tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57087646288754215892024-03-05T17:46:02.226-08:00The Scribbling ApprenticeWhere Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?The Scribbling Apprenticehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09703237406064858788noreply@blogger.comBlogger95125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708764628875421589.post-44642455229777745952012-04-24T09:50:00.001-07:002012-04-24T09:50:09.652-07:00Frederick Buecher: FaithThe Scribbling Apprenticehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09703237406064858788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708764628875421589.post-68522313513835508792011-11-15T14:55:00.000-08:002011-11-15T14:56:35.595-08:00Interview With Walker PercyQ: Do you regard yourself as a Catholic novelist? A: Since I am a Catholic and a novelist, it would seem to follow that I am a Catholic novelist. Q: What kind of Catholic are you? A: Bad. Q: No, I mean are you liberal or conservative? A: I no longer know what those words mean. Q: Are you a dogmatic Catholic or an open-minded Catholic? A: I don't know what that means, either. Do you mean, do I The Scribbling Apprenticehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09703237406064858788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708764628875421589.post-25153209460632572392011-11-12T09:50:00.000-08:002011-11-12T09:50:45.648-08:00The System vs. The KingdomThe Scribbling Apprenticehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09703237406064858788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708764628875421589.post-82885817074150522562011-08-02T09:16:00.000-07:002011-08-02T09:16:10.115-07:00N.T. Wright: Adam and EveThe Scribbling Apprenticehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09703237406064858788noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708764628875421589.post-82902368997758952582011-08-02T09:03:00.000-07:002011-08-02T09:03:21.130-07:00John Walton: How to Read Genesis 1The Scribbling Apprenticehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09703237406064858788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708764628875421589.post-42940494291987966712011-08-02T08:56:00.000-07:002011-08-02T08:56:23.075-07:00Pete Enns: Challenging Old AssumptionsThe Scribbling Apprenticehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09703237406064858788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708764628875421589.post-78590299394654001432011-08-02T08:22:00.001-07:002011-08-02T08:44:26.780-07:00PrayerSome days, although we cannot pray, a prayerutters itself. So, a woman will lifther head from the sieve of her hands and stareat the minims sung by a tree, a sudden gift.Some nights, although we are faithless, the truthenters our hearts, that small familiar pain;then a man will stand stock-still, hearing his youthin the distant Latin chanting of a train.Pray for us now. Grade 1 piano The Scribbling Apprenticehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09703237406064858788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708764628875421589.post-82672076179111483242011-07-29T05:42:00.000-07:002011-07-29T06:01:03.201-07:00And yet us look upon this...as a kind of journey or voyage to our native land...And let us look upon this purification as a kind of journey or voyage to our native land. For it is not by change of place that we come nearer to Him who is in every place, but by the cultivation of pure desires and virtuous habits... But of this we would have been wholly incapable, had not Wisdom condescended to adapt Himself to our weakness, and to show a pattern of holy life in the form of The Scribbling Apprenticehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09703237406064858788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708764628875421589.post-88491367618719742492011-07-08T03:19:00.000-07:002011-07-08T03:23:02.914-07:00God is Love“The accomplishment of redemption is concerned with what has been generally called the atonement. No treatment of the atonement can be properly oriented that does not have its source in the free and sovereign love of God. It is with this perspective that the best known text in the Bible provides us: “For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him The Scribbling Apprenticehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09703237406064858788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708764628875421589.post-13900161366711966062011-07-07T05:45:00.000-07:002011-07-07T08:51:48.921-07:00James K A Smith's Refreshing Vision of Reformed TheologyJust this morning, I happened to pick up Letters to a Young Calvinist: An Invitation to the Reformed Tradition by James K A Smith, Christian philosopher and aesthete extraordinaire. Having only invested a half hour or so reading through the pleasingly brisk content of his letters, I have already been struck by Smith’s refreshing take on Reformed theology. Nothing new, per se; simply a reemphasis The Scribbling Apprenticehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09703237406064858788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708764628875421589.post-4511890237157764502011-07-05T08:19:00.000-07:002011-07-05T08:25:47.200-07:00Dispatches From Elsewhere #3: The Resurrection - a Bizarre Belief?Follow the link below to getserious.ie - Ireland's very own burgeoning apologetics website. Essential reading. This particular link will take you to Professor Stephen Williams' excellent article on the resurrection, entitled The Resurrection of Jesus: A Bizarre Belief? Stephen Williams is the Professor of Systematic Theology at Union Theological College, Belfast.http://www.getserious.ie/?p=185#The Scribbling Apprenticehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09703237406064858788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708764628875421589.post-84269509182916380422011-07-05T07:47:00.000-07:002011-07-07T00:39:52.283-07:00Haworth's 10 Ways #6: The Moral Argument (Part 2)The most persuasive advocate of the moral argument Keller sets forth in the post below was C. S. Lewis (1898–1963). The following is a summary of the argument he articulates in his book Mere Christianity:There must be a universal moral law, or else: a) Moral disagreements would make no sense, as we all assume they do. b) All moral criticisms would be meaningless (for example, ‘The Nazis were The Scribbling Apprenticehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09703237406064858788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708764628875421589.post-37284116477080863272011-07-04T08:27:00.000-07:002011-07-05T07:58:03.632-07:00Tim Keller: The Problem of Evil and SufferingThe Scribbling Apprenticehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09703237406064858788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708764628875421589.post-9051517808167507772011-07-04T08:23:00.000-07:002011-07-05T07:57:41.303-07:00David Bentley Hart : Suffering and the Problem of EvilThe Scribbling Apprenticehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09703237406064858788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708764628875421589.post-67160976413049847032011-07-04T08:09:00.000-07:002011-07-06T07:23:38.100-07:00Haworth's 10 Ways #6: The Moral ArgumentThe moral argument is likely to be one of the most persuasive ‘proofs’ we can use to demonstrate the existence of a good, loving God. Essentially, this argument seeks to show that if there are morals and laws in the world then there must be a Moral Law Giver. Of all the arguments we can rally on to help demonstrate the existence of God, this one is perhaps the most emotionally compelling and The Scribbling Apprenticehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09703237406064858788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708764628875421589.post-24776785757118468132011-06-28T09:05:00.001-07:002011-06-29T02:56:30.036-07:00Calvin: A Sense of Deity Inscribed on the Hearts of AllCalvin reflects on the God-thirst in the soul, all too often warped and directed toward finite objects that will never satisfy it. In his interview with Jeremy Paxman below, Brand articulates Calvin's insight in contemporary lingo shaped by our media-frenzied and fame-entranced culture. "There is within the human mind, and indeed by natural instinct, an awareness of divinity. This we take to be The Scribbling Apprenticehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09703237406064858788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708764628875421589.post-2082032821205662542011-06-28T04:45:00.000-07:002011-06-28T05:00:06.533-07:00Haworth's 10 Ways #5: The Argument From Religious NeedRussell Brand's articulate murmurings about his desire for God and his positive belief that God does exist (see below) provides the springboard for Haworths Fifth Way. There are profound human yearnings that no earthly thing will ever satisfy. As C. S. Lewis remarked somewhere, "If I find in myself a desire that no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was The Scribbling Apprenticehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09703237406064858788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708764628875421589.post-58874037111321734502011-06-27T09:06:00.000-07:002011-06-28T04:45:07.567-07:00Russell Brand on GODRussel Brand, famous only for his libertine excess, here waxes lyrical on the vacuous nature of celebrity, the hollowness of fame and the pursuit of God. In no uncertain terms he claims that everything his fame and celebrity brings him - sexual promiscuity, wealth, pleasure, media attention etc - are but mere shadows of the only thing that will ever truly satisfy him; God. He admits that he is, The Scribbling Apprenticehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09703237406064858788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708764628875421589.post-82921327820998857582011-06-27T08:31:00.000-07:002011-06-27T08:46:13.394-07:00Haworth's 10 Ways #4: The Argument From DesignThe most famous form of this argument was put forward by William Paley (1734 – 1805), who employed the watchmaker analogy. Since every watch has a watchmaker, and since the universe is exceedingly more complex in its operation than a watch, it follows that there must be a Maker of the universe. The teleological argument reasons from design to an Intelligent Designer. It works as follows:All The Scribbling Apprenticehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09703237406064858788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708764628875421589.post-25446313044295934182011-06-07T10:21:00.000-07:002011-06-07T10:21:20.439-07:00Haddon Robinson on PreachingThe Scribbling Apprenticehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09703237406064858788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708764628875421589.post-47937879913743288072011-06-07T10:20:00.000-07:002011-06-07T10:20:19.102-07:00Well Said Eugene #2The Scribbling Apprenticehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09703237406064858788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708764628875421589.post-21076658276387199332011-06-03T10:26:00.000-07:002011-06-03T10:46:51.682-07:00Haworth's 10 Ways #3: Floody's WagerThis is a very famous proof originally formulated by Blaise Pascal. Normally it is referred to as Pascal's Wager for this very reason. Once a week I meet Gerald Flood ("Floody"), a guy who lives around the corner from Immanuel church, where I work. We meet up over coffee and read through a portion of Scripture. It just so happened that today we happened to be discussing the positive things that The Scribbling Apprenticehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09703237406064858788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708764628875421589.post-23256099594196636492011-06-03T10:24:00.000-07:002011-06-03T10:24:13.796-07:00N T Wright: The Resurrection of the BodyThe Scribbling Apprenticehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09703237406064858788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708764628875421589.post-54442553711331917762011-06-03T10:20:00.000-07:002011-06-03T10:20:40.041-07:00N T Wright: The New CreationThe Scribbling Apprenticehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09703237406064858788noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708764628875421589.post-63107373073825997672011-05-25T10:16:00.000-07:002011-05-25T10:21:05.786-07:00More ad hoc apologetics: The Ontological ArgumentHaworth's 10 Ways #2: The Ontological ArgumentWill anyone ever be converted to Christ by the ontological argument? Probably never. But, having said that, it does make for a puzzlingly convincing proof for God's existence. The ontological argument moves from the conception of a Perfect Being or Necessary Being to the existence of such a Being. The first philosopher to develop this form of argumentThe Scribbling Apprenticehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09703237406064858788noreply@blogger.com0