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Cranach: The Blog of Veith : Other words for vocation

Fri, 1 May 2009 07:23:18 +0000

We might contrast those who are "steady as the sun" with those who job hop. And, yet even the sun has a course of which it could be said to be speedily tracking it's "career". It seems to me that, depending on how the onlooker's perspective is oriented (by the a part of the course, by the course itself, or if he hasn't caught any vision of the course at all), the person watched might seem disloyal, slow, or bouncy.... when in truth they are right on. Even Christians don't see all the dimensions of our Call to His face, so we keep what appears (even to us!) a crooked trajectory.

Cranach: The Blog of Veith : The Taliban taking over Pakistan?

Fri, 1 May 2009 06:35:48 +0000

"the day the music died"?

Cranach: The Blog of Veith : Render unto Caesar day

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 06:56:15 +0000

God is content with ten percent, Uncle Sam not after about 30 percent. significance of that? the world is messed up, somehow.

Cranach: The Blog of Veith : Not smart enough to do his taxes

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 06:53:36 +0000

I study philosophy. My girlfriend......mathematics. :) I'm so in trouble for typing that here. :)

Cranach: The Blog of Veith : City vs. Country vs. Suburban

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 06:48:06 +0000

Could we not consider reforming the molds? We could help housing and work "change" to supply the demand of shrewd yet compassionate Neighbors as well as a growing holistic sense of Vocation. We could stop tolerating pastoring that tends unto an old-school worldliness-and-idolatry with it's own hierarchy of sins where some sins are tolerated, no matter how horrendous to they are God, "as long as you keep it out of sight." Perhaps individuals/families could try living cross-type, building immunity to the ills (and also strength from the good) of both. Perhaps we work unto a fashioning-by-principle that also has many ideal characteristics, rather than just resorting to the best measuring among a few highly defined molds.

Cranach: The Blog of Veith : The day the music died, again

Tue, 7 Apr 2009 05:57:56 +0000

lol.

Cranach: The Blog of Veith : Getting Ecumenical with Baal & Ishtar

Fri, 3 Apr 2009 15:23:39 +0000

Wow, that was dark. Clever tho. Props.

Cranach: The Blog of Veith : What is Social Democracy?

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:08:57 +0000

This process only happens because we foster it. And, we foster it because we're sinful. We live our lives carelessly complicit in ill-directed social-juggernauts, moving against our neighbors. That's largely fostered by slothful anti-intellectualism. We refuse to imitate a brilliant God, and so holy zeal is diverted unto the enemy's ends as Children of the Light neglect: their Bibles (by orthopraxis if not by meditation), their personal theology, their personal social-theory. And I'm as guilty as the rest of us. It falls back on churches, both qualified elders and other individuals, to quit being Laodiceans, shirking our duties upon the hired guns and to be rather Ambassadors of Christ in our worlds. Otherwise if it's not "social democracy" won't it be something else?

Cranach: The Blog of Veith : What is Social Democracy?

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:08:51 +0000

Definition idea: One political manifestation of secularization agenda. (Btw, there is a facebook group! http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2210473277 ) If it's not this (thankfully honest) compromise of constitution then it'll be another one that we will permit. The people are presuppositionally anti-Constitution and what's more: anti-Christ. Pleasure and pain choke the seed. We masses are politcally manipulated against ourselves by our stomachs and our- yeah.

Cranach: The Blog of Veith : The Power to Seize Firms

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:49:54 +0000

Stealing?

Cranach: The Blog of Veith : Non-Idolators as American Idols

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:41:55 +0000

Perhaps the church has always been a supporter of the musical arts in America, just one unsung. :) Even if a few periods' only benefit was remnant capital off of a prior period's investment, it still had to be substantial.

Cranach: The Blog of Veith : The coming evangelical collapse #5

Sun, 22 Mar 2009 02:44:38 +0000

Could the Acts 29 network associated with Mars Hill in Seattle be of significance here? They are quasi-Calvinist, Charismatic, self-described as emerging though far from "emergent", of a more reforming regulative principle, I think they're officially non-denominational (sort of, does Acts 29 count?) Some thoughts.