The following epistle was found on the doorstep of the Sylvan Sanctum, though the owner is no longer in residence. We have seen fit to post it on the door for your perusal.Dear friends ( Read more... )

Dear old Bilbo. He'd been sent off on his great adventure and experienced and learned and gained a great deal. But one of his valuable findings had too much power over him, and he knew he needed to part with it. So he had a grand birthday party and gave away lots of things that didn't matter much, hoping, in the end, to make it easier to give up ( Read more... )

No motorcycle but I did spring for this last Saturday:

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Television is one of the greatest life-wasters of the modern age. And, of course, the Internet is running to catch up.... TV still reigns as the great life-waster. The main problem is not how much smut is available, though that is a problem. Just the ads are enough to sow fertile seeds of greed and lust, no matter what program you're watching. ( Read more... )

I hurt myself today, to see if I still feel.
I focus on the pain, the only thing that's real.
The needle tears a hole, the old familiar sting.
I try to kill it all away, but I remember everything...

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Only Christianity has the answer to pain, grief, death. Unless experiencing Death drives us to cry out to God, the best we can do is cope by ( Read more... )

Doug Wilson blogs prolifically, but scanning through is often worth it. This excerpt relieves some guilt about not witnessing in the door-to-door salesman-like method (not that it lets me off the hook in any way...). Full article hereAN EVANGELICAL PITFALL: But there is a different kind of pitfall, unfortunately common in the evangelical world. ( Read more... )

Interesting article on Regulative Principle.

Team Pyro writes on youth ministryAnd the functions of the tithe: "Support ministers of the gospel, the relief of the poor, and celebration before the Lord.... [This] last, a wonderful boon to uptight modern Christians, the tithe should be used to buy beer for the great ecclesiastical Thanksgiving bash ( Read more... )

Dear friend,

Would you consider yourself a Christian - a follower of Christ?
Your friend,

Keith
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"At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore" (Ps. 16: 11 ( Read more... )

I knew it was a hoax...

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