Monthly Archives: October 2007

“no debt of temporal punishment remains to be discharged”

10/31/2007 – 11:58 am

From the Council of Trent:
“If anyone says that after the reception of the grace of justification the guilt is so remitted and the debt of eternal punishment so blotted out to every repentant sinner, that no debt of temporal punishment remains to be discharged either in this world or in purgatory before the gates of [...]

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Ten plus Five

10/26/2007 – 1:20 pm

David Tennant is going to join Peter Davison this year, in character, for the Children in Need special.

I hope it ends up on next year’s DVD!

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Something which has never existed

10/26/2007 – 7:54 am

Turk: “I think many people are simply looking for something which has never existed in the history of time and space, and our expectations of others are too high and of ourselves are too low. That is: we want to find a church that makes us holy and perfect rather than seeing that Christ [...]

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No shortage yet

10/25/2007 – 12:24 pm

On a conservative LCMS website:
By 2005, Premillennialists will be as scarce as hens teeth. Their emotional, revival-driven, cultish worship will fade into oblivion with them. They will disappear like the Pilgrims after Christ didn’t return in 1666.
(I think he mostly means dispensational premillennialists, but I don’t wish to put words in his mouth.)
Unfortunately, this prophecy [...]

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Endorsements

10/25/2007 – 8:44 am

Bloggers I respect are endorsing Huckabee.

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Well, duh

10/24/2007 – 2:31 pm

From a newsgroup I’ve been reading lately:
A mathematician and an engineer are attending a lecture from a famous physicist. The physicist is describing a model involving 27 dimensions, and the evolution of particle-probability clouds moving throughout these 27 dimensions over time. During the lecture, the engineer is struggling to follow along, taking notes and drawing [...]

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New poll: Patrick

10/17/2007 – 10:37 am

Don’t miss the new poll on the sidebar. No guarantees as to whether the results will actually change anything.

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How did it know?

10/17/2007 – 10:28 am

This is a little uncanny.

HT: TJIC, of course.

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BBC releases Dr. Who ebooks

10/16/2007 – 3:21 pm

BBCi quietly released some Dr. Who ebooks, that can be read online. (Thanks to Amber for the link.)

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Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those…

10/16/2007 – 2:59 pm

Neatorama links to a picture of the Mac II Couch. Here’s the original site. I worked there while that was being constructed. I always wondered what happened to that thing. I assume that it went to the last owners of the store, before they disappeared. (The current macstore.com domain is [...]

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Negative one

10/16/2007 – 1:00 am

Negative one.

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How would Jesus run a church?

10/15/2007 – 11:37 am

A snippet from an email conversation I was having earlier this morning:
You know, it’s easier to love the sinners than the Pharisees, but it’s easier to manage the Pharisees than the sinners.

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Faith Alone

10/15/2007 – 8:36 am

I preached Sunday morning’s sermon at GCBC. Probably the most straightforward and hardest-hitting gospel presentation I have ever made in my life… and at the end of it I had two kids come up and comment on how they thought for a while that I was yelling at them. I responded, as straight-faced [...]

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Zero

10/15/2007 – 1:00 am

Zero.

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One

10/14/2007 – 1:00 am

One.

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Two

10/13/2007 – 1:00 am

Two.

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Adventures in public transportation, part four

10/12/2007 – 9:44 am

Wednesday morning, I got up late, and didn’t make it to the Park-n-Ride in time for the bus I wanted (the Highland Express which would take me all the way to Emerson Park, from which I could grab a light rail all the way to Shrewsbury and then be one bus and one half-hour from [...]

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Three

10/12/2007 – 1:00 am

Three.

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Bread of life

10/11/2007 – 10:13 pm

Thou art the bread of life, O Lord, to me,
Thy holy Word the truth that saveth me;
Give me to eat and live with Thee above;
Teach me to love Thy truth, for Thou art love.
The following is from D.A. Carson (who quotes from the NIV):
Jesus declares himself to be the “bread of life” (John 6:35), the [...]

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Bad news, it’s Lastday

10/11/2007 – 8:44 am

Best phrase of the morning blog update: “If this is what old age is really about, let’s institute some Logan’s Run action right here and now.”

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