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Stand to Reason Blog: I Walked Up to a Couple of Muslims on the Street...

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:45:30 -0400

Stand to Reason Blog: I Walked Up to a Couple of Muslims on the Street...

Hilariously Confused

Tue, 12 May 2009 23:02:55 -0400

Me: “Alright, so what browser are you using to view your websites?”

Customer: “Mozzarella Firefox!”

[Stupid Customers]

" [T]he notion of responsibility and the talk of “ callings” remain bafflingly hollow unless there is..."

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:17:21 -0500

““ [T]he notion of responsibility and the talk of “ callings” remain bafflingly hollow unless there is something or Someone to whom we are responsible, or response-able, to whom we are able to respond. There is not calling unless there is a Caller.””

- Os Guinness

Wow, this is just sickening. “It’s all about...

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:43:21 -0500

Wow, this is just sickening. “It’s all about you!” “Without me the puzzle is missing a piece” or some crap like that.

Labs/Ubiquity - MozillaWiki

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:01:07 -0500

Labs/Ubiquity - MozillaWiki: This might be one of the coolest Firefox extensions. You can do some incredible things with it.

Go Stillers!

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:15:14 -0500

Go Stillers!

I love this PostSecret, the layout of the scanned image fits...

Sun, 11 Jan 2009 14:14:10 -0500

I love this PostSecret, the layout of the scanned image fits perfectly with where the interstates are located in real life. The interstate with I-79 is in the Erie, PA area which is in northwestern part of the state. The corner that is missing from the card itself matches pretty perfectly with Erie county itself. It’s like the anti-NorthWestern PA card.

Penn Says: A Gift of a Bible (via pennsays)

Sat, 27 Dec 2008 23:54:59 -0500

Penn Says: A Gift of a Bible (via pennsays)

Happy Christmas!

Fri, 26 Dec 2008 02:14:33 -0500

Happy Christmas!

I am feeling good about our meetings today.

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 13:18:41 -0500

That’s all I really wanted to say.

I was just thinking this as I was lying in bed last night.

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 12:10:34 -0500

I was just thinking this as I was lying in bed last night.

Missions' interaction with other Cultures and Religions

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 01:13:57 -0500

Some conservative Protestants had adopted a “theory of degeneration,” which held that a primordial global monotheism had been corrupted and distorted in non-Christian contexts. Their more liberal counterparts often adopted a more Darwinian approach, which held that Christianity was the supreme religion, and Western civilization its greatest achievement. The inferiority of other religions was demonstrated by their social inadequacy. Though very different, both these theologies encouraged a triumphalist and negative attitiude on the part of Christian missionaries toward nativer cultures.

In marked contrast to both these approaches, [the great Edinburgh mission conference of 1910] adopted a fulfillment theology of mission that saw Jesus Christ as the “fulfillment of other religions.” Holding that “all religions await their fulfillment in Christ,” the Edinburgh Conference gave its missionaries a mandated to respect and engage with naitive cultures, seeing these as capable of being fulfilled in and through Christ. This led to a new interest in finding “points of contact” between indigeonous cultures and the gospel.

Christianity’s Dangerous Idea, Alister McGrath, p442

I need to read...

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 01:04:01 -0500

I need to read Whither Bound in Missions (1925) by Daniel Fleming.

It “[draws] a sharp distinction between Christ and Western culture.”

"Creationist writers have attempted to suppress or dismiss this prominent section of the evangelical..."

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 02:37:00 -0500

“

Creationist writers have attempted to suppress or dismiss this prominent section of the evangelical movement, often insisting that an openly anti-evolutionary stance is an essential element of the evangelical identity. The reality is otherwise.

Four major positions are now found on this manner within modern American evangelicalism; each position is linked with a specific way of interpreting the Bible, on one hand, and of engaging with science on the other. Each can be further subdivided, yielding up nineteen possible Protestant interpretations of the origins of humanity.

”

- Christianity’s Dangerous Idea (p. 383)
Alister McGrath

"Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for..."

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 09:56:00 -0500

“Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already.”

- 1 John 4:1-3

I’m pretty sure that’s what the spirits of the antichrist were saying then since John was countering Gnosticism. I’m pretty sure they’re saying other things now.

Out of context quote of the day: “You are American. I am George Washington” - Jake Tarr

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 14:59:54 -0400

Out of context quote of the day: “You are American. I am George Washington” - Jake Tarr

Evangelical movement touts 'Jesus for president'

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:26:12 -0400

Evangelical movement touts 'Jesus for president': I don’t know about this. It’s good to see “us” branching out from one party more and more though!

" We’re in the middle of this in the purple."

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:05:00 -0400

“

We’re in the middle of this in the purple.”

- WunderMap Interactive Radar & Weather Stations : Weather Underground

True Love Waits billboard-butt pants! Awesome, that’s not...

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 14:17:39 -0400

True Love Waits billboard-butt pants! Awesome, that’s not a mixed message or anything.

via www.acmewebpages.com

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:38:11 -0500

via www.acmewebpages.com