Archive for December, 2007
Monday, December 24th, 2007
Can someone recommend a book for children (age 9-12) that seem keen on learning about the reasonableness of faith in God and the firm foundation laid therefor in his excellent word? This is the reason why.
Posted in Asides, Theology | Tags: books, children | 1 Comment »
Sunday, December 23rd, 2007
To be honest, sometimes I wonder how practical a seminary education is. Will I graduate from seminary and be in the same situation that I was in when I graduated from college? College degrees are a dime a dozen, the same as graduating from high school nowadays. How practical is a Masters of Divinity from [...]
Posted in Christianity, SEBTS | Tags: England, evangelism, seminary | 2 Comments »
Sunday, December 23rd, 2007
I don’t really use much cash any more, but it looks like saving your leftover change can really amount to something. A 70 year-old man bought a $25,000 Dodge Ram in quarters. Unfortunately, “no bank wants to take them.”
Posted in Asides | Tags: money | No Comments »
Friday, December 21st, 2007
Someone told me that their church is a little controversial because they believe women should not serve in pastoral roles. Isn’t it supposed to be controversial when a church believes that women should serve in pastoral roles?
Posted in Asides | Tags: Ecclesiology, women | No Comments »
Friday, December 21st, 2007
Yesterday in Bath I saw and heard a toddler drop the f-bomb.
Posted in Asides | Tags: England, English | No Comments »
Wednesday, December 19th, 2007
Salisbury Cathedral was, for me, a thin place. What is a thin place? This is a concept that I just learned of this evening at Emily’s (my wife’s) parents’ home fellowship Christmas party from a Newscastle medical student named Ellie. She asked if I had heard of whom the British refer to as Tom Wright [...]
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Wednesday, December 19th, 2007
Hillsong London Christmas 2007 from Drew Maust on Vimeo.
Your love O Lord is like the oceans
Deeper than endless seas
Your faithfulness is like the mountains
And Your Word never fails
Glory to God
Let every heart sing
Glory to God
In the highest
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Saturday, December 15th, 2007
Isn’t it true that we want an intelligent, “smart” president? In all the talk of Mitt Romney the Mormon, his run for the presidency, and religious test for office, I have not heard anyone mention the intellectual respectability of the man in that he’s Mormon. If a presidential candidate denies that we’ve been to the [...]
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Thursday, December 13th, 2007
With tons of cheap, imitative “Christian” clothing circulating around next to the Testamints, it’s a needle in a haystack to find Christian clothing worth sporting. Over the years I’ve bought two shirts and a bumper stick from OneTruth Clothing, onetruth.com. The Love shirt always gets people looking at the pierced hand. As a partnership [...]
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