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Happy Leap Day

Posted in Trivia, tagged , , , , on Friday, 29 February 2008 | 3 Comments »

(or Intercalary Day if you prefer.)
Often,* one hears that the real leap day is 24 February instead of 29 February. Of course one thinks, ‘But there’s a 24 Feb every year, this doesn’t make sense.’ Indeed, I concur. However, I thought it might be interesting to shed light on why 24 February was considered the [...]

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Review of Luther: Man Between God and the Devil

Posted in Book Review, Literature, Theology, tagged , , , on Thursday, 28 February 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Recently I finished the book Luther: Man Between God and the Devil. by Heiko A. Oberman. The premise of the book is that to understand Martin Luther, we cannot view him as either a mediaeval man or a modern man, but have to understand him by his own words. As the title of the book [...]

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Pædobaptism: A Sign and Seal of Covenantal Grace

Posted in Theology, tagged , , , , on Friday, 22 February 2008 | 6 Comments »

Throughout Scripture we see God working His grace and judgment through families.
— John Sartelle
I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing steadfast love to thousands of those [...]

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Madness

Posted in Uncategorized on Monday, 11 February 2008 | 7 Comments »

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A Small Story in a Day

Posted in Life, Observations, Religion, tagged , , , , on Sunday, 10 February 2008 | 10 Comments »

On Saturday I was driving back from the dealership after having the car radio reset. As I was driving home, I was listening to the radio on the station it was preset to and heard what sounded like a country song. Having only a few minutes to drive home, I decided to listen to the [...]

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Exuberant Terror

Posted in Fatherhood, Theology, tagged , , on Tuesday, 5 February 2008 | 4 Comments »

My pastor has frequently commented that we are to approach God with ‘joyful reverence’, and while I cerebrally understand the idea, experientially the concept is not always perspicuous. Until recently, that is. Since discovering we were going to have a child, the similar concept of ‘exuberant terror’ seems completely normal. While very excited about having [...]

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