I’ve spent some time banging around some thoughts on Psalm 110, what it meant in its Jewish culture and how it was used by the early believers. To think about that I had to first spend some time thinking about the origins.
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The Deacon’s Masterpiece or, the Wonderful “One-hoss Shay”: A Logical Story by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
Have you heard of the wonderful one-hoss shay,
That was built in such a logical way
It ran a hundred years to a day,
And then, of a sudden, it — ah, but stay,
I’ll tell you what happened without delay,
Scaring the parson into fits,
Frightening people out of their wits, –
Have you ever heard of that, I say?
Tags: Oliver Wendell Holmes, One-Hoss Shay, poetry
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The Christian Carnival is up at the Evangelical Ecologist.
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In Politics, certain subjects took on a political endangering quality. Social Security has been labeled the Third Rail of American Politics specifically because it’s so charged and touching it meant death for a person’s political career. In the same way certain subjects do the same for professional careers, conversations and churches. For churches in particular, the third rail is Music: time for me to waltz on it.
You go into any Church during their service, listen to the music and note your first reaction. I don’t mean the piety of your reaction, like the part that you say “Praise God!” I mean the part of your reaction where you decide that the specific sound you’re hearing is a Good Expression of True Worship. That reaction will clue you in on what you’re approach to music in church is.
Is there a right approach to music or is it just a matter of taste? Does Music have a place in Christian worship or is it more a distraction that what it’s worth?
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The Christian Carnival is up at Brain Cramps for God.
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John 8 is often used as an example of people who profess belief but never really believed, I want to look at it as it stands: people who believe who refuse to be disciples. Now disciple is one of those archaic words that have religious overtones making it almost incomprehensible in modern day discussion. When dropped in conversation it automatically evokes images of a Jedi-like figure, hooded and dust-covered or of one of Christ’s Dozen. But “disciple” simply means someone who follows and molds their lives from the teachings of their teacher: a student.
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There is no reason but an unknown one.
A specific folder in my server (the blog folder) for some reason left the content folder password protected to no one and the main blog folder needed to be chmodded all the way down to the core to allow certain actions: I don’t know why. It’s not like I’ve done any changes or even sneezed near my blog yet for some reason it up and blocked me for weeks.
A Calvinist would say that this was predetermined. An Arminian would say that if I persevered I would’ve come through this all right. A Calminian would say “Can’t we all get along?” A Dispensationalist would’ve pointed out that it was a judgment on my blog that ended the Last Age. A Covenant Theologian would point out that the new stage of my blog is merely a further revelation of the Old therefore many of the elements are the same if not completely transposed spiritually. A Traditionalist would say that I should be motivated to post only in Psalms while a Contemporary-ist (?) would say that I should lift up my voice with the timbrel and dance.
Either way, I think I’m back in business. Blogging to resume on the morrow.
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