tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post114392221289780856..comments2024-03-10T10:40:32.319-07:00Comments on Pyromaniacs: Our sentiments exactlyPhil Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00649092052031518426noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-1144109273058236862006-04-03T17:07:00.000-07:002006-04-03T17:07:00.000-07:00As David pointed out, this has been going on since...As David pointed out, this has been going on since Adam was a boy. The duties of a Christian don't change whether everyone is walking with him or not.<BR/><BR/>But it depends on where you are as well. My own country, Australia, has always been hard-hearted toward spiritual matters. But there is evidence that something of an awakening is happening. Religion, God and Christ are mentioned in the newspapers in ways that would have been unimaginable 15 years ago. <BR/><BR/>And, of course, the gospel in Africa, Asia and South America is making huge inroads. There is much to be optimistic about.Craig Schwarzehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11156017639962303656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-1143951941184641832006-04-01T20:25:00.000-08:002006-04-01T20:25:00.000-08:00Yes Phil, those folks within the circle that #coug...Yes Phil, those folks within the circle that #cough# pay attention #cough# to such important things, actually do set their clocks ahead in the spring. :o)Carla Rolfehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09395062089776262435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-1143950445802680422006-04-01T20:00:00.000-08:002006-04-01T20:00:00.000-08:00Carla,So do y'all actually set your clocks forward...Carla,<BR/><BR/>So do y'all actually set your clocks forward in the spring? I thought once you got inside the arctic circle, you have 18 hours of daylight during the summer anyway.Phil Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00649092052031518426noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-1143949546416809482006-04-01T19:45:00.000-08:002006-04-01T19:45:00.000-08:00In case anyone was wondering about my earlier comm...In case anyone was wondering about my earlier comment and assuming I'd lost my mind, let me assure you I have not.<BR/><BR/>I honestly thought Phil's comment at the beginning of this post was an April Fools prank. And I fell for it - then once I realized it wasn't a prank, well you can imagine how goofy I feel.<BR/><BR/>Anyway, just wanted to clear that up. :o)Carla Rolfehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09395062089776262435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-1143941639034246282006-04-01T17:33:00.000-08:002006-04-01T17:33:00.000-08:00Hear, hear Phil and Charles.Hear, hear Phil and Charles.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-1143935494076143372006-04-01T15:51:00.000-08:002006-04-01T15:51:00.000-08:00I am new to the blogosphere by a mere 3 months. I ...I am new to the blogosphere by a mere 3 months. I have been told I am aggressive. oops. I have learned way too many things the hard way and in certain times I may get easily annoyed with stupidity. Why should I? I have been stupid and have much to learn. Being in defense of the Word of God brings forth inescapable ridicule. I just happen to do it... not as well as others. Is "fair play" possible in this world when truth is at stake? I like what Douglas Wilson says in regards to our tendency to be mislead because we "cover all quotations from Scripture with three layers of our high gloss holyspeak varnish..." What has that accomplished?<BR/>Okay, so I am reading a book that goes well with what Spurgeon is saying right here: "The trouble is that, for the moment, error is having its own way in certain parts of the visible church, where better things once ruled; and, worse still, that good men will not see the evil, or, seeing it, wink at it, and imagine that it will do no very great deal of harm. It is ours to give warning of a danger which to us is manifest and alarming; and if the warning makes us the butt of ridicule, we must bear it."<BR/>You all have probably already read it. "A Serrated Edge: A brief defense of Biblical satire and Trinitarian skylarking." by Douglas Wilson.<BR/>If not, get it.<BR/>It reminds me of people like... Carla and Phil Johnson who "...put the conscience of another on the spit and roast it to a nutbrown discomfort."<BR/>Who flee from covering "all Scriptures with three layers of highgloss holyspeak varnish" and tell it like it is like a couple of "jolly Juvenalians".<BR/>For some weird reason, that is the kind of stuff I like to read. It makes me grow... sometimes uncomfortably out of my "zone"... my "bubble."<BR/>I read their stuff and "POP"... there goes my nice comfy bubble. <BR/>Keep it up. I have much to learn.4givenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16604421713579961024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-1143930122266159462006-04-01T14:22:00.000-08:002006-04-01T14:22:00.000-08:00There is nothing new under the sun.... same ole sa...There is nothing new under the sun.... same ole same ole just wrapped in other names!!! Interesting is is not?Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17793343069322960517noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-1143930094175934822006-04-01T14:21:00.000-08:002006-04-01T14:21:00.000-08:00"Tracing the state of evangelicalism from the Puri..."Tracing the state of evangelicalism from the Puritan age to his own era, Shindler noted that every revival of true evangelical faith had been followed within a generation or two by a drift away from sound doctrine, ultimately leading to wholesale apostasy. He likened this drifting from truth to a downhill slope, and thus labeled it "the down-grade.""<BR/><BR/>Everything old is new again. Exactly how is then or today any different than the time of Judges?David A. Carlsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00465387359523299616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-1143927982611715092006-04-01T13:46:00.000-08:002006-04-01T13:46:00.000-08:00A prophet is not without honor, save in his own la...A prophet is not without honor, save in his own land.chamblee54https://www.blogger.com/profile/17280870701343868626noreply@blogger.com