H.L. Mencken-a fool, but a good writer

Even a pagan scoffer, can be prophetic:

(Speaking on architecture)

"When men really begin to build churches like the Bush Terminal there will be no religion any more, but only Rotary. And when they begin to live in houses as coldly structural as step-ladders they will cease to be men, and become mere rats in cages."

Our Irish Hike

Goa' Fightin' Irish mun'

R.L. Dabney

"Love and labor will make the small mind great.... Blessed be God, the church has often found that plain talents, faithfully improved for God, by love and zeal, have accomplished the largest good."

This is the need of the hour...

2 books that you need to know about

Wise Words by Peter Leithart and his story in it, "The Bleeding Tree," has to be one of his best stories ever written..

Life is all about sacrifice and dieing, for Christ, for glory.

The second book, Leadership and Self-Deception is very simple, easy to read and short, but is crucial to reflect upon.. Read it for your family's sake and for all your relationships.

Charles Finney--that great con-artist

"In short, I tried to shut them up to present faith and repentance, as the thing which God had required of them, present and instant submission to his will, present and instant acceptance of Christ. I tried to show them that all delay was only an evasion of present duty; that all praying for a new heart, was only trying to throw the responsibility of their conversion upon God;" !!

We have the duty to repent of our sins, yes, (which is only of God) but Paul "planted, Apollos watered, but God was causing the growth." I Cor. 3:6

So, remind me Finney how this doctrine of yours doesn't produce works-righteousness and tremendous confusion on how God's Spirit really works?? You are the father of so much heart-ache and confusion in this country the past 184 years.. I remember distinctly these "new-measure" manipulation tactics going on in my years at a baptist church. Adult Christians who were faithful as covenant members all their lives, going up to the front to "surrender their lives to Christ for the first-time." God have mercy on the church, one, holy, catholic and apostolic....