New Blog

Yep. Moving to a new site that is much cleaner and simpler. Faith & Life is up and running.The tagline is Reformed theology, politics, family and whatever else comes to mind.

The new site is a microblog known as Posterous. I find it much easier to use. I especially like that it is super easy to post directly via email and it automatically sends the posts to Facebook and Twitter. Check it out.

Reformation Faith Today will remain up for a while, but comments will be closed. Feel free to mosey over to Faith & Life and comment there.

Millennialisms

Nathan Pitchford at Psalm 45 Publications has written extensively on theology. I highly recommend his site. Below are links to his helpful summaries on the various millennial views.

• What is Amillennialism?
• What is Postmillennialism?
• What is Premillennialism?

 

 

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Anti-Abortion Activist ‘Targeted’ in Killing

A man carrying grudges against several people in town set off on a shooting spree Friday morning, authorities said, killing an abortion protester outside a school because he didn’t like that the activist carried a sign with graphic images of a fetus in front of students.

via foxnews.com

Here are some comments on a local news site by the liberals:

Finally someone took revenge for Eric Rudolf, Michael F. Griffin, Rev. Paul Jennings Hill, John Salvi, James Kopp, etc. These nut jobs have been killing in the name of Christ for years. I guess not EVERY life is precious. Fight fire with fire. – PTrollinger

Kill the zealot, kill the zealot, kill the zealot! – llortamai

The way past lifers, deathers and birthers is to make them so scared they lock themselves in their homes and sit with their guns in their laps. – herden

I woke up to great news this morning, Its about time! – eastside32

The old man got what he was asking for. He was asking for publicity and he got it… people need to be careful what they ask for. – jsjsjs

I guess someone has taken Obama’s call for a day of service to the community seriously. – cjspeaks

Wonder how the MSM will treat this man’s murder.

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9/11. Never forget

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ACORN, prostitution and tax evasion

Yes, taped with a hidden camera, two Baltimore ACORN workers give advice to a man and a woman identifying themselves as a pimp and a prostitute on how to evade the authorities and cheat on their taxes, including how to claim 13 underage El Salvadoran sex slaves as dependents.

Here.

BTW, this is Obama’s ACORN and they receive taxpayer dollars. Figures.

 

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British baby left to die. Preview to Obamacare.

    A baby born prematurely was left to die at a British hospital because he did not qualify for treatment under the government-run, National Health Service’s rationing rules.

    Sarah Capewell, a 23 year old British mother, says that her son Jayden, born at just 21 weeks and five days gestation, was refused intensive care because the British NHS only allows treatment for premature babies born at 22 weeks. Jayden was two days under the limit.

    Capewell says Jayden survived for two hours, crying, before dying in her arms. Capewell spent the time pleading with doctors to help her son. Staff at the hospital, located in Gorleston, Norfolk, told Capewell they would have cared for her son had he been born two days later.

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    Will this be our future? President Obama’s health care plan would put in place a system very similar to the British one. Care would be rationed under the public option plan to save money. This type of merciless, cruel treatment would become common. Abortion would be paid for by taxpayer dollars and insurance premiums. Do we really want this in the United States of America, a country founded on the principles of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness? For the sake of the unborn children and our great nation, we must fight against the health care plan.

http://www.suzyb.org/blog/_archives/2009/9/10/4318141.html

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Is What President Obama doing to America a moral thing?

I mean besides on the abortion and euthanasia issue. Do ministers have an obligation to speak up about his plans to redistribute the “wealth” through various policies and legislation?

 Are not these moral issues as well? Or should ministers just remain silent?

 I think not (remain silent).

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The ever changing number of uninsured in America

From Byron York:

In his speech tonight, the president introduced a new number in the health care debate. Remember all those statements from Democrats, including Barack Obama himself, that 47 million Americans are without health insurance? That’s no longer the operative number. “There are now more than thirty million American citizens who cannot get coverage,” the president said in tonight’s speech.

But on August 10, at a town hall meeting, Obama referred to the “46, 47 million people without health insurance in our country…” And on July 23, he said, “This is not just about the 47 million Americans who don’t have any health insurance at all…”

Well, Rush said it best…

On July 22, Obama said there were 47 million uninsured — and last night, September 9, we’re down to 30 million uninsured. Well, that seems to me a huge improvement! Seventeen million people got health insurance and we haven’t done one aspect of Obama’s plan!

Let’s keep stalling the liberals and maybe in another few months everyone will have insurance!

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Obama Accused Bill Clinton of Telling ‘Bald-Faced Lies,’

We had to figure out how to deal with a former president who was just lying, engaging in bald-faced lies,” Obama told Wolffe. He also boasted about his campaign’s ultimate ability to take on the former president. 

via foxnews.com

Real classy. Calling a former President out for “lying.” So how does that “lie” accusation feel, Mr. Hope and Change?

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Understanding Poverty

Today, the U.S. Census Bureau released its annual poverty report. Every year for nearly three decades, in good economic times and bad, Census has reported more than 30 million Americans living in poverty. What does it mean to be “poor” in America? In reality, the average person, as identified as “poor” by the government, has a living standard far higher than the public imagines. According to the government’s own surveys, the typical “poor” American has cable or satellite TV, two color TV’s, a DVD player or VCR. He has air conditioning, a car, a microwave, a refrig¬erator, a stove, and a clothes washer and dryer. He is able to obtain medical care when needed. His home is in good repair and is not overcrowded. By his own report, his family is not hungry, and he had sufficient funds in the past year to meet his family’s essential needs.

Click on the link above to read the article.

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Mercy and Holiness

God stationed the cherubim and the flaming sword which turned every direction to guard the way to the tree of life, Genesis 3:24.

What must you do? You must repent and believe the gospel daily. You repented and believed when you were saved and you need to do it again and again. Come back daily, many times per day, to the glory of Christ’s reconciling, propitiating, expiating death. Ask the Holy Spirit to come down upon your life, bringing low your mountainous pride, igniting a holy passion in your heart so that the living water of Jesus will course powerfully through your soul, working supernaturally and redemptively to right the wrongs, to untangle the messiness of your hopeless marriage or ruined parent-child relationships. You have a God of great mercy and holiness, who by His Spirit can overcome any obstacle in your life. Your job is daily to repent of your sin and believe on Jesus, the great lover of your soul.

Excerpted from Mercy and Holiness by Rev. Al Baker. 

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Axiom: On the Gospel

1) Conflating the Gospel (what God has done in Christ) with our response to the Gospel turns “good news” into very “bad news.”

2) Social action without the emphasis and foundation of what Christ has done for sinners on the Cross (of which is of first importance– cf. 1 Cor. 15:1-11), or, proclaiming a “thick” Gospel (that God is making all things new) without telling sinners how to be reconciled to God, is not only unbiblical, it is sadistic.

By εξο της παρεμβολης

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White House talking points blast Palin

But wait. She’s nobody, right White House? Hick former governor of a nothing state, right? Snowbilly, right? So what are you guys doing responding to her? Hmmmmm?

Politico has the story. Governor Palin responds to the White House talking points.

I’m pleased that the White House is finally responding to Republican health care ideas instead of pretending they don’t exist.[1] But in doing so President Obama should follow his own sound advice and avoid making “wild misrepresentations”.[2] Medicare vouchers would give everyone on Medicare the chance to decide for themselves which health plan to use, rather than leave that decision to government bureaucrats. Such proposals are the kind of health care reform that Republicans stand for: market-oriented, patient-centered, and result-driven.

The White House talking points leave the rest of my arguments unanswered. They don’t respond to the idea that all individuals should get the same tax benefits received by those who get coverage through their employers; that we must reform our tort laws; and that we should allow Americans to buy insurance across state lines. The White House also fails to respond to the Nyce/Schieber study indicating that wages will fall if the government expands coverage without reducing health care inflation rates.

One last thing: after President Obama’s speech tonight, listen for which pundits use the words “false”, “scary”, and “risky” in describing the proposals I put forward. That’s how you’ll be able to tell who the White House counted as “allies” worthy of receiving its talking points.

-Sarah Palin

[1] See http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0909/White_House_talking_points_blast_Palin.html.
[2] See http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/16/opinion/16obama.html.

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NSF Scientists find links between solar activity and climate change

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Looks like somebody didn’t get the memo.

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Ahead of Obama Speech, Baucus Says ‘Public Option’ Cannot Pass Senate

The public option cannot pass the Senate,” Baucus said. “I could be wrong, but it’s my belief that the public option cannot pass.” 

via foxnews.com

Celebrate, cautiously.

Is health care a human right?

Donald Sensing has some questions for you if you think so. Read on…

Obama critics are racists

“(T)he extreme right hates him for being African-American…I don’t have the slightest doubt that the racist right will do everything possible to wear him down, blocking his program to get him out of the game one way or another, at the least political cost.”

Who said it? Click on…

Well, The PCA has women officers

I know, some have said that’s not what all the discussion is about. But read on…

Dance teacher fired for using religious music. Case goes to trial.

A dance teacher , who was terminated from her job after a complaint was made that she used religious music in her instruction, is in trial this week. The single complaint which cost the teacher her job came from a school staff member rather than a parent or student. In addition to secular music on the day in question, the instructor, Kathy Villalobos, used a rendition of Dona Nobis Pachem, Canon in D and O Si Funi Mungu. Dona Nobis Pachem is a baroque piece by J.S. Bach and is sung in

New blog: liberal drivel

To the right you will see a feed for liberal drivel. There is just so much of it dribbling out, there seems to be a need to capture at least some of it in one place. Here is what liberal drivel is all about:

Liberals and most Democrats (Libercrats) say