Stand Firm | Same-Sex Marriage in Medieval Irish Churches? Boswell Sinks to a New Academic Low

Check how low some will go in order to proclaim that gay marriage has been held in the past by the church.

This is an example of how people, who are supposedly scholars, want to portray Christianity as having always accepted and suported gay marriage. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Read the link, and be amazed.

Stand Firm | Same-Sex Marriage in Medieval Irish Churches? Boswell Sinks to a New Academic Low

The Juvenilization of American Christianity

A brand new book that touches a very important subject that many may not have considered.

This is also applicable to us here in Australia.

I will try to buy this book, as soon as possible!!

A new place for learning the craft of preaching in Melbourne, Australia

There is a new centre (center for my American friends) that wishes to introduce preachers to faithful expositary preaching and teaching.

Centre for Biblical Preaching

~ Equipping Christians in Expositional Preaching and Teaching

For those who are interested for excellence in their Bible Exposition, this is the place.

I've heard Mike Raiter teaching expository preaching before. He was my previous pastor's master thesis' supervisor on preaching.

If you in Melbourne, or plan to visit, you just have another attraction to attend.

The love of a daughter is sweet

I can see this little girl comforting her dad for his lost in the football field.

I have felt the love of my daughters when things go wrong, and they just need to put their hands and tell me that they love me.

This man, like me, is the luckiest man alive having such loving daughters.

Good on you little Saar, and the same goes to my daughters, Amanda, Nathalie and Maria.

Obama the first gay president?

News Week has come with a new issue in which it calls Obama the first gay president.

What gives?? Just for supporting gay marriage you are now officialy gay? Urban Christian news report how some have seen to come to such a conclusion, http://t.co/XdpC72tj

Gay people, if you support them, you are gay. Talk about diversity!!

Martin Luther on Mother's Day (sort of)

You say that the sins which we commit every day offend God, and therefore we are not saints. To this I reply: Mother love is stronger than the filth and scabbiness on a child, and so the love of God toward us is stronger than the dirt that clings to us. Accordingly, although we are sinners, we do not lose our filial relation on account of our filthiness, nor do we fall from grace on account of our sin.  -- Martin Luther

[The context is Luther's argument with those schismatics who believe salvation, once obtained, can be lost].

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Accreditation vs. Non-Accreditation: What Constitutes Actual Scholarship?

A very interesting blog entry about what constitutes proper scholarship, and where do you get good degrees from.

Some people get Ph.D.'s without ever knowing Greek, or Hebrew, or any theology at all. Christian History is unknown to them.

This is a good podcast by B.E. Lewis where you can hear good opinions about what constitutes a good accredited degree.

Listen to it!!

The mother who killed her son because he interrupted her Farmville game

Well, I stopped playing Cityville and all those games, because they are just time wasters. But some people kill to play them:

Alexandra V. Tobias is awaiting trial after pleading guilty to shaking her 3-month-old son to death… The 22-year-old Jacksonville, Florida resident recently plead[ed] guilty to killing her 3-month-old son over an online game. She admits that Dylan Lee Edmonson had been crying for a while as she played the popular Facebook game Farmville. Alexandra told police that when the infant wouldn’t stop crying, last January, she stepped away from the game long enough to shake the boy, smoke a cigarette and then shake the boy again. The unfit mother suggested that little Dylan “may have hit his head during the shaking.

Addicted people to games that will have no effects after they raise their bumps from their seats. 

What people write on their foreheads before going to jail, or after

The Mystery of Paul’s ‘Thorn in the Flesh’ Solved

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