“Apologetics in the Void” are repostings from an on-going electronic discussion and debate I had some time ago with members of our local community. The list serve is called Vision 20/20, and hence the name “visionaries.” Dear visionaries, The population of Latah County has been steadily growing. The population of the Moscow School District has …
The School Standard
“Apologetics in the Void” are repostings from an on-going electronic discussion and debate I had some time ago with members of our local community. The list serve is called Vision 20/20, and hence the name “visionaries.” Dear visionaries, In response to Joe’s question about earthquakes and zoning laws — his illustration is a good example …
Free Speech, Aye
“Apologetics in the Void” are repostings from an on-going electronic discussion and debate I had some time ago with members of our local community. The list serve is called Vision 20/20, and hence the name “visionaries.” Dear visionaries, Robert exhorted me not to be timid, an exhortation to which I am unaccustomed. But the reason …
Counterintuitive Wisdom
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 1611) Growing Dominion, Part 8 In order to exercise wisdom in the world, we have to come to grips with the fact that wisdom is counter-intuitive. If you have ever taken any kind of lessons, whether driving lessons, piano lessons, golf lessons, guitar lessons, or …
Lining Up the Soup Cans
Once there were two homes, and there were the same number of children in each household-I think it was around four or five. But beyond this, the similarities in the households disappeared. One of them was clean and tidy, and the other was just a few steps short of a disaster. Now what was the …
Darwin Is Still a Cracker
“Apologetics in the Void” are repostings from an on-going electronic discussion and debate I had some time ago with members of our local community. The list serve is called Vision 20/20, and hence the name “visionaries.” Dear visionaries. Gary points out that many Christian groups have sought forgiveness for their complicity in the racism of …
Crossfire
As Stevie Ray Vaughn might have put it, “I’m caught in the crossfire.” The East Coast Reformed Police say that it is all right to believe in a kind of baptismal regeneration so long as you also believe in a prelapsarian meritorious covenant of works. And the West Coast Reformed Police are saying that so …
Auburn Avenue Hubbub (AAH) Cool Quote #7
“Surely the Sacraments can remind us of grace, help us to appreciate grace, and exhort us to walk in grace, but do they actually give us the grace promised in the Gospel? The Reformed and Presbyterian confessions answer “yes” without hesitation. A Sacrament not only consists of the signs (water, bread and wine), but of …
Under His Feet/Psalm 8
The eighth psalm is another psalm of David. The import of the psalm is glorious, and the Gittith probably refers somehow to the joyful aspect and nature of the psalm. “O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens. . . .” (Ps. …
New Feature
If you go to Archives now, you will notice that posts are sorted by topic, and not only by date. Just a couple things to note about this. First, in the first couple months, while I was figuring this thing out, some posts were listed under “General Ruminations” which later, when I realized how much …