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This post is not brought on solely by Piper’s recent controversial comments regarding the tornado in Minneapolis, but that is a good enough occasion for me to finish this post that’s been kicking around for some time.
In conservative evangelical circles, especially among the more Calvinistic in those circles, many people regard John Piper to be [...]

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He, here’s a Michael Jackson song you probably haven’t heard in a long time, but right now it’s my song:
You can’t win, you can’t break even
And you can’t get out of the game.
People keep sayin’ things are gonna change,
But they look just like they’re stayin’ the same.
You can’t win; way over our head
And you’ve only [...]

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Sorry I haven’t been here in such a long, long time. Two jobs, late nights, Boy Scout camp, etc., etc. You get the picture.
I just wanted to pop in and drop two observations and then run:
1) I agree that we should be outraged about an apparently stolen election in Iran. But where [...]

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Today is Ascension Day.  Many churches (such as ours) will celebrate it this upcoming Sunday, but it’s actually today.  Ascension is always on a Thursday, because Christ ascended forty days after he rose from the dead, and forty days after Easter is always a Thursday.
Ascension gets overlooked.  It gets overlooked by liturgical churches because it’s [...]

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When did all the wrecks become “crashes”?
I get several updates on Twitter that tell me about a “crash on I-59,” etc.  On the news everyday, we hear about some “car crash” on the highway somewhere.
When I read “crash on I-59,” my mind’s eye envisions an airplane that has made a crash landing on the interstate.
I [...]

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Allison has to go.  I’m sorry to see that.  I guess Danny has a more energized fan base, but I find him kind of a “blah” singer.  Not bad, just “blah.” Kind of like the guy who played Potsie on “Happy Days”:  nice enough voice, but not unique enough to make someone want to rush [...]

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Since I know so many NASCAR fans read my blog.
As this weekend is the Aaron’s Dream Weekend at Talladega, sportscasters around the country will do doubt be telling America about the goings-on in “Talladayga.”
It has never, never, never been “Talladayga.”  The only people who pronounce it “Talladayga” are the people who have never been to [...]

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TiVO people:  Spoiler alert!

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Allow me to take a break from my current series of posts to comment on tonight’s AI (that’s why most of you read this little ol’ blog anyway, isn’t it?):
Allison – MAJOR pitch problems!  What were Paula and Simon smoking?  Was she ever ON pitch?
Anoop – Quite good this week, I thought.  Consistently in tune [...]

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OK, so why would a dyed-in-the-wool Protestant evagelical who longs for liturgical worship, and who finds liturgical worship in a Presbyterian church somewhere, nevertheless “jump ship” for Rome (or Canterbury)?  Does that “prove” that liturgical Protestants are “on the road to Rome”?
No, but it may prove that a lot of Reformed people who try to [...]

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