With April 2009 just behind us, this marks Blog and Mablog’s fifth birthday, and we should be ready for kindergarten in the fall. Just wait until junior high school. As always, there is much to be thankful for. I really am grateful for the regular readers, a group that vastly outnumbers those who take time …
If Publishers Were Sale Boats, Canon is a Clipper Ship
Over this coming week, Canon Press is clearing the shelves of select titles with some bang-up deals. The sale starts tomorrow, May 1, and ends on the 8th. All the books in the sale (fifty of them or so) are selling for 1, 2, or 3 dollars. Now admittedly the president’s stimulus package has not …
Rednecks and Homosexuals
Just a few more comments on Miss California, and then I am done. Done, that is, until the next revolution on this merry-go-round that we call cultural commentary. First, one commenter in the previous thread on this had a “physician, heal thyself” question which I thought would be better to answer here. He said that …
Calvin on Active Obedience
Book 2/Chapter 16 Love first (section 4) 1. According to Calvin, did God love us before we were reconciled to Him? 2. Which church father does he cite in agreement with this? Christ’s active obedience (section 5) 1. How did Christ accomplish salvation for us? 2. We are freed from the curse of the law …
Welcome to the Covenant
Welcome to the Covenant from Darren Doane on Vimeo.
The Liberty University Hot Bodies Convocation Service
Am I prescient or what? Here is the reception that Miss California Carrie Prejean got at the gospel music Dove awards the other night. A standing ovation. And here is a clip from a press release by the Liberty Counsel “Miss California, Carrie Prejean will be in Lynchburg today to encourage thousands of Liberty University …
The Reconciliation/Romans 18
INTRODUCTION: We have a tendency to describe our conversions as one single-faceted event. But in the Scripture, conversion to Christ is multi-faceted, and the different words we use are not synonyms. We will be considering some of those terms in the context of this passage, and it is important to note that they describe different …
Loving the Unlovely
Book 2/Chapter 16 The Redeemer (section 1) 1. Where did the name Jesus come from? 2. What happens if we turn away from Christ, however slightly? What we must first grasp (section 2) 1. What must happen before we can accept God’s gift of life with the gratitude we owe? Loving the unlovely (section 3) …
Sexual Orthodoxy
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Radio Interview
I was interviewed earlier today on the subject of Heaven Misplaced. John Lofton conducted the interview, and we got off on to some other things as well. You can give it a listen here if you like.