Are YOU “Called to Ministry”? YES…Categorically
December 25, 2006
Jackhammer provides a great Scriptural defense of the fact that every believer has been called to full-time ministry:
“Gay Marriage” Equals Polygamy–Just Like I’ve Been Saying
December 25, 2006
That’s Joe Carter’s take, and the movement is already afoot, as was predictable:
Our Polygamous Future: The Social Acceptance of Plural Marriage
Trenchant quote:
When the facts are taken into account, the reasons for favoring gay marriage while excluding polygamy are completely arbitrary and based on personal preference. If you truly believe that homosexuals have a legal right to marry someone of the same gender then you have no grounds for barring polyamorous groups from doing the same. If a man can marry another man why should he be barred from marrying two or three or four men if he chooses?
I’ve yet to hear an advocate for the redefinition of marriage who can provide a coherent, much less convincing, argument for why we should accept the one while rejecting the other. I would even go so far as to say that such an argument cannot be made.
Exactly. Adam and Steve will soon become Adam and Eve and MaryBeth and Sally and Trish and Katrina.
And then, of course, with absolutely no logical stopping point, Adam and Eve and MaryBeth and Sally and Trish and Katrina will become Adam and Steve and Bobby and Eve and MaryBeth and Sally and Trish and Katrina and whoever-else-the-mood-strikes. Why not????
“…professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.”
So for Dinner, You Had a…Cessna?
December 25, 2006
A guy actually did. Seriously. This is a fun read, the world’s ten strangest people (and no, Al Sharpton is not on the list—though I’m betting he made Honorable Mention…):
Kid Griff Does it Again
December 22, 2006
As I write this, I can look up on my wall and see an autographed rookie jersey of Ken Griffey Junior. I don’t know what it’s worth; if it were game-worn, it might be worth 6 figures, or something close to it (it isn’t game-worn). What a talent, what an awesome talent, one of the greatest players ever to grace the uniform, a sure first-ballot Hall of Famer, but we’ll always look at Kid Griff’s career and say, “what might it have been, if he hadn’t been injured and missed the equivalent of 2-3 seasons. Now comes this news:
Would he have caught and passed Hank Aaron, without having to resort to cheating (allusion to Barry Bonds purely intentional)? Absolutely…when he hangs up the spikes, he’ll be somewhere between 3rd and 5th on the all-time list as it is (assuming he doesn’t strain his spleen, develop cancer, or who knows what), and all of those missed games would have surely meant the difference. Be nice if he’d played for a decent team at some point during his career.
Sanity Beginning to Prevail in Durham
December 22, 2006
This thing has been a joke since Day One, and thankfully, at least part of these ridiculous charges are being dropped.
Rape Charges Dismissed Against Duke Players
In America, you’re innocent until proven guilty, and in order to be proven guilty, there needs to be something approximating decent evidence. Nonetheless, this clownish D.A. named Mike Nifong has persisted in his quixotic charge. These Duke kids aren’t choir members, by any means, but they deserve to have their lives back if they’re not guilty, and it’s hard to imagine a reasonable person concluding, given all of the “evidence” (lack thereof) that has come out, that these fellows are guilty as charged.
SteelerDirtFreak Video Pick – A True Christmas Classic….
December 19, 2006
Can a Good Christian Honestly Be a Tea-Totaler???
December 19, 2006
Southern Baptist pastor Wade Burleson just isn’t too sure…
Reasons Why Tea Totalers Should Be Excluded from Southern Baptist Leadership and Missions Ministry
Seriously, his tongue-in-cheek comments are meant to tweak the (Biblically-indefensible) position that the drinking of any alcohol, even moderately, carefully, and responsibly, disqualifies a person from church leadership.
And I say that as a (sinning???) teetotaler…
This phrase comes from the 1978 "Jonestown massacre" in which most members of the Peoples Temple cult, blindly following their leader Jim Jones, committed suicide by drinking cyanide-laced Kool-Aid.
Osborne: A Contrarian's Guide to Knowing God
Schlossberg: Idols For Destruction
