ON STEVE BROWN, Etc:

Steve Brown made a profound statement from his mentor (Fred Smith) that “there are two basic anthropological views that people are basically evil with a proclivity for good or they’re basically good with a proclivity for evil. And the Christian faith takes the stand on the former of those two propositions.” Well, the orthodox view of Christianity affirms the former statement but those on the liberal side of “Christianity,” like Arminiamism, would embrace the later.

I have heard RC Sproul state the same concept “that we are not sinners because we sin, but we sin because we are sinners.”

Steve Brown interviews interviews Tommy Newberry on his new book, The War on Success: How the Obama Agenda is Shattering the American Dream.

I am with this author on evils of socialist-style redistribution and those who embrace such a Government are violating the 8th and 10th commandment.

I ask myself everyday as I watch the news, “Will I ever hear a statement about Obama that doesn’t use Obama and spending in the same sentence?”

Please go to Steve Brown, Etc page to listen to this interview or to Click Here to play in a popup.

SOMETIMES POLITICAL CORRECTNESS mind boggles me! Below is a quote from the Telegraph UK story of a new discrimination and I would not be surprised if there were a lobbyist group in UK representing this oppressed minority group.

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Nicole Mamo, 48, wanted to post an advert for a £5.80-an-hour domestic cleaner on her local Jobcentre Plus website.

The text of the advert ended by stating that any applicants for the post”must be very reliable and hard-working”.

But when Ms Mamo called the Jobcentre Plus in Thetford, Norfolk, the following day she was told that her advert would not be displayed instore.

A Jobcentre Plus worker claimed that the word “reliable” meant they could be sued for discriminating against unreliable workers.

Click link to read the entire story: Advert for ‘reliable workers’ banned as discrimination by Jobcentre Plus – Telegraph.

With the nuttiness of the politics in the United States I expect discrimination against unreliable workers to be here in the United States very soon. We may see it before our Supreme Court.

The Cambridge Declaration has been added to the After Skubalon, Light’s blog:

After Skubalon, Light!: The Cambridge Declaration

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THIS WEEKEND I attended the Appalachia Conference on Theology & the Church right here in my hometown of Charleston, West Virginia. This was a rare treat to have a solid theology conference without having travel to another states. The conference was held at the Charleston Baptist Temple and was sponsored by Randolph Street Baptist Church.

The guest speakers was Dr. Steven J. Lawson, Senior Pastor of Christ Fellowship Baptist Church in Mobile, Alabama. Lawson is the author of the excellent book The Expository Genius of John Calvin, so I know it was going to be a “Reformed/Calvinist” conference. The subject of this conference was The Supremacy of Christ.

There is a famine in the land! Not of water or food but in hearing the Word of God properly proclaimed and this includes us folks in West Virginia. Lawson properly delivered three excellent sessions on the Supremacy of Christ by proclaiming that Christ was not just a man but the God/Man. He also followed up with a question and answer session which I was not able to attend.

The God/Man is an essential Christian doctrine that I have learned several years ago and it is a doctrine that has radically changed my understanding of Christ. For Christ to be properly understood we have to understand that Christ IS fully human AND fully God, and anything less than Jesus being fully God and fully man is heresy! For Christ to be the mediator between us and God the Father he had to be both. All of Lawson’s sessions over the weekend expanded on this crucial Christian doctrine. It was true food for my soul.

Between the conference session I really enjoyed the time at the book tables. I have spent a number of years working at a local bookstore and these deep theological books are the books every Christian should be reading. I hate to be cynical, but you will never find these books in a Christian junk store. No Joel Osteen books here! The book table was sponsor by Cumberland Valley Bible Book Service, and I bought The Gospel-Driven Life by Michael Horton. I hope I can make time to read it!

Also in attendance at the conference was Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals. “The Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals is a broad coalition of evangelical Christians from various denominations, including Baptist, Congregational (Independent), Anglican (Episcopal), Presbyterian, Reformed, and Lutheran. The purpose of the Alliance’s existence is to call the Church, amidst a dying culture, to repent of its worldliness, to recover and confess the truth of God’s Word as did the reformers, and to see that truth embodied in doctrine, worship, and life” (quote from their Website).

The Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals seem to be promoting conferences in four cities titled These Last Days: A Christian View of History in which one will be in Philadelphia, PA on April 30th to May 2nd. I don’t know if I will be able to attend but I will try. I bet they won’t have books by Osteen either.

I had a good time during these two days and I even met up with old friends that I worked with when I was working at a Moody Bookstore years ago. The sponsorship of this conference has done an outstanding job with the parking, the snacks, and a really good lunch.

I really hope and pray that we will have more conference like this in the future. I will spread the word so others in my church will be able to attend.

Thank you very very much.

Timotheus

I AM VERY much looking for to this movie this summer. One of the main reason is because the A-Team was a TV show that I really enjoyed in my late teenage years. The action, the heroics of the main character and most importantly it made me laugh (especially on getting BA – Mr T- on an airplane because his character was afraid to fly).

I hope the producer of this movie will keep the elements of these character that I enjoyed as a teenager. I have read that Dwight Schultz and Dirk Benedict are please with actors that will be portraying their characters and both are expected to make cameos.

Dirk Bendict also starred on another television series, Battlestar Galactica. He was not please when his character, Starbuck, was replaced with a female character in the new Battlestar Galactica and I don’t blame him! Wikipedia has him as saying,

“One thing is certain. In the new un-imagined, re-imagined world of Battlestar Galactica everything is female driven. The male characters, from Adama on down, are confused, weak, and wracked with indecision while the female characters are decisive, bold, angry as hell, puffing cigars (gasp) and not about to take it any more.” Benedict also added that “Men hand out cigars. Women `hand out’ babies. And thus the world, for thousands of years, has gone round.“

I agree with him. TV shows and Movies are getting more feminine and lead female character are portrayed more manly. I think this will be an awesome manly summer movie and l hope to take my nephew for some bonding time to see it. Check out the trailer from the A-Team Movie website above.

ANOTHER ONE OF my top 10 favorite manly movies of all time. Every time I watch this clip I can feel the testosterone pumping through my veins:

ONE OF MY top 10 favorite “guy” movies is Fight Club and, as a man, it is a movie that I understand. In an age where we men have been so feminized by our modern culture this movie give us  a lot to talk about what it means to be masculine.

This movie has layers within layers of theological, philosophical and thematic implications. Layers worth thinking about especially for those from the “Reformed” Christian  perspective because of the concept we have of Total Depravity.

The guys on the Watching Theology podcast has done an excellent job analyzing this remarkable movie and I recommend everyone to hear this podcast.

For you fundies out there please try not get offended at the audio clips they play on this episode. Instead try to understand what the movie is trying say and how the guys at Watching Theology are analyzing this movie from a theological perspective.

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Tyler Durden says – “First you have to give up, first you have to know… not fear… know… that someday you’re gonna die.”

Tyler Durden says – “We’re a generation of men raised by women. I’m wondering if another woman is really the answer we need.“

GREETING TO ALL readers of the After Skubalon, Light blog. As mentioned earlier on the previous post this blog site has been attacked.

I believe that I was a victim of SQL Injection (SQL pronounced sequel) and I have spent most of my Christmas days off by cleaning out the codes in all of my entries and pages. I also updated my password to my site admin and I plan to do a clean install of the latest version of WordPress on my sites for good measure.

I should be blogging again as soon as I complete the upgrades. It has been a real pain-in-the-butt to clean all the spammer codes injected onto my site and I hope it never happens again.

THE AFTER SKUBALON, Light blog has been attacked by spammers. This site has literally been littered with code that is causing this site not to function correctly.

Please be aware I plan to wipe this site clean and start over!

Timotheus

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MY CO-WORKERS CREATED this FAKE trailer of me today. Hilarious, enjoy ::

LAST TUESDAY (NOVEMBER 29th) I read a “humdinger” of story about the biggest myth of our time, which is global warming. Check out the following story below::

Scientific progress depends on accurate and complete data. It also relies on replication. The past couple of days have uncovered some shocking revelations about the baloney practices that pass as sound science about climate change.

It was announced Thursday afternoon that computer hackers had obtained 160 megabytes of e-mails from the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in England. Those e-mails involved communication among many scientific researchers and policy advocates with similar ideological positions all across the world. Those purported authorities were brazenly discussing the destruction and hiding of data that did not support global-warming claims. [Emphasis mine]

Professor Phil Jones, the head of the Climate Research Unit, and professor Michael E. Mann at Pennsylvania State University, who has been an important scientist in the climate debate, have come under particular scrutiny. Among his e-mails, Mr. Jones talked to Mr. Mann about the “trick of adding in the real temps to each series … to hide the decline [in temperature].”

Mr. Mann admitted that he was … << Click HERE to read the full article >>

There was a time, many years ago, I believed in the myth of “man-made” global warming and then I came to my senses.

I think if most of us would really think about the theory of man-made global warming through we would have to realize that it is nothing but bullskubalon! The leaders of the environmental movement who are clinging to this absurd theory are those on the radical political left who have been trying to communize the whole world for decades.

These global warming alarmists have influenced ever sector of our society from religion, government, education, media and industry. The most outrageous example of how the global warming fraud has infiltrated our industry is the Toyota Prius television commercial. The commercial shows a Prius pulling the sun (with a happy face) around the world and as the Prius travels through fields of little exploited children dressed up as flowers, water, animals, and trees they begin to dance and sing like little hippies praising their benevolent god the Prius (Check the video clip below).

This dumb-ass commercial sickens me every time I see it because this commercial demonstrates that even the big corporation is on board with this fraud. In West Virginia, where I live, coal companies are trying pay for their sins against the planet by advertising clean coal technology, but to the radical environmentalists there is no forgiveness for committing the unpardonable sin of capitalism.

Now we find out what many of us who are smarter than leftists have known for years and that is man-made global warming IS A HOAX! Conservative bloggers and independent news source are all in a buzz about the MAJOR email scandal at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in England.

Apparently, emails between “scientists” at UEA and policy makers at the United Nation show that these climatologists deliberately cover-up data that disproved the theory of “man-made” global warming and fabricated and fudged other data results toward a global warming outcome.

Thanks to a hacker and/or whistleblower these secret emails have been released to the public. This is good because the university had refused to release there findings to the public and were held in contempt when a court ordered them to release the information findings under the Freedom of Information Act.

This is the biggest scandal of my life and I know you will NOT see much attention given to this story by the mainstream, liberal media in the United States. Liberal politicians have used the global warming fraud for years to intimate industries and citizens to give up individual liberties voluntarily and involuntarily in the name of the environment.

They have practically kneecapped many industries executives before the courts and lawmaker for being involved in industries that produces products that have been said to contribute to global warming (like big oil and coal).

Because of this hoax we are now putting food that we should be using to feed the world in our gas tank like idiots. And as idiots we complain when food prices skyrockets and when fuel prices doesn’t come down as promised.

We are driving around in little lawnmowers cars because big government mandating manufactures to make cars that get 100 miles to the gallon, and not only that, because of government regulations that mandating emissions on automobiles consumers have purchase automobiles that cost twice as much as they should.

We have scared the holy skubalon out of our kids by telling them in our public education system that because of CO-2 emissions (which we exhale) is causing the polar bear to DIE in the Arctic Circle! There have been news stories instructing passengers to take a dump before getting on an airplane to reduce body weight to minimize the CO-2 emission from the airplane that you would be flying.

I could not possibly list of the non-sense effect that this fraud has done to our way of life here in the United States. Leading environmentalist should be called before congress (including Al Gore) to explain this fraud before an independent prosecutor and be drilled liked the oil executive were about a year ago when gas was over $4 a gallon, which was caused by environmental policies.

Check out link below of other blogs and sites reporting on Climate-Gate::

Inhofe Asks Boxer to Investigate Possible Scientific ‘Conspiracy’ in ‘Climategate’
Climate e-mails topple Australian opposition leader
Climate change: this is the worst scientific scandal of our generation
Climate Fraud and the Environmental Agenda
Climate Con Job
Climategate
and more

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MOMMY IS VERY proud!

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“It is he who made the earth by his power, who established the world by his wisdom,and by his understanding stretched out the heavens.” (Jeremiah 10:12)

I AM REALLY trying hard to read more books. I really enjoy reading but I find it very difficult to sit still and read like I did when I was a teenager. I am currently reading a very fascinating book by Hugh Ross titled Why The Universe is the Way It Is.

One of the reasons for reading this book is because I am personally fascinated with Big Bang cosmology. I have always been intrigued watching documentaries on television about the black holes, galaxies, neutron stars, planet and asteroids. I often watch episodes The Universe all day (DVR) and every time I watch this television series I can’t help but see God’s hand in the universe even if the scientists narrating the television series can’t. Every episode reveals a bigger and bigger universe that boggles the mind.

When I was in college we were assigned to read A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawkins and after hearing Hugh Ross on Steve Brown, etc I decided to read one of his books to get his perspective on the universe as a Christian. I would review this book on the After Skubalon, Light’s blog but it may be a while before I get this whole book read. Yeah, I am slow!

What is ironic is I read Stephen Hawkin’s book at the same college that Hugh Ross once attended (West Virginia State College). I am glad that he was able to recover loss IQ because IQ drops to those who attend that college. LOL

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THIS ENTRY IS for you dispensational nut-jobs out there that read these weird “end-times” books like the Left Behind Series (many the them are KJVonlyist). Zondervan will be publishing another series of apocalypse books co-authored by Tim LaHaye to make more money off the theological gullible!

I guess every franchise must be reinvented like Batman, Star Trek, Stargate, V and now the Left Behind books are getting rebooted.

Below is an excerpt from PR Newswire announcing the end times series  ::

Zondervan to Publish New Series by Tim LaHaye and Craig Parshall

First book, Edge of Apocalypse, in The End series provides “fresh twist” on Left Behind series

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Nov. 13 /PRNewswire/ — Zondervan, a world leader in Christian communications, has signed an agreement with attorney Craig Parshall and Tim LaHaye, creator and co-author of the world renowned Left Behind series. Three years after the success of the Left Behind final installment, LaHaye returns to publish Edge of Apocalypse, an apocalyptic epic infused with political intrigue ripped from today’s headlines, the first book in a new series called The End.

“I’m thrilled to partner with Zondervan to produce a series hopefully even more innovative than Left Behind,” said LaHaye. “While my past works have piqued interest in biblical prophecy on a global level, The End series includes many prophecies that were not covered in Left Behind.”
Edge of Apocalypse jumpstarts the series as military-hero-turned-inventor Joshua Jordan attempts to save Manhattan from two nuclear missiles. Using his Return to Sender military defense system . . . << Click HERE to read the full article>>

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