Archive for February, 2005
Protection of Rights
Monday, February 28th, 2005This is a clever ploy. A Maine lawmaker half-heartedly introduces a bill that would ban the abortion of “homosexual” fetuses. While a bit of a silly, unenforceable bill, it does open the questions of whether homosexuality is genetic and it seeks to force the liberals to chose between gay rights and abortion rights. He could [...]
Baptism Now Saves You
Thursday, February 24th, 2005The great news is that I got to baptize two of my children last Sunday! I’m really proud of them both, we didn’t push them to it, they decided that they needed to do it. For a brief devotional before the baptism, I chose the verse that most evangelicals flee: 1Pt 3:21 “Baptism, which corresponds [...]
Ex Auditu
Monday, February 21st, 2005Derek Webb has an iTunes exclusive unplugged EP. No new songs but nice versions on three from his current album I See Things Upside Down. The following link will only work if you have iTunes installed. It works for either PC or Mac.
Upgrade
Friday, February 18th, 2005I am now the PROUD owner of an Apple 15″ Titanium Powerbook G4/867MHz 40GB hard drive, 768 MB, 32MB video memory, combo drive, Airport card computer. I am a happy geek. Virtual PC actually works on this. The screen is big enough to work on, the G4 processor screams, the video memory is what it [...]
Prophet of the New Covenant
Saturday, February 5th, 2005On Christ’s office of prophet, I take a slightly different tact than most standard systematic theologies. I acknowledge that Jesus is the fulfillment of Moses’ prophecy in Deuteronomy 18:15 but he is more than simply another, greater Moses. Jesus reveals the Father (John 1:18). Indeed, the Father has spoken to us through the Son in [...]
Cool ESV Tricks
Thursday, February 3rd, 2005Two cool ESV (English Standard Version) things: 1) If you have FireFox (and you should, I’m dumping Safari for it) you can download a plugin for the search box. You can type in a scripture reference or a word and it automatically knows which it was. There are many other plugins here. 2) The ESV [...]