tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1798027843054439792024-02-18T17:58:17.567-08:00The Goins ReportPolitics + Poetry + PhilosophyThe Goinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646980370517155433noreply@blogger.comBlogger1144125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-179802784305443979.post-91367122491156987102021-10-17T05:55:00.037-07:002021-10-17T06:07:53.175-07:00WCF Chapter One "Of Holy Scripture" Sunday School (Sept.-Oct. 2021)<p style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXBexyaNO5y9FQVW3BBfN3mJc4OJvYsU1VbhasxJZeY8lXBED2PTQXOTjhjdqjXSCfyb5Cr2gVh5aT2GTK8_kW6LLaEWpUz4QaHZ31lTRMdvMVzdqlXAtuvg1p0bbujEioOlMqN9IvskM/s1080/confessingthefaithbook.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXBexyaNO5y9FQVW3BBfN3mJc4OJvYsU1VbhasxJZeY8lXBED2PTQXOTjhjdqjXSCfyb5Cr2gVh5aT2GTK8_kW6LLaEWpUz4QaHZ31lTRMdvMVzdqlXAtuvg1p0bbujEioOlMqN9IvskM/w320-h320/confessingthefaithbook.png" title="Our text for Sunday School (also the actual "Confession of Faith and Catechisms")" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our text for Sunday School (also "The Confession of Faith and Catechisms")</td></tr></tbody></table><b><br /></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Biblical Theology Bites</b></p><p>What is "Biblical Theology"?</p><p><br /></p><p><b>All text from the Westminster "Confession of Faith" was taken from the <a href="https://opc.org/wcf.html" target="_blank">OPC's website</a>. See <a href="https://opc.org/wcf.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Question and Answer</p><p></p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>What is meant by "the light of nature?"</li><li>What is meant by "the works of creation and providence?</li><li>Choose a section from Chapter One of "The Confession of Faith" and find a proof-text not chosen by the Westminster Divines (the authors of <i>The Confession of Faith</i>) to support that sentence, clause, or paragraph from <i>the Confession</i>.</li></ol><div> Answer</div><div><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>According Chad Van Dixhoorn, in his book "Confessing the Faith" the "light of nature" is "the divine imprint which is left on each of us by our Maker" (p.4). Ecclesiastes 3:11 says that "He has put eternity in their hearts." We remain creatures made in his image although we are fallen. We are image bearers. We will never cease to be. </li></ol></div><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>CHAPTER 1</p><p>Of the Holy Scripture</p><p>1. Although the light of nature, and the works of creation and providence do so far manifest the goodness, wisdom, and power of God, as to leave men unexcusable; yet are they not sufficient to give that knowledge of God, and of his will, which is necessary unto salvation. Therefore it pleased the Lord, at sundry times, and in divers manners, to reveal himself, and to declare that his will unto his church; and afterwards, for the better preserving and propagating of the truth, and for the more sure establishment and comfort of the church against the corruption of the flesh, and the malice of Satan and of the world, to commit the same wholly unto writing: which maketh the Holy Scripture to be most necessary; those former ways of God's revealing his will unto his people being now ceased.</p><p><br /></p><p>2. Under the name of Holy Scripture, or the Word of God written, are now contained all the books of the Old and New Testaments, which are these:</p><p><br /></p><p>Of the Old Testament:</p><p><br /></p><p>Genesis<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>II Chronicles<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Daniel</p><p>Exodus<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Ezra<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Hosea</p><p>Leviticus<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Nehemiah<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Joel</p><p>Numbers<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Esther<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Amos</p><p>Deuteronomy<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Job<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Obadiah</p><p>Joshua<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Psalms<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Jonah</p><p>Judges<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Proverbs<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Micah</p><p>Ruth<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Ecclesiastes<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Nahum</p><p>I Samuel<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Song of Songs<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Habakkuk</p><p>II Samuel<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Isaiah<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Zephaniah</p><p>I Kings<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Jeremiah<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Haggai</p><p>II Kings<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Lamentations<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Zechariah</p><p>I Chronicles<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Ezekiel<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Malachi</p><p>Of the New Testament:</p><p><br /></p><p>The Gospels<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Galatians<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Epistle</p><p> according to<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Ephesians<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> of James</p><p> Matthew<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Philippians<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The first and</p><p> Mark<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Colossians<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> second Epistles</p><p> Luke<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Thessalonians I<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> of Peter</p><p> John<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Thessalonians II<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The first, second,</p><p>The Acts of the<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> to Timothy I<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> and third Epistles</p><p> Apostles<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> to Timothy II<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> of John</p><p>Paul's Epistles<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> to Titus<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Epistle</p><p> to the Romans<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> to Philemon<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> of Jude</p><p> Corinthians I<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Epistle to<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Revelation</p><p> Corinthians II<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> the Hebrews<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> of John</p><p>All which are given by inspiration of God to be the rule of faith and life.</p><p><br /></p><p>3. The books commonly called Apocrypha, not being of divine inspiration, are no part of the canon of the Scripture, and therefore are of no authority in the church of God, nor to be any otherwise approved, or made use of, than other human writings.</p><p><br /></p><p>4. The authority of the Holy Scripture, for which it ought to be believed, and obeyed, dependeth not upon the testimony of any man, or church; but wholly upon God (who is truth itself) the author thereof: and therefore it is to be received, because it is the Word of God.</p><p><br /></p><p>5. We may be moved and induced by the testimony of the church to an high and reverent esteem of the Holy Scripture. And the heavenliness of the matter, the efficacy of the doctrine, the majesty of the style, the consent of all the parts, the scope of the whole (which is, to give all glory to God), the full discovery it makes of the only way of man's salvation, the many other incomparable excellencies, and the entire perfection thereof, are arguments whereby it doth abundantly evidence itself to be the Word of God: yet notwithstanding, our full persuasion and assurance of the infallible truth and divine authority thereof, is from the inward work of the Holy Spirit bearing witness by and with the Word in our hearts.</p><p><br /></p><p>6. The whole counsel of God concerning all things necessary for his own glory, man's salvation, faith and life, is either expressly set down in Scripture, or by good and necessary consequence may be deduced from Scripture: unto which nothing at any time is to be added, whether by new revelations of the Spirit, or traditions of men. Nevertheless, we acknowledge the inward illumination of the Spirit of God to be necessary for the saving understanding of such things as are revealed in the Word: and that there are some circumstances concerning the worship of God, and government of the church, common to human actions and societies, which are to be ordered by the light of nature, and Christian prudence, according to the general rules of the Word, which are always to be observed.</p><p><br /></p><p>7. All things in Scripture are not alike plain in themselves, nor alike clear unto all: yet those things which are necessary to be known, believed, and observed for salvation, are so clearly propounded, and opened in some place of Scripture or other, that not only the learned, but the unlearned, in a due use of the ordinary means, may attain unto a sufficient understanding of them.</p><p><br /></p><p>8. The Old Testament in Hebrew (which was the native language of the people of God of old), and the New Testament in Greek (which, at the time of the writing of it, was most generally known to the nations), being immediately inspired by God, and, by his singular care and providence, kept pure in all ages, are therefore authentical; so as, in all controversies of religion, the church is finally to appeal unto them. But, because these original tongues are not known to all the people of God, who have right unto, and interest in the Scriptures, and are commanded, in the fear of God, to read and search them, therefore they are to be translated into the vulgar language of every nation unto which they come, that, the Word of God dwelling plentifully in all, they may worship him in an acceptable manner; and, through patience and comfort of the Scriptures, may have hope.</p><p><br /></p><p>+ What does it mean by "authentical"?</p><p>+Controversies of religion?</p><p>+Kept pure in all ages?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><i>so as, in all controversies of religion, the church is finally to appeal unto them. <b>(WCF 1.8 (S))</b></i></p><p><b>Proof Text (1.8.S)</b>: <i>"And with this the words of the prophets agree, just as it is written"</i> (Acts 15:15 NKJV)</p><p><i>"But, because these original tongues are not known to all the people of God, who have right unto, and interest in the Scriptures, and are commanded, in the fear of God, to read and search them." <b>(WCF 1.8 (T))</b></i></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Proof Text (T):</b><i> "You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me.</i> (John 5:39 NKJV)</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Proof Text (T):</b> "These were more fair-minded than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so." (Acts 17:11 NKJV)</p><p><br /></p><p><b>+Chris's Commentary:</b> The Confession of Faith uses John 5:39 and Acts 17:11 as a proof text for the following text in footnote "T" (bottom of page 7 in the black book):</p><p>I somewhat disagree with these as a proof texts for this passage. But I can see why they were used. I think there are better passages elsewhere. The implications of these texts are sufficient.</p><p>In the Van Dixhoorn book, Dixhoorn drops Acts 17:11 completely as a proof text for 1.8(T). </p><p>Because the scriptures testify of Jesus, we are to read the scriptures. That makes sense.</p><p>At first I didn't see them as proof texts for this. But upon further examination, Jesus isn't commanding them to search the scriptures. He's pointing out that they do. That's not what makes this a proof text. Rather it's the <i>rest of the verse</i>. "they are they which testify of me." This is an example of a religious controversy. Jesus is settling an issue -- the issue of eternal life -- by pointing to the Holy Scriptures. It is implied that searching the scriptures is the way to know about Jesus and whether the things the disciples were saying about him were true.</p><p><strike>I thought the Westminster Divines were using a description as a prescription in both texts and half-quoting in the instance of John 5:39. In some sense they were. But it was not the description of the Pharisees searching the scripture. </strike></p><p>I made the same mistake with the Berean Jews text in Acts 17:11. </p><p>At first, I thought they were saying that this was a command to search the scriptures, since the Berean Jews were doing just that. But no. This is once again pointing to a religious controversy. In this case, Paul and Silas "went into the synagogue of the Jews" (Acts 17:10). The "Word of God was preached by Paul at Berea" (Acts 17:13). And the Berean Jews came to believe and become Christians. They "searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so" (Acts 17:11). This is a proof text because the Berean Jews-now-Jewish Christians appealed to the Bible to settle whether the preaching of the Apostle Paul was true. And it was!</p><p><br /></p><p>9. The infallible rule of interpretation of Scripture is the Scripture itself: and therefore, when there is a question about the true and full sense of any Scripture (which is not manifold, but one), it must be searched and known by other places that speak more clearly.</p><p><br /></p><p>10. The supreme judge by which all controversies of religion are to be determined, and all decrees of councils, opinions of ancient writers, doctrines of men, and private spirits, are to be examined, and in whose sentence we are to rest, can be no other but the Holy Spirit speaking in the Scripture.</p>The Goinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646980370517155433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-179802784305443979.post-14109234450722534432021-10-14T15:04:00.008-07:002021-10-14T15:25:09.739-07:00Someone gave me a nice compliment today<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3k6djNroxo6XmFFM350S2moddhg6BACERMayraSjZaprb4iTelTnd1LsjwL-mkDU3lBxxxHke4Vxkq6JcSXpcdlzVP0wCMZl__2QU_u9BR2eiThXWK67Uvnil_qQIXYyOlF4ePf7aRx4/s1080/smartblackkid.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3k6djNroxo6XmFFM350S2moddhg6BACERMayraSjZaprb4iTelTnd1LsjwL-mkDU3lBxxxHke4Vxkq6JcSXpcdlzVP0wCMZl__2QU_u9BR2eiThXWK67Uvnil_qQIXYyOlF4ePf7aRx4/s320/smartblackkid.png" width="320" /></a></div><br />Someone gave me a really nice compliment today.<p></p><p>They said I would have really "deep-thinking children" that "won't take things at face value."</p><p>That's the plan man.</p><p>And that's why marrying the right woman is so important. The woman I choose has to be down with it. She cannot retard progress or be lazy. I screen for this in the dating process.</p><p>I don't want to raise humans with malformed minds. I do not trust private school or public school with my children's minds. We're going to educate them ourselves.</p><p>I estimate that I have around 1,000-2,000 books in my library. I've only read about 25-27 books this year. I'm really behind with my goal of 52 books in 2021 but more important things interrupted me. But I'm curating a list of books I want my family and friends to read -- books that should be read a least twice and internalized.</p><p>I want my children to be beneficiaries of my personal teaching and guidance and inherit my ever-growing library. </p><p>She doesn't have to have my extraordinary reading goals. But one of the things she has to be about is educating our kids.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Book Recommendations**</b></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li><i>Biblical Theology: How the Church Faithfully Teaches the Gospel</i> by Nick Roark & Robert Cline</li><li><i>The Household and the War for The Cosmos</i> by C.R. Wiley</li><li><i>Sermon on the Mount</i> by Scot McKnight</li><li><i>The Case for Patriarchy</i> by Timothy J. Gordon</li><li><i>Living in a Godly Marriage</i> by Joel R. Beeke</li><li><i>Manifested in the Flesh</i> by Joel McDurmon</li><li><i>Sinful Speech</i> by John Flavel</li><li><i>Evangelism: How the Whole Church Speaks of Jesus</i> by J. Mack Stiles</li><li><i>A Christian's Pocket Guide to Loving the Old Testament</i> by J. Alec Moyter</li><li><i>The Nomadic Wealth Formula: A Blueprint for Generating Predictable and Sustainable Income from Anywhere on Earth</i> by Jason Stapleton</li><li><i>Man of the House</i> by C.R. Wiley</li><li><i>Thoughts on Family Worship</i> by James Waddel Alexander</li><li><i>How Should Men Lead Their Families</i> by Joel R. Beeke</li><li><i>The Case of the Hopeless Marriage: A Nouthetic Counseling Case from Beginning to End</i> by Jay E. Adams</li><li><i>Reforming Marriage</i> by Douglas Wilson</li><li><i>Economics in One Lesson</i> by Henry Hazlitt</li><li><i>The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism</i> by Robert P. Murphy</li><li><i>Meltdown: A Free Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and Government Bailouts Will Make Things Worse</i> by Thomas E. Woods</li><li><i>End the Fed</i> by Ron Paul</li></ol><ol style="text-align: left;"></ol><div><b>**This list is in progress and mostly reflects my 2021 reading. The last four books I read in previous years.</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div>Here's another list of <b><a href="https://www.goinsreport.com/2021/07/10-free-books-for-understanding-economy.html" target="_blank">10 economics books to help understand "how we got here" in terms of the growth of government and central banking in the United States</a></b>.</div><p></p>The Goinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646980370517155433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-179802784305443979.post-77353306586404488492021-09-20T15:51:00.034-07:002021-10-14T12:43:00.163-07:00Peter Leithart on V-Mandate Resistance<p></p><blockquote><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2hx2b53nexu044c71a7f0etl-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/leithart-e1485942549250-800x530.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="530" data-original-width="800" height="265" src="https://2hx2b53nexu044c71a7f0etl-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/leithart-e1485942549250-800x530.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /> "</i><span style="background-color: #fcfcfc; color: #4d4e4e; font-family: "Sorts Mill Goudy", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px;"><i>To submit to a vaccine mandate is implicitly to endorse a political order that is willing to make participation in everyday life contingent on an unwanted medical procedure."</i> -Peter Leithart</span></blockquote><span style="background-color: #fcfcfc; color: #4d4e4e; font-family: "Sorts Mill Goudy", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px;"></span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: #fcfcfc; color: #4d4e4e; font-family: "Sorts Mill Goudy", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px;">In the rest of the commentary, he notes that his individual resistance is a measure to thwart biopolitical technocracy. He explains</span>:</p><p><span style="background-color: #fcfcfc; color: #4d4e4e; font-family: "Sorts Mill Goudy", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px;"><i></i></span></p><blockquote><i><span style="background-color: #fcfcfc; color: #4d4e4e; font-family: "Sorts Mill Goudy", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px;">"I oppose vaccine mandates because I want to do my small part to gum up the works. I don’t mean the works of the Biden administration, but the much larger global trend toward biopolitical technocracy. As Roberto Esposito put it in </span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: #fcfcfc; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4e4e; font-family: "Sorts Mill Goudy", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px;">Biopolitics</span><span style="background-color: #fcfcfc; color: #4d4e4e; font-family: "Sorts Mill Goudy", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px;">, political authority was traditionally the authority to kill. Under the reign of biopolitics, rulers care for and manage life. Once upon a time, the ruler bore a sword; now, a syringe."</span></i></blockquote><span style="background-color: #fcfcfc; color: #4d4e4e; font-family: "Sorts Mill Goudy", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px;"></span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: #fcfcfc; color: #4d4e4e; font-family: "Sorts Mill Goudy", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px;">So in other words, "biopolitical technocracy" is a kind of ideology and government type that should be opposed. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fcfcfc; color: #4d4e4e; font-family: "Sorts Mill Goudy", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px;">It should be opposed as fervently as one opposes fascism, or socialism, or American exceptionalism (especially the kind that wants to impose the American order on the rest of the world by bombs and bullets), or neoconservatism (and this <i><u>only</u> </i></span><span style="background-color: #fcfcfc; color: #4d4e4e; font-family: "Sorts Mill Goudy", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px;">wants to impose the American order on the rest of the world by bombs and bullets).</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fcfcfc; color: #4d4e4e; font-family: "Sorts Mill Goudy", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px;">Remember folks, Jesus is King so the State is not.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fcfcfc; color: #4d4e4e; font-family: "Sorts Mill Goudy", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px;"><b>Read the rest here:</b> <b><a href="https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2021/09/why-i-didnt-get-the-covid-vaccine" target="_blank">Why I Didn't Get the COVID Vaccine | Peter Leithart</a></b></span></p>The Goinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646980370517155433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-179802784305443979.post-48181968857847780982021-09-16T18:47:00.003-07:002021-09-16T19:20:50.554-07:00Announcement: I am a Sunday School Teacher Now!!!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqoVEissZWBIyq0IPGQjTtxAo6w5b7AfrXAnRGzCffejh4FD96LM4zlqT6sfrZJ4ZWkfXpuRdObd7E9p-bCJwAY9Y_74Km_EV8B307KS_rIAQnDTj998NkJtUWDg01zDpsz-GracKIJDY/s1080/RTS+April+26+2021.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqoVEissZWBIyq0IPGQjTtxAo6w5b7AfrXAnRGzCffejh4FD96LM4zlqT6sfrZJ4ZWkfXpuRdObd7E9p-bCJwAY9Y_74Km_EV8B307KS_rIAQnDTj998NkJtUWDg01zDpsz-GracKIJDY/s320/RTS+April+26+2021.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Me @ RTS (Mclean, VA) on April 26, 2014 for an open house.</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>A</b></span> couple of weeks ago my pastor asked me if I would be willing to teach the high schoolers and middle schoolers at our church in Sunday School. I gladly said I would consider it, and ultimately accepted the offer.</p><p>So I am pleased to announce I will be teaching The Westminster Confession of Faith and using "<i>Confessing the Faith: A Reader's Guide to the Westminster Confession of Faith" </i>(2014)<i> </i>by Chad Van Dixhoorn of Reformed Theological Seminary starting on Sunday, September 19, 2021.</p><p>The topic was the pastor's choosing.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_mqJyc3xINzxp1cf7trDKtCQcaSeQ6hzdfadZUlRAo3app7-HhKo_b0tqYQ9KWhtLT-YrvyLk-s2ZLCuMbumB0TzAWhauwHz3AfL7Rek8Ioqw7n9bH6gNkqd6FHWi0akT0-y3pKruPaE/s1080/Untitled+design+%25283%2529.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_mqJyc3xINzxp1cf7trDKtCQcaSeQ6hzdfadZUlRAo3app7-HhKo_b0tqYQ9KWhtLT-YrvyLk-s2ZLCuMbumB0TzAWhauwHz3AfL7Rek8Ioqw7n9bH6gNkqd6FHWi0akT0-y3pKruPaE/s320/Untitled+design+%25283%2529.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>My copy I just received last Sunday!</b></td></tr></tbody></table><p>What's interesting is that the year this book was published I visited, but ultimately did not apply to, Reformed Theological Seminary. I can't recall if I met the author. I did, however, meet some of his colleagues mentioned in the book, such as Peter Lee of RTS and Scott Redd.</p><p>I will be publishing my weekly Sunday School Notes here at <i><b>The Goins Report. </b></i></p><p>These will be references for my students but also general readers who want to follow along with both the <a href="https://banneroftruth.org/us/store/theology-books/confessing-the-faith/" target="_blank"><i>Confession of Faith</i><i style="font-weight: bold;"> </i>book by Dixhoorn</a> and the actual <a href="https://www.opc.org/confessions.html" target="_blank">Confession of Faith text itself</a>.</p><p>While this series will not initially be recorded, it may be recorded in the future, or the next go around.</p><p>However, I plan to have a couple of video series (potentially on Youtube or Udemy at no cost, initially; or some free and some at low-cost) potentially on the following topics:</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>The Evidence of Christianity and the Evidence of Prophecy</li><li>Loving the Old Testament</li><li>Biblical Theology</li><li>Sermon on the Mount </li></ul><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-9qegDpDGOw6-NeTdTxk4b4Z37ylOZRMk_8AeGkLEgVAScOpo8__uy3O5PXuTDyp3KwRKQco8fRrHiPxAh4Yt0cUg_RJhHtOTeNiLJjgQBaUyKH64kZ7kEHsgWoRPAA9mVAJR0TXEmT0/s1080/Biblical+Theology+collection+.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-9qegDpDGOw6-NeTdTxk4b4Z37ylOZRMk_8AeGkLEgVAScOpo8__uy3O5PXuTDyp3KwRKQco8fRrHiPxAh4Yt0cUg_RJhHtOTeNiLJjgQBaUyKH64kZ7kEHsgWoRPAA9mVAJR0TXEmT0/s320/Biblical+Theology+collection+.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">P.S.</span></b> I am a huge, huge fan of Biblical Theology as my growing collection of BT books attests to. But my first introduction wasn't an explicitly BT book per se. It was <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Bible-Really-Teach-about-Homosexuality/dp/1433549379" target="_blank"><b>this one</b></a>. The introduction and the first chapter are gold. And then some people at my church also introduced me to the now-defunct Northwest Theology Seminary which has a <a href="https://www.kerux.com/primer.asp" target="_blank"><b>BT Primer on their website</b></a>. </div><p></p>The Goinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646980370517155433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-179802784305443979.post-56271333586542071252021-09-16T15:59:00.005-07:002021-09-16T16:01:44.434-07:00Jesus to Kingdom Citizens: Worrying flows from Serving Mammon<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp8ViWS0h94goxaoHetUbUmRphJRAPxsOUlFi9cdizaGXY7Y65yzhP9fes6VgYYUwhA3uumSLKEgHhgVkJQLHpjwjLwOfB4AkOD_09FCrklGK8hyphenhyphenJjEnEVj7mOed7gKLJYxMilsF_cAOg/s300/Untitled+design+%25282%2529.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="300" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp8ViWS0h94goxaoHetUbUmRphJRAPxsOUlFi9cdizaGXY7Y65yzhP9fes6VgYYUwhA3uumSLKEgHhgVkJQLHpjwjLwOfB4AkOD_09FCrklGK8hyphenhyphenJjEnEVj7mOed7gKLJYxMilsF_cAOg/s0/Untitled+design+%25282%2529.png" width="300" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">J</span></b>esus made it very clear that those who worry about their life and food and clothing end up serving money.</p><p>Disciples of the King are not supposed to not worry about these things.</p><p>Those who worry are the Gentiles — those outside of the promises of God.</p><p>“No one can serve two masters …You cannot serve God and mammon." </p><p>He immediately follows this with “therefore,” as in “therefore do not worry about your life,” thus connecting the "do not worry" statement to the preceding statement about serving either God or money. The love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. And love of money can cause you to support all kinds of evil power structures.</p><p>Here is the full text of Matthew 6:24-33 (NKJV):</p><p></p><blockquote><p>“No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? “Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?</p><p>“Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?</p><p>“So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin;</p><p>“and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.</p><p>“Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?</p><p>“Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’</p><p>“For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.</p><p>“But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.</p><p>“Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.</p><div></div></blockquote><div>Here is the full text of 1 Timothy 6:10 (NKJV):</div><div><blockquote>"For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows."</blockquote><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span>P.S.</span></b> </span>Matthew 6:33 is my favorite scripture. I read it or recite it every night right before I close my eyes to rest. </p></div>The Goinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646980370517155433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-179802784305443979.post-85461470933723500862021-07-12T14:44:00.016-07:002021-07-12T15:17:01.765-07:0010 Free Books for Understanding the Economy Today<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixkpqCcWp0Lne33GyVDxJXknm8aVvJ0Sf8AeqZ2QNnxVRZKDMwvvAzJwJ_PnZnmw5rD_0sGoaf2TUdUw7Q1VVj3Utl2k9Xp-qdcDjlAjz5tEVY9p7hUC8BaL2dV78eDvV330gfgx01e_w/s2048/Untitled+design.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixkpqCcWp0Lne33GyVDxJXknm8aVvJ0Sf8AeqZ2QNnxVRZKDMwvvAzJwJ_PnZnmw5rD_0sGoaf2TUdUw7Q1VVj3Utl2k9Xp-qdcDjlAjz5tEVY9p7hUC8BaL2dV78eDvV330gfgx01e_w/s320/Untitled+design.png" width="320" /></a></div><p>If you want to learn how we have gotten to where we are today, then you've landed at the right spot. </p><p>These books were some of the first books I ever read on economics. </p><p>They were preceded only by <a href="https://www.goinsreport.com/2009/11/alpha-strategy-free-book.html" target="_blank"><i>"The Alpha Strategy</i>"</a> (<b>My Most Visited Post! </b>Free Download!<b> </b>A great book for today in these inflationary times), <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Politically-Incorrect-Guide-Capitalism/dp/1596985046" target="_blank">the Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism</a></i>, <i><a href="https://www.garynorth.com/GoldWars.pdf">The Gold Wars</a> </i>(free download), <a href="https://fee.org/media/14946/economicsinonelesson.pdf"><i>Economics in One Lesson</i> </a>(free download), <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Meltdown-Free-Market-Collapsed-Government-Bailouts/dp/1596985879"><i>Meltdown</i></a>, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002N0ADQG/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0"><i>End the Fed</i></a>, and <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002O0Q724/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i2">Crash Proof 1.0</a></i>.</p><p>I gotta be honest. I read all the way up to Modern Money Mechanics and didn't finish the rest of the list. But even half the books below and the books above will give you a working economic knowledge for life. </p><p>Any citizen will be an economically literate citizen even if he or she reads only half of these books.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikn3mnm7rpa5B6fHy2fUY0n1I1C9JIb_EqTmwyNDXMXounGeyLdybf8L8vB-hs9I0ej9xlRqr7WJ3uAUxj180CeYhyUn966dykbSMcKC3Unhnmr3FbWDtO-yAnHZdrDbhXL8PLJGB7XLM/s2048/Untitled+design+%25281%2529.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikn3mnm7rpa5B6fHy2fUY0n1I1C9JIb_EqTmwyNDXMXounGeyLdybf8L8vB-hs9I0ej9xlRqr7WJ3uAUxj180CeYhyUn966dykbSMcKC3Unhnmr3FbWDtO-yAnHZdrDbhXL8PLJGB7XLM/s320/Untitled+design+%25281%2529.png" width="320" /></a></div><blockquote><p>These economics books are free for downloading. Read them in this order.</p><p>Gary North, <a href="https://www.garynorth.com/public/508.cfm" target="_blank">Inherit the Earth</a></p><p>Gary North, <a href="https://www.garynorth.com/public/512.cfm" target="_blank">Honest Money</a></p><p>Murray Rothbard, <a href="http://mises.org/books/whathasgovernmentdone.pdf" target="_blank">What Has Government Done to Our Money?</a></p><p>Gary North, <a href="http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/mom2.html" target="_blank">Mises on Money</a></p><p>Murray Rothbard, <a href="http://mises.org/books/fed.pdf" target="_blank">The Case Against the Fed</a></p><p>Murray Rothbard, <a href="http://mises.org/books/mysteryofbanking.pdf" target="_blank">The Mystery of Banking</a></p><p>Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, <a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4a/Modern_Money_Mechanics.pdf" target="_blank">Modern Money Mechanics</a></p><p>Gene Callahan, <a href="http://mises.org/books/econforrealpeople.pdf" target="_blank">Economics for Real People</a></p><p>Robert P. Murphy, <a href="https://mises.org/library/lessons-young-economist" target="_blank">Lessons for the Young Economist</a></p><p>Murray Rothbard, <a href="https://mises.org/library/man-economy-and-state-power-and-market" target="_blank">Man, Economy, and State</a>; Robert P. Murphy, <a href="https://mises.org/library/study-guide-man-economy-and-state" target="_blank">Study Guide for Man, Economy, and State</a></p></blockquote><p></p><p><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Source: </span><a href="https://www.garynorth.com/public/6803.cfm" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Ten Free Economics Books for Understanding What Is Going On Today | Specific Answers </a></span></p><p><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I hope you enjoy the books! </span></p><p><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Next up will be books that will help you become a functional Christian.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; line-height: normal; margin: 1em 0px;"><a href="http://mises.org/books/messtudy.pdf" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #750101;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"></i></a></p>The Goinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646980370517155433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-179802784305443979.post-5772957534290698752017-12-20T19:16:00.000-08:002017-12-20T19:16:43.828-08:00First blog in a while! That was a close one!Hi Guys! I'm back.<br />
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This is my first blog in a while! That was a close one!The Goinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646980370517155433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-179802784305443979.post-77075560573009619372016-08-16T21:57:00.003-07:002016-08-16T21:57:55.645-07:00If your son dies in a war are you beyond reproach? Thomas Woods answersAnd no, you are not morally beyond reproach because your son died in war." ~Thomas Woods<br />
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Taken from his August 16, 2016 email. Here's the <a href="http://us5.campaign-archive1.com/?u=77713d21ff56f1c126607d2c5&id=fb6fb3af73&e=89d6715faa" target="_blank">link</a>.<br />
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<i>Tonight I was taking a glance at my Facebook feed, and I saw Thaddeus Russell had posted something I'd missed.</i><br />
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<i>Remember Khizr Khan, the Muslim man who spoke at the Democratic Convention and whose son died in the Iraq war?</i><br />
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<i>At the time, I remember finding him utterly odious. For the life of me I could not understand people who defended this man.</i><br />
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<i>He exploits the memory of his fallen son on behalf of the Democratic Party, and on behalf of a woman who helped send his son into that ludicrous war?</i><br />
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<i>He urges his son to fight an idiotic -- not to mention grotesquely unjust -- war against a Muslim population, and all the pro-Muslim people flock to him?</i><br />
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<i>Insanity.</i><br />
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<i>If I were ever to exploit the memory of one of my own children on behalf of the Democratic Party, I sure hope everyone reading this would punch me in the face.</i><br />
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<i>If I'd had a chance to speak before the Democratic Party, I would have strayed from my prepared script and appealed to the Bernie supporters in the room by denouncing Hillary and her war.</i><br />
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<i>At any rate, Thaddeus posted a news item I'd missed: Khan's hero is -- wait for it -- John McCain.</i><br />
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<i>I knew my instincts were right about this guy.</i><br />
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<i>"Senator McCain -- he's my hero," Khan told CNN in an interview. "The last book my son read that I sent him was Senator McCain's book about courage: Why Courage Matters. So for me to hear Donald Trump malign my hero -- my son's hero -- it is just mind-boggling."</i><br />
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<i>Senator McCain, who never saw a war he didn't like, and whose foreign policy has spread radical Islam all over the place and caused untold human suffering, is Khan's hero.</i><br />
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<i>Not a good guy.</i><br />
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<i>And no, you are not morally beyond reproach because your son died in war. If anything, Khan is all the more to be condemned for cheering on such a morally depraved course of action.</i><br />
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<i>On this, I can't and won't budge.</i><br />
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<i>Now that that's off my chest: tomorrow on the show I'm discussing the myth of the success of Nordic socialism.</i>The Goinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646980370517155433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-179802784305443979.post-90070641358975407222016-08-04T20:22:00.000-07:002016-08-04T20:22:01.244-07:00Radical Idea: Break up the military<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I have an idea that will increase peace across the globe: <b>Break up the U.S. military. Break it up! Break it up! Break it up ...</b><br />
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<b>... into 50 something fractions.</b><br />
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That is, give each state a military (militia?) of it's own, under the leadership of the Governor of each state.<br />
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Think about it: Every state already has a base of it's own.<br />
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Some states naturally will be better suited for some kinds of services (coastal states are bound to have Naval bases and Marines). The states like Colorado, New Mexico, and Nevada, may have superior air power.<br />
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One thing is for certain: <i>it would be extremely tough to go to war.</i><br />
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(Which is a good thing.)<br />
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States would actually have to think long about whether such and such foreign leader in power is a "threat" to "security" -- long before a troop is deployed for a tour ... before a fire is shot.<br />
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State senates, state congresses, and state houses would have to determine whether it makes sense to deploy X battalion and Y Squadron overseas.<br />
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I almost said "national security" -- but there would be no national security. Rather, they'd have to figure out if so-and-so leader (an Assad, a Putin, a Saddam) was a threat to <b>"state security." </b><br />
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State governments would have to debate military budgets.<br />
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The Pentagon would be no more...<br />
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... but all of the Pentagon's secrets and joint secrets with other agencies (such as the CIA) should be released to the public before it shutters its door, and made publicly available on a website (Wikileaks can't do everything).<br />
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<b>The police and the military would be separate.</b> The military, by law, should be prohibited from giving military equipment to the police before, during, or after the decentralization of the national military force. This prevents the militarization of the police.<br />
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In the meantime, the military equipment that the police departments currently own should be taken away, in a separate process.<br />
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<b>As for overseas bases, </b>close them down permanently.<br />
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What about Guantanamo Naval Base? <b>Shut it down, too</b>. We don't even own Cuba but we have a military base there.<br />
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I actually thought of this a while ago -- but this week I saw a headline that reminded me of my own idea. So ... I'm posting this now to at least be one of the earliest voices (this is, of course, without doing any research to see if the idea has been put out there before).<br />
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I could be <i>very late myself.</i><br />
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<b>UPDATE: I found the piece I referred to above, which was published six days ago. I haven't read it yet it but it is called "<i>Decentralize the Military: Why We Need Independent Militias</i>" by Ryan McMaken. Perhaps McMaken will come to some similar conclusions and share the same line of arguments. </b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://mises.org/blog/decentralize-military-why-we-need-independent-militias" target="_blank">"<i>Decentralize the Military: Why We Need Independent Militias</i>"</a></span></b></div>
<i><br /></i>The Goinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646980370517155433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-179802784305443979.post-88360631655406954462016-08-04T20:21:00.001-07:002016-08-04T20:21:45.642-07:00A list of CNN (TV) Headlines, 8/4/16<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is not scientific in any way, shape or form. But it is an attempt to show what On-Air CNN Television personalities talk about.<br />
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<i>Are they critical of the President? Or only of Trump? Is it critical of government? Or are the headlines mainly approving of government? Or -- are the headlines deflective of government malfeasance? Does it omit stories critical of those in power? Do the headlines tend to come from a liberal angle, conservative angle, a libertarian angle, a communist angle, or is it balanced? Are they critical of mostly Republicans? Or are they critical of mostly Democrats? Is the channel generally pro-religion or anti-religion? Pro-Christianity or anti-Christianity? Pro-Islam or anti-Islam? Pro-atheist or anti-atheist?</i><br />
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I want to know.<br />
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Given that I was creating this list while busy, I couldn't catch every single headline that flashed across the TV screen. However, I do think it is very representative as I probably looked at the television screen every other minute or so from about 12 PM to 4 PM.<br />
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What I found is that CNN focused on Trump at least 22 times; President Barack Obama 10 times; House Speaker Paul Ryan 10 times; and Hillary 2 times.<br />
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Now, as I said, this wasn't scientific. However, I did look at the screen <i>a</i> <i>lot </i>from that time. I did not keep my eyes glued to the screen....<br />
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...but I really don't think I missed Hillary Clinton <i>that </i>many times.<br />
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Looking at the headlines we see that....<br />
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<li><b><span style="color: blue;">RYAN NOT READY TO PULL TRUMP ENDORSEMENT</span></b></li>
<li><span style="color: magenta;">RUSSIA: WE BELIEVE 270 OF OUR ATHLETES CLEARED TO COMPETE</span></li>
<li>NEW BATTLEGROUND STATE POLLS GIVE CLINTON THE EDGE</li>
<li>CNN/ORC POLL SHOWS OBAMA WITH 54% JOB APPROVAL</li>
<li>POLL: OBAMA APPROVAL RATING ON THE RISE</li>
<li>NEW BATTLEGROUND STATE POLLS GIVE CLINTON THE EDGE</li>
<li><span style="color: red;">NORTH CAROLINA MAN ACCUSED OF SUPPORTING ISIS</span></li>
<li><b>TRUMP MEETS WITH FAMILIES OF 6 FALLEN SOLDIERS</b></li>
<li><b>OP-ED: TRUMP SUPPORTING IS "INDEFENSIBLE"</b></li>
<li><b>CLINT EASTWOOD TALKS RACISM AND TRUMP</b></li>
<li>SOON: OBAMA FACES QUESTIONS ON $400 IRAN PAYMENT</li>
<li><span style="color: red;">WHITE HOUSE: $400M CASH TO IR</span></li>
<li>OBAMA GETS POST-CONVENTION BUMP IN POLLS</li>
<li>CAN A RISING OBAMA HELP HILLARY CLINTON?</li>
<li><span style="color: magenta;">EASTWOOD: 2012 "EMPTY CHAIR" STUNT "WAS SILLY</span>"</li>
<li><b style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: magenta;">CLINT EASTWOOD APPLAUDS TRUMP'S RHETORIC</span></b></li>
<li><span style="color: red;">PREGNANT WOMEN IN MIAMI RUSH TO GET ZIKA TESTS</span></li>
<li>EXPECTANT MOTHERS IN MIAMI SCRAMBLE TO GET ZIKA TESTS</li>
<li><b>SOON: DONALD TRUMP SPEAKS LIVE AT RALLY SOON (?)</b></li>
<li><span style="color: magenta;">CHARLESTON CHURCH SUSPECT ASSAULTED IN JAIL</span></li>
<li>YOUNG GYMNAST RETURNS TO SPORT AFTER LEUKEMIA</li>
<li>GYMNAST CONTRACTS LEUKEMIA, FACES COMPLICATIONS</li>
<li><b>ANY MOMENT: TRUMP SPEAKS AFTER RYAN RETURNS FIRE</b></li>
<li><b><span style="color: blue;">RYAN WON'T RULE OUT YANKING TRUMP ENDORSEMENT</span></b></li>
<li><b>PAUL RYAN ON TRUMP: MY "DUTY" TO DEFEND GOP</b></li>
<li><b>NEW POLL: CLINTON TOPS TRUMP IN 3 KEY STATES</b></li>
<li>SOON: HILLARY CLINTON HOLDS RALLY IN LAS VEGAS ***</li>
<li><b>CLINTON SLAMS TRUMP DURING TOUR IN LAS VEGAS</b></li>
<li><b>NEW POLL: CLINTON TOPS TRUMP IN 3 KEY STATES</b></li>
<li><b><span style="color: blue;">RYAN WON'T RULE OUT YANKING TRUMP ENDORSEMENT</span></b></li>
<li><b>POLLS: CLINTON TOPS TRUMP IN THREE KEY STATES</b></li>
<li><b>ANY MOMENT: TRUMP SPEAKS AFTER RYAN RETURNS FIRE</b></li>
<li><b>RYAN (AGAIN) USES “BEYOND THE PALE” REACTING TO TRUMP</b></li>
<li>OBAMA GETS POST-CONVENTION BUMP IN POLLS</li>
<li><b>SOON: TRUMP, CLINTON HOLD COMPETING EVENTS</b></li>
<li>U.S. OFFICIALS: NO IRAN “ULTIMATUM” TO SEND $400M CASH</li>
<li><b>TRUMP COMMENTS ON U.S. PAYMENT TO IRAN</b></li>
<li><b><span style="color: red;">TRUMP AGAIN CLAIMS HE SAW VIDEO OF IRAN PAYMENT</span></b></li>
<li><b>TRUMP SPEAKS AFTER RYAN SLAM POST-RNC CAMPAIGN</b></li>
<li><b>TRUMP: “HOW STUPID ARE WE” TO PAY IRAN</b></li>
<li>BRAZILIAN COUPLES DELAY PREGNANCY DUE TO ZIKA</li>
<li><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: magenta;">OBAMA: MY DAUGHTERS DESERVE A FEMINIST DAD</span></span></li>
<li>CLINTON REPEATS FALSE CLAIM FBI DIRECTOR SAID SHE WAS “TRUTHFUL”</li>
<li>OBAMA: IRAN NUCLEAR AGREEMENT IS WORKING</li>
<li>OBAMA: WE DO NOT PAY RANSOM FOR HOSTAGES</li>
<li><b>OBAMA UPS ATTACK ON TRUMP AS APPROVAL RATING RISES</b></li>
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Where is the focus on the issues? A few comments.</div>
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#46 <b>OBAMA UPS ATTACK ON TRUMP AS APPROVAL RATING RISES</b></div>
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First of all. I think this is a made-up connection here. I really don't think Obama is consciously taking advantage of this approval ratings here. But the headline gives the connection that he is.</div>
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# 42 <b>OBAMA: MY DAUGHTERS DESERVE A FEMINIST DAD</b></div>
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Why is this national news? This doesn't belong on national television, but on niche sites, cultural sites. </div>
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#14 <b>CAN A RISING OBAMA HELP HILLARY CLINTON?</b></div>
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Can a discussion of the platforms that she and Donald Trump are running on help their campaigns. Can a substantial report on Donald Trump's sane <a href="http://www.goinsreport.com/2016/08/media-is-doing-world-disservice-by.html" target="_blank">position on Russia hurt Hillary Clinton</a>? Can we discuss their ideas? Can we hold politicians accountable? Can we move away from "He said, She Said" stories? Can we #bringbackjournalism? </div>
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I'm not going to go on. But I am biased towards stories that highlight government corruption, and I really don't like celebrity stories, or stories that advance the "conversation" in a destructive way.</div>
The Goinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646980370517155433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-179802784305443979.post-79736914308732117562016-08-02T19:37:00.001-07:002016-08-02T19:37:37.380-07:00The similarity between the youth of today and the youth of Ancient Israel<span style="background-color: white; color: #2b1b17; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><i>"The young do not know that they have lost their country because they are born into a time when the country is lost. To them that is normalcy.</i>" ~Paul Craig Roberts, <a href="https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/08/paul-craig-roberts/america-destroyed/" target="_blank">"America Destroyed."</a></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #2b1b17; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">This is similar to the young people in ancient Israel when the temple was rebuilt. The newer temple was nothing like the old temple. The older people were at least disappointed, if not outright sobbing. I can't quite remember the reaction of the young people. I am going by my recollection of the biblical stories here.</span>The Goinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646980370517155433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-179802784305443979.post-64138670607271663712016-08-02T19:29:00.001-07:002016-08-02T19:29:38.755-07:00Matt Drudge and I agree: Globalists freak out over Trump<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Snapshot of the August 2, 2016 Drudge Report</td></tr>
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President Obama is no revolutionary.<br />
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Rather he is of the status quo.<br />
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Today he played the role of gatekeeper of that status quo: Donald Trump absolutely cannot become president. He is unfit. Blah. Blah. Blah.<br />
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This morning when I saw the headlines about President Obama, referencing the above activity, I immediately thought that the globalists were freaking out.<br />
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This afternoon I went on the Drudge Report and I found agreement there.<br />
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Matt Drudge calls Obama out for his globalist gatekeeping on August 2, 2016.The Goinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646980370517155433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-179802784305443979.post-24155569508349559002016-08-02T19:11:00.001-07:002016-08-02T19:14:36.051-07:00Media is doing the World a Disservice by ignoring Trump's substantive issues<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/mt/2016/02/AP_6470175906/lead_960.jpg?1454344788" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/mt/2016/02/AP_6470175906/lead_960.jpg?1454344788" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Courtesy of The Atlantic</td></tr>
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Hat tip to Real Clear Politics who published an article called <i>"<a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/07/30/russia_expert_stephen_cohen_trump_wants_to_stop_the_new_cold_war_but_the_america_media_just_doesnt_understand.html" target="_blank">Russian Expert Stephen Cohen: Trump Wants To Stop The New Cold War, But The American Media Just Doesn't Understand</a>.</i>"<br />
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Stephen F. Cohen is a contributing editor at the progressive publication <i>The Nation, </i>which also <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/trump-wants-to-stop-the-new-cold-war-but-most-of-the-american-media-just-doesnt-understand/" target="_blank">ran the story.</a><br />
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<i>The premise of the story is that Trump's substantive issues get totally ignored because the media focuses on Trump's more colorful sayings.</i><br />
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From the Real Clear Politics article:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Cohen says the media at large is <b>doing a huge disservice to the American people by ignoring the substance of Trump's arguments about NATO and Russia</b>, and buying the Clinton campaign's simplistic smear that Trump is a Russian "Manchurian candidate."</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
"That reckless branding of Trump as a Russian agent, most of it is coming from the Clinton campaign," Cohen said. "And they really need to stop."</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<b>"We're approaching a Cuban Missile Crisis level nuclear confrontation with Russia," </b>he explained.<b> "And there is absolutely no discussion, no debate, about this in the American media."</b></blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
"Then along comes, unexpectedly, Donald Trump," he continued, "Who says he wants to end the New Cold War, and cooperate with Russia in various places... and --astonishingly-- the media is full of what only can be called <b>neo-McCarthyite charges that he is a Russian agent</b>, that he is a Manchurian candidate, and that he is Putin's client."</blockquote>
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What Cohen is saying about the media is true.<br />
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For instance, as I sit here, less than an hour ago CNN ran a story on television on the fact that Donald Trump eats KFC with a knife and a fork. This is a story that shouldn't make the Food Network. But here we have a channel -- remember, a CNN executive declared that they are "<a href="http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/matthew-balan/2016/04/27/cnn-executive-admits-were-no-longer-tv-news-network" target="_blank">no longer a news network</a>" -- that spends most of the day covering political happenings talking about how Donald eats fast food in his private jet. This is ridiculous.<br />
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As I visit Yahoo minutes ago, there the editors published a story called <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-at-rally-get-the-baby-out-of-here-170311426.html" target="_blank">"Trump at rally: ‘Get the baby out of here’</a>" -- <i><u>and it's the top story</u></i> when you first get on the page.<br />
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It took three words for the mainstream media to use a buzzword to try to scare voters away from Trump. It begins: "<i>In a bizarre..."</i> -- there's really no need to finish the rest of the article, because it focuses on the least serious part of the speech, which I listened to most of, if not its entirety. The Yahoo News article doesn't even focus on any thing else said in the speech.<br />
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One hundred and fifty words wasted...<br />
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...one hundred and fifty words-sized bullet to try to take down Trump.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yahoo News leading story. This is serious journalism, folks.</td></tr>
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Here's a more serious part of the August 2, 2016 speech in Ashburn, Virginia, that aligns with the topic at hand:<br />
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TRUMP:<b> I want to get along with China. By the way wouldn't it be great if we got along with Russia? </b>Wouldn't that be great?</blockquote>
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(APPLAUSE)</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<b>If we actually had a relationship with Russia</b>, instead of all the fighting and money and the problems and if we could get Russia and others to partner up and go and knock the hell out of ISIS, wouldn't that be a good thing? Wouldn't that be a good thing?</blockquote>
Now, I don't think we should even be getting involved with ISIS in that way. But here we have Donald Trump saying that he wants to get along with China and he wants to restore relations with Russia. <i>"Wouldn't that be great?"</i><br />
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At the August 2 rally in Ashburn, Virginia, Trump also said of Hillary Clinton:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Hillary Clinton will be worse. She'll be worse. OK? Hillary Clinton will be worse.</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
She has bad relationships with people like Putin. I'll give you an example. <b>She has terrible relationships with Putin. This is a nuclear country we're talking about. Russia, strong nuclear country.</b></blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
And so are we. But their stuff is newer. Their stuff is newer. So she's looking at -- they have more --<b> I don't even want to say it -- they have a lot more</b>, OK? So you know, she wants to play the tough one. She's not tough. She's not tough.</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
I know tough people, she's not tough. I mean she's -- she's just -- she's doing the handlers, they push her from place to place that's all it is. You saw her speech the other night. </blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
I mean they talk about presidential, do you think she looks presidential? I don't think so.</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
I don't think so. So -- so you know, she wants to play the role of the tough guy against Putin and Russia and she wants to play not tough, not tough. She should be tough on trade, OK?</blockquote>
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Meanwhile, can you guess which Democrat said this about Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump last week at the 2016 Democratic National Convention?<br />
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<blockquote class="tr_bq">
"We cannot elect a man who belittles our closest allies while embracing dictators like Vladimir Putin."</blockquote>
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Look who's shooting from the hip now: the man one spot away from the presidency, the #2 man in the Obama administration, Joe Biden, is here recklessly calling "world leaders" dictators,<a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/white-house-wont-repeat-bidens-dictator-term-putin-doesnt-dispute" target="_blank"> even though his administration won't confirm that designation</a>. Again, if Hillary Clinton is going to "continue Obama's agenda," then we can expect more "fool rush in" status quo foreign policy from Hillary Clinton.<br />
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<b>As Donald says in many rallies, the media is totally corrupt.</b> He said it today in Ashburn, Virginia.<br />
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I agree with Cohen. As I wrote to a friend recently:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">That said, Trump definitely </span><a class="yiv7318340248edited-link-editor" href="http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=8759" id="yiv7318340248yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464306511768_14687" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #196ad4; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">says a lot of interesting and agreeable things on foreign policy</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">. He raises very serious questions about our priorities that gets drowned out because of the media. The </span><a class="yiv7318340248edited-link-editor" href="https://consortiumnews.com/2016/05/22/trumps-five-questions-on-us-foreign-policy/" id="yiv7318340248yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464306511768_14827" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #196ad4; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">media is good at shutting off serious debate</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> whenever they find something disagreeable about him...and there is a lot to disagree.</span></blockquote>
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Additionally, I wrote:<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I like the idea of an "America first" foreign policy because we haven't had an America first foreign policy </span><a class="yiv7318340248edited-link-editor" href="http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=8759" id="yiv7318340248yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464306511768_12332" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #196ad4; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">for about 50 years, even though it was our policy at least 150 years, according to one expert</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> .</span></blockquote>
I meant 60 years, per Ivan Eland's numbers.<br />
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<a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/07/30/russia_expert_stephen_cohen_trump_wants_to_stop_the_new_cold_war_but_the_america_media_just_doesnt_understand.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Read the article and transcript here</span></b></a></div>
The Goinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646980370517155433noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-179802784305443979.post-15022430159682646962016-06-14T20:21:00.000-07:002016-06-14T20:21:21.151-07:00On concealed weapons and the Orlando shooterI don't believe for a second that someone with a concealed weapon would have stopped the shooting <i>had he not known of his presence</i>. But I do think that if someone was alerted to the gunman's presence taking him down would have been more likely. It would have been unlikely that there would have been a three hour killing spree.<br />
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I do believe that one person with a concealed weapon would have minimized the loss of lives; not that he had some kind of <i>spidey sense</i> to prevent the unthinkable.<br />
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But if the timelines are accurate, and a hostage situation actually did occur, I think it would have been possible for a concealed weapon carrier to shoot the guy at some opportune time.The Goinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646980370517155433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-179802784305443979.post-30924505734796919312016-06-14T20:01:00.003-07:002016-06-14T20:01:48.014-07:00At the core of modern liberalismModern liberalism pats itself on the back for having good intentions even if the policies modern liberals pursue obviously don't work.<br />
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So whether it's stripping U.S. citizens of their right to work for whatever wage they want (via the minimum wage law), or stripping U.S. citizens of the right to defend themselves (via gun control), what matters most to the liberal mindset is that their "good intentions" were revealed to all.<br />
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I almost said that unbound delegates receiving threats is what turns me off about politics.<br /><br />But then I backed up and thought about it.<br /><br />Politics is one huge threat of violence against the individual. Voting is a reflection of that.<br />
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This is not a original reflection at all.<br />
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<a href="https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=%22lew%20rockwell%22%20%22voting%22%20%22violence%22" target="_blank">Search "Lew Rockwell" plus "Voting" plus "Violence" and you will find numerous articles arguing for my above point</a>.<br />
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But the <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/pennsylvania-cruz-campaign-recommended-delegates-trump" target="_blank">news of uncommitted delegates receiving threatening phone calls</a> reminded me of how ugly politics can be.The Goinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646980370517155433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-179802784305443979.post-81600238181318389262016-04-08T21:42:00.001-07:002016-04-08T21:42:33.140-07:00Sermon: Surveying the Text | Job (Job 19:25-27)<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/mm6asx8G2UY" width="480"></iframe><br /><br />
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After 28:00, Pastor Douglas Wilson says something remarkable: Sometimes we go through struggles because God was bragging about us to the Devil. Reminds me of my friend who just finished chemotherapy and is completely healed of her Stage 2 breast cancer.The Goinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646980370517155433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-179802784305443979.post-19092650007386898942016-04-08T20:04:00.001-07:002016-04-08T20:04:07.351-07:00Sermon: Mission, Vocation, and Body Life (1 Cor. 12:17-20)<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_WbjQY8vXXo" width="480"></iframe><br /><br />
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I've never come across an unhelpful Christ Church – Moscow sermon.The Goinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646980370517155433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-179802784305443979.post-84769690122639609342016-04-08T17:55:00.000-07:002016-04-08T17:55:13.217-07:00Sermon: The Gospel First and Last (1 Cor. 15:1-11)<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/L_b__c0cXTs" width="480"></iframe><br />
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His refutation of Gnosticism at 28:00 is genius.The Goinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646980370517155433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-179802784305443979.post-21721973529657072452016-04-08T16:54:00.000-07:002016-04-08T16:54:03.056-07:00Seminary Snatch #3Preparation for Northwest Theological Seminary<br />
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The following is a short list of recommended readings to help students orient<br />
themselves to the theological direction of Northwest Theological Seminary<br />
prior to enrollment. If you have questions concerning readings beyond<br />
this list, please contact the Academic Dean, James T. Dennison, Jr.<br />
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Many sermons and articles on the Kerux website (kerux.com)<br />
Geerhardus Vos, Biblical Theology: Old and New Testaments<br />
Herman Ridderbos, Paul: An Outline of His Theology<br />
James T. Dennison, The Letters of Geerhardus Vos<br />
Richard B. Gaffin, By Faith, Not By Sight<br />
Richard B. Gaffin, Resurrection and Redemption<br />
James T. Dennison, "Building the Biblical-theological Sermon,"<br />
Parts 1 and 2 (on the kerux.com website)<br />
Herman Ridderbos, The Coming of the Kingdom<br />
J. Gresham Machen, Christianity and Liberalism<br />
Cornelius Van Til, The Defense of the FaithThe Goinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646980370517155433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-179802784305443979.post-75174282214776570592016-04-08T15:13:00.001-07:002016-04-08T15:13:11.264-07:00Sermon: The Mystery of the One Body | Ephesians 3:1-3<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/KdgM8DPkgCQ" width="480"></iframe>The Goinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646980370517155433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-179802784305443979.post-57224744304022960062016-04-08T12:13:00.000-07:002016-04-08T12:13:34.747-07:00This sermon on Hell did not end the way I thought it would<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1coOY-I9vq0" width="459"></iframe><br />
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I'm serious. Scot McKnight, author of <i>The Jesus Creed</i>, sketches the predominant views of Hell (eternal punishment) today and then preaches on the parable of the rich man in <b><i>Hades </i></b>(Luke 16:14-31) and comes to his own conclusion. He distinguishes between the NT Greek terms <i>Hades </i>and <i>Gehenna.</i><br />
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Watch it from beginning to end.The Goinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646980370517155433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-179802784305443979.post-63647853596573334692016-04-08T12:12:00.001-07:002016-04-08T12:12:44.833-07:00Seminary Snatch #1SPRING 2016 TEXTBOOK LIST*<br />
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CH 641 Reformation Chuch History<br />
Carter Lindberg, The European Reformations<br />
Carter Lindberg, The Reformation Theologians (selections)<br />
John Calvin, The Bondage and Liberation of the Will<br />
Martin Luther, Lectures on Romans (skim)<br />
U. Zwingli, An Exposition of the Faith<br />
H. Bullinger, A Brief Exposition of the One and Eternal Testament or Covenant of God<br />
John von Rohr, The Covenant of Grace in Puritan Thought<br />
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NT 611 Acts and Paul<br />
R. Gaffin, Resurrection and Redemption<br />
J. Harvey, Listening to the Text<br />
G. Kennedy, NT Interpretation through Rhetorical Criticism<br />
H. Klauck, Ancient Letters and the New Testament<br />
H. Klauck, Magic and Paganism in Early Christianity<br />
W. Meeks, The First Urban Christians<br />
C. Talbert, Reading Acts<br />
R. Tannehill, Narrative Unity of Luke-Acts (Vol. 2)<br />
N.T. Wright, Paul and the Faithfulness of God<br />
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NT 710 Greek Reading<br />
Any edition of a Reader’s Greek New Testament (UBS Greek New Testament Reader’s Edition with Textual Notes recommended)<br />
Either of the two following critical editions of the Greek New Testament:<br />
Novum Testamentum Graece: Nestle Aland (Greek Edition) (Either NA26, NA27, or NA28)<br />
Kurt Aland, ed., The Greek New Testament, 4th Revised Edition<br />
Bruce Metzger, A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament (Ancient Greek Edition)<br />
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OT 604 Historical Books<br />
C. Exum, The Historical Books<br />
V. Hamilton, Handbook on the Historical Books<br />
S. Bar Efrat, Narrative Art in the Bible<br />
J.P. Fokkelman, Reading Biblical Narrative<br />
K.A. Kitchen, Reliability of the Old Testament<br />
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School: Northwest Theological Seminary, which is <a href="http://www.nwts.edu/nwts_board_letter.pdf" target="_blank">closing</a>.The Goinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15646980370517155433noreply@blogger.com0