One Eternal Day

"O’er all those wide extended plains / Shines one eternal day;
     "There God the Son forever reigns / And scatters night away."

Monday, June 29, 2009

Economic heresy

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Good intentions are no substitute for practical results. Just as the promotion of ethanol and carbon taxes will negatively affect the poor t...
Saturday, June 27, 2009

Your God is too small

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Challies quotes from a favorite book, Polishing God’s Monuments by Jim Andrews. An excerpt from his excerpt: When the Lord’s ways do not ...

"Sent to Hell, Sir, and punished everlastingly."

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An exchange between Samuel Johnson and a Dr. Adams about whether the goodness of God precludes punishment. Johnson: "That [God] is i...
Friday, June 26, 2009

All have sinned and fallen short....

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"Sir, are you so grossly ignorant of human nature, as not to know that a man may be very sincere in good principles, without having...
Thursday, June 25, 2009

Doing nothing

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Rita Kramer wonders whether the carefree childhood many of us remember ever really existed in "Whatever Happened to Childhood?" I...

Desecration is a defense against the sacred

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Roger Scruton on "Beauty and Desecration" : At any time between 1750 and 1930, if you had asked an educated person to describe th...
Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Honor your father and mother

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From Wesley J. Smith's blog, Secondhand Smoke , a series of posts describing how rationing actually works in a country that has national...
Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Believing God will do what we desire

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I just received an e-mail from a friend, thanking church members and others for our prayers on behalf of a very sick couple and a very prema...
Monday, June 22, 2009

Sabbath Recorder, July-August 2009

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The July-August, 2009, Sabbath Recorder is available online here as a pdf . This issue has several articles about Seventh Day Baptist histo...
Saturday, June 20, 2009

Tranquility, serenity, peace and repose

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Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. Exodus 20:9-10 "Six days of ...
Friday, June 19, 2009

Read for joy. Read to be enthralled.

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Bob at Wilderness Fandango offers "Bob's One Big Awesomely Important Tip on Reading" and he is absolutely right. .... My...

“I freely all forgive!”

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John Newton is buried in Olney, England. On his original gravestone was this inscription: JOHN NEWTON, Clerk Once an infidel and libertin...
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Thursday, June 18, 2009

The baptism of children

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Guided there from 9 Marks , Justin Taylor recommends this Q&A for parents about the Sacraments: This document, The Sacraments: Questio...

"No Christ do we follow..."

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There continue to be those who profess to believe that Christianity was primarily responsible for the crimes of the Nazis. Many German Chri...

"Take Me to the Water"

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From the introduction to Take Me to the Water: Immersion Baptism in Vintage Music and Photography 1890-1950 : "Whether you have ever...
Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Becoming relevant to Him

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Spengler is unhappy about those who see the value of religion in terms of finding "meaning" for their lives and in "I Want Li...

Dying is inevitable

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J.S. Whale, Congregationalist theologian and preacher, on the eternal significance of faith: As a sinful man looking at death and beyond it,...
Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Without excuse

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Via Insight Scoop , an article describing a Catholic commission's paper on natural law — the idea that moral standards are part of Creat...
Sunday, June 14, 2009

Flag Day

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Hats off! Along the street there comes A blare of bugles, a ruffle of drums, A flash of color beneath the sky: Hats off! The flag is p...
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Saturday, June 13, 2009

Silence is not just the absence of noise

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We are told in Scripture to pray continually, that is, we are to be constantly aware of God's presence. Activity, work and all the other...
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