New Blog Feature: Book Reviews

I’ve decided to add a new category to this blog: book reviews. It seems the few I’ve done in the past were helpful to people. I’m just about to finish Calvin’s Institutes so I’ll have that up in a few weeks. Also I’ve added a side bar on the right hand column listing books I [...]

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Carbon Offsets: the New Papal Indulgence

With additional news exposing the Pope of Green, I’ve decided to write about the relation of buying carbon offsets to the papal indulgences of the sixteenth century.
The Popes authorized the sale of indulgences to fund the cathedrals and other projects in Rome. By buying an indulgence one could reduce the amount of punishment for [...]

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the Jesus Storybook Bible: Every story whispers his name. A Review

Recently I ordered this book from Westminster Bookstore for our expected child.
I enjoy this book by Sally Lloyd-Jones immensely. Unlike many other collections of Bible stories for children, The Jesus Storybook Bible has as its predominant theme the account of Jesus and how God saves for himself a people. Even the subtitle alludes [...]

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Bespectacled

Just as old or bleary-eyed men and those with weak vision, if you thrust before them a most beautiful volume, even if they recognize it to be some sort of writing, yet can scarcely construe two words, but with the aid of spectacles will begin to read distinctly; so Scripture, gathering up the otherwise confused [...]

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