Category: Asides

This is a bit insid­er-ish, but is pret­ty help­ful if you’re famil­iar with the debate about super­nat­ur­al gifts in the mod­ern church.

NT prophe­cy is for today and is NOT author­i­ta­tive

None of these rea­sons list­ed below are unique to me, but I thought I would col­lect and restate them here for you. One of the best writ­ers on this sub­ject is Wayne Gru­dem, and though I have not gone ba…

“First, you need to preach the text in its scrip­tur­al con­text; sec­ond, you need to preach Christ and the gospel every time; and final­ly, you need to preach to the heart. Put anoth­er way, you should preach the truth, not just your opin­ion; you should preach the good news, not just good advice; and you should preach to make the truth real to the heart, not just clear to the mind.”

Preach­ing that Cuts to the Heart

I can eas­i­ly imag­ine some (espe­cial­ly younger) preach­ers will aspire to imi­tate my method and miss the under­ly­ing principle.I can eas­i­ly imag­ine some (espe­cial­ly younger) preach­ers will aspire to imit…

This was quite inter­est­ing: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/02/the-epic-surprisingly-sexist-fight-that-brought-the-minimum-wage-to-america/273161/?google_editors_picks=true

The Epic, Sur­pris­ing­ly Sex­ist Fight That Brought the Min­i­mum Wage to Amer­i­ca

Guar­an­tee­ing work­ers 25 cents an hour two decades, a pub­lic scan­dal­ized by pros­ti­tu­tion, a states’-rights rebel­lion, a Great Depres­sion, a Supreme Court bat­tle, and a lot of patri­archy.

This is crazy awe­some rambling/musing. I could read Scott Adams all day.

Scott Adams Blog: Mar­ket Manip­u­la­tors — Clar­i­fi­ca­tion 03/04/2013

The Offi­cial Dil­bert Web­site fea­tur­ing Scott Adams Dil­bert strips, ani­ma­tion, mashups and more star­ring Dil­bert, Dog­bert, Wal­ly, The Pointy Haired Boss, Alice, Asok, Dog­bert’s New Rul­ing Class and mor…

Unex­pect­ed (at least by me).

Sen­tences to pon­der

Loca­tion mat­ters for online edu­ca­tion: most stu­dents enroll in insti­tu­tions with­in 100 miles from home. The link is here, the source is here.

How have I not heard of this? This seems like a basic fact to know.

Jef­frey Sachs on Oba­ma and dis­cre­tionary spend­ing

…the sur­pris­ing truth is that from the start of his pres­i­den­cy Mr Oba­ma has planned a steep decrease in dis­cre­tionary spend­ing as a share of nation­al income. Each year he has put a bud­get on the table…

The lev­el to which oppo­nents of same-sex mar­riage are mis­un­der­stood (and there­by mis­rep­re­sent­ed) on this issue (and a host of oth­ers) is stag­ger­ing. 

WPost: Yes, we fear and loathe reli­gious tra­di­tion­al­istsW­Post: Yes, we fear and loathe reli­gious tra­di­tion­al­ists

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I love Brust’s nov­els, but I usu­al­ly find his phi­los­o­phiz­ing to be unper­sua­sive. Every once in a while, though, he drops a gem. I think his point here is indeed dis­putable (there is a dif­fer­ence between fal­si­fi­able in prin­ci­ple and fal­si­fi­able at the moment), but I also think that there is more phi­los­o­phy in sci­ence than some would like to think. We still call them Ph.D.s for a rea­son.

So, What IS Sci­ence, Any­way?

I know science–both the dis­cov­er­ies and method of–are impor­tant to me. I know that I believe we ought to deduce nat­ur­al laws from the facts, as opposed to impos­ing them on the facts. I know tha.…..

Huh. Neat obser­va­tion.

Jesus did what he taught his dis­ci­ples to do.

Here is a great post by Steve Addi­sion, the author of a great new book “What Jesus Start­ed”. Check out his blog, It is awe­some! Find­ing “per­sons of peace” is an impor­tant ele­ment in most dis­ci­ple m.…..

What a fab­u­lous way to think about this.

WHEN I WALK IN THINKING MY SERMON IS TERRIBLE, AND THE CONGREGATION LOVES IT

WHEN I WALK IN THINKING MY SERMON IS TERRIBLE, AND THE CONGREGATION LOVES IT