“It will stop on Election Day”
“It will stop on Election Day,” they say. Well, maybe. Remember what Newt did when Clinton won a second term? (He pushed for impeachment.)
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Random Rants
Romney’s Weekly Blunder
The downward spiral is just accelerating for this guy. A month ago he sided with the birthers with his racist “no one’s asking for my birth certificate” remark. Before that were all the issues with Paul Ryan’s War on Women. Then he just sucked at the RNC. And I think Clinton’s “It’s the Arithmetic, Stupid!”
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The Road Goes Ever On…
One of the rules of blogging is that you have to do it on a regular basis to keep your readers interested. Unfortunately this is not always possible. Sometimes things can happen in life that either require all your attention or drain you of the ideas or creative energy you need. For the past 4
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I am a victim of church abuse
I am a victim of church abuse. As a poor and young church musician in the late 1990s, I was taken advantage of and guilt-tripped into serving to the point of exhaustion. You may blame my own stupidity for this, but no pastors actually took me aside to explain the concept of free grace. During
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Chaos in the public square
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3vlUrnTUzk] We have a Mormon Republic presidential candidate who lies all the time. What do you expect from a religion founded on lies? I don’t mean to sound like a bigot, but they think Native Americans are Jewish. It’s kind of a fact that they aren’t. And how can you argue for the “religion
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Driscoll goes all Nehemiah on their asses
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE3FHMTAWHY&t=0&w=420&h=315] This is not Reformed polity. This is not sound exegesis. This is looking in the Bible for material to justify your bad behavior.
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categories != tags
Note to anybody switching from Blogger to WordPress: All your tags will be imported as top-level categories, so you might end up with a hundred categories instead of just a few. Prepare to spend some time re-categorizing everything.
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Facebook and the Polarization of America
There’s like this weird vibe on Facebook now. It seems like people can’t share what’s on their minds anymore, since what’s on their minds has suddenly become political. If they say anything they limit it to shallow topics. But there is one side that remains presumptively loud. I think it can be traced to events
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Abusive churches: what happens to those who leave?
I’m not quite done with my series on the mainline church, and I hope to put up the remaining posts soon. For now, I came across a passage that I wanted to share. In his book, Churches that Abuse (available online), Ronald Enroth writes, …another sign of impending trouble in a church is an obsession
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Driscoll’s profile of Patricius
“I am a servant of Christ to a foreign nation for the unspeakable glory of life everlasting which is in Jesus Christ our Lord.” – Patricius This is an interesting takeon a very influential missionary (viewer discretion is advised). I always enjoy reading about the real story of Patrick.
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