Pulled this one from the vault. Wrote this for our church blog about a decade ago. It aged fairly well Introduction My opinions are like Jehovah's Witness pamphlets: free and unsolicited. So when I was asked to write my opinions on various forms of technology (which I wasn’t), I wholeheartedly agreed. As I was trying … Continue reading Technologos
Author: Tim Constant
Running Thoughts #18
Salvation : Gospel :: Wedding : Marriage
Running Thoughts #17
Attention is a trade off. We cannot simultaneously look into a microscope and a telescope. One cannot dissect the frog and observe it in its ecological context. Meta-analysis glissades over the storylines of myriad individual datapoints. Micro, macro, and unaided observation each are good and necessary, but we can't forget the use of one means … Continue reading Running Thoughts #17
Running Thoughts #16
Free gospel grace leads to free men; freed men lead to prosperity; prosperity if unattended, leads to ingratitude, decadence, decline, and the budding of a pure remnant off the cancerous rot. This is the pattern noted by those suspicious of the postmillennial belief - Christians will always reach a critical mass where the prosperity of … Continue reading Running Thoughts #16
A Study In Scarlett: Investigations in Communion Wine, Part 6
Symbol Primer A coworker of mine had a tattoo of a snake on her right arm, the tail starting at the shoulder, its body slithering down her arm to a diamond head at the wrist, a forked tongue extending to the thumb. It was clean, proportioned, and expensive enough that she chose not to disclose … Continue reading A Study In Scarlett: Investigations in Communion Wine, Part 6
A Study In Scarlet: Investigations In Communion Wine, Part 5
Blueprints Bound up in this question of the sacramental cup is the nature of the relationship between the physical world and the spiritual realm. Does the wine "do something" for us spiritually that grape juice does not, other than allow a more snuggly biblical literalism? Is there any meaningful thread that ties the spiritual and … Continue reading A Study In Scarlet: Investigations In Communion Wine, Part 5
CommYOUnion
I was digging through that old slim drawer in the sewing cabinet that is my Google Docs and found this little article I wrote for our church blog years ago. It is on brand for the Sacrament series I have been writing. I must have written it just after I discovered the glories of the … Continue reading CommYOUnion
Running Thoughts #15
You can spy a reasonable person by their proclivity to ask reasonable questions. When they do this, the best course of action is to answer them reasonably. If those answers are not available, it is a reasonable response to wait until they are. The worst thing that can be done is to force the reasonable … Continue reading Running Thoughts #15
A Study In Scarlet: Investigations In Communion Wine, Part 4
Two Wine Theory In The Dock In a previous post, I mentioned the "Two Wine Theory" developed in the Temperance movement which sought to prove there were two different wines in the Bible. This view posited that all references to wine that connote blessing and goodness indicated unfermented juice, and those portraying the negative effects … Continue reading A Study In Scarlet: Investigations In Communion Wine, Part 4
A Study In Scarlet: Investigations in Communion Wine, Part 3
Counterpoints and Rebuttals Objection #1 Jesus didn't drink wine, he drank grape juice. Nope. He drank wine. Some reason that since the gospel says Jesus "offered the cup", but does not specify here that it was wine, then we can imagine it filled with any one of several substances. But in the next sentence, Jesus … Continue reading A Study In Scarlet: Investigations in Communion Wine, Part 3
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