanismJune/July, Anno Domini 2010"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies."(Groucho Marx) ? ?"If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents,he would promise them missionaries for dinner."H.L. Mencken"Surrender is essentially an [...]
Yazan: ayong | 26 July 2010 | No Comments
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From Great Commission Publications . . . “What’s going on here?” That’s the question the teacher asks when she returns to find her classroom in chaos, or the parent when he sees his children misbehaving. “What’s going on here?” my also be an appropriate question to ask many congregations as they assemble week after week [...]