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Friday, August 29, 2008
Grateful
Just thinking how grateful I am for God's goodness. To be born in '79 after the horrendous '60's and following in after the reform and maturity of the swishy evangelicals of the Jesus People movement. I believe that God has caused a tremendous revival and reform in American and classical evangelical Chrisitanty, at least in many Reformed churches.
We have a great legacy in old school evangelicalism, part. from the Reformation on. And now I believe, that many Reformed churches are barely beginning to stand on the shoulders of our great fathers--Luther, Calvin, Bucer, Chalmers, Davies, Spurgeon, Edwards, Whitefield, and many of the Puritans--while humbly and carefully building and reforming that tradition to be more classically Christian. Also, more Hebraic, covenantal, and biblical/theological so that we are stretching from the 1st Cent. to the Reformation better. Yet, all the mean while not losing the foundation stones that our fathers set. But, we have much to learn and heavy shoes to fill.
Somehow, the lines have fallen in pleasant places to many young reformed people around my age. My parents aren't divorced. I have somehow been preserved from the debauchery of the media filth of the 80's and 90's...though barely. I can remember distinctly, mind you when my grandmother (not knowing what we were getting into, and I had a bad conscience even then) took me to see whatever movie i wanted to see. We saw Predator 2, a very debauched movie, and i was exposed and drug through much garbage in my young days... But God's grace is strong.. Somehow i was able to get through high-school. Boyce College was revolutionary and transformative for Jana and I during those years. And how we were able to be a part of the renaissance and reformation in Moscow, is a great joy and mystery to me.
So, here we are in Spokane.. Without debt, by the grace of God. And we have a simple life to the parish of Christ Church. Four beautiful children and a gorgeous wife, and the possibility of finishing Greyfriar's Hall in 3 years.. It is all to the faithfulness of Jesus and the assurance of His promises.
We have a great legacy in old school evangelicalism, part. from the Reformation on. And now I believe, that many Reformed churches are barely beginning to stand on the shoulders of our great fathers--Luther, Calvin, Bucer, Chalmers, Davies, Spurgeon, Edwards, Whitefield, and many of the Puritans--while humbly and carefully building and reforming that tradition to be more classically Christian. Also, more Hebraic, covenantal, and biblical/theological so that we are stretching from the 1st Cent. to the Reformation better. Yet, all the mean while not losing the foundation stones that our fathers set. But, we have much to learn and heavy shoes to fill.
Somehow, the lines have fallen in pleasant places to many young reformed people around my age. My parents aren't divorced. I have somehow been preserved from the debauchery of the media filth of the 80's and 90's...though barely. I can remember distinctly, mind you when my grandmother (not knowing what we were getting into, and I had a bad conscience even then) took me to see whatever movie i wanted to see. We saw Predator 2, a very debauched movie, and i was exposed and drug through much garbage in my young days... But God's grace is strong.. Somehow i was able to get through high-school. Boyce College was revolutionary and transformative for Jana and I during those years. And how we were able to be a part of the renaissance and reformation in Moscow, is a great joy and mystery to me.
So, here we are in Spokane.. Without debt, by the grace of God. And we have a simple life to the parish of Christ Church. Four beautiful children and a gorgeous wife, and the possibility of finishing Greyfriar's Hall in 3 years.. It is all to the faithfulness of Jesus and the assurance of His promises.
William Perkins
“speech is gracious when it comes from a grace-filled heart.” Hughes Oliphant Old on the life of William Perkins (1558-1602) Perkins was a giant in the beautiful symmetry between learning and godliness.
Monday, August 18, 2008
Good Movie
A Raisin in the Sun was a fantastically non-modern film that Jana and I had the privilege of watching the other night. Very slow moving compared to the A.D.D. movies put out for adults today. It was noble, as they put out this movie on race and struggle being black in 1961.
Today, race-movies are beyond getting old. They are beyond boring with the same old race issues being constantly churned up. Racism still happens of course. But let's make some movies people on other bad things in society that need to stop for a change! Man, and Hollywood goes after Christians for preachin' on the same things all the time, give me a break!
Today, race-movies are beyond getting old. They are beyond boring with the same old race issues being constantly churned up. Racism still happens of course. But let's make some movies people on other bad things in society that need to stop for a change! Man, and Hollywood goes after Christians for preachin' on the same things all the time, give me a break!
Ron Paul
Just finished listening to Ron Paul's Revolution: A Manifesto. This is an absolute must read in my opinion... Just about every power hungry and vain presidential candidate comes up with a campaign book with a doctored photo of himself on the cover, and probably written by various editors and yes-men at that.
This book though, is not like that. Ron Paul is a giant of an intellectual. Even if some Christians disagree with him on this or that, you still have to deal with the massive of amount of wise and sound knowledge he has to offer. I've said this before, but I truly did not even think such a man as himself existed in Washington. I am so gratefully wrong about this. Consider his sound thinking esp. in foreign policy, medical care, economics, and personal liberty compared with the swiftly moving socialistic country we are becoming. He truly is so much further down the road of Christian maturity as it pertains to the issues of the day than most Christians are.
I do believe that many Christians (including myself) have been slowly roasting in the pot like frogs who can't detect the coming boiling water.
All of his stuff is pure meaty content, no fluff, no conspiracy, just wise and well-informed common sense.
He says that we are about 9 trillion dollars in debt right now as a nation. And we wonder why so many Americans are in debt. In fact, it is the extreme rarity that an American household is not in debt.
This book though, is not like that. Ron Paul is a giant of an intellectual. Even if some Christians disagree with him on this or that, you still have to deal with the massive of amount of wise and sound knowledge he has to offer. I've said this before, but I truly did not even think such a man as himself existed in Washington. I am so gratefully wrong about this. Consider his sound thinking esp. in foreign policy, medical care, economics, and personal liberty compared with the swiftly moving socialistic country we are becoming. He truly is so much further down the road of Christian maturity as it pertains to the issues of the day than most Christians are.
I do believe that many Christians (including myself) have been slowly roasting in the pot like frogs who can't detect the coming boiling water.
All of his stuff is pure meaty content, no fluff, no conspiracy, just wise and well-informed common sense.
He says that we are about 9 trillion dollars in debt right now as a nation. And we wonder why so many Americans are in debt. In fact, it is the extreme rarity that an American household is not in debt.
Friday, August 15, 2008
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Erasmus--Praise of Folly
(The Stoic) ...strips his wise man of every emotion. In doing so he leaves nothing at all of the man, and has to fabricate in his place a new sort of god who never was and never will be in existence anywhere. Indeed, if I may be frank, what he created was a kind of marble statue of a man, devoid of sense and any sort of human feeling."
Erasmus has some great and funny satire against Romanism and Scholasticism on pp's 152-165 of his Praise of Folly that would not have its effect here because I would have to write so much of it down for context. Go and check it out, you won't be disappointed..
Erasmus has some great and funny satire against Romanism and Scholasticism on pp's 152-165 of his Praise of Folly that would not have its effect here because I would have to write so much of it down for context. Go and check it out, you won't be disappointed..
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