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Archive for February, 2009

First Principles

Whenever a professional athlete gets into a slump, the typical remedy is to go back to basics, to reinforce forgotten lessons and correct deviations that have slowly cropped up over time. Likewise, when Christianity in general has gotten into a major spiritual slump as no one can deny today, it is because we have forgotten [...]

You Are The Man!

2 Sam. 12:
5 David burned with anger against the man and said to Nathan, “As surely as the LORD lives, the man who did this deserves to die! 6 He must pay for that lamb four times over, because he did such a thing and had no pity.”
 7 Then Nathan said to David, “You are [...]

Spiritual Klingons

Been reading some more at A Wilderness Voice and found more “little things” that really clarify what’s wrong with Churchianity today. I used to advocate patience in giving the churched time to warm up to the idea of abandoning the status quo, but time is running out. Besides, how can worldly, flesh-stroking systems ever have [...]

Authority in Christianity

I remember watching a program where military pilots were sent to the wilderness for survival training. Although the person in charge of the training was outranked by the officers there, everybody knew who was really the one to follow. The survival guide was an expert, and the officers were the inexperienced students. They knew that [...]

Cyber Community

Message boards and blogs have become the latest incarnation of meeting halls or booths in a marketplace. And like their physical counterparts, they can be fully public, restricted to members, or very personal “soap boxes”. Most people seem to be comfortable in these venues, becoming accustomed to this new abstract world. Yet in some respects [...]

A New Publishing Tool

Today I stumbled upon another way to display documents. The service is called Scribd, and it’s basically like Google Books where you read online in an ebook format. Thought I’d try it out by writing up a new article based on pieces of others I’ve written.
It’s called Christian Relationships: A Study of Paul’s Letter [...]