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A Christmas Poem by Ric Booth 2007-12-04 10:35:07 ‘Twas the Very First Christmas
by ric booth
‘Twas the very first Christmas, when all o’er the earth
Not a creature took notice when a virgin gave birth.
She wrapped Him up in swaddling clothes,
Nursed Him; held Him; Still, nobody knows.
The sheep were sleeping in flocks where they lie;
While shepherds stood watch under His sky.
With the Son [...] Read more:Booth
Man,What a Dog! 2007-12-03 14:54:25 OK, my good friend Buddy Oliver, over on Rev22, has decided to come out of the closet. I think we all had our suspicions, but were just in denial of his predilections. Not that there’s anything wrong with this - I even have friends who claim to know people that love dogs. But his love [...]
The Old Man’s Feast Day 2007-12-18 18:04:26
Every winter it got very dark in the garden, especially during the last month of the year. Some of the children would become sad and depressed during this time, remembering people that had passed before and pining away for the warm sunshine and green plants of summer. But on the very darkest and shortest [...] Read more:Feast
National Review says Leave X-Mas for the X-Men 2007-12-18 08:16:37 Over the course of our friendly debate about the “Christianity” of Christmas there has been a number of different opinions presented; One suggests that the secular world, fueled by the “New Atheism”, is determined to remove any vestige of religion or spirituality from the public sector . Another suggests that Political Correctness is sucking [...] Read more:National
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TOY RECALL!!!! 2007-12-14 18:01:54 It’s a crisis! Retailers and parents are in a panic. Never before have so many toys been recalled for so many reasons for so few people.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/08/01/national/main3124623.shtml
Here are some more awful toys that experts (such as myself) feel should have been included in the list but were not:
The Lego Step Ladder
“The Indiana Jones Sewer Explorer Adventure [...]
The Essential Ingredient 2007-12-13 16:37:01 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I [...] Read more:Essential
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All the News that’s Fit to Eat 2007-12-13 10:15:27 Today the Wall Street Journal is all excited about a ‘new’ taste sensation that is sweeping the culinary world. WSJ
Well, just remember that many of you first heard about it here, on Sharp Iron:
http://sharpiron.wordpress.com/2007/08/07/umami-knows-best/
“Sharp Iron - for Perspiring Minds”
Not All Cats are Gray in the Dark 2007-12-13 07:25:57 What will those wily Koreans think of next? First kimchee, then the Hyundai and now this. Jeesh! I’ll bet it cuts into their mousing percentages, though.
(Wait’ll Buddy sees this.) http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071212/sc_afp/healthscienceskoreacloning
Jean the Bird 2007-12-12 20:27:29 Jean the Bird is not only a great song by David Syvian and Robert Fripp it also is a fellow who has learned to fly. What I wouldn’t give to be able to do this. Oh, brother.Â
The Christmas Tree Squint Test 2007-12-11 17:28:38 Â (Sorry for repeating myself but I posted this back in September and I should’ve waited until now.)
We were talking on one of the earlier threads and there was some disagreement over the true meaning of certain scriptural passages. (I must be kidding, right? Here?) It seems like we kept going around and around and around. [...] Read more:Christmas
Grasshopper Hills; Reflections on 1 Corinthians 9 2007-12-09 22:52:29 Just to the west of my old high school can be found the start and finish line for the cross country course. The three mile course was a notoriously grueling one, as it dropped nearly 300 feet down towards the river and then snaked its way back up the valley through a series of very [...] Read more:Reflections
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A WORLD OF X-MAS AND X-TIANITY by Alan Ward 2007-12-24 15:05:16 My friend Alan has just had an article published today over on theOoze. In it he says;
It's certainly much easier to conform and be accepted by the world than it is to transform ourselves and the world around us, but Jesus calls us to walk the harder road toward transformation. Our job as Christians should be to put [...]
C.S.Lewis on Contemporary Christmas 2007-12-24 10:46:41 While commenting on the “Old Man’s Feast Day”Alan recommended that I check out something Lewis
had written about the way in which he saw this holy day being celebrated. Although written over 50 years ago (Niatirb is an anagram for Lewis’ Britain) it is even more pertinent today. It reminds me of what Brent of InWorship [...] Read more:Christmas
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The Weak and Ugly Jesus 2008-03-09 17:09:13 The most popular post I have ever written is “The Black Jesus
”“. On a daily basis I get over 10 times as many hits for that piece than any other. I have no illusions as to why - it has nothing to do with my writing or my thoughts, it’s just the title [...]
Ask Dr. Leviticus 2008-03-08 12:24:47 This letter is old news. But, since I’m always a day late and a dollar short, I just now discovered it. (Gary Wills reprints this letter in his book “What Jesus Meant”. ) Google suggests that it first appeared as a response to something that Dr. Laura Schlessinger said about homosexuality on [...]
The Wild and Rebellious Christ 2008-03-04 13:54:55 I’m kind of fond of that pop-religious expression, “What would Jesus do?” – WWJD. I can’t remember all the times when, confronted with a moral dilemma, I asked myself that very question. And I can’t ever remember getting a wrong answer. Simplistic? Naive? You betcha, that’s me. But in [...] Read more:Rebellious
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Christianity is Not a Religion 2008-03-01 03:52:24 I ran across this remark the other day and it hits the nail squarely on the head. Capon is an episcopal priest and cook.
“Christianity
is not a religion. Christianity is the proclamation of the end of religion, not of a new religion, or even of the best of all religions… If the cross is the [...] Read more:Religion
The Wedding Scandal: Jesus Insults the Religious 2008-02-28 11:24:47 It’s always a treat when someone points out something new (at least for me) in scriptures. Bruxy Cavey, in his excellent book “The End of Religion” talks about the scandal contained within the story of Jesus
’ first miracle. This is something that had never occurred to me before. See if you can pick it [...] Read more:Scandal
William F. Buckley Jr., R.I.P. 2008-02-27 14:49:04 It’s a sad, sad day. I don’t think any one person, aside from my father, has done more to help shape my political world view than William
F. Buckley
. I have been a subscriber to National Review for over 30 years, since I was a teenager, and still read every issue from cover [...]
American Vision 2008-02-26 15:42:20 “The most important thing a president needs to do is to make it clear that we’re not going to continue to see jobs shipped overseas, jobs that are lost by American
workers, many in their 50s who, for 20 and 30 years, have worked to make a company rich, and then watch as a CEO [...]
Indivisible 2008-02-25 18:55:57
In talking with some folks about the relevancy of the Pledge of Allegience, someone suggested that it is because our country is under God’s protection that it is, in fact, indivisible. Apparently when this is not the case, when we have in some way offended God, then there is the likelihood of national dissolution.
Which got me to thinking [...]
The Best Damn Food Store In America 2008-02-25 15:47:54 For some time now the trend has been for large national corporations to use their buying power to price their smaller competitors out business. Nothing particularly wrong about that, it is the result of a almost free market (these big fellas usually get sweet tax and zoning deals) and no one is crazy about paying more [...] Read more:Store
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The Possible Dream 2008-02-22 15:46:14 Many of you may have already seen this little video. I’m not a big fan of “American Idol” so I had never heard of Paul Potts. Boy, was everyone blown away when this was shown at my church last Sunday. It was in support of a series of talks entitled “Who Am I”. Turn [...] Read more:Possible
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Now We’ve Got Fourteen Deadly Sins?! 2008-03-12 14:48:36 Just when you think that maybe people are starting to get the point they go out and do THIS:
THE seven deadly sins have grown to at least 14 after the Vatican updated its 1400-year-old list of the worst moral failures to reflect the modern world.
The new deadly sins that may lead to eternal [...] Read more:Fourteen
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The Religious Voyeur 2008-03-15 10:18:35 Sam is a voyeur. He’s been one as long as he can remember. This is his story;
In high school and college Sam was painfully aware that, though he was very much attracted to pretty women, they did not seem to find him too attractive. He was not a member of [...]
10 Fundamental Questions about Christianity 2008-03-21 12:37:33 I just spent some time arguing certain tenets of faith with a self professed Christian Evangelical /Fundamental
ist. I found his remarks to be fairly typical of most conservative Christians so I thought they might be worth discussing. I’ve generalized my questions to him in the hope for at least some sort of brevity.
[...] Read more:Christianity
Re-Judaizing Jesus 2008-03-29 10:00:54 My daughter, Dorothy, informed me that a couple of weeks ago, Time/ABC World news did a TV special on “Ten Ideas the are Changing the World”, the tenth one being the ‘Re-Judaizing of Jesus
.’ They quote a Jewish New Testament scholar, Amy-Jill Levine. I missed this program but coincidently I am now reading her book, “The Misunderstood Jew”. [...]
The End of Haute Cuisine 2008-03-27 16:15:10 Alain is the chef at La Manière, one of the oldest and most prestigious dining establishments in town. Since the restaurant’s opening day his fare has been lauded as the only authentic continental cuisine being served in the region.
People would come from miles around, having made reservations months in advance. In order to reserve a [...] Read more:Haute
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An Apology to the Woman at the Well 2008-04-02 16:09:58 In an earlier post I talked about how Jesus displayed his propensity for mercy and inclusion when he met the woman at the well in John 4:1-42.
At that time I was basing my remarks upon what is the current wisdom among many progressive Christians, that the Jewish culture of the time [...] Read more:Apology
Mommy, Do Jewish Kids Go To Heaven? 2008-04-01 12:30:34 Nice sign, huh? Spread the Good News.
Anyway, we’ve been talking lately about whether or not Christians are in some way special in the eyes of God – if one must be a Christian in order to be ‘saved’ from damnation or at least from missing out on heaven. Amy-Jill Levine, a Jewish
scholar of [...] Read more:Mommy
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