Archive for January, 2008
too cold
Too cold up in the Great White North to write anything constructive. Its -23F plus windchill (thats when the wind blows the cold air and makes it feel colder). Tomorrow is supposed to be -30F.
I think that I am going to hibernate.
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Tags: cold, farenheit, frozen, snow, weather, windchill, winter
veritas II
We spent last night view the second part of the Truth Project from Focus on the Family (fotf) dealing with Philosophy and Ethics. The first key thing that stuck out at me was something Dr. R.C. Sproul said. A paraphrase of what he said is:
We are using the words morality and ethics interchangeably now. Morals [...]
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Tags: bible, carl sagan, christianity, cosmos, ethics, faith, God, matter, morality, philosophy, religion, scepticism, sproul, tackett, the truth project, truth project, veritas, worldview, wright and wrong
a thought for the day
I recently read a quote in a book I am reading:
“To speak of being by nature righteous or evil is confusing the physical and the metaphysical.”
In my mind this ties in with the thought that a man cannot have two natures. Current theology teaches that a christian has two men “inside” him – the old man [...]
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Tags: christianity, doctrine, nature of man, new man, old man, physical, religion, theology, thoughts, today
the beginning of the start
When reading the book of Judges today, I came across a passage that gripped me as I had never noticed the wording before. Judges mainly goes through the works of the men (and a couple women) who led the nation of Israel before they demanded a king from God.
The passage that popped out was chapter [...]
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Tags: bible, christianity, deliverer, faith, freedom, holiness, israelite history, judges, nazarite, reading, religion, samson, sanctification
a legend
I went from posting that last thought a moment ago to see what was in the news.
One of my heroes has died.
Sir Edmund Hillary has passed away at the age of 88 from a sudden heart attack. See this link at CNN to read more. He was most recently in the news for condemning the [...]
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Tags: climbing, Everest, heart attack, hillary, man, mountaineering, new zealand, passed away, sir, summits
veritas
A few people I know have assembled to view and study Focus on the Family’s new “course”. The Truth Project is conducted in a classroom manner, recorded for our edification. I have trained myself to be skeptical of anything main-stream (ooo, look at me being all counter-culture. sheesh) and obviously dislike this habit in [...]
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Tags: bible, christianity, counter-culture, course, faith, focus on the family, inspiration, mainstream, media, religion, sarcasm, skepticism, timothy, truth, truth project
think again
I was reading articles on WIRED today and found an interesting interview with Nicholas Carr, author of “Does IT matter?”. He is saying that we are all becoming nodes for information – not actually having the info itself, but providing it from a source – i.e. Google.
I relate to this statement because I find myself [...]
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Tags: computers, information, interview, IT, machines, nodes, wired
to begin anew
Happy New Year, folks.
Here it is again – an opportunity to being anew, to start over fresh. I am not much for resolutions, I try to cultivate Godly behavior every day so I don’t recommend much.
If you haven’t done much reading in 2007, try it this year. I think that reading a good book is [...]
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Tags: habits, new year, online, reading, resolutions
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Places I Wander
