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Atheist on Trial
I don’t think many atheists stop by this blog, but if any do … perhaps they would receive benefit from the video I found today at The Real Issue by Rob Lundberg (link). There are a few minor quibbles I’d have with the explanation of the allegory, but it makes the point that needs to…
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Active Obedience Required
I recently came across the following proverb. The proverb is superficially witty: “Drink wine, and you will sleep well. Sleep, and you will not sin. Avoid sin, and you will be saved. Ergo, drink wine and be saved.” This proverb is partly correct. While one is sleeping, for example, one is generally not out stealing,…
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The Result of Ignoring Biblical Wisdom
Luke 14:28 For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? Many people today believe that there is a financial crisis, in which banks are failing because they have loaned money to people who do not repay their loans. In…
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Piper Answers WSC #1
In the following video, Piper both in effect answers the first question to the Westminster Shorter Catechism, and also reminds us that Missions is a means to an end, not an end in itself: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0fzrVds9NA&color1=11645361&color2=13619151&hl=en&fs=1] May God bring in a rich harvest of worshipers, -TurretinFan To God be the Glory!
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King on Repentance
Pastor King provides an excellent discussion on the importance of repentance. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=od4q5jQzrRs&fs=1] It’s less than 15 minutes long. It’s specifically geared toward those who consider themselves Calvinists, but it is also relevant to Arminians, Semi-Pelagians, Pelagians, and in fact every man. Listen carefully – try to pay attention for a quarter hour. -TurretinFan To God…
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Heart Checks: The Impossible Conclusion to the Logical Progression
I noticed that Reformed Musings had a post on the topic of the relation between crime and gun-control (link). The relation, of course, is that as gun control tightens, crime (including crime involving guns) increases. Now, as Reformed Musings noted, Britain has started implementing more expansive weapons searches that look for knives (the new weapon…
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Fishers of Men
I couldn’t help but smile at this lovely feel-good news story about a river rescue (link). At the same time it reminded me of the Biblical analogy between fishing and evangelism. We need to be careful, of course, to remember that we do not fish with a baited (or lured) hook, but with a net.…
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New Age Heresies
These days, from what I can see, the “New Age Movement” is no longer quite as hip as it was (under that name, at any rate) a decade or two ago. It has since branched out in various regards, and I would be unsurprised if crystal sales have either tailed off, or at least stopped…
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Another Example of Wrong-way Evangelism
In this video, a young man openly opposes a sodomite Anglican bishop (link). He uses a more straightforward, but similarly disruptive technique to that shown in one of my previous posts (link) to attempt to evangelize Romanists. I have much the same comments. His heart seems to be in the right place, but he’s not…
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Thoughts on the Gospel and Government
One of my friends in an Internet chat room I visit, recently challenged me to consider what form of government is most conducive to the spread of the gospel. I believe this brother wanted to suggest that a pluralistic, liberal (original sense of the word) republican democracy is the best form. There are ways in…