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Budgets seem to be holding up, but more justification needed
2008-12-11 01:00:00 Also at the IANS conference, we talked extensively about enterprises' budgets. Apart from a few notable exceptions, most agreed that budgets hadn't been significantly cut...yet. It stands to reason – nobody buys security because it’s cool, or because they have extra cash in their pockets. On the other hand, few thought their budgets’ were immune to being cut in the near future either, though. Either way, just about everyone was finding that they needed extra justification for their security purchases.
Mark Penn takes a stab at Self-Justification
2008-06-08 17:42:00 I remarked a while ago: Clinton is now looking for a scapegoat, and Penn seems a likely enough target. Penn’s job, after all, was putting lipstick on a pig…. Hillary Clinton is a product that is about as popular as raw sewage. Granted that Penn didn’t help that image, but what could? Of course, that was when Penn got canned because Mrs Clinton wasn’t getting the wins she needed to achieve her goal of world domination. As of this morning, Penn offers a different take on why that effort failed… and, big shock… Penn says it’s not his fault. No shock that this should show up in the New York Times, is it? The conventional criticisms of Mrs. Clinton’s campaign are these: she had no message; she ran just on experience; she should have shown more of her warmer side; she was too negative; President Clinton’s campaigning hurt her; and she presented herself as inevitable. It is amazing she got any votes at all. Notice, please, that Penn ignores the biggest p...
By: BitsBlog
Clinton?s Justification for Staying in the Race: ?Bobby Kennedy was assassi
2008-05-24 08:20:00 Alright, I haven’t had time to post in a while, so I’d like to start off by wishing Senator Kennedy the best of luck as he deals with his health problems. Although I can’t stand him personally, nobody should go through what he is going through. Now, on to the news … earlier this week, Clinton ...
Justification in the Eyes of God
2008-05-15 19:42:00 Ianny01 recently posted the following question at Phatmass: I've been having a back-and-forth email discussion with some Protestant friends of mine and one of them asserts a strange thing about Chapter 2 of the Letter of Saint James. He asserts that the justification that Saint James is talking about is not before God but before men, that this justification does not increase our righteousness before God. Basically that this justification is to show that people have genuine faith to other people. How should I respond to this?Your opponent must believe that the justification in question is before men b/c that is the only way to reconcile James with what he believes about faith and salvation. But, I assert that James most definitely has God's perspective in mind. I will use ch. 2 itself, along with ch. 1 and 3 to prove my point. Let's start with Jas 1.In the first chapter, we read: "Blessed is the man who endures trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of lif...
Justification: No Debating It!
2008-04-28 15:09:00 I have been reading The Future of Justification by Piper the last few nights. This book of course is in response to N.T. Wright and his ideas on justification and the New Perspective on Paul. I am not going to lie and say that I understand all that N.T. Wright is saying or that I even understand that there should be a debate. God did not bless me with great intellectual acumen. However, I do understand words and music can move me. I have also been listening to a song sung by Aaron Keyes. The song was written by Horiatus Bonar in 1861 and has its roots in Ephesians 2:8-9. Read Ephesians 2:8-9 and read the words below. Praise God for His Grace and mercy demonstrated to us through Christ. Praise God for what the means in the lives of sinners drawn by Grace. Praise God that there is nothing we can do to merit His Grace, and praise God that Christ stood in our place so that we can wear His righteousness! Not what my hands have done can save my guilty soul; Not what my toiling f...
By: Two Institutions
Justification -christiansquoting.org.uk
2008-03-09 08:52:00 Simul justus et peccatorEx quandam parte justus ex quandam parte peccatorIt is entirely by the intervention of Christ's righteousness that we obtain justification before God. This is equivalent to saying that man is not just in himself, but that the righteousness of Christ is communicated to him by imputation, while he is strictly deserving of punishment. John Calvin[Justification is] the main hinge on which salvation turns. JOHN CALVINIt is just like someone who is sick, and who believes the doctor who promises his full recovery. In the meantime, he obeys the doctor's orders in the hope of the promised recovery, and abstains from those things which he was told to lay off, so that he may in no way hinder the promised return to health...Now is this sick man well? He is sick in reality - but he is well on account of a sure promise of the doctor, whom he trusts, and who reckons him as already being cured...So he is at one and the same time time both a sinner and righteous. He is a si...
By: Christian Quoter
Knowledge, Belief and Justification Closure
2008-02-15 08:00:00 Johnny Dee has recently been writing about “justification closure“, which despite its technical-sounding name is a seemingly obvious thing that turns out to present problems (or seeming problems) under certain circumstances.
By: Big Ideas
Buddhadeb?s justification of Nandigram - A Taliban Act
2007-11-13 18:06:00 Buddhadeb’s Taliban Act We must fight to protect our innocent people against looting and killing They had rendered great sacrifices in the past They are ready to render more sacrifices for the protection of their land and their ideology That was the Taliban in 2001 justifying its actions in the feudal wars of Afghanistan. You could very well have ...
Pentecostal Essential
2007-11-08 22:11:00 Oneness Pentecostals believe that baptism is absolutely essential to salvation. Oneness Pentecostals are also quick to say that they cannot judge a man who accepts Christ that is on their deathbed because they are afraid to face the facts (persay) of their position. If someone repents and trust in Christ in the hospital bed ...
What Is Insurable Interest? Financial justification? Why Is It Important To
2007-10-19 00:00:00 What if your neighbor, who doesn’t like you at all, could take out life insurance on you without your knowledge or consent? What if you are in your 70’s or 80’s and your child or caregiver could take out life insurance on you without you being a party to what was happening? What if you ...
Here we go Again, More Rhetoric From George Bush and Cast of Criminals!
2007-09-12 01:42:00 Gen. David Petraeus, when asked if he thought our efforts in Iraq were making us in the US safer; his response was that our efforts there were only good to accomplish our goals in Iraq. Why are we allowing our young people to die in Iraq when it is doing nothing, per the head of our military in Iraq, to make the USA safer. read more
By: Communati.com
He Alone Justifies the Ungodly
2007-08-15 17:22:00 For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God. (Romans 4:2) Naturally he would, we would also boast about things that we have done. We do it today. Typically when you witness to an impenitent sinner, some of the things that they will bring up out of pride ...
Victory Over Sin?
2007-06-25 19:16:00 Many sincere Christians today are struggling to get "victory over sin." They have a sincere desire for holy living and want to please God. However, they are ignoring the fact that God has a plan for... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Defensive Driving Statistics Show Justification For Classes
2007-06-15 01:51:00 For many companies the cost savings of defensive driving courses is hard to quantify unless one of their vehicles is involved in an accident. With many small companies having a deductible on auto insurance of up to $10,000, which comes straight off the bottom line, saving a single accident may pay the cost of a ...
By: MotorCarInfo.com
NT Wright & Justification
2007-05-05 08:05:00 I recommend that you take the time to print off the power point slides, pour a cup of strong coffee, grab your Bible, and then settle in for some meaty theology. I think at the end you will walk away feeling as if you have a good grasp … ……
By: Fine Art Prints
Justification of restriction
2007-04-26 02:04:00 Parents dream of ‘healthy’ children, but societies are redefining what this means. An April 26th article in the Australian newspaper, The Age caught my attention. NSW judge Paul Conlon condemned physicians’ widespread diagnosis of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and their propensity to medicate children from a very young age. Apparently, “ More than 264,000 prescriptions for the drug Ritalin were issued [in Australia] last year, compared to just 11,114 scripts written in 1992.” Why suddenly medicate so many children? Might this reflect increasing numbers of parents deprive children of attention or, aren’t willing to deal with teach discipline? Might this reveal growing influence of drug companies on society? Judge Conlon explained he had, “ lost count of (numbers of) offenders coming before the courts who were diagnosed at a very young age with ADHD for which they were 'medicated.' “ ADHD has been set a...
Unconvincing justification of possible murder
2006-12-14 04:40:03 [The US House of Representatives did not pass a bill to administer painkillers to fetuses before abortion. The bill hopelessly attempted to physiologically justify a metaphysical opinion.] People, religious to any extent at all, must logically regard abortion as murder. If soul exists, then in all likelihood it enters the human being at the very moment of conception. Religion permits abortions only to save mothers. Atheists, on the contrary, have a good reason to support the choice of abortion: physiologically, twelve-week fetus is not a viable human being. Religious and atheist values are incompatible here to the extreme, to the definition of murder. Pascal thus argued for theism: if God, indeed, exists, we gain a lot by believing in him; if he doesn’t, we lose almost nothing by believing. A similar argument applies to abortion: in the issue of possible murder, it’s better to be on the safe side. Life always involves choices and risks of involuntary transgression. Heino...
By: Samson Blinded
Justification
2006-12-12 07:54:00 The value of such a practice like aromatherapy is still debated even though it started around 1920 due of lack of scientific consensus. Moreover little research is available on practice of aromatherapy to add to the credibility of this practice. But the governments of USA and England do give sanction ...
The justification of theology
2006-11-17 22:39:01 ?The justification for a faculty of theology in the university lies in its willingness to bear witness to an eschatological disclosure of the ultimate foundation of all the disciplines and, in so doing, to the meaningfulness of all disciplines in spite of their inability to demonstrate their foundations?. [T]heology serves the other sciences best when it acts as a disruptive influence; when it reminds the other sciences of their inability to demonstrate their ultimate presuppositions?. If faculties of theology could learn once again to perform this function, they will truly deserve their place at the table. If they do not, if they continue to allow theology to be transformed into metaphysics or reduced to anthropology, well, we ought not to be surprised if theology loses its place altogether.? ?Bruce L. McCormack, ?Theology and Science: Karl Barth?s Contribution to an Ongoing Debate,? Zeitschrift für dialektische Theologie 22 (2006), p. 59.
5 Months in 1 Sermon: Piper on the Gospels & Justification
2006-08-08 19:03:13 This past Sunday was a special day. For the second year in a row, we had a combined service in the parking lot of the new building for our north campus. There easily could have been around 4,000 people there in attendance and it was exciting to be together worshipping God with one voice. And John Piper was back! He again thanked us for his sabbatical, and then delivered a great message. As is typical upon his return from a writing leave, Piper preached a message birthed from his thoughts and labor over the writing of his books during the past few months. As soon as the sermon is posted onine at Desiring God, I plan to link to it. But I couldn’t wait until then to comment on it. The sermon’s text was Luke 18:9-14, the parable of the Pharisee and tax collector. While his main point had to do with his book on Justification’s importance (an answer to N.T. Wright), he also touched on a topic relative to his other book on the demands of Jesus in the Gospels. I want to di... |
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