Luke 20:46-47

Tymetraveler's take (or paraphrase) on Luke 20:46-47 as applied to America today: "Beware of the crooked politicians, who like to walk around in fancy suits, and love greetings in the marketplaces, and the best seats in the political meetings, and the places of honor at banquets, who devour common folk's houses and for a pretense make long speeches. They will receive the greater condemnation."

North Carolina Governor Suggests Suspending Elections To Spur Economic Solutions | Fox News

The last time I checked, I live in the United States of America, not early 20th century Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union. Bev Par-doo has completely lost her mind! Suspend elections? Yeah, that wouldn't be a slippery slope to disaster, now would it? I've said it before, and without fear of others opinions, I will say it again.....Liberalism is a mental disease! Bev Par-doo has proven it...once and for all! North Carolina Governor Suggests Suspending Elections To Spur Economic Solutions | Fox News

Hitler Killed Disabled Children and So Do We

Hitler Killed Disabled Children and So Do We

A Thought on Legalism

It's amazing how some of our dear legalistic brethren in the faith accuse people of "serving" a denomination, just because they belong to a church that is associated with a denomination.

How Do I Love Reformed Theology?

How Do I Love Reformed Theology?

Thought for the Day

 A scoffer does not like to be reproved;
he will not go to the wise.
(Proverbs 15:12 ESV)

Have you seen the latest news?  There is a group of atheists who wants Christians eradicated from the earth.  The Lord may have something to say about that.

Thought for the Day

.... the people who know their God will be strong and take action.--Daniel 11:32b

The Internal Debate Continues

I am having a love/hate relationship with the English Standard Version of the Bible. I try to make it my "main" or "every day" bible, then I will come across a passage that the HCSB or NASB does a better job of translating. There are just too many good translations with too many choices of bindings and layouts. For the most part I keep bouncing back and forth between the ESV and the HCSB these days. The HCSB does seem to read better, but the ESV is more prevalent on Christian radio and at church. I like the fact the HCSB capitalizes pronouns referring to deity. R.L. Allan will soon be offering the ESV in a single column reference edition in BLUE goatskin (they shouldn't tempt me like that). Allan will also soon offer the HCSB in goatskin for the first time ever. I understand there was another revision of the ESV in the spring of 2011....this intrigues me. I love the literary and poetic style of the ESV in the King James tradition, but I also like the HCSB's bold and refreshing move away from tradition in getting at the original Greek in passages like John 3:16. Both translations have online versions and the HCSB seems to offer more tools in their online study bible, but the ESV has audio so I can listen while I read along. It just goes on and on. I guess, for now, I'll just keep on bouncing!

Reflections on 9/11

On this tenth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on America the best expression of my assessment of the situation is this excerpt from the September 2011 issue of Tabletalk magazine by Dr. R.C. Sproul:

"My fear is that we haven't learned very much from 9/11. On 9/11, ten years ago, more babies were destroyed in the wombs of their mothers than people were killed in the terrorist attack in New York. That destruction continues to this day. The greatest attacks on the sanctity of life come not from al-Qaeda but from those who destroy their young. God will not continue to tolerate any nation that practices that culture of death and barbarism."

Amen and amen!

Quote of the Day

"Reformed theology is nothing but biblical Christianity"--Charles Haddon Spurgeon