Archive for August, 2008
Big Ink Jet Printer
Friday, August 29th, 2008I love the Mythbuster guys. They’re nuts in a smart way. I have no idea what their point is in the demonstration but it is petty awesome. What you’ll see in the second half of the clip is essentially what an ink jet printer does. Only theirs is huge. And it uses paint balls.
Gimme That Ole Time Civil Religion
Thursday, August 28th, 2008This is really a follow up to Whither Fundamentalism. More from Wood’s book on O’Connor. The history of the thing is what gets me. Sometimes we can look back at the 1950s with nostalgia, nearly all of America went to church. Surely those were better times. Family values reigned on TV: Ricky and Lucy, though [...]
Whither Fundamentalism?
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008First, I have to define what I mean by ‘fundamentalism’. The word today has taken on a huge and grotesque meaning. What it meant originally was Protestants who held to the inerrancy of the Bible and the reality of miracles. The term came about when a group of these Christians authored a four volume set [...]
Starving Doctrine
Saturday, August 23rd, 2008Teaching is taken here to mean profitable instruction, which tends to edification… This is the true use of Christ’s word. As, however, doctrine is sometimes in itself cold, and, as one says, when it is simply shown what is right, virtue is praised and left to starve, he adds at the same time admonition, which [...]
Forgive Us as We Forgive Others
Saturday, August 23rd, 2008bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. – Colossians 2:13 (ESV) Reviewing my exegetical notes on this verse, here’s what I found I’d written: Theologically, it is significant that we are called to forgive even as [...]
The Christian and the Law
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008Recently I taught on Colossians 2:16-17 and we talked about the relationship between the Christian and the law. What I wanted to do was to point out that the issue of the Sabbath is important and is handled in different ways by Bible believing Christians. For me that opened the question of how we understand [...]
Handful of Links
Monday, August 4th, 2008Just some random links and comments. No particular order. Dinosaur Eel Better Than Modern Variety. So this eel is referred to as a “dinosaur eel” because, they say, it’s family tree goes back 96 million years. Its scales are uberengineered. Though thin, they are made up of four layers and when impacted, they don’t crack [...]
Gas and Food. Not that kind of gas.
Friday, August 1st, 2008Check out the video below. It is from Good Magazine and sums up the issue with gas prices and rising food costs very well. I think the issue is very timely during this election cycle. Corn is a poor choice for making ethanol, the cell walls are thick and harder to break down and it [...]