The Good Men Project (Will for the moment avoid commenting on the assumptions underlying the name and project.)
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Friday, February 10, 2012
Dialogues & Conversations
The Good Men Project (Will for the moment avoid commenting on the assumptions underlying the name and project.)
Time of original publication is set back by twenty minutes to make fall below another post of that day.
Friday, February 3, 2012
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Language & Languages, Ancient Stuff
LANGUAGE
The Effect of Language upon Thinking
The Importance of Words
the Theory of Dynamic Equivalence, Against
words
OnlineEtymologyDictionary
Thesaurus & Definitions
Quasillum Lat. & Grk. Study Groups
[I had these items in a sidebare and took them into a post in order to contract the sidebar into a single link 2010-12-15 at 351pmMST, setting the publishing date and time to an earlier point in order to prevent the post from rising to the top of the blog.]
The Effect of Language upon Thinking
The Importance of Words
the Theory of Dynamic Equivalence, Against
words
OnlineEtymologyDictionary
Thesaurus & Definitions
LANGUAGES
The Middle English CompendiumGreek & Latin
Perseus Digital LibraryQuasillum Lat. & Grk. Study Groups
Latin
Notre Dame's Latin Dictionary and Grammar AidAncient Stuff
The Ancient Library[I had these items in a sidebare and took them into a post in order to contract the sidebar into a single link 2010-12-15 at 351pmMST, setting the publishing date and time to an earlier point in order to prevent the post from rising to the top of the blog.]
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Music that Can Accurately be called "Christian", that is suitable for teaching one another and for praise in worship
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I had a widget in the blog sidebar and realized that it took a while to load, which slowed down the blog when it is loaded. It's a music widget and since it's worth having I decided to make a separate post devoted to worthwhile Christian music--you know, music that's Christian in Substance and not just in name. Here I've placed not only the widget, but intend to place other examples of genuinely Christian music. Right now this post will have to stay in a somewhat rought state, just dropping things on here (have things to do!), but it's a start.
The point is that, after a few more posts, this one will drop off the front page of the blog, meaning that loading the blog main page won't be slowed by the active content, but the content won't be lost from the blog, either.
Good Shepherd Band's "Wake Up Sleeper"; click the widget below to listen.
to do:
- see http://www.baylyblog.com/music/
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I had a widget in the blog sidebar and realized that it took a while to load, which slowed down the blog when it is loaded. It's a music widget and since it's worth having I decided to make a separate post devoted to worthwhile Christian music--you know, music that's Christian in Substance and not just in name. Here I've placed not only the widget, but intend to place other examples of genuinely Christian music. Right now this post will have to stay in a somewhat rought state, just dropping things on here (have things to do!), but it's a start.
The point is that, after a few more posts, this one will drop off the front page of the blog, meaning that loading the blog main page won't be slowed by the active content, but the content won't be lost from the blog, either.
Good Shepherd Band's "Wake Up Sleeper"; click the widget below to listen.
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Matthew Smith's "Goodnight",.
to do:
- see http://www.baylyblog.com/music/
Saturday, July 3, 2010
Resources & Food For Sheep
Food for Sheep ()
(As with much on this blog, the plan is to update and re-organize and expand, etc. etc.: it's shared as a pointer to worthwhile things for fellow sheep, but is certainly is subject to revisions.)
THE GOSPEL ITSELF
The Power of God Unto Salvation by B.B. Warfield.How surprisingly unwelcome the is gospel among those professing to be Christian in our day; it becomes merely a thing to be heard once, after which to be moved beyond to higher and greater things, rather than the most blessed and greatest of messages, most needful to be reminded and instructed constantly, most eagerly heard of all potential messages or teachings; how sorrowfully lacking are the many gospels presented in our day, either of power or of truth, and especially of Christ, whom to they may allude, or reference, or note in passing, or indeed guise such paucity by offering upon another Christ altogether, a counterfeit posed as the real thing. This book is none of these evils, and it is richly Christological.
Christology (About Christ)
See "The Power of God unto Salvation" above.Theology (About God)
Discourses on the Existence and Attributes of God - If you don't mind reading old, more-wordy, books, this is a good one, but it is perhaps for those who are accustomed to reading, and maybe looking some things up. Having Latinate terms used, for example, might make people uncomfortable; though so important to our language, both the vernacular and that of the church, it is so far receded from most that it can seem intimidating. Perhaps it's a book for a time more accustomed to a certain way of speaking, not so far as to be another language, but with form of thoughts quite different; appropriate actually to Scripture, whose great theme, God, is its own, and whose thoughts it is to exhibit; but I don't pretend that many are accustomed to reading [GREAT!] books like these.Sanctification (being made holy), and Mortification (Putting Sin to Death)
Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers (recommendation and excerpt here, "The lust he thought was dead..." (Baylyblog)VARIOUS RESOURCES/MINISTRIES
* The GraceLife Pulpit (Bible Preaching)
* thefaithfulword.org (Doctrinal Research, discerning.)
* CIC & * SVC : are discerning, however, dispensationalist (though that's lead DeWaay to a very interesting investigation of the word "generation" in the NT!); SVC also perhaps poor on doctrine of Reprobation.
* Founders Ministries
* Eschatology
Blogs
blogs can be great for dealing with specific issues as they arise or become generally discussed, questions asked or that need to be asked by someone, and for seeing and assessing the spirit or spirits of the times, the general trends of thought, and the intereaction thereof with those of the past; they are versatile and typically more informal, accessible, personal (when very good); and the right ones have either authorities worth hearing or else people worth or pleasant for discoursing with.
* Against Heresies by Martin Downes
* Bayly Brothers (Bayly Blog)
* Conrad Mbewe (A Letter from Kabwata)
* Frank Turk (...And His Ministers A Flame of Fire)
* Guy Davies (Exile Preacher)
* Pyromaniacs (discerning, edifying, not afraid to be frank or of the consequences)
* "Reformation Theology" (blog)
* The Sacred Sandwiche (set to a fav') (brilliant, shining satire)
* Shane Trammel's Blog (worthwhile)
* Stand To Reason (thought provoking)
* Victor Edwards (X-Christianity) (thought provoking, unusual stuff I don't see elsewhere)
* WebTruth.org (throught provoking)
Duncan Forbes
Matthew Blair (the foolish galatian)
Tim Challies (Challies.com)
Specifically for Ladies
Sola Sisters (blog)
The Brave Lass (blog)
CONFESSION(S)
1. London Baptist* Confession of Faith"*note; LBCF1689modernized and diagrammed2. A Brief and Untechnical Statement of the Reformed Faith by Benjiman B. Warfield
CATECHISM
1. A Puritan Catechism by C.H. Spurgeon.2. [Linking to the Heidelberg Catechism, hopefully soon]
Genuinely Christian--or Spiritual--Music
(click heading)Last Rev. 2010/07/20
And do not get drunk with wine, for that is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit, speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord;--Ephesians 5:18-19You know, Christian in substance, not in name only; Music truly praising God, not in mere repetitious exclamations of our love for Him, or vague and empty general declarations about Him, but descriptive stuff from which one can actually learn; also numbers on of the Christian experience, yet not centered around man as so much is: it's not about the experience or its feelings, but what He does.
Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you, with all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God.--Colossians 3:16
Other
The Bible, βιβλος (online), E-SWORD (free program with many modules)Theology (much more work needed shortly), HistoricalTheology,Vol. 1, HistoricalTheology,Vol. 2
About Translations, (History, Philosophies, Reviews), Bible Researcher
On the King James Version
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Monday, June 7, 2010
Romanism
[Created to be ready to hopefully, incrementally, do justice to the subject.]
Rough Explanatory Essays,
The Fuzzy Label "Catholicism", how to define...
Christian Ministries to Catholics,
Berean Beacon
Reaching Catholics...
Rough Explanatory Essays,
The Fuzzy Label "Catholicism", how to define...
Christian Ministries to Catholics,
Berean Beacon
Reaching Catholics...
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Eastern Orthodoxy
Eastern-Orthodoxy at Berean Beacon.
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In recent years interest in the Eastern Orthodox Church among Christians has grown steadily and there have been a number of converts to this religious body. A prime reason for this interest has been the growing fascination with mysticism and ancient tradition which has permeated Western societies. Increasing numbers of Christians are coming into contact with Eastern Orthodox mysticism via the Emergent Church and the writings of the Orthodox "Church Fathers". There are many strands to Eastern Orthodox mysticism; this paper briefly examines a few significant areas such as Theosis, Hesychasm, the "Jesus Prayer", Spiritual Fathers and Light Mysticism. | 1. The Seven Pillars of Orthodoxy 2. Orthodox Bishops High Priests 3. Just Say No 4. Icons Visions of a Spiritual World 5. Evangelical Issues for the Eastern Orthodox 6. Eastern Orthodoxy The Mystical Trap |
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Sunday, February 15, 2009
Vine's Expository Dictionary of the New Testament
Browsing through this little number, I keep hitting problems.
Perhaps it is the expository part. Perhaps it's the weak theology of the author's brethren (open) background; but I'm starting to think the "Expository" part of Vine's is not one of its best features, as it seems he eisegetes1 his own meanings into some of the text too very often, and that it is more an enthusiastic approach to definitions than scholarly rigor.
Thus I would only approach using this resource very, very critically, using his definitions critically. (Repetition intended.) One example is the use of "predestined", where the author reads "middle knowledge" (scientia media) into the term, saying that God sees beforehand whether a believer will or will not believe, and yet I distinctly remember some very honest, rigorous, Arminian scholars saying (or perhaps I mis-remember and it was just non-Calvinist ones; I realize I need to re-dig-up those sources), as do Calvinists, that this is NOT the way the word is ever used in Greek (and other scholars concur). There are also passages that explicitly discount this theory, despite its popularity and currency among Arminians and philosophizing [neo]evangelicals.
I am, therefore, wholly removing the link to the resource and just leaving-up this warning page, not because I don't appreciate the work, not because of any Arminian tendencies, but because it seems each time I page through it that I find inaccuracies, I don't know how truly helpful it is to someone if they're not either studying Greek, or very familiar (read, practiced) with critical use of lexicons, concordances, commentaries, etc.; normally caveatted works are said to be "for scholars then", yet Scholars, believing scholars, don't really seem to give this work much stock, so far as I know; the trouble with telling people "read critically" is that to do so requires the background and experience in the matter to be read which the general populace will not know, and which would make a popularly aimed like "Vine's..." perhaps useless anyways. Thus, as I said I would, the link is stricken.
1 To "eisegete" a text or word is to impute (read) meaning into it that's not original to it.
Perhaps it is the expository part. Perhaps it's the weak theology of the author's brethren (open) background; but I'm starting to think the "Expository" part of Vine's is not one of its best features, as it seems he eisegetes1 his own meanings into some of the text too very often, and that it is more an enthusiastic approach to definitions than scholarly rigor.
Thus I would only approach using this resource very, very critically, using his definitions critically. (Repetition intended.) One example is the use of "predestined", where the author reads "middle knowledge" (scientia media) into the term, saying that God sees beforehand whether a believer will or will not believe, and yet I distinctly remember some very honest, rigorous, Arminian scholars saying (or perhaps I mis-remember and it was just non-Calvinist ones; I realize I need to re-dig-up those sources), as do Calvinists, that this is NOT the way the word is ever used in Greek (and other scholars concur). There are also passages that explicitly discount this theory, despite its popularity and currency among Arminians and philosophizing [neo]evangelicals.
I am, therefore, wholly removing the link to the resource and just leaving-up this warning page, not because I don't appreciate the work, not because of any Arminian tendencies, but because it seems each time I page through it that I find inaccuracies, I don't know how truly helpful it is to someone if they're not either studying Greek, or very familiar (read, practiced) with critical use of lexicons, concordances, commentaries, etc.; normally caveatted works are said to be "for scholars then", yet Scholars, believing scholars, don't really seem to give this work much stock, so far as I know; the trouble with telling people "read critically" is that to do so requires the background and experience in the matter to be read which the general populace will not know, and which would make a popularly aimed like "Vine's..." perhaps useless anyways. Thus, as I said I would, the link is stricken.
1 To "eisegete" a text or word is to impute (read) meaning into it that's not original to it.
"Baptist"
[The following is subject to much amendment and refining.]
The sad part of the term "baptist", is that it is associated with so much, and used so ambiguously. When used people think of "the baptists", but "the baptists" is a name applied to a broad and diverse range of people with varying beliefs. All evangelicals that do not baptize infants (kids fine, but not infants) are "baptists", using the proper definition of what the term designates!
There are "baptists" who are as different from one another as Roman Catholics from Conservative, Confessional Presbyterians. In fact, Reformed Baptists ("RB's") typically differ from Presbyterians only in that RB's reject (1) paedobaptism and the teachings associated with it, such as assumed/presumed regeneration of believers' children as unbiblical, anti-evangelical, and contrary to Christ, and also, (2) the failure of to recognize that the New Covenant has a discontinuity from the old, the law written on the heart of believers, and that community being composed only of such inscribed individuals (which is biblical), (3) the dominionist-like "magisterial" elements of the Westminster Confession. RB's also reject the remnants of Roman Catholicism found in Presbyterianism through the "continuity" sought with the Anglican's Church's 39 articles, which themselves sought to preserve a "Continuity" with the Church's thoroughly Roman past. (4) RB's also reject the remnants of Roman Catholicism in Reformed camps in the form of remaining Sacramentalism, especially in the form of "administering" the fuzzily-defined "means of grace": RB's, unlike Presbys-through-Rome, are perfectly willing to just sit-down and break bread in remembrance of the Lord (though still taking it seriously, of course), without the presence of the supposedly needed "properly ordained minister" to "administer" [God's] grace. In government, however, RB's are usually (for all practical purposes) Presbyterian without the addition of a bunch of supraecclesial levels beyond the individuals congregations, that is, they associate, not denominate (ARBCA is the exception--its Constitution describes a denomination, not an association), but they don't necessarily allow congregationalism's disorderliness. (That said, there should be elements in any and every Church's organization and relationships that would probably be deemed "Congregational" by most.)
There are also Arminian baptists, not a few stemming from anabaptist roots. There is the factious and proud arminian "Landmarkism" (a schismatic sect), such that there are groups called "Landmark Baptists" (another name is "Missionary Baptists"). There are "Southern Baptists", but this group is a great admixture of opposing views, goods, heresies...its historical teaching roots are in the Reformed Camp, as documentation shows, but with the waning of those doctrinal roots it has become not only the largest, one of the most mocked groups ever to call itself Christian: thankfully there are faithful ministers therein, however, striving in the good fight for the faith to overturn its departures. (Such as those who write for Founders.org and Founders blog.)
I write this because the term "baptist" is now associated with much disorderliness, nonsense, and what is outlandish. Unthinking, anti-intellectual, ascerbic-preaching, etc.. But it would be like accusing, throwing-together, all "paedobaptists" and giving them ridicule because the pope of Rome bedecked with glass lady-slippers, elaborate dress, (anyone want a jewel-studded chaucible, i.e. poncho, anyone?), and a gold and jeweled emperor's scepter makes for one of the most entertaining displays worthy of mockery ever to "grace" the human experience; a man claiming to be Christ's substitute and representative on earth, the Man who "had no comeliness", supposedly represented by that lavish and pompous head of that notorious and odious-to-the-sheep institution. Why would those who proclaim that there is no other name by which we must be saved than Jesus's be associated with those who teach that for salvation all who have the opportunity to know about the Pope must submit and be subject to the Pope? Why would those who preach the truth, that Christ is the head of the Church, not only in Heaven, but on Earth, be associated with he who declares himself the Church's earthly head?
So why, then, do people group "the baptists", when similar chasms of difference exist between certain groups? Why would the RB's who love and yet have mutual support with their Presbyterian brethren (though often RB's are also despised in one way or another by Presbyterians, example here) be grouped with the factious and ridiculous offshoots of Landmarkism? Why would the ambiguous heterodoctrinal Southern Baptist Convention be altogether associated with either of those?
The sad part of the term "baptist", is that it is associated with so much, and used so ambiguously. When used people think of "the baptists", but "the baptists" is a name applied to a broad and diverse range of people with varying beliefs. All evangelicals that do not baptize infants (kids fine, but not infants) are "baptists", using the proper definition of what the term designates!
There are "baptists" who are as different from one another as Roman Catholics from Conservative, Confessional Presbyterians. In fact, Reformed Baptists ("RB's") typically differ from Presbyterians only in that RB's reject (1) paedobaptism and the teachings associated with it, such as assumed/presumed regeneration of believers' children as unbiblical, anti-evangelical, and contrary to Christ, and also, (2) the failure of to recognize that the New Covenant has a discontinuity from the old, the law written on the heart of believers, and that community being composed only of such inscribed individuals (which is biblical), (3) the dominionist-like "magisterial" elements of the Westminster Confession. RB's also reject the remnants of Roman Catholicism found in Presbyterianism through the "continuity" sought with the Anglican's Church's 39 articles, which themselves sought to preserve a "Continuity" with the Church's thoroughly Roman past. (4) RB's also reject the remnants of Roman Catholicism in Reformed camps in the form of remaining Sacramentalism, especially in the form of "administering" the fuzzily-defined "means of grace": RB's, unlike Presbys-through-Rome, are perfectly willing to just sit-down and break bread in remembrance of the Lord (though still taking it seriously, of course), without the presence of the supposedly needed "properly ordained minister" to "administer" [God's] grace. In government, however, RB's are usually (for all practical purposes) Presbyterian without the addition of a bunch of supraecclesial levels beyond the individuals congregations, that is, they associate, not denominate (ARBCA is the exception--its Constitution describes a denomination, not an association), but they don't necessarily allow congregationalism's disorderliness. (That said, there should be elements in any and every Church's organization and relationships that would probably be deemed "Congregational" by most.)
There are also Arminian baptists, not a few stemming from anabaptist roots. There is the factious and proud arminian "Landmarkism" (a schismatic sect), such that there are groups called "Landmark Baptists" (another name is "Missionary Baptists"). There are "Southern Baptists", but this group is a great admixture of opposing views, goods, heresies...its historical teaching roots are in the Reformed Camp, as documentation shows, but with the waning of those doctrinal roots it has become not only the largest, one of the most mocked groups ever to call itself Christian: thankfully there are faithful ministers therein, however, striving in the good fight for the faith to overturn its departures. (Such as those who write for Founders.org and Founders blog.)
I write this because the term "baptist" is now associated with much disorderliness, nonsense, and what is outlandish. Unthinking, anti-intellectual, ascerbic-preaching, etc.. But it would be like accusing, throwing-together, all "paedobaptists" and giving them ridicule because the pope of Rome bedecked with glass lady-slippers, elaborate dress, (anyone want a jewel-studded chaucible, i.e. poncho, anyone?), and a gold and jeweled emperor's scepter makes for one of the most entertaining displays worthy of mockery ever to "grace" the human experience; a man claiming to be Christ's substitute and representative on earth, the Man who "had no comeliness", supposedly represented by that lavish and pompous head of that notorious and odious-to-the-sheep institution. Why would those who proclaim that there is no other name by which we must be saved than Jesus's be associated with those who teach that for salvation all who have the opportunity to know about the Pope must submit and be subject to the Pope? Why would those who preach the truth, that Christ is the head of the Church, not only in Heaven, but on Earth, be associated with he who declares himself the Church's earthly head?
So why, then, do people group "the baptists", when similar chasms of difference exist between certain groups? Why would the RB's who love and yet have mutual support with their Presbyterian brethren (though often RB's are also despised in one way or another by Presbyterians, example here) be grouped with the factious and ridiculous offshoots of Landmarkism? Why would the ambiguous heterodoctrinal Southern Baptist Convention be altogether associated with either of those?
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
An Archive-Section for the Blog
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(So I wanted a way to make a blog "archive" without using more than about a line of side-bar space. KISSing it, I've decided to make a post that I can hand-edit with the months, and so I present to you the Blog's Archive.
Unfortunately it's not a post I can make disappear and have called only by someone clicking on the "Archive" link to the right. That's okay, though, a little exposure and perhaps Google might take notice and implement features in blogger that are like this.)
Feb '11
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2008-2010
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(So I wanted a way to make a blog "archive" without using more than about a line of side-bar space. KISSing it, I've decided to make a post that I can hand-edit with the months, and so I present to you the Blog's Archive.
Unfortunately it's not a post I can make disappear and have called only by someone clicking on the "Archive" link to the right. That's okay, though, a little exposure and perhaps Google might take notice and implement features in blogger that are like this.)
Saturday, March 11, 2000
Misc. Drawer
Note the stuff in here is not by presence necessarily endorsed or not, it's just here: a miscellaneous drawer is where one throws stuff in for possible, later perusal.
Politics? Sociology? Commentary? Polemic?
"101 'Cleared-Up' Contradictions In The Bible"
A Long Overview of John Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion
Corrections to Battles' translation of Calvin's Institutes
C's Institutes, translation by Henry Beveridge
The Hall ofChurchHistory
The Carlyle Letters Online
Internet Modern History Sourcebook
Another example of something posted later than the timestamp in order to force it out of view because it's just for throwing things on and linking-to from the sidebar.
Politics? Sociology? Commentary? Polemic?
"101 'Cleared-Up' Contradictions In The Bible"
A Long Overview of John Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion
Corrections to Battles' translation of Calvin's Institutes
C's Institutes, translation by Henry Beveridge
The Hall ofChurchHistory
The Carlyle Letters Online
Internet Modern History Sourcebook
Another example of something posted later than the timestamp in order to force it out of view because it's just for throwing things on and linking-to from the sidebar.
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