We keep waiting for the signs of an apocalypse… Seven bowls of wrath, Seven angels with seven plagues, the fall of Babylon, and other asundry mayhem.
The first sign which John the Revelator left out in his Apocalypse has occured… this blog was listed in the April 24th edition of “Christian News.” I have donned my abstesos suit! I await fire and brimstone!
First: Doctrine vs. God’s Word
Then: We only believe in the Bible
Finally: Be Strong in the Grace: Putting Out The Fire: “We only believe in the Bible”
Frank writes: (more…)
SubEthaEdit from CodingMonkeys
MacZOT and TheCodingMonkeys will award $105,000 in Mac software, effectively by giving away this software to bloggers who link to the promo. I use SubEthaEdit all the time for hard coding of Web sites, simple text editing, and sometimes for even note taking. Check it out, its good!
Ask the Pastor: Like Newborn Carnivals
The idea of a Carnival is to have a crop of submissions of bloggers who send links to their best posts and submit them to a journal, so to speak. I’ve not linked to this before. Typically, the best posts within the “blogsphere” can be found in this carnivals. Please click through to the link and read some of the posts.
Sermon 3
Baptismal symbol
“White Garment”
Text: Mark 9:2-13
Christopher Gillespie
Theologia I - Baptism
Dr. Arthur Just
Have you ever had a nasty stain on your favorite white clothing which you couldn’t get out? The special rinse procedure, bleach, or mom’s secret method just doesn’t seem to do the trick. So you throw it into the laundry for another “pass” in hopes of a miracle. Sure enough, the garment is extracted… And the stain intact as well the article damaged from the overuse of bleach. All of your effort to restore this white garment to its original brilliance has failed.
The Lutheran Logomaniac - Confirmation in the Early Church
Confirmation in the Lutheran Church.
A Historical Survey from the Early Church to the Present
LIE DOWN WITH STRIPPERS, WAKE UP WITH PLEAS - Yahoo! News
However the Duke lacrosse rape case turns out, one lesson that absolutely will not be learned is this: You can severely reduce your chances of having a false accusation of rape leveled against you if you don’t hire strange women to come to your house and take their clothes off for money.
Salon Books | Machiavelli personality test
The Machiavelli personality test has a range of 0-100
Your Machiavelli score is: 75
You are a high Mach, you endorse Machiavelli’s opinions.
Most people fall somewhere in the middle, but there’s a significant minority at either extreme.
If only our church advertisements were this good:
I bring many apologies to the faithful readership. I used this past week to catch up with the family and sleep time. I have limited my posts as a consequence. Thankfully, I feel rested and rejuvenated for the final 5 weeks of the school year.
One of the “hot” topics of the semester has been a discussion of infant and adult baptism practice in the Lutheran denomination. One of the “Theologia I: Baptism” instructors suggests our lengthy catechesis of adults as challenging; another sees no dilemma with a three year catechesis “as was the practice in the early church.” The professors put us students to the task of reconciling our practice with our theology.
