24- Bauer Basics

Actually, there are Jack facts.  Some of them are quite funny.  If you enjoy the show, as the Cavfamily does (well, not my daughter) you may like them.

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Perverting Social Justice

I keep hearing this from evangelicals.  That's right, Leviticus 19.
33 "‘When an alien lives with you in your land, do not mistreat him. 34 The alien living with you must be treated as one of your native-born. Love him as yourself, for you were aliens in Egypt. I am the LORD your God. (NIV) 
Somehow, people [...]

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In Defense of “Over-worked” Pastors

The Sheep Crib takes umbrage to the outcry over using another's sermons in 2 posts.  Personally, I find his logic lacking, to say the least.  And he has a conflict of interest, as one who provides sermons for others.  But mostly, he just muddies the waters (I was trying to leave a comment, but was [...]

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Why Not Polygamy?- Another Attack on Marriage

The New York Times has an articlediscussing the impact of HBO's latest morally-corrupt show- Big Love.  In the article they report on what some polygamy advocates thought of the portrayal of such a marriage.  They weren't too keen on the sex scenes, but otherwise thought it great.
With the push for gay marriage in full gear, [...]

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Good Parents and Sunday Morning

CJ Mahaney writes about he prepares his son for worship.  We could all benefit from that personally, and pass it on to our children.

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Morning Wake Me Up

Suffering from a mild migraine, I needed something to get my blood flowing.  So the J-Girl and I rocked out to my new U2: Vertigo 2005- Live in Chicago DVD.  City of Blinding Lights and Vertigo got our blood flowing, and ready to start a new day.
If you can’t afford to see U2 (which I [...]

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They’re Done

Wally's look just about says it all.
But… the baseball season begins in less than a week!  Go Sox (the Red ones).
Speaking of sports, in a post on March Madness, CJ Mahaney includes how to teach your kids to live out their faith in the midst of competition.  Good stuff to remember.

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God is the Gospel: Biblical Scope of Its Meaning

From chapter 2 of God is the Gospel: Piper spends some time uncovering the truth that basic to the Great News is the fact that there is a living God and that we can turn away from our worthless idols to love Him (Acts 14:15).
“In a world so full of brokenness and sin, there simply [...]

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God is the Gospel: Proclamation & Explanation

From God is the Gospel-
“The good news is that the King himself has come, and these enemies have been defeated, and if we trust in what he has done and what he promises, we will escape the death sentence and see the glory of our Liberator and live with him forever.”
Piper continues to note how [...]

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Quick Reply to Revolutionary Christians

"We can no more be a Christian and have nothing to do with the church than we can be a person and not be in a family. … It is part of the fabric of redemption."
Eugene Peterson in A Long Obedience in the Same Direction
This about sums it up for me.  I couldn't say it [...]

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Global Confusion

I am quite skeptical of all the predictions of global warming (see my earlier post on this).  And I am not along (whew!).  Evangelical Outpost includes some data, including quotes from an old Newsweek article.  Glenn Beck has a pdf of that article.  His site also has a Times of India article pointing out that is [...]

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Another Bad Dad

Here’s the story.  I can’t conceive of much that would make me forget my daughter is in the back seat.  Perhaps we need to add a new category for the Darwin Awards- those most likely to end their bloodlines by bad parenting choices.

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God is the Gospel- Introduction

Let me begin by saying that every pastor in the world ought to read John Piper’s God is the Gospel.  Most of what passes for preaching and teaching doesn’t seem to be even close to the message of this book.  It is humbling.  Thoughts from & on the info.
“If the enjoyment of God himself is [...]

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Snails Have Hands?

According to a study released in the Royal Society Biology Letters, left-handed snails have an advantage over right-handed snails in defending themselves from predators.  I’m not sure how they ascertained this since I’ve never been high-fived by one, or been waved off before I poured salt in it.  Does this mean that as a left-handed person, do [...]

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Plagiarism #2- Did Dan Brown Rip Off David Morrell?

I read The DaVinci Code (2003) last year.  It was a fascinating novel, but its viewpoint was not very novel.  As most are aware, he’s being sued by the authors of Holy Blood, Holy Grail (which I owned, and read part of as a young, clueless Christian).  I will not here expose the numerous factual errors [...]

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Plagiarism #1- Lazy Pastors

Between Two Worlds brings this problem to our attention.  First he links to Oversight of Souls, which laments an article encouraging pastors to use the sermons of other, better preachers.  Second, he links back to an old post of his from April 2005.  At that time, E. Glenn Wagner had recently resigned from one of [...]

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How Not to Be a Father

Boston.com reports about a toddler left in the car while his father visited a strip club.  30 minutes later, the young boy toddled into the club looking for his father.  The threatened monsters did not eat the boy (though a father this corrupt may have beaten him), but the monster of lust is clearly destroying [...]

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Kick in the ….

Yeah…. this is right up there with Damon signing with the Yankees.  I could live with the Packers, but the Colts…..
Who’s to say why.  It could be the repeated use of the ‘franchise player’ tag.  It could be the desire for more moolah than the Patriots wanted to offer (that is their mantra- don’t overpay, [...]

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Polk County, Where’s It At?

I was sent this music video.  It is from a bunch of white boys doing hip-hop and hangin’ at the key sites in East Polk County.  If you’ve spent time here, you’ll laugh.  If not, you’ll get a quick tour of the places you probably don’t want to go.  And you too will wonder, “Why [...]

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Afghan Agony

I picked this much ignored story from Between Two Worlds, but Michelle Malkin has much more info on it.  Bottom line: an Afghani who converted to Christianity 16 years ago while doing aid work in Pakistan, has been denounced during a custody battle (what, a divorce???).  If convicted of converting from Islam, he faces the [...]

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