"We are travellers…not yet in our native land" – St. Augustine
There have been a lot of posts on Facebook recently about abortion, particular with the recent announcement by Bill and Melinda Gates. To close things up I’d just like to share a post by my friend Brock, entitled “Why I am Pro-Life”:
My good friend Joe Heschmeyer will soon be abandoning the United States in order to complete his final seminary studies at the North American College (NAC) in Rome. Given the recent World Cup defeat of the England at the hands of the Italians, I take this as an extremely personal betrayal.
Fortunately for Joe, I’ve decided to forgive him and post the talk he gave recently on the subject of the Resurrection:
If you’d like to see the rest of the presentation and read his notes, they’re available here.
Last week I shared links to two other blog posts which discussed the issue of Christians getting tattoos. Needless to say, there was quite a lively discussion on my Facebook page! In the discussion, quite a few of my Christian friends shared the stories behind their tattoos and, despite my personal dislike of tattoos, I found the whole things fascinating so I thought it might be a nice idea to do something of a follow-up post…
So, if you are a Christian and have a tattoo, please contact me. I’d invite you to send me a picture of your tattoo, together with a little bit of the story behind it. I’ll then collect them all into a post for next week 🙂
Today there was a post from The Catholic Gentlemen on a subject which divides a lot of people, the issue of tattoos:
Personally, I’m really not a fan of tattoos, but to provide some balance, here’s a post from Kim Vanderpool from The Uniconoclast:
What do you think about tattoos?
Last month Pope John-Paul II was officially canonized in Rome. In preparation for this, John Paul The Great Catholic University held a series of lectures concerning the former pontiff. They’re now all available online:
I think most Christians have been watch the movie, The Passion of the Christ. What a lot of people don’t know is that the Jim Caviezel, the actor who played Jesus, is a committed Catholic. Here is a video of an interview he had with Dave Cooper at The Rock, one of the large Evangelical congregations here in San Diego:
(Thanks to Wade for this one)
The other day, I received a question via Facebook from a friend asking about a passage she had read in the Old Testament. Her query related to a turn of phrase used in the Book of Exodus where God describes Himself as a “jealous God” (Exodus 20:4-6). What did it mean? Why would God ever be “jealous”? Surely jealousy is always a bad thing?
