Posted on July 29th, 2009 by Shammah
No comments of my own today. Everything’s borrowed. I wrote a post yesterday called “Intellectual Honesty and Throwing Up.” I’m trying to decide whether it’s worth posting, needs editing, or just needs to be thrown out. For today, though, Voice of the Martyrs quoted Wilbur Rees as saying: I would like to buy $3 worth [...]
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Filed under: Gospel, Holiness, Modern Doctrines
Posted on July 24th, 2009 by Shammah
This is not meant to be a blog about my personal life, but … Yesterday my wife had back surgery for a bulging disk. It was huge; 18 mm, for those that have an idea of what that is. The nerve that exits between her bottom vertebrae and tailbone was completely crushed–flattened out–against the bone [...]
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Filed under: Testimonies, prayer
Posted on July 19th, 2009 by Shammah
I got an email from a Roman Catholic and an Orthodox believer both in the same day. The biggest thing they had in common was massive miscommunication. What I mean by that is that they both presented arguments to me that were convincing to them but didn’t make a lick of sense to me. Worse, [...]
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Filed under: Church
Posted on July 14th, 2009 by Shammah
Today I found a news article about the ACLU supporting freedom of Religion … for Christians! Giving credit where credit is due, I found that link at this blog. I have some comments to make about Christians, liberals, and conspiracy theories: Christians and Liberals Once, as I was waiting in line to pay at a [...]
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Filed under: History, Miscellaneous
Posted on July 11th, 2009 by Shammah
That song continues: … why aren’t his arm reaching? Why aren’t his hands healing? I don’t know if that’s supposed to be a rhetorical question, but in case it’s not I’d like to try to answer it. Because we’re not the body. The Body of Christ Our Gospel at Rose Creek Village gets expressed a [...]
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Filed under: Church, Gospel, Modern Doctrines
Posted on July 7th, 2009 by Shammah
Whoever keeps the whole Law, yet offends in one point, he is guilty of all. – James 2:10 Okay, I promised that I’d put up a second blog today on what James 2:10 means (rather than what it doesn’t mean). This is one of the verses where context is important. Context is not always important, [...]
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Filed under: Holiness, Modern Doctrines
Posted on July 7th, 2009 by Shammah
For whoever keeps the whole Law, yet stumbles in one point, he is guilty of all. – James 2:10 I am going to write two blogs today. The first will be about what this verse does not mean, and the second about what it does mean. Do We Have To Be Perfect? James 2:10 is [...]
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