One Eternal Day

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

Saturday, November 28, 2009

Here we stand

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"The Manhattan Declaration" [see below ] is now approaching 200,000 signatures. It is not, as some have contended, a statement of...
Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Thanksgiving

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For food that stays our hunger, For rest that brings us ease, For homes where memories linger, We give our thanks for these.

Originality

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Gene Fant at Evangel has the misfortune of being surrounded by people who recognize his influences: .... Twice in the past week, I thought...
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009

"If we are market-focused, we are off track"

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A couple of quotations from a good article by Ed Stetzer titled "Ending the Worship War without a Truce" : .... Playing a shock...

"That He may abide with you forever"

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Today Conjubilant With Song notes the anniversary of the death of Thomas Tallis in 1585: .... Though Tallis did compose some works for key...
Monday, November 23, 2009

"Malthusians are always wrong about everything."

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Are there too many people? No, there are too many Malthusians. Brendan O’Neill explains : In the year 200 AD, there were approximately 18...

"We act together..."

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"The Manhattan Declaration" [see below ] now has over 61,000 signatures. It's worth reading even if you don't intend to s...
Sunday, November 22, 2009

"There is therefore now no condemnation..."

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Via By Every Word... : "The law cannot create faith because it tells us what is to be done. It can only announce to those who transgres...
Saturday, November 21, 2009

Catholics and "by faith alone"

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Interviewing Chris Castaldo, author of Holy Ground: Walking with Jesus as a Former Catholic , the blogger at By Every Word asked "In...
Friday, November 20, 2009

The Manhattan Declaration

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"The Manhattan Declaration" is a statement published today with remarkably broad ecumenical support identifying three of the cruc...
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Thursday, November 19, 2009

All praise to Thee...

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Today Conjubilant With Song notes an old book about the hymns popular with our grandparents and great grandparents: The Best Church Hymns ...

"God only is so great"

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Many of my earliest images of the New Testament world came from the 1959 film version of Ben Hur [the poster is from the 1925 film]. It was...

"A new birth of freedom"

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I had the privilege this past summer, for the first time since I was a teenager, of visiting the battlefield and cemetery at Gettysburg. To...
Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Deck the halls...

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There are Christians who oppose the celebration of Christmas because they consider it pagan in origin. Far more Christians are worried that...
Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Hope, false piety and optimism

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After she died, it was as if I had broken my arm. A part of me ached all the time, and something that had been functional was now useless, a...
Monday, November 16, 2009

As it was actually imagined?

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Some good friends of mine, when they were kids, had a Christmas tradition I envied. Their father would, every Christmas Eve, read aloud Dick...
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Saturday, November 14, 2009

"I note with grave displeasure that your patient has become a Christian."

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There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is...

"A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve..."

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Edmund Burke defined a statesman as someone with "a disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve...." Dale Ahlquist uses C...
Friday, November 13, 2009

"And night shall be no more"

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Gene Edward Veith honors the passing of Paul Manz by posting this . An organ virtuoso and respected choral composer, Manz’s best known ...

"I will never live for the sake of another man..."

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Peter Wehner reminds us why conservatives — particularly religious conservatives — have little in common with Ayn Rand: .... Ayn Rand was,...
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