Raising My Testosterone Levels
By Timotheus | July 1, 2008
Yeah, I am a Bond Fan!
The Official teaser trailer for Quantum Of Solace and I can’t wait!
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Prince Caspian - Movie Review
By Timotheus | June 29, 2008
ONE OF THE goals I have for this blog is to occasionally write reviews of movies I have seen. However, I have slacked on that goal. I should have written a review of Prince Caspian the day after I have seen it in the theater but I have been having difficulty finding time to write in my blog recently.
Since I was not able to write a review let me refer my readers to a review of the movie by Donald T. Williams in Modern Reformation magazine’s web site. His opinion on this movie is very close to mine:
Prince Caspian
A Movie Review
Donald T. Williams
It was disappointing that the movie version of C. S. Lewis’s second chronicle of Narnia, Prince Caspian, did not stick as close to the story as that of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. There may not have been more scenes made up out of whole cloth and gratuitously inserted, but the ones which were had a greater impact on plot and theme. A pointless fight involving Peter in the train station and a whole extra battle, the futile attack on Miraz’s castle, were not just there for love of spectacle. They flow from subtle alterations to Peter’s character that have not so subtle effects on the story’s meaning.
First, the good parts. The film is visually stunning, and, more to the point, is a believable recreation of Lewis’s descriptions of Narnian landscapes and creatures. The soundtrack is gorgeous. Enough of the original plot survives so that the spiritual message of the book is not entirely lost, though it is unfortunately somewhat diluted, as we shall see. . .
CLICK HERE TO READ THE REST ON THE MODERN REFORMATION’s website>>>
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A History and Economic Lesson
By Timotheus | June 27, 2008
For those who slept through World History 101……here is a condensed version.
Humans originally existed as members of small bands of nomadic hunters/gatherers. They lived on deer in the mountains during the summer and would go to the coast and live on fish and lobster in the winter.
The two most important events in all of history were:
1. The invention of beer, and
2. The invention of the wheel.
The wheel was invented to get man to the beer, and the beer to the man.These facts formed the foundation of modern civilization and together were the catalyst for the splitting of humanity into two distinct subgroups:
1. Liberals
2. Conservatives.
Once beer was discovered, it required grain and that was the beginning of agriculture. Neither the glass bottle nor aluminum can were invented yet, so while our early humans were sitting around waiting for them to be invented, they just stayed close to the brewery. That’s how villages were formed.
Some men spent their days tracking and killing animals to BBQ at night while they were drinking beer. This was the beginning of what is known as the Conservative movement.
Other men who were weaker and less skilled at hunting learned to live off the conservatives by showing up for the nightly BBQ’s and doing the sewing, fetching, and hair dressing. This was the beginning of the Liberal movement.
Some of these liberal men eventually evolved into women. The rest became known as girlie-men.
Some noteworthy liberal achievements include the domestication of cats, the invention of group therapy and group hugs, the evolution of the Hollywood actor, and the concept of Democratic voting to decide how to divide all the meat and beer that conservatives provided.
Over the years, Conservatives came to be symbolized by the largest, most powerful land animal on earth, the elephant. Liberals are symbolized by the jackass.
Modern liberals like imported beer (with lime added), but most prefer white wine or imported bottled water. They eat raw fish but like their beef well done. Sushi, tofu, and French food are standard liberal fare. Another interesting evolutionary side note: most of liberal women have higher testosterone levels than their men. Most social workers, personal injury attorneys, journalists, dreamers in Hollywood and group therapists are liberals. Liberals invented the designated hitter rule because it wasn’t fair to make the pitcher also bat.
Conservatives drink domestic beer. They eat red meat and still provide for their women. Conservatives are big-game hunters, rodeo cowboys, lumberjacks, construction workers, firemen, medical doctors, police officers, corporate executives, athletes, Marines, and generally anyone who works productively. Conservatives who own companies hire other conservatives who want to work for a living.
Liberals produce little or nothing. They like to govern the producers and decide what to do with the production. Liberals believe Europeans are more enlightened than Americans. That is why most of the liberals remained in Europe when conservatives were coming to America. They crept in after the Wild West was tamed and created a business of trying to get more for nothing.
Here ends today’s lesson in world history…….
It should be noted that a liberal may have a momentary urge to angrily respond to the above before forwarding it.
A conservative will simply laugh and be so convinced of the absolute truth of this history that it will be forwarded immediately to other true believers, and to more liberals…just to yank their chain.
* I don’t know who wrote this. It was emailed to me by a friend and I think there is a lot truth in this story.
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Dilbert and Free Will
By Timotheus | June 27, 2008
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Christ-Centered, Cross-Focused!
By Timotheus | June 25, 2008
ONE OF MY favorite radio program (and PODCAST) is Issues ETC. The radio program was pulled because of denominational politics and the host Todd Wilken was fired. Or that is what I been reading on other blogs.
I am a Calvinist (not a Lutheran) but I did enjoy the program. The good news is that it is coming back, independent from the church. I look forward to listen to them again.
CLICK HERE TO SEE THE COUNT DOWN.
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This is Me a Few Weeks Ago
By Timotheus | June 24, 2008
I am posting this PIC of me at a shooting range with Friends/Coworkers because a fellow blogger that I like to read may get a kick out of this. My co-workers were very impress with this PIC. This is for you Josh
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Thought Provoking Cartoon
By Timotheus | June 23, 2008
HELLO FRIENDS! I know I haven’t written much in my blog during the pass few months. The big obstacle that keeps me from posting on my blog is working with the blog themes. I have been trying different themes to see which one would make it easier to post, update and manage After Skubalon, Light! blog.
The biggest frustration I have with WordPress is adding a drop-drown menu for my page entries. I would like for it to fly-off 2 or 3 levels. When adding more content like Confessions it would be easier to navigate the site with a good drop-down menu. I am working on it.
I downloaded and added Suckerfish menu plug-in to this blog. I am not able to get it to work, yet. I need to hire a local teenager to help me get this blog to function the way I want.
In the mean time check out the clever cartoon posted below sent to me by a friend. I think there is a lot of truth in it:
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Why Oil Prices Will Continue to Rise
By Timotheus | May 27, 2008
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Defrocked from a Liberal Church!
By Timotheus | March 10, 2008
WHAT DOES IT take to be defrocked by a liberal church. J. I Packer, author of Knowing God, A Quest for Godliness: The Puritan Vision of the Christian Life, and the general editor of the ESV translation of the Bible (Listen Here) has been suspended by his bishop.
Not much in the news about it. Most of the information are from other blogs that I have been reading.
The liberal Anglican church biggest disagreement with Packer is on the issue of homosexuality. What I find so amazing is that most prominent so-called ministers (like Joel Osteen and Joyce Myers) in America are the ones who should be defrocked! Instead liberal go after a man who is orthodox.
Check the videos out below:
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I Am Such a Bad Blogger
By Timotheus | March 2, 2008
I AM SUCH a bad blogger! I want every one of my readers to know I have not given up on my blog. Since moving back to Charleston my workdays are so exhausting that in the evening after work I am too tire to blog.
The other reason I haven’t been blogging as often is because I have upgraded my blog to a new version of WordPress. The main reason I have upgraded to a newer version is because I like to use Safari browser on my Mac to compose entries and the WordPress I was using didn’t seem to be 100% compatible with Safari. However, the upgrade has caused some technical problems.
After upgrading WordPress the Tiga theme that I was using started glitching. It was driving me crazy! This weekend I was able to correct the glitching of the blog but the theme I was using didn’t have fly-off menus. I first saw fly-off menus on Jessica’s Blog. Although I like the look of my previous theme, I am experimenting with another theme so that I can take advantage of fly-off menus on the navbar.
It is OK but I will be modifying the Ad Clerum theme so that I am not copying my look after Jessica. If I am able to modify the images, color scheme, and fonts I will stick to this theme. I am working on adding more content on this site and the drop fly-off menus on the navbar will help my readers to find content more easily.
I look forward in adding more blog entries about Hardcore Reformed Theology and other personal interests.
Yours truly,
Timotheus
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Thirty Times Zero is Zero
By Timotheus | January 17, 2008
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Edmund the Just!
By Timotheus | January 1, 2008
“for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.” (Romans 3:23-26)
DURING THE HOLIDAY season I was able to have some time to watch The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe again on DVD. This movie has become one of my new all-time favorite movies. It wonderful movie that I am able watch over and over and over again without never get tired of it. I am not an expert on the Chronicles Of Narnia series. The only book I have ever read by C.S. Lewis is Mere Christianity. As I watched this movie I have noticed that there are four subtleties in this movie that I thought are fascinating especially as it relates to Christian Theology.
The first subtlety is that Edmund betrayal was not just of a young boy who just made wrong moral choices. His act was an act of treason and betrayal! I am concluding that C.S. Lewis (if this idea is carried over from the book) is trying to illustrate that humanity relationship with God is on the level of treason, not just of bad choices or indifference. Humanities relationship with God is that of cosmic treason resulting, of course, from the fall and it is illustrated well by Edmund’s betrayal.
The Second subtlety is a line by the White Witch which she says, “(T)onight the Deep Magic will be appeased!” This line was utter right before the White Witch killed Aslan. I find this line interesting because what has been introduced to the story is the biblical concept of propitiation.* The law in this story is the Deep Magic and it has been violated by Edmund’s betrayal. The requirement for betrayal of the Deep Magic is death and the Deep Magic requirements must be appeased by Edmund or in the case of this story Aslan appeased the Deep Magic on Edmund’s behalf.
I think Lewis’ illustrating that God’s law must be fulfilled and the requirement for violating to be satisfied with death. God cannot overlook humanities treason against Him and His perfect law. If He did God would no longer be good. God’s justice, His holiness, and His anger must be appeased. And the one thing God will NOT compromise is His holiness even to save us. One of the aspects of the gospel message is the concept of propitiation. Propitiation is what happened at the cross when Jesus’ perfect obedience, perfection was offered to appease God’s righteous anger. In effect turning His anger away from His elect.
The Third subtlety is my favorite line in the entire movie. The scene is where crowns were being place on the children’s head. As the crown was placed Edmund’s head Aslan said, “EDMUND THE JUST!” This is the ultimate illustration of grace in the entire movie. Why was Edmund just? Is it something that Edmund did to earn his justification? No! Some would say it was because Aslan appeased the Deep Magic on his behalf? Well, that is part of it but the real reason why Edmund is just is because Aslan declared him just.
Sound like there is some Reformed Theology in this movie, but I do know that C.S. Lewis has not always operated from Reformed categories. I do think there are some Reformed ideas in this movie.
The Fourth subtlety is a line from Mister Tumnus, “After all, he’s not a tame lion.” And Lucy responded by saying, “No, but his is good.” What an illustration of God’s wrath and his holiness.
This is not a movie review just some observations of this rich, wonderful movie. I look forward to the next Narnia movie this summer.
*Roman 3:25 ESV or KJV - Some Bible Translations seem to choke on this concept. Very few Bible translations will actually use the word propitiation.
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Prince Caspian Trailer
By Timotheus | December 23, 2007
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Could I vote for Ron Paul?
By Timotheus | December 16, 2007
I have been hearing some of my friends who are conservative politically talking about Ron Paul. Since I have not been listening to the political news I am a little in the dark about a lot of candidates. The only exception is Hillary Clinton who is very hard to avoid.
While walking to my park car after a long day at work I picked up political advertisement flyer for Ron Paul. I started to read the information about Ron Paul to see how he is selling himself to the voters. So as a Reformed Christian like myself could I vote for such a man as President of the United States?
Well stated on the flyer is the candidates polished record (my opinion in parentheses):
- Never voted to raise taxes (oh, definitely)
- Never voted to an unbalanced budget (absolutely!)
- Never voted to raise congressional page (hooray, I vote for that)
- Never taken a government-paid junket (good so far)
- Never voted to increase the power of the executive branch (no problem here)
- Voted against regulating the Internet (indifference here but I generally believe that government regulation is bad)
- Not participated in the lucrative congressional pension programs (that’s is a good thing)
- Repeatedly been named the “Taxpayers’ Best Friend” in congress (so far so good!)
Then I flipped the flyer over and read his promises:
- Let American keep more of their own money (Amen!)
- End the IRS (whoo hoo, never will happen)
- Stop the central bankers’ “inflation tax.” (have no idea)
- Stop unconstitutional spending leading us to bankruptcy (nice but won’t happen)
- Stop the financial dependency on China (I missed that one, that is what I get for not watch the Fox News Channel), Saudi Arabia, and other foreign governments.
- Oppose trade deals and groups that threaten American Independence (This one would send the UN packing)
- Protect our privacy and stop the national ID cards (yeah, we have Social Security cards the government should know enough!)
- Protect our constitutional rights and end of the “Patriot Act” (haven’t head anyone right been violated)
- Secure our borders and end illegal immigration (nice)
- End “birthright” citizenship for illegal aliens (yeah that will end illegal immigration)
- Bring our troop home from no-win “police actions” (not police action and it is winnable but if the United Stated don’t find its testicles we will loose)
I guess if he was running against Hillary I could definitely vote. It is easy for any conservative to win against Hillary if they stand firm on conservativeism. I am still holding out for Fred Thompson, but that’s me.
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Ken Jones at Miami Pastors Conference
By Timotheus | December 16, 2007
Here is a couple clips of Ken Jones. I first heard him when I was in Washington DC at a Ligonier Conference. At that conference how I discovered the White Horse Inn and I been hooked on broadcast ever since.
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