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Original Sin – Part II

Lately I have been Bible Doctrine: Essential Teachings of the Christian Faith by Wayne Grudem as part of VLI. In Chapter 13 he deals with the ‘original sin’ or as he likes to call it ‘inherited sin’. Some of his thoughts were interesting, so I thought I would share them:

1) “When [...]

Medieval Psalmbook Dug Out of Irish Bog

Wow! A backhoe driver in Ireland has just discovered a book of Psalms from 800-1000 A.D buried in a bog. Full story can be found on FoxNews or the BBC.

The thing that really struck me about the find was that the book was found open to Psalm 83. The first five verses are [...]

Freefall by Mark Stanley

Ok, I have another really cool web-comic for you – Freefall by Mark Stanley. =D

This is one of the funniest web-comics I have found to date. In fact, I would rank it right up there by Schlock Mercenary. It is that good!

A quick summary: Sam Starfall and his trusty [...]

Readers Poll – Help Josh figure out what to do…

As part of VLI (Vineyard Leadership Institute) we are required to be mentored by a pastor or church leader for three quarters. This is great – only, I am suppose to figure out who I want to sit under and for what reason… =/

I know I want to [...]

Good News – Bad News

Good news – we moved 90% of our stuff out of our house in Boise. It is all sitting in a barn in Emmett (a town northwest of Boise) waiting to be moved into the house in Sweet. The only 10% will be moved out on August 5th as we have to be [...]

Original Sin - genetic or social

Original sin – this is a term the church often throws around. I’m not a scholar on it… but in our VLI class this summer we talked about Augustine’s view of original sin versus Pelagius (who was a British monk living in Rome).

It was interesting to see that Augustine’s view [...]

Base Hit

The original buyer came by last night and gave us a signed letter asking to get out of the contract. This means we can sell the house to the second buyer – who is in much better financial shape, has a good reputation with our lawyer, and is willing to close on Aug [...]

Life is pitching; Curve ball to the left; Strike!!!

This weekend brought about a ton of changes:

1) I messed my knee up on 10 mile GPS hike with the US Forest Service. It is nothing to serious, the glands in my knee swelled up causing a lot of fluid in my knee. I have it in [...]

We sold the house!!

Or, more actually, we accepted an offer to buy the house. We signed a temporary contract… the official one will be written up on Tuesday at the lawyer’s office. The buyer still has to complete his financing before we can close. But it looks like a done deal. =D

I hope we [...]

Faux Pas

I have a new web-comic for you all: Faux Pas

It is a very cute (yes, I used the ‘C’ word) comic about a domesticated fox who lives in a barn with a chicken, a horse, a kangaroo, some rabbits and a bunch cats. Things are going good until a wild fox [...]