Monthly Archives: July 2012

Friday Round Up

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(1) I love theology, missions, preaching, worldviews, music, and more. Check out the $5 Ligonier sale here.

(3) Rock of Ages by Augustus Toplady (1740-1778)

Rock of Ages, cleft for me
Let me hide myself in Thee
Let the water and the blood,
From thy wounded side which flowed
Be of sin the double cure
Save from wrath and make me pure

Not the labors of my hands
Can fulfill Thy law’s demands
Could my zeal no respite know
Could my tears forever flow
These for sin could not atone
Thou must save, and Thou alone

Nothing in my hand I bring
Simply to Thy cross I cling
Naked, come to thee for dress
Helpless, look to thee for grace
Foul, I to the fountain fly
Wash me, Savior, or I die
Wash me, Savior, or I die
Wash me, Savior, or I die

While I draw this fleeting breath
When mine eyes shall close in death
When I rise to worlds unknown
And behold thee on Thy throne
Rock of Ages, cleft for me
Let me hide myself in Thee
Let me hide myself in thee
Let me hide myself in thee

(4) Punctuation Matters! (usually a whole lot more than spelling does)

2,000 Years of Jesus’ Catholic Church?

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A quote from Dr. James White’s blog at www.aomin.org from 2006.

“We all heard the “2,000 years of Jesus’ Catholic Church” mantra last year when John Paul II died, and it was almost never challenged. I would ask our writer to name, please, a single bishop at the Council of Nicea who believed as he believes on each of these topics: Marian dogmas (Perpetual Virginity, Immaculate Conception, Bodily Assumption), Papal Authority (infallibility), Purgatory, transubstantiation. Any semi-serious reader of history knows he would not be able to find such a person, so the claim of “2,000 years” may sound impressive, but it has the truth value any advertising slogan carries: none. It may sound great to those ignorant of history, and to those who wear the glasses Rome provides that filters out all the extraneous problems and issues, but for anyone with an even semi-decent grasp of the past, it is a hollow, shallow claim.”