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The Who, What, When, Where & Why’s of the Sabbath.

Posted on: Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 in: Kingdom of Heaven, bible, teaching, tradition

According to the traditional understanding the Sabbath is the seventh day of the week - otherwise known to us as Saturday. In Exodus 20 we see that God commanded Israel to rest on the Sabbath day.
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the [...]

Question of the Week - #12

Posted on: Monday, October 29th, 2007 in: Question of the Week

Why do we call thirty-seconds of handshaking “fellowship”?

TPOS: Weekly Update - 10.26.2007

Posted on: Friday, October 26th, 2007 in: Gifts for Christians, Gifts for Thinkers, Shopping, The Pursuit Online Store

Hey everyone,
This is what’s new at The Pursuit Online Store… I had more updates… but all my The Office merchandise had to be pulled for some abstract copyright infringement… oh well. Here is what’s new:
In the Philosophy section:
I always use implied sometimes…
In the Misc. section:
My wife came up with this design idea. I created it [...]

Why am I such a heretic?

Posted on: Thursday, October 25th, 2007 in: AFA, American Family Association, boycott, homosexuality, testimony

I know I’ve complained about the AFA (American Family Association) before but I still get their emails and they still grate on my nerves. I like their emails because I get a sense of what is happening in the Christian world. You know, those things that I don’t care enough about to study all day [...]

Halloween: My experiences - SynchroBlog

Posted on: Wednesday, October 24th, 2007 in: halloween, holidays, synchroblog, tradition

This post is part of a SynchroBlog with the theme, AChristian Response to Halloween. More details at the bottom of this post.
As a child, Halloween was one of my favorite holidays. The bad part about living in Maine during Halloween was that pretty much everyone’s Halloween costume looked like this:

It was always way too cold [...]

Apparently I’ve been infected too…

Posted on: Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007 in: testimony

Alan over at The Assembling of the Church has tagged me for this post. I’m suppose tell you what was happening in my life 10/20/30 years ago. The infection mutated for Dan and it did the same for me. I only have to tell you what was happening in my life 5/10/15 years ago… since [...]

Ideal Bible?

Posted on: Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007 in: baptism, bible, books, deacon, tradition

I have a question for all my readers… what would your “ideal Bible” look like?
For a while I have been desiring certain features in a Bible, such as, Greek and Hebrew along with a solid English translation; perhaps with or without Chapter and Verse divisions; maybe it would have cross references; a single column rather [...]

Question of the Week - #11

Posted on: Monday, October 22nd, 2007 in: Question of the Week

If Jesus was the perfect and last sacrifice, why do we still make altar calls?

TPOS: Weekly Update - 10.19.2007

Posted on: Friday, October 19th, 2007 in: Gifts for Christians, Gifts for Thinkers, Shopping, The Office Gifts, The Pursuit Online Store

Hey everyone!
Here are this weeks updates from The Pursuit Online Store! Let me know what you think…
From the Christian Designs section, under Pastors & Preaching:
The “Overseer’s Checklist” shirt…

From the Christian Designs section, under Tradition & Legalism:
Thank God for Legalism!

From the Christian Designs section, under Misc.:
Self-Righteous

From the Pop-Culture section, under The Office:
Michael Scott quote - “Giftbaskets [...]

My Trip to Maine

Posted on: Thursday, October 18th, 2007 in: Alcohol, Church Covenant, Gambling, fellowship, just for fun, testimony, tradition, worship

Many of you know that I am originally from the great state of Maine. This past weekend I flew up for a close friends wedding. Here is a list of some things I did while in Maine…
Friday:

Landed in PWM and was picked up by my mom at 7:00 PM.
Went to Alex’s Pizza - got a [...]