Archive for January, 2008
Thomas Watson, the English Puritan who lived from 1620-1686, wrote an excellent piece on Degrees of Sin. This is an important contribution in our discussion on another post about Emergents Supporting Obama.
Here is the substance of one of my comments on that post:
Marvin Olasky has written an excellent article at Townhall.com on one way to bring the gospel and physical relief to Africa. The model he cites works without government money, which usually gets sucked away in various bureaucracy and theft. Olasky writes in part:
I’ve seen a variety of orphanages in Africa and elsewhere, and this model [...]
Dear Christian Friend,
I hear talk of some Christians thinking about supporting Barack Obama. Really? Do yourself (and the rest of us) a favor. Read about the man and what he stands for. Human Events has compiled a shocking series of articles which you need to read. Here it is…
Obama Exposed
Two of my friends have recently posted on this subject here and here. My previous post on the subject is here. I would like to offer a link to a very useful perspective on helping the poor.
The late Greg Bahnsen wrote on the subject in a paper titled Helping the Poor Without Feeding the Beast. [...]
As a Republican, I just love seeing the inevitable collision with a brick wall the race and gender baiters find themselves hitting.
If you take the ideas of folks like the Clintons, so-called black leaders and the NOW gang to their logical conclusions there is a huge head banging brick wall waiting on them. For years [...]
A news article found at Modern Reformation stated in part:
Football fans who happen to be churchgoers might be in trouble again this year if they choose to attend a Super Bowl party at their usual place of worship.
According to Brian McCarthy, a spokesman for the National Football League, the law that prohibits congregations from viewing [...]
We studied this topic Saturday evening in our FLOCK group. Our discussion was lively and edifying. One of the upshots of looking at spiritual gifts was the consensus that many people often say they just don’t know what their spiritual gift is. “How can I know?”, they ask.
The late James Boice, pastor of Tenth Presbyterian [...]
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U2 frontman BONO has compared environmental campaigner AL GORE to an Irish priest to whom he can confess his ecological sins. The With Or Without You hitmaker shared the stage with the former U.S. vice president at a conference in Davos, Switzerland on Thursday (24Jan08) - Bono was there to [...]
Barack Obama was recently interviewed by Christianity Today. Here is a Q/A on abortion. After you read this excerpt, read on to see the Q/A re-written, hypothetically.
For many evangelicals, abortion is a key, if not the key factor in their vote. You voted against banning partial birth abortion and voted against notifying parents of minors [...]
Did anyone else see this? I confess I do not normally read the St. Louis “newspaper” called The St. Louis Post Distress. Apparently our MO tax dollars will be paying for inmates’, female of course, travel expenses so they can have abortions!
