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Friday, March 12, 2010
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I am always perplexed by the attitude that many Christians have about baptism. I am referring to the compulsion they feel to distance baptism as far as they can from the experience of conversion. Such an outlook would have been totally foreign to the early Christians. I just finished N. T. Wright's book, Simply Christian, and I want to share an excerpt in which he explains why baptism was central to early Christian conversions. Wright is probably the most respected NT scholar alive today. His explanation of baptism is well-worth reading.
Thursday, March 11, 2010
In a matter of one week, my doctor suspected that my back pain might be something more serious, I had an MRI, was diagnosed as having a ruptured disk that threatens the loss of the use of my right foot, and back surgery was scheduled. We have the best medical system in the world. Let's hope the progressives in Washington don't ruin it.
Written by Greg Waddell Thursday, March 11, 2010
A wise and learned professor of philosophy was asked by a student: "Do you believe that truth is relative." He looked at the student and said: "That depends." The battle lines have long been drawn in our culture between the absolutists and the relativists. I think the question needs to be reframed because both positions have something important to say about how we know, what we know, and about the nature of truth itself.
Written by Greg Waddell Wednesday, March 03, 2010
I ran across the following quote the other day. It is an excerpt from Thomas Paine's book, Common Sense and is often referred to as the Entrepreneur's Credo. I find it inspiring and aligned with biblical Christianity. But I know that among many Christians, it has become fashionable to depict entrepreneurialism as a baneful contradiction of spirituality and to sanctify instead helpless dependency. I think that's misguided, but I am open to correction; can any of you liberal-leaning brothers and sisters out there in the blogosphere show me where and how any part of this statement contradicts the true spirit of Jesus Christ and biblical Christianity?
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