Growing up I loved Notre Dame football. No one else in my family cared for college football, but I always tried to follow the Irish. For the past five years, I’ve dreaded an Irish-Texas game and have been lucky.
That all to say, it is delighting my heart to see Charlie Wies’ Irish playing good football.
They currently lead U Mich 14-3.
Go Irish!
Foxnews is reporting that the Association of Christian Schools International is suing the UC system for “discriminating against high schools that teach creationism and other conservative Christian viewpoints.”
“According to the lawsuit, the Calvary Chapel Christian School in Murrieta was told its courses were rejected because they use textbooks printed by … Bob Jones University Press and A Beka Books.”
I never thought I would ever say this, but: I have become a believer in the potential of BJU press. Continue reading
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Google now has a cool new IM service available: GoogleTalk. Kristen and I both like it. First, it is a very simple, eye-pleasing IM service. No annoying multi-colored text flashing around, no ads, no smilies-on-crack. One thing that Kristen and I really appreciate it is that it doesn’t keep printing your name over-and-over if you keep posting. Continue reading
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Which is more stupid/surprising/hard-to-believe: 1. Pat Robertson’s comment to “take-out” the Venezuelan president OR 2. People actually watch Robertson? Whether the public likes them or not, I’m really surprised at the amount of attention people like Robertson or Rush get from people in the mainstream media.
I just discovered that some people use Podcast to download sermons. I have signed up for Jon Barlow’s podcast and John Owen Butler’s Psalmcast, but wouldn’t it be great in Doug Wilson, Rich Lusk, or others put there sermons on podcast? It would certainly save me the trouble of having to go to a website, check for a new sermons, and download that sermon.
It looks like Tenth Pres has already started doing it (only recently perhaps?), and I’ve downloaded a few.
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I tend not to like bible software. I’ve been let down too many times in the past. However, a friend showed me e-sword. This isn’t the best software — especially if you prefer not to read scripture broken into verse — but it does have its uses. For me, the kicker was having the LXX, GNT, Vulgate, ESV, KJV (w/Apocrypha) etc bible translations, and a commentary section where I can read the Ante-Nicene fathers, Calvin, Westminster Confession, Three Forms of Unity, Matthew Henry’s Commentary, Josephus, Philo, et al.
Tonight, the tool came in handy. I was reading in Exodus (btw, it also has a customizable bible reading plan) and noticed that Exo 4:19 reminded me a lot of Matt 2:20. Well, I was able to check the GNT with the LXX and noticed that it was nearly identical. I suppose this is the theme of Jesus as the new Moses being developed in Matthew.
Anyhow, I was able to make a note in e-sword and can pay particular attention to this sort of thing when I read through Matthew.
When I was a freshman and sophmore in college, I was really into the puritans. Growing up in a home that was closer to Catholic than anything and being involved in a non-denominational, dispensational church in highschool, I was never really exposed to the puritans … to say the least.
In college, as I became more and more Calvinistic, I also started reading the puritans (or about the puritans). One of the websites I would often visit was A Puritan’s Mind. I remember reading about Matthew McMahon’s (the website creator) wrestling with infant baptism. One particular story he told was going to a reformed seminary and waiting patiently for the discussion on infant baptism (led by a presbyterian), and being disappointed at what he heard as the rational defense of infant baptism. Thus, he was stuck in his position as a Reformed Baptist.
Then, low and behold, Barb Harvey links to guy because some other guy is calling him so name for some reason (who can really follow all these things?), and I figured I would check it out again. Now, it appears, he’s become a paedobaptist, and has written a point-by-point refutation of his previous ideas (scroll down to Articles on Baptism).
It seems like an interesting road that many have taken. Being a Reformed Baptist, I’ve found, is a difficult and lonely position to be in (well, it was when I was going through it). A Baptist struggling with Calvinism (disgression: which is worse to a Catholic family?) or a Calvinist struggling with Baptism. It seems that it, for a lot of people, has worked out like this.
I’m rambling …
Kristen’s computer is dead … well, nearly and we’ve decided to pull the plug.
It looks like BestBuy will be making a killing on us this weekend. I suppose we’ll post links to the most recent, unexpected member of the family in a few days.
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Kristen and I will get the book midnight tonight. Below we’ll begin to post our thoughts as we are reading. Add your comments below!
Beware of Spoilers!
I thought I would bump this thread up a bit.
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