tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86285662024-03-12T22:06:47.550-05:00Bob S-C's BlogAn Inspiration.Bob Sander-Cederlofhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04284593557641122967noreply@blogger.comBlogger74125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8628566.post-57558819482702786462022-09-07T10:33:00.000-05:002022-09-07T10:33:30.922-05:00Tessa, by Melissa Wiltrout<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19198381-tessa" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img border="0" alt="Tessa: From Fear to Faith" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1386220568l/19198381._SX98_.jpg" /></a><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19198381-tessa">Tessa: From Fear to Faith</a> by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7301213.Melissa_Wiltrout">Melissa Wiltrout</a><br/>
My rating: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4972395849">5 of 5 stars</a><br /><br />
I downloaded this to my Kindle a year ago, and yesterday I finally started to read it. Finished this morning. Stopped for 6 hours in the middle for some sleep!<br />Needless to say, the story gripped me tight. I praise God for it. Thank you, Melissa, for writing it, and getting it published. I pray that many others will read it, and find Jesus Christ the way Tessa, Walter, and Julie did. I John 1:1-10.
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Bob Sander-Cederlofhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04284593557641122967noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8628566.post-10435756816408330642020-11-14T18:36:00.005-06:002022-09-06T16:00:38.939-05:00Review: Government for the Christian (Samuel C. Smith)<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35167910-government-for-the-christian" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img border="0" alt="Government for the Christian" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1495134880l/35167910._SX98_.jpg"></a>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35167910-government-for-the-christian">Government for the Christian</a>
by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/312366.Samuel_Smith">Samuel Smith</a><br/>
<p>My rating: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3645147367">5 of 5 stars</a></p>
<p>I have the actual paper version, and also a PDF version (easier on my eyes).
<p>Even though this book is only 100 pages long, I had to read it slowly. I had to concentrate so as not to slip into just letting my eyes move over the pages. I had to actually _think_ while I was reading!
<p>I was amazed at the quantity and quality of material covered in such a small number of pages. I was also very encouraged to read such a well constructed and well considered argument for the kind of government a Christian should try to help achieve, and how to live under the actual government we have. The book was published in 2015, but I find it even more important in 2020.</p>
<p>With the author's permission, you can read the book on my website at <a href="https://www.txbobsc.com/books/govt4xian/">https://www.txbobsc.com/books/govt4xian/</a>
The online version is easier to read (no conflicting background graphics), and has hover-popup's for all Bible references and footnotes.</p>
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Bob Sander-Cederlofhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04284593557641122967noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8628566.post-62292944112311495362019-04-05T13:47:00.001-05:002019-04-05T13:47:40.088-05:00impossible situations = incredible opportunities<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">I like this quote from Charles Swindoll: "Because of Jesus, we can view life as a series of <b>incredible opportunities</b> brilliantly disguised as <b>impossible situations</b>." [<i>The Greatest Life of All: Jesus</i>, page 110.]</span>Bob Sander-Cederlofhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04284593557641122967noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8628566.post-37471979953176990952017-12-26T14:18:00.001-06:002023-07-05T12:18:29.441-05:00Love Thy Body<div style="background-color: white; color: black; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px; margin-bottom: 6px;">
As part of the launch team for <i><b>Love Thy Body,</b></i> by Nancy Pearcey, I have been reading this new book for the last four weeks or so.
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I learned a lot. It is challenging to read, stretching my mind. I feel like I have come upon the scene of a horrible catastrophe (earthquake, hurricane, plane crash, ...) and I want to dive in to rescue and restore as many as possible.
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What do abortion, euthanasia, and transgenderism have in common? They all share a common worldview which declares the body to be relatively meaningless, exalting the mind, and separating being a person from being human.<br />
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This book goes deep into the mire of modern immorality to find the underlying assumptions, misconceptions, and outright lies that mute the consciences of many. The post-modern worldview demeans the body, declaring it meaningless, and in the names of "freedom" and "choice" drifts away into whatever the mind presently conceives.<br />
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Buy this book and study it to learn what is happening in our present world, and taught in our schools, from kindergarten to post-graduate; to begin to understand the danger and the challenge or it all; and to arm yourself with tools to help those who are suffering. Two quotations:<br />
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"Christians need to help people see that the secular view of human nature does not fit who people are. It does not match the real world. As a result, it is inevitably destructive, both personally and socially."<br />
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"Christians must also show compassion to those who are pressured by a 'pomosexual' [<b>po</b>st-<b>mo</b>dern sexual] society to despise their own bodies and reject their biological identity. Loving God means loving those who bear his image in the world, helping to liberate people who are trapped by destructive and dehumanizing ideas."</div>
Bob Sander-Cederlofhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04284593557641122967noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8628566.post-13895736974176219922016-02-21T18:49:00.000-06:002016-02-21T18:49:07.168-06:00Christ is All -- Henry Law, 1860
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"We live in days, when countless fallacies assume the garb of truth: and fain we would expel them. But theologic error is a skilful adversary. It must be wisely met; and truest wisdom is intelligence of Christ. He is the weapon, before which Romaic frauds, and Neologic sophistries, and all obliquities of mind and life, fall low. In Him there is reply for every error's every wile. Christ truly seen is the mind's richest store. Christ well applied is falsehood's death-blow. He is God's wisdom in the highest. It is our highest wisdom to be versed in Him." </div>
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Bob Sander-Cederlofhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04284593557641122967noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8628566.post-4897223447899828762015-01-04T16:01:00.001-06:002015-01-04T16:01:14.850-06:00Noah Webster's description of the BibleThe Bible is the chief moral cause of all that is 'good', and the best corrector of all that is 'evil', in human society; the 'best' book for regulating the temporal concerns of men, and the 'only book' that can serve as an infallible guide to future felicity. <br />
<br>-- from the Preface to Noah Webster's 1833 limited revision of the King James Bible.Bob Sander-Cederlofhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04284593557641122967noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8628566.post-16357113216987702262014-02-16T15:19:00.000-06:002014-02-16T15:19:16.118-06:00There's nothing to do...<br />
How often I have heard or said, "There's nothing to do." This bored plea for entertainment, excitement, etc., overlooks all those commands of God, things we are to DO.<br />
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All the entertaining and exciting escapes from loneliness and boredom which really work involve being with other people, interacting with them. There are people all around us who are just as hungry as we are for some release from routine and ennui. At first they may seem cold and distant, while they figure out what we are up to, who we are, how serious we are about being their friends.<br />
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"I know I should/could do this or that, but they are boring." Some things must be done, boring or not. We brush our teeth, comb our hair every day -- what could be more routine, more boring? Yet we do them religiously. We have many such responsibilities. Other things we do could be more enjoyable if we think of them positively, creatively. Still others, if we share them with someone else. And others, we should not do at all, they steal our time and strength.<br />
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"I am tired of doing all these worthless things -- I want to do things which really count!" Well, what would you say does really count? Vanity, vanity, all is vanity! Not quite -- if we accept God's value system, working with His Word, ministering with people are two very worthwhile things. The Word is eternal, and so are people. We have the opportunity to be involved in things of ETERNAL value! "For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.(Eph.2:10)<br />
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Encouraging, Giving, Showing mercy, Teaching, Comforting, Exhorting, Helping, Evangelizing -- and on and on and on. Don't say you can't -- you already do these things to some degree -- and God has specially gifted each one of us in various different areas, so that we may all serve Him and others. "Each one should use whatever spiritual gift he has received to serve others, faithfully administering God's grace in its various forms." (I Peter 4:10)<br />
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Bob Sander-Cederlofhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04284593557641122967noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8628566.post-57279881652725090672011-04-10T18:05:00.000-05:002011-04-10T18:05:36.063-05:00Our Daily Bread: How Food Proves God's Providence<h1 style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 24px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 15px;">Our Daily Bread: How Food Proves God's Providence</h1><div><h2 class="ByLine" style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">by James J. S. Johnson, J.D., Th.D.</h2></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px;">Sometimes the proof that God is our Creator comes in the form of a potato, or lingonberries, or cheese, or eggs, or a codfish. Each type of food is a witness to God’s providential care. The meals consumed over a human lifetime offer a huge quantity of proof, from a huge pantry of witnesses!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px;"><a href="http://www.icr.org/article/our-daily-bread-how-food-proves-gods/">...more</a></span></div>Bob Sander-Cederlofhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04284593557641122967noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8628566.post-24415631432765147492011-03-29T23:02:00.000-05:002011-03-29T23:02:08.501-05:00My new favorite hymnBefore the throne of God above<br />
I have a strong and perfect plea.<br />
A great High Priest whose name is Love<br />
Who ever lives and pleads for me.<br />
My name is graven on His hands,<br />
My name is written on His heart.<br />
I know that while in Heaven He stands<br />
No tongue can bid me thence depart.<br />
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When Satan tempts me to despair<br />
And tells me of the guilt within,<br />
Upward I look and see Him there<br />
Who made an end of all my sin.<br />
Because the sinless Saviour died<br />
My sinful soul is counted free.<br />
For God the just is satisfied<br />
To look on Him and pardon me.<br />
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Behold Him there the risen Lamb,<br />
My perfect spotless righteousness,<br />
The great unchangeable I AM,<br />
The King of glory and of grace,<br />
One in Himself I cannot die.<br />
My soul is purchased by His blood,<br />
My life is hid with Christ on high,<br />
With Christ my Saviour and my God!<br />
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(The musical setting for this was written by Vikki Cook in the 1990s. It has been recorded by many groups, and you can hear it <a href="http://www.worshipmatters.com/2007/11/06/before-the-throne-of-god-above-music-by-vikki-cook/">here</a>.)<br />
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(Lyrics written by Charitie Lees (Smith) Bancroft, when she was about 21 years old, in 1863 in Ireland. Good article about it <a href="http://cbumgardner.wordpress.com/2008/05/08/before-the-throne-of-god-above-charitie-bancroft/">here</a>.)Bob Sander-Cederlofhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04284593557641122967noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8628566.post-3195220820930433032011-01-03T16:39:00.000-06:002011-01-03T16:39:25.710-06:00Mark Goulston, M.D.: How America Messed Up Its Kids... And How We Can Fix Them<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-goulston-md/how-america-messed-up-its_b_802137.html">Mark Goulston, M.D.: How America Messed Up Its Kids... And How We Can Fix Them</a>: [It] "might be helpful is to reach a consensus between parents and their children as to what terms related to personal responsibility mean. Here are ten terms that come to mind for me:<br /><ol><li><b>Commitment: </b>the level of dedicated action(s) you continue to take after your enthusiasm for an enterprise stops.<br /></li><li><b>Accountability: </b>taking full responsibility for your actions by owning up to the negative or failed results, taking action to make up for it to the person(s) you let down, and learning what you did wrong so that it doesn't occur again.<br /></li><li><b>Maturity: </b>how well you are able to resist an irresistible impulse and instead have and exercise judgment and do the reasonable thing. In the brain we refer to this as exercising one's executive function.<br /></li><li><b>Honesty: </b>this is simply telling the truth according to the facts as you understand them. You know honesty best, when you tell a lie. Pathological liars lie whenever they are trying to get their way and take advantage of a situation. Compulsive liars lie both when the are trying to get their way and when they are trying to get out of facing the consequences of their actions.<br /></li><li><b>Forthrightness:</b> this is coming forward and telling the truth and revealing untruths that you become aware of. It's believing and following Justice Louis Brandeis words: "Sunlight is the greatest disinfectant."<br /></li><li><b>Character: </b>what you do when you are frustrated, angry, annoyed, afraid and/or bored and nobody is watching and your chance of getting caught is close to nil.<br /></li><li><b>Sacrifice: </b>what you do unto others who will not (immediately) be able to pay you back by doing unto you.<br /></li><li><b>Compassion: </b>what you feel unto others who will not be able to do more than say, "Thank you."<br /></li><li><b>Thinking ahead and planning: </b>overcoming the aversion to anything that causes you to forego immediate gratification.<br /></li><li><b>Listening: </b>and then pausing to consider what you've heard before rejecting it, tuning out or competing with it (a skill every generation needs to learn)."</li></ol>Bob Sander-Cederlofhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04284593557641122967noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8628566.post-39765092278960349882011-01-03T14:03:00.000-06:002011-01-03T14:03:41.243-06:00Mark Goulston, M.D.: How America Messed Up Its Kids... And How We Can Fix Them<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-goulston-md/how-america-messed-up-its_b_802137.html">Mark Goulston, M.D.: How America Messed Up Its Kids... And How We Can Fix Them</a>: "...consider that at the exact moment that you as a parent bail out your child from facing the consequences of their screw-ups and taking full responsibility for them, literally millions of children in this world the same age as your child are taking full responsibility for their actions and becoming smarter, stronger and wiser. Within the next 10 to 20 years, those children (from China, India and elsewhere) will become your child's boss, and they won't bail out or accept your child's excuses."Bob Sander-Cederlofhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04284593557641122967noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8628566.post-84925131429553782712010-12-25T09:43:00.000-06:002010-12-25T09:43:25.693-06:00So, What if the Bible Really Is True? - David Limbaugh<a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/DavidLimbaugh/2010/12/24/so,_what_if_the_bible_really_is_true">So, What if the Bible Really Is True? - David Limbaugh</a>"<br /><br /><img src="http://media.townhall.com/Townhall//ColPics/columnistsLimbaugh.gif" alt="David Limbaugh" /><br />I'd like to challenge you to consider that the 'good news' we celebrate during the Christmas season really is true.<br /><br />You may choose to believe the Bible is merely a book of fables with nice moral lessons, but there is more abundant and accurate manuscript evidence for the New Testament than any other book from antiquity. Moreover, the number of witnesses to Christ's life, death and resurrection, as well as the nature of their testimony, is strong evidence of the reliability of the scriptural accounts, as are the corroborating secular testimony and archeological evidence.<br /><br />In fact... <a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/DavidLimbaugh/2010/12/24/so,_what_if_the_bible_really_is_true/page/full/">Full Article</a>Bob Sander-Cederlofhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04284593557641122967noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8628566.post-7504161631806448222010-12-09T16:20:00.001-06:002010-12-09T16:23:30.855-06:00Adobe Systems"What inspires you this holiday season? Share your thoughts with us and we’ll help turn inspiration into action by donating $1 to <a href="http://www.mercycorps.org/">Mercy Corps</a>. Happy Holidays from Adobe!" <a href="http://bit.ly/AdobeGreet">http://bit.ly/AdobeGreet</a>Bob Sander-Cederlofhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04284593557641122967noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8628566.post-29438979589276288562010-12-05T21:48:00.001-06:002010-12-09T16:26:30.872-06:00Wonderful Food Court Surprise!This is a wonderful way to handle Handel!<br />
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<object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/SXh7JR9oKVE?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/SXh7JR9oKVE?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object>Bob Sander-Cederlofhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04284593557641122967noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8628566.post-13960961443753999152010-04-21T17:00:00.000-05:002010-04-21T17:00:40.983-05:00National Day of Prayer, April 30, 1863On March 30, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued the following proclamation:<br />
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<div style="line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;"><i>Whereas, the Senate of the United States, devoutly recognizing the Supreme Authority and just Government of Almighty God, in all the affairs of men and of nations, has, by a resolution, requested the President to designate and set apart a day for National prayer and humiliation.</i></div><br />
<div style="line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;"><i>And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins and transgressions, in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon; and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.</i></div><br />
<div style="line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;"><i>And, insomuch as we know that, by His divine law, nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world, may we not justly fear that the awful calamity of civil war, which now desolates the land, may be but a punishment, inflicted upon us, for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole People? We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us!</i></div><br />
<div style="line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;"><i>It behooves us then, to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.</i></div><br />
<div style="line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;"><i>Now, therefore, in compliance with the request, and fully concurring in the views of the Senate, I do, by this my proclamation, designate and set apart Thursday, the 30th. day of April, 1863, as a day of national humiliation, fasting and prayer. And I do hereby request all the People to abstain, on that day, from their ordinary secular pursuits, and to unite, at their several places of public worship and their respective homes, in keeping the day holy to the Lord, and devoted to the humble discharge of the religious duties proper to that solemn occasion.</i></div><br />
<div style="line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;"><i>All this being done, in sincerity and truth, let us then rest humbly in the hope authorized by the Divine teachings, that the united cry of the Nation will be heard on high, and answered with blessings, no less than the pardon of our national sins, and the restoration of our now divided and suffering Country, to its former happy condition of unity and peace.</i></div><br />
<div style="line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;"><i>In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.</i></div><br />
<div style="line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;"><i>Done at the City of Washington, this thirtieth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the Independence of the United States the eighty seventh.</i></div><br />
<div style="line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;"><i>By the President: Abraham Lincoln</i></div><br />
<div style="line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;"><i>William H. Seward, Secretary of State</i><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Day_of_Prayer#cite_note-3" style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial; color: #002bb8; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[4]</a></sup></div></blockquote></blockquote>Bob Sander-Cederlofhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04284593557641122967noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8628566.post-36491173008699772552010-02-11T14:13:00.000-06:002010-02-11T14:13:08.417-06:00Pro-Existence: Announcing Nancy Pearcey's New Book "Saving Leonardo"<a href="http://www.pearceyreport.com/blog/2010/02/press_release_announcing_nancy.php">Announcing Nancy Pearcey's New Book "Saving Leonardo"</a><br />
SAVING LEONARDO<br />
A Call to Resist the Secular Assault on<br />
Mind, Morals, and Meaning<br />
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New book by Nancy Pearcey, best-selling author of Total Truth,<br />
goes on sale Sept. 1, 2010, published by Broadman & Holman<br />
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February 11, 2010 -- Is secularism a positive force in the modern world? Or is it a destructive ideology that must be unmasked and resisted if human beings are to live as whole persons with dignity and freedom? <br />
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In <i><b>Saving Leonardo: A Call to Resist the Secular Assault on Mind, Morals, and Meaning</b></i>, Dr. Nancy Pearcey offers an unflinching analysis of the profound personal and social devastation wreaked by secular worldviews in every area of life. The assault is being launched from the classroom to the courtroom, from the talk shows to the television screen, from the pulpit to politics. <a href="http://www.pearceyreport.com/blog/2010/02/press_release_announcing_nancy.php">Read more...</a><br />
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Posted using <a href="http://sharethis.com/">ShareThis</a>Bob Sander-Cederlofhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04284593557641122967noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8628566.post-83380344234006430292010-01-22T10:15:00.000-06:002010-01-22T10:15:57.053-06:00Hillsdale Constitution Town Hall<a href="http://www.constitutiontownhall.com/">Hillsdale Constitution Town Hall</a><br /><br /><img src="http://c2.api.ning.com:80/files/hrMSmtZaI7xauVFmTlhNK2V0*W0Q26B33HJOdXIXb1l9JtcGG8AsrMBjDPAK2dDqdjhKo8elgvJQgKrokvf234bGKCljjYIY/sitelayout_03.jpg" alt="" /><br />Hillsdale College Constitution Town Hall<br /><br />"Reviving the Constitution" -- A Constitution Town Hall, brought to you by the Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship<br /><br />When: Saturday, January 30, 2010, 9:00 am - 3:00 pm<br /><p align="left"><strong>List of Speakers:</strong><br /><a href="http://www.hillsdale.edu/KirbyCenter/arnnmessage/default.asp" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); ">Larry Arnn</a>:<br />President, Hillsdale College</p><p align="left">-<a href="http://www.hillsdale.edu/KirbyCenter/about/bios/bobb/default.asp" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); ">David Bobb</a>:<br />Director and Lecturer in Political Science</p><p align="left">-<a href="http://www.hillsdale.edu/KirbyCenter/about/bios/spalding/default.asp" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); ">Matthew Spalding</a>:<br />Adjunct Fellow</p><p align="left">-<a href="http://www.hillsdale.edu/KirbyCenter/about/bios/moreno/default.asp" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); ">Paul Moreno</a>:<br />Senior Fellow</p><p align="left">-<a href="http://www.hillsdale.edu/KirbyCenter/about/bios/pestritto/default.asp" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); ">Ronald Pestritto</a>:<br />Senior Fellow</p><br />PLEASE REGISTER FOR THE FREE ONLINE CONSTITUTION TOWN HALL MEETING<br /><br />http://www.constitutiontownhall.comBob Sander-Cederlofhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04284593557641122967noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8628566.post-34612274605762150222009-12-11T22:02:00.000-06:002009-12-11T22:02:29.160-06:00Made in His Image: Baby's First Breath<a href="http://www.icr.org/article/babys-first-breath/">Made in His Image: Baby's First Breath</a><br />by Randy J. Guliuzza, P.E., M.D.<br /><br />In 1967 Dr. Christiaan Barnard performed the first heart transplant. Until that time, if someone's heart was taken out, they died. People were astounded to learn that not only was a man’s heart removed, but a non-beating donor heart put in, restarted, and he lived. Years of design efforts and testing resulted in a sophisticated invention that circulated blood and functioned as patients' lungs to bring them oxygen--the all-important "heart-lung" machine.<br /><br />No doubt in the same hospital in 1967 was a brand-new mother. Her baby had just made a similar transition of survival on an exceedingly better "lung machine," but no reporters covered it. Although the first event was a great feat of human engineering, the second has never been explained by any natural process.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.icr.org/article/babys-first-breath/">Read the rest of this fascinating article.</a>Bob Sander-Cederlofhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04284593557641122967noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8628566.post-35412766941328394472009-11-10T08:53:00.000-06:002009-11-10T08:53:42.902-06:00Mere Conservatism - A Voice in the Wilderness<a href="http://rjmoeller.com/2009/11/mere-conservatism-history/">Mere Conservatism: History • A Voice in the Wilderness</a><br /><br />An extremely well-written essay, well worth your time to read!Bob Sander-Cederlofhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04284593557641122967noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8628566.post-9229066341884122912009-09-18T10:19:00.001-05:002009-09-18T10:28:27.184-05:00Oliver North : The Raiders - Townhall.com<img src="http://media.townhall.com/Townhall//ColPics/columnistsNorth.gif" /><a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/OliverNorth/2009/09/18/the_raiders">Oliver North : The Raiders - Townhall.com</a>: <br>Friday, September 18, 2009<br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 16px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><p>According to colleagues back home, our Fox News team here in Afghanistan has missed all the excitement. They note that since we left the USA last month.... But I wouldn't trade a single day with the raiders with whom we have been keeping company for any of that. The "raiders" are an extraordinary cross section of talent, tenacity, experience and courage... <a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/OliverNorth/2009/09/18/the_raiders">Read more ...</a></p></span></div>Bob Sander-Cederlofhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04284593557641122967noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8628566.post-29070672487229483092009-09-13T21:38:00.002-05:002009-09-13T21:51:46.955-05:00Made in His Image: From Solar Energy to Human Energyby Randy J. Guliuzza, P.E., M.D. -- <i>Acts & Facts</i>. 38 (3): 16.<br /><br />"Plants use biological systems that harvest light energy from the sun to convert environmental water and carbon dioxide into tiny carbon/hydrogen energy units stored within them. When people eat those energy units, the extraordinary human digestive and metabolic systems convert the work of plants into energy that is useful to people and give back water and carbon dioxide to the environment that can be used by plants. How do these systems make that happen?" <a href="http://www.icr.org/article/4540/">Read more...</a>Bob Sander-Cederlofhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04284593557641122967noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8628566.post-81830950814599621282009-09-13T17:33:00.001-05:002009-09-13T17:36:32.987-05:00Nehemiah 9:6Nehemiah 9:6<br />Thou, even thou, art LORD alone;<br />thou hast made<br />• heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, <br />• the earth, and all things that are therein, <br />• the seas, and all that is therein, <br />and thou preservest them all; <br />and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.Bob Sander-Cederlofhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04284593557641122967noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8628566.post-41133910978800315502009-08-25T19:50:00.002-05:002009-08-25T19:55:10.728-05:00Marine David Hedrick at Baird Town Hall<object width="445" height="364"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/_rRE5UK6NQU&hl=en&fs=1&border=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/_rRE5UK6NQU&hl=en&fs=1&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="445" height="364"></embed></object><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/HedrickDavid">HedrickDavid</a> --August 22, 2009<br />"I, David William Hedrick, a member of the silent majority, decided that I was not going to be silent anymore. So, I let U.S. Congressman Brian Baird have it. I was one questioner out of 38, that was called at random from an audience that started at 3,000 earlier in the evening. Not expecting to be called on, I quickly scratched what I wanted to say on a borrowed piece of paper and with a pen that I borrowed from someone else in the audience minutes before I spoke. So much for the planned talking points of the right wing conspiracy."Bob Sander-Cederlofhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04284593557641122967noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8628566.post-34661716882109801452009-08-23T09:41:00.002-05:002009-08-23T09:55:14.208-05:00Classics of the Christian Faith on CD<div><br /> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Calibri, Georgia, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px;">Max McLean has recently produced an audio CD set called <em>Classics of the Christian Faith</em> that includes <em>The Conversion of St. Augustine</em> (from Book Eight of His Confessions), Martin Luther’s <em>Here I Stand</em>, John Bunyan’s <em>The Pilgrim’s Progress</em>, Jonathan Edwards’ <em>Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God</em>, and George Whitefield’s <em>The Method of Grace</em>.</span><br /> <a href="http://www.listenersbible.com/products/index.php?main_page=product_custom_info&cPath=3&products_id=130"><img src="http://www.listenersbible.com/products/images/classics_web.jpg" alt="Classics of the Christian Faith" title=" Classics of the Christian Faith " width="205" height="187"></a> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px;">I bought it, listened to each of them, and rejoiced! The Augustine, Luther, Edwards, and Whitfield items are each on a single CD. Bunyan's <em>Pilgrim's Progress</em> is on 5 CD's. I am on my 4th trip through <em>Pilgrim's Progress</em> now.</span><br /> </div><br /> <div><br /> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Calibri, Georgia, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:130%;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px;">Highly recommended!</span></span><br /> </div>Bob Sander-Cederlofhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04284593557641122967noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8628566.post-3536414082796250912009-05-20T22:10:00.003-05:002009-05-22T22:13:43.077-05:00Irving Chorale sings Beethoven's "Hallelujah" from "Mt. of Olives"<div style="width:300px;"><object width="300" height="110"><param name="movie" value="http://media.imeem.com/m/N848iGnU9A/aus=false/"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://media.imeem.com/m/N848iGnU9A/aus=false/" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="300" height="110" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><div style="background-color:#E6E6E6;padding:1px;"><div style="float:left;padding:4px 4px 0 0;"><a href="http://www.imeem.com/"><img src="http://www.imeem.com/embedsearch/E6E6E6/" border="0" /></a></div><form method="post" action="http://www.imeem.com/embedsearch/" style="margin:0;padding:0;"><input type="text" name="EmbedSearchBox"><input type="submit" value="Search" style="font-size:12px;"><div style="padding-top:3px;"><a href="http://www.imeem.com/ads/banneradclick.ashx?ep=0&ek=N848iGnU9A" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://www.imeem.com/ads/bannerad/152/10/" border="0" /></a><a href="http://www.imeem.com/ads/banneradclick.ashx?ep=1&ek=N848iGnU9A" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://www.imeem.com/ads/bannerad/153/10/" border="0" /></a><a href="http://www.imeem.com/ads/banneradclick.ashx?ep=2&ek=N848iGnU9A" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://www.imeem.com/ads/bannerad/154/10/" border="0" /></a><a href="http://www.imeem.com/ads/banneradclick.ashx?ep=3&ek=N848iGnU9A" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://www.imeem.com/ads/bannerad/155/10/N848iGnU9A/" border="0" /></a></div></form></div></div><br /><a href="http://www.imeem.com/mystro2b/music/u8pedkbv/irving-chorale-hallelujah-from-mount-of-olives/">Hallelujah from Mount of Olives - Irving Chorale</a>Bob Sander-Cederlofhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04284593557641122967noreply@blogger.com0