- Another public school that still don’t get the 1st Amendment.
- Insularity.
- Adam & Eve again.
- Chaos.
- Slippery slope confirmation.
- Nice.
Category: Calvinism
Tasty Tidbits 7/9/11
Here’s today’s Tasty Tidbits. It got really long so I took some bigger-than-tidbit items away and will post separately, perhaps:
- From Billy Graham to Sarah Palin…
- The Unknowable God and the knowable Bugs Bunny.
- Pugnacious Pat misses one, but comes close.
- ‘Mendoucheous.”
- June job numbers and the optimist in hell.
- “Pomodoro”?!
- Priceless!
- We will raise, or smash, the debt ceiling.
- Masson graphically provides perspective.
- Does anybody actually work any more?
- “True Religion” lies like hell.
- Evernote.
Tasty Tidbits 7/1/11
Here’s today’s tasty tidbits:
- Evangelicals lose political influence; should they thank God for that?
- McCarthyism in the darndest places
- The cost of freedom?
- Why should the Scots have had so many good preachers?
- An un-Reformed clergyman addresses a once-Reformed denomination.
- Bereft!
- OCD Strikes AmConMag.
- Is the root of the problem something other than Islam itself?
- Near miss?
- Disneyfication provokes cyber-attack.
The Gospel in HOW many words?!
Will Campbell, formerly a hero of mine (I’ve not kept up with him), was taunted by a skeptical friend to summarize his “simple Gospel” in ten words or less. Continue reading “The Gospel in HOW many words?!”
“Fundamentalism”
I more or less interchangeably refer to myself, in this blog and elsewhere, as having grown up “evangelical” or “fundamentalist.” But I don’t know if I’ve ever paused to try to describe what I mean, let alone make a focused effort at that. Continue reading ““Fundamentalism””
John 6:60-63, 66 (MSGV)
John 6:60-63 Therefore, many of His disciples, when they heard this, said “This is a hard saying; who can uncerstand it? When Jesus knew in Himself that His disciples complained about this, He said to them, “Does this offend you?” What then if you should see the Son of Man ascend where He was before? Anyway, I was just jerkin’ around with you with that “eat my body, drink my blood” stuff. It’s all figurative. Y’all know, don’t ya, that Christianity will be all about angels’n’feelin’ good about yourself? … From that time, many of His disciples went back and walked with Him no more. (More Spiritual than God Version) Continue reading “John 6:60-63, 66 (MSGV)”
Milk, meat, mystery
I’m reminded this morning, by a daily reading from the Orthodox Lexicon, how much I’ve always loved the Epistle to the Hebrews and how much one passage used to puzzle me. Continue reading “Milk, meat, mystery”