Works in progress

I’ve decided to write more book reviews. Now that I am out of school for the summer, I’ve made up an extensive reading list I’d like to get through. Currently I’m reading a book written by one of the elders in my church, Douglas Bond. He is the head of the English department at the high school my church hosts and is a pretty good writer. The book is the first in a two part series, “Fathers and Sons.” The first book is subtitled, “Stand Fast In the Way of Truth.” Once I’ve completed it, I’m going to post a book review on my other blog http://greatmindsbookreview.wordpress.com/. Hopefully, I can do the same for the second book in the series.

I’ve also read Voddie Baucham’s newest book “What He Must Be: If He Wants to Marry My Daughter.” Unlike my brother’s teasing hinted, I’m not planning on courting Pastor Baucham’s daughter, as wonderful a young lady as I’m sure she must be. However, the initial read was pretty fast and I would like to go back to write a review after a more in-depth reading. Personally, I found Pastor Baucham’s approach to courting a little more Biblically oriented than other’s have approached the subject.

New blog, new ideas

I am going to revamp this blog a little bit at a time, but since I haven’t used it in awhile, I’m going to start in a new direction (perhaps more on this later). I want its focus to be more reformed in thinking and direction. I have been convinced as late that many problems we are facing are because Christians do not have a solid basis for their belief system. This is of course not to say that there is no solid basis for their beliefs as much as it is to say that they do not know and are not learned in their belief system. They do not know right doctrine and theology, they do not understand how their faith applies to the real world. I think that this needs more focused discussion and I will hopefully be able to provide that in some little way through this blog.

Also, I have a new blog specifically designed for book reviews from a reformed and Calvinist perspective. I encourage folks to consider posting their own reviews on that blog by the means I have prescribed on it. So please visit and tell me what you think.

New author

I have decided to add an author to the blog. I did this mostly for his comics and to lighten up the atmosphere. Hopefully, this will not interfere with the intellectual conversations.

Ghosts

Some people are very gullible. Way too gullible. Too bad we had to debunk them twice. Still, I think they get kicks out of it or something.

Blogging

I really have some very lame excuses for not blogging in a long time. If you don’t want to hear them, then skip the next paragraph.

After school ended, I got sick and that was definitely no fun. Once I got better, Christmas was in full swing. We had concerts (some of which I played in), caroling, gift buying, decorating, etc. So now I will start school again on the 2nd of January and I think my whole break is almost over. Bummer. Well, time to update the old blog.

I will continue talking about love marriage and courtship because there are tons of things to be said on that topic (like parental involvment. Thank you evilmrglitch), but for now I want to switch gears for a moment. In our local pseudo-news paper there was a letter published about atheists attempting to remove any vestige of a Christian Christmas from the public square viz. the ACLU or the like. Someone then replied to this person, trying, I think, to disprove the other writer’s claims. However, he did a very poor job of it and really missed the point of the argument. I don’t know why our news paper stoops to publish such slop. Anyway, I sent a letter in response to this and needless to say, it was not published. Go figure. Here is my letter for your reading:

As a college student, I am really amazed by how the writer of this letter missed the point of the debate. Sure there are other religions presented on the walls of the Supreme Court, but the point was that religion, not atheism, was recognized as the foundation for our laws. How can atheism, which can only get its morals from the individual, be the foundation for any nation? Look at the failure of the countries that embraced it.
Sadly, the writer also attempts to diminish the influence that Christianity and religion had in the forming of this nation. Even Franklin and Jefferson were deists, not atheists. Most of the others were more than deists. One, John Witherspoon, was even a Presbyterian minister. George Washington, who was a praying man, stated in his first inaugural address, “…it would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first official act my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe, who presides in the councils of nations, and whose providential aids can supply every human defect, that His benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the people of the United States a Government instituted by themselves for these essential purposes, and may enable every instrument employed in its administration to execute with success the functions allotted to his charge.” This does not sound like the ACLU’s separation of church and state.