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Guest Post Over at CrossPolitic
Here’s an article I wrote as a guest writer for the CrossPolitic blogazine.
I’ll Go Burn My Guitar Now
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Tiptoe through the Tulips
Well played Church Curmudgeon…
For Calvinists of all stripes. https://t.co/YU9tkSHdEc
— Church Curmudgeon (@ChrchCurmudgeon) July 26, 2017
Got No Beds
My musical protest of Planned Butcherhood…
Thanks for the Luca share! I became hopelessly addicted to acoustic guitar music since Phil Keaggy went acoustic on “Master & The Musician.” Keaggy learned many of his licks from the all-time acoustic master, Michael Hedges. What sets Keaggy and Hedges apart from so many of the others is that they don’t just string together amazing licks, but actually build complex musical ideas that can be listened to for decades without growing old. If you haven’t yet, check out Hedges’ “Aerial Boundaries” and Keaggy’s “Acoustic Sketches,” “Freehand,” “Beyond Nature” and a perfect Palouse album, “The Wind & The Wheat.” Also… Read more »
I appreciate the article at Crosspolitic. Limited government, American exceptionalism, and freedom in Christ, can be hard topics to clarify for people. Something I am grateful for understanding, true freedom comes from being under authority, not from an absence of authority. To belong to no one and nothing is actually a form of bondage. Our current liberal obsession with rights and freedom is really anything but “free.” When people turn to the Lord’s authority, we have more limited government, because there is much less need to force and enforce things that go against conscience and and common sense.
Nice sound here that may compel further non-masters to set their guitars aflame.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJZYCSEs2g8
A courtesy after all the submission fuss of last week
https://insanitybytes2.wordpress.com/2017/07/29/thank-you-pastor-wilson/
I liked your essay. But I am puzzled by the difference between Madison’s view and Adams’s. In commenting on Madison, you say, “The entire system of government established by the Founders had a biblical genius to it, in that it regarded as axiomatic that Americans were not ever to be trusted, and were a nation of hustlers, mountebanks, and scamps. This really was genuinely insightful. It is the central constitutional insight. Never trust an American politician.” We are still a nation of hustlers and scamps, and politicians R Us. But how does this comport with John Adams’s famous remark: “Our… Read more »
Jill Smith wrote: But how does this comport with John Adams’s famous remark: “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other”? Seems like two sides of the same coin. The founding documents acknowledge the depravity of man, and the critical need for civic restraints against abuse of authority and power. On the other side of that coin, Adams is saying that abandonment of this kind of moral self-awareness will be the ruin of our nation. Adams wasn’t claiming that America was (or had to be) morally perfected… Read more »
Thank you, Katecho, that is clearer now. I had never heard the rest of the Adams quotation, and one really needs it all to understand it properly.