Entries from May 2008

May 20, 2008

TheDeeps

My friend Mickey has a blog here.  I would suggest you go over and read his insightful posts, you will enjoy it more than what I have to say over here!  I really like this blog, maybe it is his header that reminds me of home….nah its the content.–Dirk

May 18, 2008

The Canon of Scripture Part 3

Here is the last of three parts. 

Objections
There have been objections to the protestant canon as the true canon.  In this section the Roman Catholic position of adding to the OT and the Liberal position of adding to the NT will be engaged as improper views in light of the aforementioned support.
 
The Apocrypha is a [...]

May 14, 2008

The Canon of Scripture Part 2

This is the second part of a three part set of posts.  See this post for an explanation.

Support
The support for the protestant canon is overwhelming.  This section will outline support of the protestant canon as final and authoritative revelation for the Christian church.  The evidence will be broken up into two different sections:  Old Testament [...]

May 12, 2008

In the garden

A family in our church has a fabulous garden next to their home and every spring we are blessed with lots and lots of fresh zucchini, squash, and tomatoes–its one of the highlights of the summer. My mom thought it would be fun for the grandkids to visit the garden and see how vegetables grow, [...]

May 12, 2008

Josiah the Mighty Destroyer

The morning after Josiah’s birthday party we heard a loud clang on the monitor. I didnt think much of it until I was getting him dressed for church we we noticed that he has snapped a crib rail in half! It was laying on the floor in two pieces. We have no idea how he accomplished [...]

May 12, 2008

A Pain in the Eye and Birthday Pics

I had one simple goal last week, and that was to post up pictures of Josiah’s Party (six weeks ago!) and lots of other fun photos of him because honestly, thats the only reason people come here. My hopes were dashed last week when I got an ulcer/abrasion on my cornea and couldnt see–or even [...]

May 11, 2008

The Canon of Scripture

I wrote this paper for my systematic class last fall and really enjoyed writingit so I thought I would share it with you.  It will come in multiple parts: 1) Intro, Issue at hand, explanation of different positions, 2) Support for the Protestant Canon 3) Objections that have been raised against this view and conclusion.  [...]

May 6, 2008

Purgatorio1

I can’t tell you enough positive things about Purgatorio.  The site can make you think hard, laugh, and cry almost at the say time.  I found this site several years ago and fell in love with it, I even had the opportunity to meet Marc at T4G in 2006.  It was a good thing that he took a year off [...]

May 4, 2008

Church Service Rant

Today on the way to church I flipped on the local Christian talk radio station to hear what was on.  This particular morning there was a church service being broadcast for all to hear.  I’m all for that if it is a good church service, sadly this was not.  The first thing I heard was [...]