Quote for the Day: Former BBC News Anchor Peter Sissons

“Islam must not be offended at any price, although Christians are fair game because they do nothing about it if they are offended.”

Source.

Quote for the Day: the Mother of a Slain Ohio School Student

"I taught Demetrius not to live in the past, to live in today and forgiveness is divine. You have to forgive everything. God's grace is new each and every day," she said. "Until you've walked in another person's shoes, you don't know what mad him come to this point."

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Powerful. "You have to forgive everything."

http://gma.yahoo.com/ohio-school-shooting-victims-parents-forgive-suspected-shooter-161435847--abc-news.html

Brothers, Forgive Me

It is now officially Lent and I would like to ask forgiveness of all for whatever sins I may have committed against them and for any offenses that I may not know about that I may have caused.

I am a sinner, condemned to die and thereafter destined to face my Judge. Please remember dear brothers, that this is the fate of all of us. Before the dread hour comes, repent and forgive your brothers, that the Lord Jesus Christ may forgive you for all things.

The Heavens are Declaring

A song of the Mbuti Pygmies:

"In the beginning was God,
Today is God,
Tomorrow will be God.
Who can make an image of God?
He has no body."

Source.

Ugh...

In a foolish blunder, I have signed up for Facebook. If you are a user of that infernal identity theft kit, look me up at your leisure...

Russia Gives the US a Taste of its own Moralistic Medicine

In my opinion, we've had this coming for a long time.

You have to give Russia credit, it seems to be the one major country willing to call the US out directly on its hypocrisy.

O the Mystery! The Creator Becomes a Creature!

"O come let us rejoice in the Lord, telling of this present mystery:

The middle wall of partition hath been demolished, the fiery sword is removed, the cherub withdraweth from the gate of life, and I partake of the food of paradise, from whence I was driven away because of disobedience.

For the Image of the Father, the Image of His Eternity, doth assume the form of a servant, issuing forth from the mother who knew not wedlock, without undergoing change.

Yet He hath remained our true God as He was before, and He hath received what He was not, becoming man in his love for mankind.

To Him let us cry aloud, 'O God who was born of the virgin, have mercy on us!'"

Source: Lord I Have Cried 1 from Christ is Born.

Quote for the Day: a Responsible Musician

“The truth of it is every singer out there with songs on the radio is raising the next generation.”

Source. Perhaps a little overstated, but essentially she's right.

Joining the Clones

I have purchased an Apple product. Or rather, I received one for free when I renewed my AT&T contract last week. So far, my iphone 3gs has been very easy to use and actually a wonderful blessing due to my ability to manage my email and finances when I'm away from my computer.

So, does anyone have any good Apps to recommend?

To End Any Suspense...

After only five days of prep work I passed my CDL test today. Wow.

CDL Test Tomorrow

Tomorrow I'll be taking a driver's test for my class A driver's license. I need a class A in order to keep my job. Please say a prayer for me, dear readers, that everything will work out.

More Proto-Credal Language in Tertullian

Previously, I had commented on finding some language that was strikingly similar to the Nicene Creed in Tertullian's On the Veiling of Virgins. (The actual post can be found here.)

Last night I also discovered some new, strikingly creed-like language in his Against Praxeas:

"We, however, as we indeed always have done (and more especially since we have been better instructed by the Paraclete, who leads men indeed into all truth), believe that there is one only God, but under the following dispensation, or οἰκονομία , as it is called, that this one only God has also a Son, His Word, who proceeded from Himself, by whom all things were made, and without whom nothing was made. Him we believe to have been sent by the Father into the Virgin, and to have been born of her—being both Man and God, the Son of Man and the Son of God, and to have been called by the name of Jesus Christ; we believe Him to have suffered, died, and been buried, according to the Scriptures, and, after He had been raised again by the Father and taken back to heaven, to be sitting at the right hand of the Father, and that He will come to judge the quick and the dead; who sent also from heaven from the Father, according to His own promise, the Holy Ghost, the Paraclete,the sanctifier of the faith of those who believe in the Father, and in the Son, and in the Holy Ghost."