Wow. How could Representative Stupak be so easily duped? It is clear that Obama's executive order cannot prevent the health care legislation from being fully implemented, as written (including the public funding for abortion). But it seems that Stupak is not as strong as many of us thought. We should have known better. This video was recorded last Fall: HT: The Corner … [Read more...] about Bart Stupak: How Disappointing
Archives for March 2010
Q&A with C.J. Mahaney on Manhood Issues
An array of excellent, practical instruction for young men (14-19) and husbands/fathers alike on matters pertaining to manhood, humility, servant-leadership, wisdom, and character cultivation: Q&A on Biblical Masculinity from Sovereign Grace Ministries on Vimeo. The books CJ mentions are: 1. Derek Kidner, Proverbs. 2. Ed Welch, When People Are Big and God is Small. 3. John Ensor, Doing Things Right in Matters of the Heart. 4. John Piper and Wayne Grudem, Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood. HT: JT … [Read more...] about Q&A with C.J. Mahaney on Manhood Issues
RC Sproul Interviews Stephen Meyer
Dr. Stephen Meyer (Ph.D., Cambridge) is Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute outside of Seattle, Washington. He has spend twenty years researching cosmology, biology, and metaphysics and is currently at the forefront of the "Intelligent Design" movement - a broad coalition of researchers whose findings demonstrate the mathematical improbability of a godless universe and (conversely) the rationality of believing in an Intelligent Creator. Meyer is the author of Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design. I'm glad that Dr. R.C. Sproul recently had the opportunity to … [Read more...] about RC Sproul Interviews Stephen Meyer
Loving God With All Your Mind
Gene Veith, in Loving God With All Your Mind (pp. 150-151):[Jesus] tells us to love God with “all” our mind. In other words, everything the mind is capable of doing is to be devoted to loving God. It would seem then that if your mind can spin out complex mathematical calculations, you are to love God in mathematics. If your mind can plan a business, design a building, analyze a novel, understand a philosophical problem, or imagine a story, you are to love God in your planning, designing, analyzing, understanding, or imagining. When Jesus says “all” the mind, He is claiming every mental faculty … [Read more...] about Loving God With All Your Mind
Solitude, Leadership, and Multi-tasking
From a provocative lecture delivered to the plebe class at the United States Military Academy at West Point in October 2009 by William Deresiewicz. The speaker notes that many organizational leaders can be described as commonplace or ordinary: That’s really the great mystery about bureaucracies. Why is it so often that the best people are stuck in the middle and the people who are running things—the leaders—are the mediocrities? Because excellence isn’t usually what gets you up the greasy pole. What gets you up is a talent for maneuvering. Kissing up to the people above you, kicking down to … [Read more...] about Solitude, Leadership, and Multi-tasking