Sunday, November 28, 2010

"May this house be filled with praise"

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Blessed God, we bow in worship May this house be filled with praise, As we turn our eyes on Jesus Dwell upon His earthly days. With His ...
Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Sunspots 289

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Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else: Science: Wired reports on new analyses of bird song. Birds are...
Sunday, November 21, 2010

A desire to be thankful - George MacDonald

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I think my thought, and fancy I think thee.— Lord, wake me up; rend swift my coffin-planks; I pray thee, let me live—alive and free. My s...
Friday, November 19, 2010

Christian Responses to Hitler: Obeying Civil Authority

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I am not an expert on history. But I am a Sunday School teacher. This week's Sunday School lesson, in our church, includes Paul's st...
Thursday, November 18, 2010

Video recommendation -- little girl telling the story of Jonah

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A seven minute video of a little girl, telling the story of Jonah, which she has pretty much nailed, is available here . Someone taught her ...
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Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Sunspots 288

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Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else: Science: NPR reports that becoming obese may actually change th...
Tuesday, November 16, 2010

"Religion has no evidence; science does" - Karl Giberson on Jerry Coyne

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Karl Giberson, militant Christian, and scientist, writing for the Biologos Forum, has completed (I think) a series on the militant atheism o...
Monday, November 15, 2010

A report on the Geocentrism Conference

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I previously noted here that there was to be a Catholic Conference on Geocentrism, which latter is the idea that the planets rotate around t...
Sunday, November 14, 2010

Doomsday Book, by Connie Willis

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Connie Willis has won more Hugo and Nebula awards (counting each award, of both types, once) for her novels than any other author. I have...
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Saturday, November 13, 2010

Metamorphosis

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(The graphic is a link to the original, in my Flickr photostream. Larger sizes should be available there.) The word here translated as ...
Thursday, November 11, 2010

Bible interpretation - the fundamentals

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The Bible is a complex book. Some parts of it are difficult to understand. (Mark Twain is supposed to have remarked that it wasn't the p...
Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Sunspots 287

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Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else: Science: Science News reports that scientists have discovered...
Sunday, November 07, 2010

Solzhenitsyn on the heart

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(The photo is a link to my Flickr original photo, which has a larger size. No password is needed to see it.) Wikipedia's article on ...
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Friday, November 05, 2010

Affirmation in church: also needed

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I started a series on affirmation some time ago. The first two posts are here and here . In them, I argued that affirmation is important, a...
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Thursday, November 04, 2010

Reporting vote counts and God's perspective on time

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Even in the 21st century, news stories about elections often say something like "Jones was ahead in the early returns, but, by the time...
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Wednesday, November 03, 2010

Sunspots 286

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Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else: Science: Wired reports on a telescope that lets us listen to ...
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Monday, November 01, 2010

A series I didn't finish reading

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A number of years ago, I began reading what was supposed to be a great series, the " A Song of Ice and Fire " novels by George R. ...
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Sunday, October 31, 2010

How to deal with temptation

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How to deal with temptation? Here are a few thoughts on that subject. What is temptation? I checked a few definitions, and didn't find...
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Saturday, October 30, 2010

Affirmation can be misdirected

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In a previous post , I argued that modern society does not affirm people and things as much as it should. I also quoted from the Bible, two ...
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Friday, October 29, 2010

Thanks to my wife

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My wife and I have been married for a good many years -- long enough that both our children are employed at least a full day's travel fr...
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