Sunday, May 31, 2015

Excerpts from Orthodoxy, by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 25

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It is commonly the loose and latitudinarian Christians who pay quite indefensible compliments to Christianity. They talk as if there h...
Saturday, May 30, 2015

Farewell speeches from Bible characters

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The last words of  Jacob -- Genesis 49:1 Jacob called to his sons, and said: “Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which wi...
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Thursday, May 28, 2015

Christianity Today and articles about the brain's ability

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Christianity Today has recently published two articles about a handicapped brain and a relationship to God. One of them discusses an all-...
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Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Sunspots 523

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Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else: Christianity: Some interesting, and though...
Sunday, May 24, 2015

Excerpts from Orthodoxy, by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 24

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An imbecile habit has arisen in modern controversy of saying that such and such a creed can be held in one age but cannot be held in a...
Friday, May 22, 2015

Sunspots 522a (more stuff I would have included if it had been published)

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Here are links to two important web pages, on (mostly) unrelated subjects: Christianity Today has an article on why Christians should get...
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Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Sunspots 522

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Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else: Christianity: A review of Lauren Winner'...
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Sunday, May 17, 2015

Excerpts from Orthodoxy, by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 23

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Grave moderns told us that we must not even say “poor fellow,” of a man who had blown his brains out, since he was an enviable pe...
Friday, May 15, 2015

22 questions from the "Holy Club" of the Wesleys, John and Charles

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John Wesley , with his brother, Charles , founded the Holy Club at Oxford University, which was the forerunner of the Methodist Church. (Se...
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Thursday, May 14, 2015

Poster on giving God glory, based on The Imitation of Christ

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  Based on The Imitation of Christ , a work by Thomas à Kempis , 15th century, hence public domain. "Truly all human glory, all te...
Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Sunspots 521

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Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else: The Arts: Left Behind is going to be avai...
Sunday, May 10, 2015

Excerpts from Orthodoxy, by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 22

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For our Titanic purposes of faith and revolution, what we need is not the cold acceptance of the world as a compromise, but some way i...
Friday, May 08, 2015

Creating DNA sequences has gotten easier, and some people think we need to be careful.

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National Public Radio reports on a new technique for making sequences of DNA to order , apparently relatively quickly and easily, if you hav...
Wednesday, May 06, 2015

Sunspots 520

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Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else: Christianity: (and politics) Christi...
Tuesday, May 05, 2015

R. A. Torrey on how to lose the Baptism of the Holy Spirit

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If there is one dread that comes to me more frequently than any other, it is that of losing the power of God. Oh, the agony of having known...
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Sunday, May 03, 2015

Excerpts from Orthodoxy, by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 21

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The evil of the pessimist is, then, not that he chastises gods and men, but that he does not love what he chastises—he has not this pr...
Thursday, April 30, 2015

R. A. Torrey on the baptism with the Holy Spirit

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“How the Baptism of the Holy Spirit can be Obtained” (From The Baptism with the Holy Spirit , 1895, by R. A. Torrey . Public domain. Th...
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