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flotsam & jetsam (5.20.09)
Posted by Jon Trainer at 10:55 pmFiled Under blogdom
Piper on BHO on abortion–powerful. Like the text, not sure I like the presentation. I had the chance to attend the Basics Conference at Parkside this year. First time I have heard Piper in person…he preached on John 3:16 among other things….beautiful truth communicated through spirit-filled personality is a wonderful thing to behold.
Orthodox Christianity and Capitalism. A good online discussion with an orthodox lawyer/professor on the compatibility of the two. And a related article on not ending poverty. And just for fun, a short piece for small church pastors on not allowing a capitalistic mindset to creep into one’s heart.
The Fundamentalists and the Evangelicals are falling apart and blaming it on Calvinism. JC really knows how to celebrate his quincetenary (10 July 1509).
Ligonier offers online classes.
Average work week for clergy = 52 hours. Seriously?
No nukes? No way. I’ve been working on a class in International Security Studies the last few weeks, so forgive my wanderings afield, but the realists among us need to set the liberal institutionalists and social constructivists straight. To be honest, no one foreign relations theory will provide adequate guidance, but the realists accept a pessimistic view of the nature of man that coincides with my theology nicely. A case in point.
On killing the F-22. Just think, for a mere 200 billion (the bailout is what…1 trillion at least–see here for a conceptualization that will knock your socks off) we could have finished out the F-22 buy and had air superiority for decades to come.