OK, I’m Back

Comments approved (and answered).  Thank you all for the good thoughts.  Lord willing, see some of you tomorrow.

(Had a great time in London this week, more on that next week, Lord willing.)

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Contrasting Prayers

Some Muslim prayers, including some recited by those who were murdering a young Christian recently (I won’t include the link, too graphic).

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Of Books and Covers

We aren’t supposed to judge a book by its cover — but how should we judge our own appearance?

Pastor Kent Brandenburg had an interesting post a couple of weeks ago about pearls, referring to I Timothy 2:9, which reads:

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Gay Marriage in Denmark

It is now mandatory for all churches to conduct homosexual weddings in Denmark.

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Comment Moderation

Just so everyone knows, I’m going to have lessened ability to monitor comments for a while, so I’m turning on full moderation.  Every comment will be held in the moderation queue until I can look at it, and it may take me a while to do so.  So your comment (unless it is spam) will appear eventually, but don’t necessarily expect it to happen soon.

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St. Giles Cathedral

With family visiting, we spent the day in Edinburgh, and visited St. Giles Cathedral.  St. Giles is known as the High Kirk of Edinburgh and the Mother Church of Presbyterianism.  It is the church of John Knox, the Scottish Reformer.

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Mercy and Justice Kissed

(Post by Michael Gleason)

Exodus 34:5-7

5 And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD.
6 And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,
7 Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.

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