Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Happy Birthday Stylos!

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This blog turned one year old back on January 19. My first post was "The 2006 Golden Globes: Hollywood and the Homosexual Agenda"...
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The Patience of the Saints

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"Here is the patience and faith of the saints" (Revelation 13:10). "Here is the patience of the saints" (Revelation 14:1...
Wednesday, January 24, 2007

In Zeus They Trust

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An AP story the other day reported that a group of modern pagans reinstituted worship of Zeus in Athens for the first time since the 4th cen...

Reading suggestion: The Swiss Family Robinson

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Al Mohler has a good post today on declining literacy among young people. Looking for a good book to read on Christian family or an enterta...

The Spiritual Discipline of Reading

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We live in a world in which the visual image dominates. Christians, however, are a people of the Book. God has given us His truth in Scriptu...
Thursday, January 18, 2007

Christian meets Ignorance

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It is truly amazing to see how John Bunyan, writing Pilgrim’s Progress from the Bedford Jail, was able so astutely to analyze the human hea...
Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Racism is Sin

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Acts 17:26 And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their preappointed t...
Monday, January 15, 2007

Answering a Friendly Challenge: What Do I Have in Common with a Neo-Pagan?

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Several weeks ago Lonnie, from the NatureSpirit group posted a comment on my blog, offering a "friendly challenge." Here is the la...
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Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Paul Washer is Coming to JPBC (Again!)

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We have rescheduled a Preaching Mission at JPBC with Paul Washer, Director of HeartCry Missionary Society . Paul will be here Friday-Sunday...
Tuesday, January 09, 2007

Christian meets Atheist

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In the category of there being "nothing new under the sun," note the point in Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress when Christian and Hope...
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Christian at the cave of Pope and Pagan

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In John Bunyan’s classic Pilgrim’s Progress , as Christian emerges from his battle with Apollyon in the Valley of Humiliation, the narrator ...
Wednesday, January 03, 2007

Spiritual Inventory for a New Year

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A member who runs a small business told me that she will be doing inventory this week. The start of a new year is a good time for taking spi...
Tuesday, January 02, 2007

High housing costs in C-ville and rootlessness

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A USA Today money article posted today gives a real estate snap-shot for Charlottesville. It notes the fact that UVA shelters the local rea...
Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Stark on Slavery: Part 2: What about Pagans and Humanists?

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In For the Glory of God , Rodney Stark bursts the bubble for those who see pre-Christian religions and Enlightenment philosophies as somehow...
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Stark on Slavery: Christianity contrasted with Islam

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Oddly enough some people want to blame the institution of slavery on Christianity. Anyone with this mistaken belief should read chapter four...

Notes from Rodney Stark's "For the Glory of God"

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The sub-title for Rodney Stark’s For the Glory of God (Princeton University Press, 2004) is How Monotheism led to Reformations, Science, Wi...
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Saturday, December 23, 2006

A Call to Counter-Cultural Christianity

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A follow-up reflection on Sam Waldron’s Baptist Roots in America : Waldron notes that although Calvinists (and Calvinistic Baptists, in part...

Review: Baptist Roots in America

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I recently read Samuel Waldron’s little booklet Baptist Roots in America: The Historical Background of Reformed Baptists in America (Simps...
Thursday, December 21, 2006

Jefferson, Calvinism, and the Roots of American Religious Liberty

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Some more thoughts churned up by the comments posted on Pagan Evangelism . In that conversation, I made the following comment: "By the ...
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Wednesday, December 20, 2006

If there is no God why be good?

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Colorado Christian education activist Kevin Swanson devoted a couple of his recent "Generations" radio programs to the resurgence ...
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