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Thursday, February 26, 2004
RSS woes
Everything was just peachy until BlogMatrix went belly-up.
Thank goodness there's RSSify for those of us using the free side of Blogger.
Everything was just peachy until BlogMatrix went belly-up.
Thank goodness there's RSSify for those of us using the free side of Blogger.
Monday, February 23, 2004
A slice of the MonT-SteR's journal
An entry in my personal journal from February 1, 2004:
Here's a personal musing on C.S. Lewis from my own Christian perspective:
Food for thought ...
Blessings,
Rob
aka The MonT-SteR
An entry in my personal journal from February 1, 2004:
In my earlier days as a believer, I majored on the miraculous power of God. My constant hope and expectation was to see the might of the Most High crash dramatically through barriers of human limitation and demonic machination. With time and growth, I came to witness the unrelenting subversiveness of the quiet, patient exercise of His power. Even the trickle of the tiniest stream has the ability to carve canyons over time.
I think, however, that my pendulum may have swung too far in one direction. A fellow student in one of my missions classes said, "I'm tired of a powerless Gospel." That's the way I feel today. Whether it comes by trickle or tempest, God's power is available to His children. I've lost sight of that. I don't live as though it's true.
No more.
Here's a personal musing on C.S. Lewis from my own Christian perspective:
Friday, January 10, 2003
I'm reading Mere Christianity right now, and had a few thoughts on the timelessness of God. C.S. Lewis says that reality for God is beyond any sort of timeline, i.e., past, present, and future. For Him, all is Now. Anything less would cause God to lose some of His reality. Once present becomes past for us, it is no longer something we can experience or know directly. Reality, for us, is limited to the instant. For God, all is current reality. What we call tomorrow and cannot see, He calls Now�to Him, it is just as visible, just as experiential, as the instant is to us. The same goes for the past. Hence, as Scripture says, 1000 years with the Lord is as but 1 day, and vice versa.
I mention all this in relationship to prophecy. Since God is timeless, the knowledge He bestows to His people is timeless as well. Thus, predictive prophecy is made possible. Since tomorrow is Now for God, He can give us tomorrow's information Now. The gift of prophecy can often be the means by which the timelessness belonging uniquely to God breaks into the time-bound reality we all know. The prophet's lips can be a window on the timeless, and his words harbingers of the eternal. God uses those who prophesy to minister His own unique perspective (one which we cannot gain on our own) to the Body of Christ. It is the inbreaking of the eternal on the finite�an opportunity for time-bound humanity to see tomorrow Now with some of the clarity that God alone enjoys.
Food for thought ...
Blessings,
Rob
aka The MonT-SteR
Labels: C.S. Lewis, Christianity, The MonT-SteR
Houston, we have a problem...
Well, folks, it appears that our friends over at BlogMatrix are going the way of the dodo bird.
Nuts.
This little quickie of a post is part of my attempt to get my RSS feed up and running again with BlogStreet. Let's hope they don't follow the BlogMatrix example and go off to join the dearly departed sauropods whose names are permanently filed by eggheaded scientists under "Extinct."
"Okay, Rob. That was an inpenetrable fog of a sentence. Whatever happened to clarity and efficiency in your writing? Didn't you ever read Strunk & White?"
Oh, hush. If you're going to be that way, go hang out with the Self-Appointed Grammar Police. No? Then perhaps you'd like to join the teeming mass of lemmings we typically identify as "film critics" and write yet another refreshingly vicious diatribe trashing Mel Gibson and implying that biblical Christianity is nothing more than fodder for snarling Jew-haters. If you're going to do that, be sure to misuse the word "cynical," as the gentleman I have cited does.
The MonT-SteR apologizes for his crankiness.
Well, folks, it appears that our friends over at BlogMatrix are going the way of the dodo bird.
Nuts.
This little quickie of a post is part of my attempt to get my RSS feed up and running again with BlogStreet. Let's hope they don't follow the BlogMatrix example and go off to join the dearly departed sauropods whose names are permanently filed by eggheaded scientists under "Extinct."
"Okay, Rob. That was an inpenetrable fog of a sentence. Whatever happened to clarity and efficiency in your writing? Didn't you ever read Strunk & White?"
Oh, hush. If you're going to be that way, go hang out with the Self-Appointed Grammar Police. No? Then perhaps you'd like to join the teeming mass of lemmings we typically identify as "film critics" and write yet another refreshingly vicious diatribe trashing Mel Gibson and implying that biblical Christianity is nothing more than fodder for snarling Jew-haters. If you're going to do that, be sure to misuse the word "cynical," as the gentleman I have cited does.
The MonT-SteR apologizes for his crankiness.
Wednesday, February 11, 2004
PeTA's at it again...
This three-part installment of From the MonT-SteR's Mouth comes to you courtesy of the outrage wing of The MonT-SteR REPORT. There are few activist organizations out there that rub The MonT-SteR's rhubarb the wrong way like PeTA does. Recent news is a not only a good example of how expertly PeTA manages to get my goat, but the shining inspiration for the following audio rant -- rendered with typical MonT-SteR gusto. Enjoy:
My critique of the Platinum Rule is still forthcoming, as is the revival of the MonT-SteR Moments. Really, I mean it. Stay tuned.
Blessings,
Rob
aka The MonT-SteR
This three-part installment of From the MonT-SteR's Mouth comes to you courtesy of the outrage wing of The MonT-SteR REPORT. There are few activist organizations out there that rub The MonT-SteR's rhubarb the wrong way like PeTA does. Recent news is a not only a good example of how expertly PeTA manages to get my goat, but the shining inspiration for the following audio rant -- rendered with typical MonT-SteR gusto. Enjoy:
Part One
Part Two
Part Three (NOTE: I neglected to mention in Part Three that the vegan doctor's association that illegally obtained Dr. Atkin's post-mortem medical report has been censured by the AMA and is nothing less than a front organization for (you guessed it) PeTA!)
My critique of the Platinum Rule is still forthcoming, as is the revival of the MonT-SteR Moments. Really, I mean it. Stay tuned.
Blessings,
Rob
aka The MonT-SteR
Labels: moral relativism, PeTA
