Baseball is a great sport. It’s the only game in the world where the defense gives the ball to the offense to score. It’s a game comprised of lots of down time, moments where the athletes are doing nothing but spitting out sunflower seeds while digging holes in the ground with their cleats in anticipation...
Dear Mr. Baldwin, May I call you Alec? Oh. Okay. Dear Mr. Baldwin, We’ve never met, and the likelihood is we never will. I’m a retired, 20-year veteran of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. Wait! Put down the computer and let us reason together! Or at least allow me to reason with you. I...
The following is an open letter, correcting Mike Freeman (a journalist for Bleacher Report), for his erroneous claims about Christianity and the moral law. Please feel free to read the original titled Michael Sam’s Kiss Brings Out the Bigots and the Hypocrites. Hi Mike, I don’t know you; you don’t know me. Though I’m fairly...
INTRODUCTION: Eschatology is the study of last things. All doctrinally orthodox eschatological positions believe three essential things: At the end of history, Jesus will physically resurrect the bodies of both believers and unbelievers through a tomb-emptying resurrection. Jesus will execute the final Judgment on mankind and quarantine unbelievers in the lake of fire. Jesus will...
Dear Joshua, You don’t know me. I don’t really know you. I recognize your blogger handle (RazorsKiss) from James White’s IRC channel. We may have interacted, we may have not, if we did it wasn’t memorable enough to care. I won’t be referring to you as RazorsKiss. We are grown men, who must be truly...
Fans of the landmark TV show 24 have their hearts all a’flutter this week as the newest season’of half-season as it were’of the blockbuster show hits the airwaves. Instead of the usual 24 episodes depicting real-time events in the day of the life of action hero Jack Bauer (played with cold-blooded efficiency by Kiefer Sutherland),...
The following is a re-post from a Crown Rights blog from several months ago. I thought it would be appropriate re-publish the blog on Gospel Spam seeing how the new season of Life Below Zero has just begun on NatGeo Channel. Also, click here to go to the original blogpost to see my interaction with...
The following is a guest post by Daniel Banks, a member of By Grace Community Church in Newport News, VA. Star Trek has been around for quite awhile now. Everyone has grown up watching an incarnation of the enduring franchise, from the original series, Star Trek, and its subsequent spin offs The Next Generation, Deep...
What’s In a Cliche? “Putting God in a box”: it’s one of those Christian cliches that has the same effect on me as someone loudly chomping on their chewing gum, or someone struggling violently to “play” an instrument for the first time, or having nowhere else to eat but McDonald’s, or seeing a man wearing...
On Friday night as I was working on my sermon, I had the NPR station on rocking some classical music when the station took a break from its programming to give us the news. The piece was on the reaction over the botched execution in Oklahoma of Clayton Lockett. Lockett and two accomplices kidnapped Stephanie...
