August 2011
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Aug 20th
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The Current Adventures of Ye: how my brain works... →
kevinye: So I saw this girl at Borders today… At first glance, she didn’t seem like anything too special. Brown hair, shorter than me, kinda cute. Nothing terribly out of the ordinary. But then I noticed that she was holding a stack of 3-6 books that she was going to buy. And then my brain registered… girls who read > all other girls.
Aug 18th
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Aug 17th
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The Law is more useful than Romans 8:3 makes it... →
Besides civil, didactic, and pedagogical uses, the Law is also most importantly reflective: The Law reveals a glimpse of the perfect righteousness of Christ.  As we stagger under the lengthy, weighty mass of Scriptural imperatives, breathlessly gasping our own depravity, let us also find the answer to the question “How perfect is Jesus’ righteousness imputed to...
Aug 16th
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Aug 12th
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Aug 12th
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Aug 10th
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John Calvin is the man
Nothing will more effectively preserve us in a straight and undeviating course in this economy of the crippling yen, euro, and dollar? hahaha than a firm persuasion that all events are in the hand of God. … It is wrong to infer from prosperity that God is favorable toward us, and from suffering that God is angry. For God does not consider in chastening the faithful what they deserve but...
Aug 9th
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Aug 8th
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“I maxed out my $14.3 trillion credit card by bombing too many third world...”
– First World Problems (via epic4chan)
Aug 4th
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To my peeps who don't understand the Bible
honestly, I sometimes don’t really either. “Why is homosexuality a sin?” Well, it doesn’t really bother me so I’m not quite sure. “Why should wives submit to the headship of the husband?” Because the Bible said so?  If someone offers “because the Bible says so” as an answer to your question, you are free to write that person off as someone...
Aug 2nd
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(irr|r)egular expressions: Loving Christ →
e-l-i-j-a-h: J. C. Ryle writes: If we love a person, we like to think about him. We do not need to be reminded of him. We do not forget his name or his appearance or his character or his opinions or his tastes or his position or his occupation… Well, it is just so between the true Christian and Christ! If we love a person, we like to hear about him. We find a pleasure in listening to those...
Aug 1st
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