One Eternal Day

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

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Not a historian

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Those who have been paying attention know that David Barton doesn't get much respect from actual students of history. Greg Forster prov...
Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Learning from Pooh

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Maria Konnikova illustrates some of "What Grown-Ups Can Learn From Kids' Books," with The Little Prince , Alice in Wonderla...

A gift of grace

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Thomas Cothran is "Against Faith in Faith" : It has become a strange and unfortunate commonplace that one must have faith in fa...

Brian Croft and "Practical Shepherding"

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Brian Croft was a speaker at my denomination's conference sessions last week. He is the pastor of Auburndale Baptist Church in Louisv...
Monday, August 6, 2012

Explaining why

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Tim Keller explains why Christian apologetics (something he does very well in The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism ) is espe...

Render unto Caesar...

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John Stonestreet in "A Higher King than James" on Thomas Helwys, a Baptist: ...[I]t was a Protestant standing up for Catholics...

"Dead guys who were faithful"

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Among the highlights of the week at the just concluded Seventh Day Baptist General Conference sessions were the presentations by Rev Brian ...
Saturday, July 28, 2012

The dangers of an individualistic faith

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Ross Douthat's recent book on the state of American Christianity has elicited quite a few responses, some of them quite content — even ...

Worshiping the god within

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A recent conversation sent me looking for this quotation from G.K. Chesterton : “That Jones shall worship the god within him turns out ul...

"Why don't they teach logic at these schools?"

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In the course of an essay about Stephen Hawking's argument that the appearance of order in our universe could simply be result of an in...
Friday, July 27, 2012

Question authority

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On the streets of the city where I live you can see cars so completely covered with bumper stickers that you wonder whether the vehicle wou...

Van Morrison

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Ever since I saw Van Morrison perform in The Last Waltz I've been buying his music and can't think of anything I've bought that...
Thursday, July 26, 2012

"Thanks be to God..."

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Via CyberBrethren - A Lutheran Blog , Martin Luther: A Christian has already been thrust into death by the very fact that he became a Chr...

Too agreeable

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Josh Blunt continues his series about church planting posted at Kevin DeYoung's blog. In the first years of the plant they had used an...
Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Seventh Day Baptists and slavery

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Several years ago I posted a series about the history of Seventh Day Baptists one of which was “A Nation cannot long endure…” about Seventh...

Someone complained

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Our local bigots strike again : STEUBENVILLE – City officials agreed Tuesday night to change the city logo after a Madison, Wis., organ...

Seventh Day Baptist history

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Don Sanford's A Choosing People: The History of Seventh Day Baptists has been out of print for some years — but no longer. Nick Kers...
Tuesday, July 24, 2012

"A batsuited Cincinnatus"

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Ross Douthat, a conservative, finds a conservative message in the Nolans' Batman films — a conservative message that is, not a fascist...

Church planting

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My denomination 's annual conference sessions begin next week. The president of our conference, Pastor John Pethtel, has made the subjec...
Monday, July 23, 2012

"The church of time and eternity bearing witness together"

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"Contemporary worship not a fix-all" asserts this article . In my opinion it isn't even "contemporary worship" in m...
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