Mar
31
flotsam & jetsam (3.31.08)
Posted by Jon Trainer at 1:04 pmFiled Under blogdom
Don’t worry, be happy! I like it when Groothius gets a burr under his saddle, and this is a burr that is always under his saddle.
Your local church. How do I love thee, let me count the ways….ok, quick…list ten reasons why you love your local church…five?…three? I feel like Abraham pleading for God to spare Sodom and Gomorrah.
Not your father’s Christianity by S. M. Hutchens. An excerpt:
Experienced pastors, when faced with students who “lose their faith” at college, do not begin to argue back with them on matters philosophical or theological. They inquire into “lifestyle” issues in the attempt to ascertain whether there is a release to be gained from overthrowing the faith in which they were raised. There usually is. Real intellectual difficulties can normally be neutralized in favor of further study through reasoned discourse with educated believers who have entertained the same doubts–but only in the presence of a conscience that gains nothing from discovery that orthodox Christianity is wrong.
What’s going on over there at Cedarville?
World’s oldest recording goes online. A ten second clip from 1860. Click here to hear it directly. This is made by scratching sound waves onto a sheet of paper blackened by the smoke from an oil lamp, so don’t expect Dolby surround sound.