Territorial Bloggings

The comments thread of the “Cussing Lite” posting at WorldMagBlog has yielded one particularly interesting entry.
A top ten list for the sins of the tongue:
1. Profanity: Dragging sacred realities, words and ideas through the gutter. Pulling what is lofty and divine down to lowly realms (Exodus 20:7).
2. Obscenity: Offending the modesty of others, glorifying indecency [...]

A fascinating posting over at WorldMagBlog, entitled “Cussing Lite” brings to light an interesting topic. Namely, the emergence, over the past 25 or so years, of an acceptance of so-called substitute swear words. Words like “crap,” “suck,” & “freakin” have become accepted, though thinly-veiled, substitutes for their stronger, and still somewhat unacceptable, counterparts. Although it [...]

FatherDMJ had a posting recently, wherein he discussed his melancholy of late.
Now, I’m prone to bouts of melancholy myself, and while I’m not a brother of FatherDMJ’s in the OHM, I am a brother in Christ. It is in that context that I daresay that I feel his pain. I’ve observed many of the same [...]

Amidst the usual quality postings, Vicar Lehmann has given us a particularly useful gem of a post, entitled Non-negotiables.
While all 10 of the Vicar’s statements are good, I’m particularly fond of Nos. 3, 4, 6, & 9. Faithful preaching based on the non-negotiables is something that is lacking in far too many pulpits these days [...]