Archive for September, 2009
sweet poem.
this poem changed my life in 3 minutes.
it’s by karsten luke piper on luke 18:25.
He spread his blanket on the sand,
kneeled and arranged his bowls and tools:
hook, mallet, clamp, chisel, rasp, razor.
His smile glinted in the rongeur’s claws,
and upside down in the curette’s spoon.
Light shone out of the needle’s eye.
“Hoosh,” he said and began plucking [...]
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happy 250th, chuck.
in honor of charles simeon’s 250th birthday, some quotes…
“my dear brothers, we must not mind a little suffering for Christ’s sake.”
“i have continually had such a sense of my sinfulness as would sink me into utter despair, if i had not an assured view of the sufficiency and willingness of Christ to save me to [...]
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a taste of poetic calvin:
“so that we may be permitted to say that in baptism our pharaoh is drowned, our old man is crucified, our members are mortified, we are buried with Christ, and removed from the captivity of the devil and the power of death, but removed only into the desert, a land arid and poor, unless the [...]
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for my theology 3 class i was required to answer the question “what are the arguments in favor of miraculous gifts being for today?” so i decided to make a blog post about them. at least the ones that i thought were really good. here is one argument by wayne grudem in his systematical theology. [...]
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why i love repentance.
on sunday i heard a great sermon by my friend joe terreri at spring valley community church. the message was about repentance from 2 samuel 11 and 12, famous for one of the most outstanding acts of wickedness in all of Scripture by one of the most righteous people in all of Scripture. on a [...]
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new calvin book.
for my modern and contemporary Christian history class i had to select a book to use for a review paper. having seen this one recommended about 1000 times on justin taylor’s blog and being very interested in the person himself, i picked…
the caption for the book is this: “During the glory days of the French [...]
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