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Eagle Taking the Plunge

UPDATE: From our friends at Wartburg Watch: [Eagle] will be authoring a series of posts, which will be featured here at TWW, in which he will describe his journey. However, that may be a number of weeks in coming. We guarantee that that you will be stunned by the path his life has taken. Some ofContinue reading “Eagle Taking the Plunge”

The Homily

Then the Lord God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate it and keep it. The Lord God commanded the man, saying, “From any tree of the garden you may eat freely; but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat fromContinue reading “The Homily”

Saturday Ramblings 10.26.13

Greetings, fellow iMonks. Well now, it has been a week here at the iMonastery. We have harvested the fields and put up into barns and even started the canning process. All that is left now is the gleanings. And those we call our Saturday Ramblings. Well, let’s get right at it, ok? Mark Driscoll saidContinue reading “Saturday Ramblings 10.26.13”

Megachurch Money Machine

As I have said on a few occasions, I’m terrible with money. I don’t really care about it (sometimes until it’s too late!) and I have never been ambitious to have a lot of it. I simply assumed that God would take care of me and my family when I went into ministry, and heContinue reading “Megachurch Money Machine”

Reconsider Jesus – Moving Forward

When many of the Dead Sea Scrolls faced delay in publication, conspiracy theories started to abound: What was it in the scrolls that the Vatican wanted to keep secret? Were they harmful to the church? Did they dispute the claims of Christianity? In fact the truth is a little more boring than that. The originalContinue reading “Reconsider Jesus – Moving Forward”

Full of Years

I ask’d thee, “Give me immortality.” Then didst thou grant mine asking with a smile, Like wealthy men who care not how they give. But thy strong Hours indignant work’d their wills, And beat me down and marr’d and wasted me, And tho’ they could not end me, left me maim’d To dwell in presenceContinue reading “Full of Years”

Why I Am Not a Six-Day Creationist

Updates on the Creation Wars Recently, Tim Challies posted “Why I Am a Six-Day Creationist.” The reasons he gave were: The Bible teaches it. The other Bible writers believed it. Science confirms it. After these assertions, he states his conviction: I believe the Bible speaks with greater clarity and greater authority than what I believeContinue reading “Why I Am Not a Six-Day Creationist”

My Trouble With Scripture

I’m continuing with some thoughts on my journey out of evangelicalism into Catholicism. These are my thoughts, and this is my journey. I am certainly not trying to talk anyone into following in my steps. The morning after I became a Christian, I woke up and reached for my Bible. It was an old BibleContinue reading “My Trouble With Scripture”

There Is No Narrow, Pure Stream

There is a stream of sound teaching, sound doctrine, sound theology, that runs all the way back to the Apostles. It runs through Athanasius and Augustine, through Luther and Calvin, the great Reformation and Reformers, and the Puritans, and everything seems so clear to them. Through the Westminster divines and the pathway of Spurgeon andContinue reading “There Is No Narrow, Pure Stream”

The Homily

The Lord God planted a garden toward the east, in Eden; and there He placed the man whom He had formed. Out of the ground the Lord God caused to grow every tree that is pleasing to the sight and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge ofContinue reading “The Homily”