Posted on October 28th, 2008 by Shammah
The song Amazing Grace was written by John Newton, an ex-slaver who repented. It’s easy to think that the amazing part of grace is that God forgave him for his horrible past. This isn’t true, however. What do you call it when a judge lets a first-time criminal off with probation? It’s called mercy. The [...]
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Posted on October 20th, 2008 by Shammah
I changed the theme on this blog. Let me know if you like it or not by clicking the comment link above. (It gives the number of comments, but it’s a link.)
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Filed under: Miscellaneous
Posted on October 20th, 2008 by Shammah
Okay, I borrowed someone’s word, but since I’m going to give them a rousing advertisement, I think it will be okay. You can find The Rebelution at http://www.therebelution.com (don’t forget the “the” if you intend to memorize that for later).
A couple of twins, sons of Greg Harris, the noted home school leader of a couple [...]
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Posted on October 19th, 2008 by Shammah
I put a teaching on the pope in the early church up on youtube. I can only load videos up to ten minutes long, so it’s in five parts. I also just finished editing a teaching on apostolic succession, kind of a corollary to the one on the pope, that will go up in four [...]
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Filed under: Church, History
Posted on October 14th, 2008 by Shammah
Today I started a twice a week Bible study at the wonderful hour of 5:30 a.m. for just half an hour. There was just a couple of us this morning. We’re going to go through Paul’s letters. I think I want to post the highlights of our studies, because today’s was awesome. The writeup might be [...]
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Posted on October 10th, 2008 by Shammah
Okay, I’m posting this right away after my last blog, so you probably haven’t seen the previous one yet. If you have the time, make sure you read it, though this one can be read by itself, too. It’s not really a part two, just a different approach to a question asked by Craig Allerts in [...]
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Posted on October 9th, 2008 by Shammah
Well, I’m still reading A High View of Scripture? by Craig Allert, and I’m still it in random order.I’m in the middle of the third chapter, but I’ve read the end and beginning of it already. He brings up a very interesting point I’d like for any of you who might happen to read this to [...]
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Posted on October 2nd, 2008 by Shammah
First, let me remind any who read this and don’t know that I also have a web site at http://www.oldoldstory.org. Rose Creek Village’s home page is http://www.rosecreekvillage.com. We are having a “writers guild” meeting on Oct. 14, and we will be working to make updates to the RCV web site more common. Hopefully, you’ll be [...]
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