in vain on billboards

Is anyone else bothered by the adverts for the new Kit Kat Chunky? Emblazoned on bus shelters all over town, a casual disregard for the third commandment – thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain – a morally binding requirement that the name of God ‘be holily and reverently [...]

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spirituality and the Spirit

Earlier today in conversation I opined that the work of the Holy Spirit is fairly well-defined in Scripture, and that not every experience of an extraordinary or apparently supernatural nature can be attributed directly to the Holy Spirit.
This is specifically in the case of “tingly feelings” and other inexplicable things that people report, like having [...]

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bits & bobs

Not really up to much blogging right now, but there’s things I have to share.
One being the fact I recently discovered, that you can’t buy ethanol here without a licence (established through various bizarre phonecalls to pharmacists and chemists).
Also, perhaps more usefully: did you know that if you want to edit a cell in Excel, [...]

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teach us to number our days

1 Peter 1. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you who are [...]

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make a wee robot happy

In my thesis  acknowledgements, I gave a special mention to Ziggy Campbell, acoustic expert extraordinaire who deserves all sorts of credit for the quality of pretty much all the recordings I’ve ever done.
But in his other life Ziggy is a musician in some kind of way too cool for me to know anything about.
And is [...]

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true blue?

To settle a point of minor dispute, a poll-packed post on presbyterian perspectives. Alliterative, too.
When Calvinists think about Calvinism, how much do they really know?
There follows a series of polls on different aspects of calvinism. My impression is that all the questions are pretty easy, and I’m hoping your answers will bear that out. Anyone [...]

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a double-barrelled name

Traill says, in one of his sermons:
You are not called at first to believe your interest in Christ, his will to save you in particular: but you are, on the peril of your souls, to trust this Saviour with your salvation; and all the more so, because of his declared ability and goodwill to save.
Saving [...]

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