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Name: Barak
Country: United States
State: California
Metro: San Diego
Gender: Male
Interests: Truth, Worldviews, Apologetics, Theology, Philosphy, Religion, Culture, Law, Politics, Travelling, Reading, Writing, Movies, Music, Seinfeld, Working Out, Snowboarding, Paintballing, Surfing, PLAYING MY DRUMS, CARVEboarding, and other miscellanies.
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"Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost. Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of fare” - Isaiah 55:1-2
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Here is an interesting little (as in short...more incentive to read it) article by the brilliant Dr. Fred Sanders on 9 Art Bloopers in the Da Vinci Code. The interesting things is, Brown himself says, "Because my novels are so research-intensive, they take a couple of years to write." If Sanders is right, (and having studied under him a little, and listened to his stuff on art before, I think he is) I wonder what kind of research Brown thinks he is doing? Reading tabloids perhaps? Sanders' colleague, Dr. John Mark Reynolds once described The Da Vinci Code as the secular equivalent to the Left Behind Series in regards to the poor level of research and writing talent involved.
I am inclined to agree...
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I don't care if you are Christian or Buddhist, Male or Female, Liberal or Conservative, Straight or Gay, Black or White, if you live in the demographic loosely termed "The West" (which is likely to be everyone reading this), you need to read this article. Ok so it is somewhat long, but I am sure you can handle it. Give up watching TV for one night, and read it (very carefully too, I might add).
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Here is a collection of lines from the fifth and eighth sermons by Columbanus, an Irish preacher in the 5th century.
There is no advantage for us in reaching the height we have attained unless we escape what is still to come; for this life is to be thought of as a way and an ascent.
We should be careful […] in case we are complacent on the way and fail to reach our true home. Indeed there are many who are so at ease on this journey that they seem not so much to be wayfarers as to be already home, and they travel unwillingly rather than freely toward a home that is for them, already lost. These people have exhausted their home in the journey, and with a brief life have bought eternal death. Human life is like a road and by comparing it to a shadow, we have shown that it is dubious and uncertain, and that it is not what it seems to be. In the same way, we have said before how unpredictable and how blind it is, but we must speak further, with the help of the Holy Spirit, about our life’s end. It is natural for travelers to hurry on to their homeland; it is natural too that they should experience anxiety on the roadway and peace when they should arrive home. And so we too who are on the road should hasten on, for the whole of life is like one day’s journey. Our first duty is to love nothing here, but to love the things above, to desire the things above, to relish the things above, and to seek our home there, for the fatherland is where our Father is. Many lose their true home because they have greater love for the road that leads them there. Unless we are filled with the urgent longing of heavenly desires, we shall necessarily be ensnared by earthly ones.
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