You've got to go check out http://www.michaeljnelson.com/

it just doesn't get any funnier than this (unless you count Dave Hunt's attempts at critiquing Calvinism)

Ohh I had a great post ready for today, I thought about it while driving home from work and now that I sit down to write it . . .well, it's gone. Hopefully to return soon.

This is why I need a PDA with a voice recorder.

I honestly don't think I have anything to say today.

Overall, a decent State of the Union. Some good, some bad.

BUT--2 highlights for me--frank, open on a national stage anti-partial birth abortion (nice way of saying infanticide) stance. Bravo. Also, I liked the line immediately following, (something like) "no human life should be started or ended by an experiment." Like he said earlier, not a great track record--but a good start.

Overall, a decent State of the Union. Some good, some bad.

BUT--2 highlights for me--frank, open on a national stage anti-partial birth abortion (nice way of saying infanticide) stance. Bravo. Also, I liked the line immediately following, (something like) "no human life should be started or ended by an experiment." Like he said earlier, not a great track record--but a good start.

One of the greatest hours of television aired this Sunday. Obviously I'm not talking about the Superbowl. I am, of course, talking about Alias. I'm not going to try to describe it--if you saw it, you know what I'm talking about. I just hope that the post-game exposure that it got, coupled with that fantastic episode gets this show the ratings it deserves.

Okay, okay, I know Paul said, "Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep" (Romans 12:15, ESV). But surely he didn't mean that--it'd be so much easier to "rejoice with those who rejoice, cheer up those who weep" or "try to fix things for those who weep."

Okay, I knew it wouldn't work, but I did hope that Conan O'Brien's lullaby would have some effect on my little princess this evening. But nope, she doesn't even seem to realize that anything's going on other than her getting free access to her brothers' books.

Time for public schools to throw in the towel?

Well, here's my new look. I think it's nicer than the old, but this gray-ish background to the sides might be a bit too purplish. I think i even finally got the Archives working (not sure why it took me so bleepin' long, sometimes I'm too dumb to live)

Sooooo, what do you think?

There are just too many things wrong with this to list . . .

Fans Outraged at New Character in The Return of the King

I've tried to come up with something profound to say about Idaho Human Rights Day yesterday. Don't have anything new--just to note that everyone seems to ignore the basis of Dr. King's thinking--Christianity--and that most of what's called for lately isn't Human Rights--it's special rights. Unless, of course, you're talking about that most basic of human rights, life, which is only for the babies that are wanted and the aged that aren't too sick.

Pfui.

Well, recieved my first syllabus for spring MTI classes--Catechetics. Lots of material to cover, looks like it'll give me plenty of food for thought when it comes time to work on a catechism program for the church--and probably help me with the homeschooling thing, too.

The only downside (not really, but it seems to be one): I've got 'til April 17 to memorize Q&A 1-38 of the Shorter Catechism. GULP!

Went to the beach tonight after classes. After some thought, I realized I hadn't seen the Pacific since I was at the wharf (or whatever you call it) in Seattle, Oct. '95. Hadn't been on a beach since, what, August of 1990?

Anyhow, we're on this looooooong stretch of beach--can see the end via the street lights miles away. It's dark as all get out, and the only way you can tell the difference between the ocean and the sky is the whitecaps on the waves rolling in. Quite the Psalm 8:4 moment . . . ("what is man that you take thought of him?" NASB)

Not much to report on re: classes today. Generally good stuff, but nothing I could summarize for this format.

Did get a couple of sample issues of the Nicotine Theological Journal--interesting. Kind of like early Credenda, but without the arrogance.

Am also sitting in on John Meuther's class on OPC Roots . . . some great stuff there. I should have taken this class, also ('course, if I had I would've got even less accomplished outside of coursework--if that's even possible)

Another comment Williamson made was in reference to WCF XVI.1

"I. Good works are only such as God hath commanded in his holy Word, and not such as, without the warrant thereof, are devised by men, out of blind zeal, or upon any pretense of good intention."

He asked if the words "only" and "any" really meant anything to the Reformed churches today. How many things are called "Good Works" by Presbyterian churches that don't fit what God has commanded?

Had the great pleasure of listening to an harangue (his word) by G. I. Williamson on Holidays, the Regulative Principal, the Westminster Confession and contemporary Reformed churches. WOW! Wish I had a tape recorder going . . .

He claims a breaking point is coming where we need to admit that we disagree with the Confession and change it . . .I pray instead that we change us.

James White talks about needing to teach everything with passion--he says he preaches Biblical Languages with a passion. Well, I've now heard Church Polity (Canon Law) taught with a passion. Wasn't sure that it could be done.
Score one for Dr. White

Things in San Diego are green. Very green. Just not used to seeing that in January.

wow . . . .it's been a long time again. Okay, this time I mean it--I'm going to do this regularly

(until I stop again).

I'll start with posting quick notes and reflections on my stay at the Ministerial Training Institute for the OPC.