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Not a light show, or a fashion parade,
Nor an ad for the latest washing powder;
Not a psychic encounter with ghosts from the past –
But a sign that our world, with its foolish folk,
Its mountains of garbage and rivers of blood
Can take on the colour of God.
A response to Brian McLaren's comment that conservative Christians often find themselves on the wrong side of truth.
The billy-goats gruff had to move,
And oh! how they feared that troll.
But when you're on the wrong side of that wooden bridge,
Get a move on: you could lose it all...
'Mind and brain are the results of neurons - and nothing else.' (Times Leader, 9.5.94)
'Awareness is merely a feature of the complexity of an algorithm.' (view cited, though not agreed with, by Roger Penrose in 'The Emperor's New Mind')
They say the human mind is nothing more
than...
Busy Professor Science with darting eyes
Explores and explains all creatures great and small;
Outgrown conceptual garb discarded lies
As he strides on, not minding me at all.
Once, long ago, he merely looked and named,
But quickly learned to cut, probe, poke about;
Looked closer, deeper...
In past times proud King God sat on his throne,
Fearsome, holy, high, feasting on praise;
Foreseeing all, beyond the end of days,
And meting justice out to sinful man.
For each meek subject he ordained a plan,
A single, narrow pathway through life's maze.
The sole way out for wilful...
A farmer snores, and his tired wife,
brushes the day's last dust from her door,
glances up at the bright new star, and
shuts it out, her mind on tomorrow.
Two lovers steal to a secret bank, where
locked in each other's limbs and eyes,
they miss the nearby birth of Love
as they rush for...
Three lifetimes devoted to astrological lore. Why?
For what far-off famine gather these stores of wisdom,
for what great battle shape and sharpen these swords?
No miserly hoards of mental treasure here,
no galleries to put the mind's fine art on proud display;
for these old masters of...
I brought them the kingdom, invited them in;
And some came along, and some chose to stay.
I preached and I healed and I freed them from sin,
But now it is time that I go on my way.
I must set my face for Jerusalem,
Though they still don't know who I really am.
O Peter: I called...
Baptist Press - Baptist Press News with a Christian Perspective
5:14 p.m. -- In a surprising and dramatic move moments ago, messengers voted first to consider a resolution highly critical of the TNIV 2011 and then passed the resolution nearly unanimously. The resolution came from the floor --...
It is lovely here in Greece, sitting on my balcony seeing all the sites. Houses with clay roofs, fields of green, golden and brown. God's creatures at His bests. It is so quiet and serene here a nice getaway for us. It is just so sad this time as BIL Chris is not well has cancer and docs say...
Good link that documents St. Augustine's change from a synergist view of salvation to a monergist one:
Augustine's Doctrine of the Bondage of the Will
In the US, several pharmaceutical companies offer free samples or minimal cost samples for low-income families. Basically you complete some questions to determine eligibility, then you complete a form with your contact information. Once you complete your portion, take the form to your...
Coping Plan for Depression
15+ Activities for Distraction:
Read scriptures
Play a game
Journal/Blog
Listen to music
Cook
Work on a hobby
Talk to a friend
Play in the arcade
Read Clean/Christian Jokes
Play an instrument
Sing
Take a shower/hot bath
Clean the house
Volunteer somewhere
Write a...
This is one of the best Christian albums released in the 2000s (2004 to be exact) - from one of the best bands of the same era. By far it is the best album the band has released as far as I'm concerned - or will every release since their drummer, Aaron Gillespe left the band last year.
I...
The link below contains the Canons of Dort in their entirety.
The Canons of Dordt
Here is a great link from monergism.com regarding with references from scripture and history which supports regeneration.
Some Helpful References to Monergism from Church History
1. You are loved by God - more than you can imagine.
2. You touch others lives, even if you don't think you do. Everyone helps others sometimes, even if it's just a smile at a stranger. You may be their reason for staying alive.
3. Your value is not in what you may or may not do, but in who...
Learning to love me after being emotionally and mentally abused and brainwashed that I was unloveable has taken a large amount of energy and work. It was important for me to use the logical part of my brain rather than the feeling part of my emotions. That has been a tough process because my...
Praise the Lord! It is a beautiful day today in Greece. The sun is shining, the wind is blowing a nice breeze and nature is at its best today! Nature is so beautiful here the birds, butterflies, flowers, trees ohhhhh sooooo wonderful. Praise the Lord!!!
I have two pets, one male tiger named Zane that I adopted and one female Unicorn named PeacefulDove that was born into our family. Zane is PeacefulDove's big brother and they love each other so much. A new member was been born into our family, PeacefulDove now has a little brother to take care...