Serious Griping
Paul in Philippians 2:14 wrote: “Do all things without murmurings and disputings.” In modern vernacular, “Don’t gripe.” Murmuring and disputing are both types of griping. You murmur when you gripe about what you’re doing. You dispute when you gripe about having to do it. In both cases, you don’t like what you’re doing, so you […]
Phil Johnson: Tertiary Doctrines Dovetailing with the King James Version Issue
Phil Johnson, executive director of Grace to You, and owner/operator of the popular evangelical blog, Pyromaniacs, appeared on the Way of the Master radio program, hosted by Todd Friel. On the show, Johnson answered questions that were sent in by listeners. The first question dealt with eschatology, one about the future of Israel. Johnson is […]
Shark Versus Octopus: Surprising
I don’t want to upstage my canonicity post with this one, but this one might win the interest category. An aquarium decided to put octopus and shark in the same tank. See what happens.
If You Believe in Canonicity, You Can and Should Believe in Preservation part 2
To get a doctrine of Bibliology, we go to the Bible. Since we get God’s instruction from His Word, we look to His Word even about His Word. Part of Bibliology is canonicity. Canonicity is a sub-doctrine to the doctrine of Scripture. We look to the Bible to tell us how we decide on what […]
Veteran’s Day: Actual Sounds of World War One
On October 9, 1918, a British sound engineer, Will Gaisberg, with primitive equipment recorded immediately behind a unit of the Royal Garrison Artillery the sounds of a gas-shell bombardment. He determined to preserve the noise of war before the coming armistice caused it to vanish forever. Only ten WW1 soldiers survive the Great War, including […]
If You Believe in Canonicity, You Can and Should Believe in Preservation
The front of my Bible says sixty-six books. I grew up with that number in my head because I had never seen otherwise—thirty-nine Old Testament, twenty-seven New Testament. As far as I’m concerned, the canon of Scripture, the number of books is settled. However, it has not been without controversy in history. Martin Luther doubted […]
Watch This and Tell Me What You Think
I have taught American Government three or four times and this is Government 101. That we can’t get anything definitive about this boggles my mind. As a bonus, see this Palin rally appearance in Raleigh, NC. At 1:56 in this video, we get an appearance of our friend Tim Dunkin with his wife being interviewed. […]
A Stanley Kurtz Election Wrap-Up: All You Really Need to Know
No one out there has done better work on this presidential campaign than NRO’s Stanley Kurtz. He has worked feverishly and accurately. Unfortunately, very few listened, it seems. The electorate may have reached a tipping point. It’s much easier to dumb down a society than the alternative. Here’s Kurtz’ last pre-election article. Read it.
Share Your Own Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich, Obama
Yesterday in a speech on the campaign trail, Senator Obama ad-libbed this: By the end of the week, he’ll be accusing me of being a secret communist because I shared my toys in kindergarten. I shared my — I shared my peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Use whatever cliche you want, but this could be […]
The Bank Crisis for Dummies
Hi. We had a stock market crash. On October 9, 2007, the Dow Jones industrial average reached a record 14,164. Exactly one year later, October 9, 2008, the Dow closed at 8,579. The United States stock market lost 39.4%. What happened? Why is the economy in such bad condition that the U.S. Congress just voted […]