May 2007 - Posts
A real person from Blogger actually responded to my call for help when I contacted them, and they actually fixed the problem explained in the post below. Wow! Thanks, Blogger!
Help !!! I was trying to delete the weird comments left by "alex" below, and I think I accidentally deleted myself as an administrator of this blog. Marvin has not been able to help me. As it stands now, I can post new material, but I cannot change my settings, template, sidebar, and all the other bells and whistles. Does anybody have any ideas of what to do? When I log in, and try to change settings, it just takes me to a place that has something about emailing blog posts, and that's all. HELP !!!!
In the evening I went very unwillingly to a society in Aldersgate Street, where one was reading Luther’s preface to the Epistle to the Romans. About a quarter before nine, while he was describing the change which God works in the heart through faith in Christ, I felt my heart strangely warmed. I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone, for salvation; and an assurance was given me that He had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death.
--John Wesley's Journal, May 24, 1738
The Ivy Bush has had hundreds of hits from people googling "Memorial Day sermon."
Here is the sermon Marvin Lindsay preached two years ago at John Calvin Presbyterian Church here in Salisbury. The questions Marvin raised then about the war in Iraq still haven't been answered. Though some people questioned Marvin's wisdom at the time, his words now seem eerily prophetic.
Dan Trabue has been a guest blogger over at
Locust and Honey for the last couple of weeks. Fortunately, the Baptists no longer have control of things over at L & H. (I can't believe John turned his blog over to a couple of Baptists!)
: )
Before Dan gave up the controls at L & H, he
asked for some of our favorite John Wesley quotes, so I will provide some:
“God loves you; therefore love and obey him. Christ died for you; therefore die to sin. Christ is risen; therefore rise in the image of God. Christ liveth evermore; therefore, live to God, till you live with him in glory. So we preached; and so you believed. This is the scriptural way, the Methodist way, the true way. God grant we may never turn therefrom, to the right hand or the left!” (from his letter
On Preaching Christ, 1751)
I wrote a
short piece on John Polkinghorne for The Christian Century's blog,
Theolog.
Sorry I've been so inactive in my blogging lately. I did want to check in briefly and tell you that I found
this debate interesting. It is between the atheist Christopher Hitchens and the Rev. Al Sharpton. I'm so glad that it wasn't between Hitchens and Jerry Falwell! Al Sharpton's account of belief in God is not without some problems, but at least he is not Jerry Falwell.
Perhaps the most interesting part of the debate came when Sharpton accused Hitchens of being a man of great faith. (Hitchens is apparently a supporter of the war in Iraq). Sharpton said that anyone who still believed there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq had more faith than any religious person he knew! I love it when it's the
atheists who are framed as supporters of war, and believers in God who are opposers of war.