Gairney Bridge

This sermon was preached at Midlane Park Presbyterian Church on February 17, 2008.
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“ I beg of you, brethren, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You have done me no wrong;   13 but you know that it was because […]

Well, I was hoping that someone might venture a guess or two at the Shock Quotes I listed below. Since it doesn’t look like that will happen, I’ll just post the answers FYI.
1. “At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace, […]

I’m a huge baseball fan, and I even dabble in fantasy baseball (just about my only real hobby). Last year a picked up a young kid with the Phillies named Kyle Kendrick. At the Phillies’ spring training facility this past week, Kyle found himself the recipient of one of the best practical jokes I’ve ever […]

“Shock quotes” is my term for a favorite tactic of skeptics/atheists who wish to attack Christianity by turning to a particular passage in the Bible (usually the Old Testament), find a passage that teaches something they don’t like or think is out of accord with modern sentiments, quote it without any consideration of surrounding context […]

This sermon was preached at Midlane Park ARP Church on February 10, 2008.
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“However at that time, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those which by nature are no gods. But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how is it […]

World Magazine’s blogsite recently featured a post pertaining to the Federal Vision/Auburn Avenue controversy. The post is “fair and balanced,” imho, since it links articles and reports from both sides of the controversy.
In one of the replies, Mickey McLean (a commentator for Worldmagblog and a fellow ARP) wrote that his pastor had recommended an article. […]

I ran across this blasphemous product while checking on primary returns at the Fox News website.
SINGAPORE — A cosmetics line that extolled the virtues of “Looking Good for Jesus” has been pulled from stores in Singapore after a number of complaints from shoppers, according to media reports Tuesday.
Promising to “Redeem your reputation and more,” […]

I just received the latest catalog (yes, this is another example of Christian junk mail) from Outreach, a company that specializes in that form of outreach best known as “advertising.” I bought some stock paper (for printing up brochures) from them about a year ago, and now I am forever on their mailing list, I […]

This sermon was preached at Midlane Park ARP Church on Feb. 3, 2008:
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“Now I say, as long as the heir is a child, he does not differ at all from a slave although he is owner of everything,   2 but he is under guardians and managers […]

I watched this video this morning. It’s featured on James White’s website, and it is a breakdown of some of the arguments of the notorious atheist Christopher Hitchens. It’s a pretty good analysis of why one’s theology matters, why even the best of philosophers (Bertrand Russell, anyone?) can make irrational missteps in logic when they […]