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2009-09-09T21:03:00.000-05:00

An Astonishing Story

2009-08-05T20:27:00.002-05:00

90% of the non sports television I watch is in front of a cardio machine at the "Y". Last week I saw a story about girl strippers/prostitutes in New Jersey. In NJ the age of consent is 16, so 16 year olds can strip and actually charge for sex as long as it's in private (I suppose that means they aren't having it on stage somewhere).

The reporter was obviously trying to pull at the audiences emotions, and actually got personally involved in the piece. She said things such as: "Can you believe men are allowed to ogle, lust after, and even have sex with these girls? It is twisted and sick. I get nauseous thinking about those dirty old men putting their paws on these girls." She went on and on about how demeaning it was to the girls.

First of all, I was floored to hear the "L" word. I have come to believe 1/3 of the American economy is based upon men lusting for women. We don't want to mess with that.

But I also thought that if it is "twisted and sick" to do all that to 16 year olds, is it so different for 18 or 21 year old women? I'm certainly against 16 year olds becoming strippers, but as a culture do we really think we are so morally superior because we require two more years before the ogling, lusting, fondling, and sex? Could we ever get the reporter to admit that the whole sex industry is "twisted and sick", and not just when teenagers are involved?

I doubt it.

I Can Only Imagine

2009-07-30T16:06:00.004-05:00

Lamar Outdoor Advertising (who own most of the billboards in Alabama) refused to rent billboards such as the above. While I appreciate their stance, I also wonder what Christians are saying by such censorship. Are we afraid to imagine a world with no religion?

I would want no part of such a world. We have a hard enough time living up to the commands to love God and love others as we love ourselves. It would be a scary place--a world in which we think "this is it. Eat drink and do what you want to because in 100 years no one will care about anything".

Would you like to be President or molest a small child, have at it because it's all the same in the end. I can buy atheism, but I can't buy the atheism that says, "there is no God, there is no truth, but you shouldn't kill your grandmother for her millions, anyway." Maybe I'm just too thick between the ears, but the relativists' argument that we shouldn't kill or screw(literally or figuratively) each other because society can't survive, holds no water whatsoever. Why should I care if society survives or not? Why should I care about anything?

Was it Sarte that said the only relevant question for modern man was whether or not to commit suicide? I'm sorry to say, Mr. Sarte that if there is no God, even that question doesn't matter in the end.

Imagine a world like that.

Lesson from the farmers market

2009-07-26T17:17:00.001-05:00

It matters not if your corn meal muffins are homemade with fresh hand ground corn and buttermilk made from your neighbor's cow...

if you burn the biscuits.

2009-06-29T10:51:00.001-05:00

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Christianity--A Crutch for the Weak?

2009-06-25T20:53:00.002-05:00

In college I had a student in Philosophy 101 class who said that Christianity was just a crutch for the weak. Immediately 10 or so other students (myself included) jumped all over her and said that was absolute crap. Many leaders, star athletes, politicians, authors--you could go on and on--were Christians.

I saw a similar quote about Christianity recently, and I had a markedly different response to it. "Yes," I thought, "Christianity is for the weak."

Think about who Christ hung around--prostitutes, tax collectors, fishermen--hardly the high class types.

And Christianity has often made in roads into the poor and downtrodden. Today in India it is the lowest of the castes where Christianity is spreading like wildfire.

And who can come to Christ in strength? We must come in weakness, admitting that we have nothing of our own to bring him, and are nothing without him.

I would probably say that Christianity is the legs of the weak rather than a crutch, but other than that, I have no quibble with the quote.

Thanks Again to Miss O'Connor

2009-06-13T21:15:00.001-05:00

“What people don’t realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross.”

2009-06-12T17:01:00.001-05:00

Special Boy With Freakishly Large Brain Wins Spelling Bee

The Debate is Raging Over Homosexual Marriage

2009-05-27T14:26:00.001-05:00

and well it should be.

As far as threats to American Christendom, however, I think gay marriage pales in comparison to divorce--it's not even close.

I just heard Gene Cheeseneck say

2009-05-17T17:47:00.001-05:00

that the SEC was head and tails better than any other conference.

I dare say.

The Greatest Salesman in the World

2009-05-10T07:58:00.001-05:00

I lost my pocket knife a few weeks ago. I was in a hardware store that had "reconditioned" (they just looked used to me) Swiss Army knives for approximately 1/3 the cost of new. The salesman had two I liked. The main difference between them was that one had a corkscrew and one had scissors. I was leaning toward the corkscrew when the salesman said, "Well, I have taken informal surveys of customers, and most say they only use a corkscrew 3-4 times during the life of the knife, whereas they will use scissors fairly often."

I looked at him in wonder. "To use a corkscrew 3 or 4 times"? I gasped, I gawked. "3 or 4 times"? I regasped and regawked. "My good man, I'll take two of them."

From this month's Touchstone

2009-05-06T13:55:00.000-05:00

The question is not, "Do I love my wife?"

The question is, "Will I love my wife?"

That's good stuff there, gentlemen.

I have been married almost 20 years

2009-04-20T07:20:00.003-05:00

During that time I have carefully guarded my marriage--being careful not to spend much time with other women, doing special things for my wife, and being careful about what films and television shows I watched. I had an argument with a PCA pastor in town because he thought I needed to see the gospel in all kinds of books, movies, and t.v. shows. The problem was that all I could think of was how sexy the leading lady looked, so I thought it best just not to partake.

Well, after all my safeguards, I have fallen. I will probably never act on my infatuation, but it is there, nonetheless. I must confess to my wife, family, and the world at large.

I have a schoolboy crush on Susan Boyle.

I had some posts I wanted to make last week

2009-04-08T20:37:00.002-05:00

and then my wife broke her neck.

It's amazing how priorities can change.

I just heard a song whose refrain was,

"God is great.
Beer is good.
And people are crazy."

That about sums it up.

The Lord's Supper: How Often?

2009-03-30T21:14:00.000-05:00

The Lords Supper How Often

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Mrs. Archibald Bruce McEachin

2009-03-06T15:01:00.005-06:00

I just recently discovered that my grandfather was a manic depressive alcoholic.

I found years and years of letters he sent my grandmother that sounded like the ravings of a lunatic. When I approached my mother about it she confessed that her mother's life was a living hell. My grandfather drank himself into oblivion nearly every day. He lost all my grandmother's family money and the attorney's office where he worked was going to fire him, but he talked them in to letting him come in every day without pay.

My mother said for years she begged my grandmother to divorce him. She said my grandmother's answer was always the same, "I was married Mrs. Archibald Bruce McEachin, I had my daughter as Mrs. Archibald Bruce McEachin, and I will die Mrs. Archibald Bruce McEachin."

She did die Mrs. Archibald Bruce McEachin seven years ago today. We grandchildren never knew her pain--the daily anguish of life with a husband who kept track of her every minute because he didn't trust her. Her sacrifice allowed us to have a stable and intact family that I have passed on to my children. The ghosts that haunted her lived (and to a much lesser degree still live) in my mother, but they have almost disappeared in my generation, and not a hint of a trace of them survive for my children.

Protestants don't have saints, but if they did I would nominate her immediately. I know that she is praying for her family.

only in the ham

2009-03-03T08:03:00.001-06:00

Langford wants to threaten some local banks

Posted by Thomas Spencer -- The Birmingham News March 02, 2009 3:34 PM

The city should pull its money out of major banks, set up its own credit union or transfer its money into an existing credit union that is actively lending to potential homebuyers in Birmingham, Mayor Larry Langford told a committee of the City Council today.

Langford told council members he was working on a proposal to counter what he claims to be discrimination in lending, and he would provide details soon.

"Today, red-lining has been replaced by a new term: a credit score,"
Langford said. "We need to pull our money out of banks that won't lend in these communities and put them in a lending institution that will."

Roman Catholic Scholar Converts to Evangelical Faith

2009-03-02T09:51:00.001-06:00

Read the News here

i should have my child tested for Mensa

2009-02-21T19:48:00.001-06:00

Intelligence just oozes out of him.

grilling tips

2009-02-20T20:27:00.002-06:00

I have been to one too many dinners where the meat is bordering on terrible. Here are some tips for great grilled meals.

1. Grill to temperature except for fish, steak and hamburgers. Chicken should be 165 in the breast, 175 degrees in the thigh or leg. Pork should be 165 degrees. A pork butt or a beef brisket (for bbq) should be cooked VERY slowly (5-12 hrs) at a LOW temp (225ish) until it gets to 200 degrees.

2. You want as much fat and skin and bones as possible. They all protect and flavor the meat. You can take them off after you grill. Anyone who grills boneless skinless chicken breasts should go at least to grilling purgatory, but more than likely straight to the hot place.

3. Put on sauces at the last.

4. You don't need to boil ribs before grilling.

5. Never press down on hamburgers with your spatula.

6. Use salt and pepper and the freshest herbs you can get to flavor meat. Dizzy Pig makes some great rubs if you want to go the prepackaged route. Dale's is ok for hamburgers or steak.

I'd never noticed

2009-02-15T06:20:00.001-06:00

I opened my New Geneva Study Bible last week and saw on the title page:

"Bringing the light of the Reformation to Scripture."

Shouldn't that be the other way around?

Tetzel's Last Laugh

2009-02-10T10:58:00.004-06:00

Rome is re-introducing the practice of plenary indulgences. I guess my aspirations of Rome rolling back Trent (and the attached anathama's on on things Protestant) is Just a Pipe dream.

Or How About This

2009-02-06T13:33:00.002-06:00

St. Valentine icon

2009-02-05T11:39:00.003-06:00

Here is an Icon for St. Valentine's Day

Why are Protestants ok with one icon and not the other

2009-02-04T11:28:00.005-06:00

Our age is an age of visual images. By and large Protestants are ok with the one on the left which represents money, sex and entertainment, and don't even recognize the one one on the right which represents devotion to Christ and his Church.

I am not advocating the veneration of icons by Protestants. Bowing, making the sign of the cross, or kissing are too close to acts of worship for us. It's ironic that we don't worship through those means, but we associate them with acts of worship. I am advocating having icons as church art and in our houses and around us to remind us of Christ and the great cloud of witnesses who have gone before us, and are now praying for God's people.

If not icons, what else will combat the onslaught of postmodern images of our culture?

Special apologies to Saint Winnoc for putting his picture next to Britney.