Ancient Paths Blog: June 2009

Quotable ...

"If you want a strong marriage you've got to maintain it... The grass is not greener on the other side of the fence; it's greener where you water it." Rick Warren
"Let the fires go out in the boiler room of the church and the place will still look smart and clean, but it will be cold. The Prayer Room is the boiler room for its spiritual life." Leonard Ravenhill
"...the providence of God is ususally something you should roll with." Doug Wilson
"Saying Yes to happiness often means saying No to yourself." Elizabeth Elliot
"Idols are often good things turned into a god thing, which is a bad thing." Mark Driscoll
"My memory is nearly gone, but I remember two things - that I am a great sinner and that Christ is a great Savior." John Newton
"I believe in Christianity like I believe the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else." C.S. Lewis
"If you pray well, you will live well; if you live well, you will die well; and if you die well, all will be well." St. Augustine
"As the Lord's Prayer is the Prayer of prayers, and the Ten Commandments are the Laws of law, so the Apostles' Creed is the Creed of creeds." Philip Schaff, Creeds of Christendom
"If people like you and me find much that we don't naturally like in the public & corporate side of Christianity all the better for us: it will teach us humility and charity towards simple low-brow people who may be better Christians than ourselves." C.S. Lewis
"Adam and Eve were created to be one flesh, to express in bodily form the unity that exists among the persons of the Trinity." Peter Leithart
"If anything has been lost from our culture, it is the idea that human beings are privately, personally, individually, ultimately, inexorably accountable to God for their lives." R.C. Sproul
"The kindness of the world is far more formidable than its enmity. Many, who were prepared to stem the torrent of its opposition, have yielded with compromising indulgence to its paralyzing kindness." Charles Bridges
"Once you have made the World an end, and faith a means, you have almost won your man, and it makes very little difference what kind of worldly end he is pursuing." Screwtape to Wormwood
"Prayer isn't everything; but everything is done through prayer." -- Armin Gesswein
"God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world." -- C.S. Lewis
"Where there is much prayer, there will be much of the Spirit; where there is much of the Spirit, there will be ever-increasing prayer." -- Andrew Murray
"The church that multiplies committees and neglects prayer may be fussy, noisy, enterprising, but it labors in vain and spends its strength for nothing. It is possible to excel in mechanics and fail in dynamics. There is an abundance of machinery; what is lacking is power." -- Samuel Chadwick
"The church is a Body, not a business. It is an organism, not an organization! It is a family to be loved, not a machine to be engineered, and not a company to be managed." -- Rick Warren
"If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else." -- Yogi Berra

June 24, 2009

The Feminine Gnostique: How Feminism Denies the Physical

One of the assumptions of classic feminism is the denial of distinctions between male and female. This is a bold position given the pretty obvious differences in physiology. What is usually meant is that being a male or female does not predispose one to a certain role like mother or father let alone homemaker or CEO.

By the way, this is why great care is taken to insulate the discussion from the issues of biology and physiology - most often by using the word "gender" instead of "sex" when referring to male and female. The former is a category of linguistics; the latter a biological one.

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June 19, 2009

What Happend to May?

So... why aren't there any posts on APB for May? After going through surgery for cancer at the end of April I was distracted with recovery I guess. What energy I did have was focused on only the most vital of duties at Church and home.

Add to that the fact that in the last month and a half no one has actually asked, "Hey - why aren't you writing for your blog?" or said "I sure hope you can start writing soon, I miss it" kinda makes you wonder if it's time better spent elsewhere...

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