My wife and I went to check out the new Disney movie, A Christmas Carol. Not knowing what to expect, and just hoping for a movie to help get us into the spirit of Christmas, we met a pleasant surprise. Disney stayed very close to Dickens’ original themes of sin, repentance, redemption and grace. Tiny [...]
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Disney’s Christmas Carol
Posted in Uncategorized on November 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Impartial President?
Posted in Uncategorized on September 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When the National Day of Prayer came, our President refrained from participating in fear of showing religious favoritism. When he spoke at Georgetown University he had the Cross and a sacred name for Christ covered while he spoke.
Yesterday evening he opened the White House up to openly celebrate the Muslim holy day Ramadan, and talk [...]
Quotable Quotes: Tim Fary
Posted in Uncategorized on January 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“My job as a preacher of the gospel is to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comforted.” -Army Chaplain Tim Fary
Rick Warren’s Inauguration Prayer
Posted in Uncategorized on January 6, 2009 | 2 Comments »
While reading the latest on CNN today I ran across this story about a group, known as People for the American Way (read it here). It is a group, headed by Kathryn Kolbert, who rallies for the rights of every American and their freedom of speech and ideas, oh yeah except for Rick Warren’s. They [...]
Joseph…full of grace?
Posted in Uncategorized on January 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
While pondering the Christmas story this year a section of a verse caught my attention.
“Then Joseph, being a just man, and not wanting to make her a public example, was minded to put her away secretly.” -Matthew 1:19
This verse doesn’t really stand out until you compare it to a verse like, “And the scribes and [...]
Experiencing Advent
Posted in Uncategorized on December 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Coming from a Fundamentalist Baptistic background, the season of Advent hasn’t meant a whole lot to me. Now that our family has been Presbyterian for about 5 years now that’s seeming to change because of the change of emphaisis on how we view the story of God’s redemption. For some reason the Holy Spirit has seen fit to open [...]
Cool Christmas Lights
Posted in Uncategorized on December 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s that time of year again. I think John Newton may have enjoyed this
Confession of Sin
Posted in Uncategorized on November 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness” -I John 1:9
Herein lies one of the verses in the Bible that deals with our greatest need as sinners…forgiveness! So how does confession relate to forgiveness?
We read about King David in II Samuel [...]
More on Despair (The Christian in Complete Armour, William Gurnall)
Posted in Uncategorized on September 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“First we must distinguish between a soul’s being foiled through his own infirmity, and his enemy’s stability and power over-matching him, and another, who through a false heart doth voluntarily prostrate himself to the lust of Satan; though a general will show little pity to a soldier that should traitorously throw down his arms and [...]
Despair (from William Gurnall, The Christian In Complete Armour)
Posted in Uncategorized on September 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Despair robs God of his infinitude and ascribes it to sin: by it the creature saith his sin is infinite and God is not: too like those unbelieving Israelites Psa cvi 7 ‘They remembered not the multitude of his mercies, but provoked at the sea, even at the red sea; they could not see enough [...]
