Master of Puppets Mario Version

Super Mario version of Metallica's Master of Puppets.

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Liturgical Theology-Simon Chan

"This kind of worship that gives worshipers an immediate "high" may not even be good for their spiritual development in the long term; what truly forms worshipers is regular church attendance in a church that practices normative liturgy." Simon Chan-Liturgical Theology  


I think this is an important quote, because many in the free church today seek an immediate high. They go to the extreme ends of the earth, to far cities, or drive for hours just to find that new high. We can never do that as Christians to have real sustained growth in holiness(sanctification). Hence, we need Word and Sacrament.

Working my way through Summa Theologica byThomas Aquinas

Working my way through Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas has been a joy. But I will say that it's not for the faint in heart, because the work is so stinken long. I'm saying that, because it might just take me a full year to read through it and on top of that you really need some knowledge of philosophical history and terms to really digest some of the stuff he is saying at times.

Predestination: John Calvin vs. Thomas Aquinas

More on the doctrine of Predestination and Thomas Aquinas from a interesting Catholic blog. I say interesting, because it looks like they were all once Reformed and now in the Catholic church.


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Summa Theologica and Predestination

I've been working my way through Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas and I found out for first hand that his doctrine of Predestination is much like Calvin's own. Calvin never invented it, but it's been part of Church and Church history. 


Here is a good post entitled Aquinas on Predestination at Helm's Deep. 

Reading, reading and more reading

I just completed reading Simon Chan's Liturgical Theology and all I can say again is wow! These Pentecostals of today are fascinating and so smart about theology. I can remember a day when there wasn't such a phrase "Pentecostal Scholar"....how things have changed!

Ken