September 2007
“Jesus came to raise the dead. The only qualification for the gift of the Gospel...”
– Robert F. Capon
“Either [the gospel] is true for all, or it is not true at all.”
– Archbishop William Temple
The Christian's two homes
All Christians have two homes to live in. They lived in Christ and in Ephesus; we live in Christ and in London. And we are never so to live in one home as to withdraw from the other. - John Stott in a 1971 sermon on Ephesians 1 (@8m50s)
“I would rather have 20,000 “little popes” with their Bibles, all believing they...”
– Michael Spencer
“Usually, when people try to rationalize some life-taking tragedy, such as saying...”
– internetmonk.com » Blog Archive » God’s Sovereignty in Lutheranism: An Interview With Josh Strodtbeck (5- Providence in Tragedy)
Handy Firefox tweak
From a comment on Lifehacker: “My favorite non-extension enhancement for tabs is having this in my profile’s userChrome.css: /* Make the active tab wider */ tab[selected=”true”] { min-width: 200px !important; } With Tab Mix plus set to allow a minimum tab width of 25 pixel (not much more than the favicon + left padding), this little tidbit allows me to see some of the...
Barth p.43f.: the reason we can be sure that creation truly exists and
is not a dream is that God became a human being within creation.
(NB: couldn’t the church and its proclamation just be part of the
dream? In principle, yes. But this is not a matter of philosophical
answers, but of the living word of God breaking in to assure us of
these things.)
Barth p.43: God can be known as Creator only because he has become a
human being in Jesus Christ. “We have on alternative source of
revelation.”
Blog post title: Dare Lutherans hope?
Confession in the language of the church (the ‘language of Canaan’) and translated into the language of the newspaper, pp.21ff.
Barth p.28, Christian definition of God. God’s highness consists in his descending, p.31.
“ Observe the condescension of this fact. This Man, who towers above all other...”
– Charles Spurgeon, as quoted at TeamPyro
SciAm: A New Cure for Bruises? →
New cure for bruises: let a mozzie suck the blood out. Yum!
NT Wright - first Romans lecture
Summarising Paul’s world: Paganism Stoics: God and the world are one and the same, pantheistic. Only solution to serious problems = suicide as no help coming from outside. Epicureans: God is very distant from the world and not terribly concerned about what we get up to. Not necessarily hedonists though. Modern world is largely Epicurean: God is very distant, lets us get on with things. ...