Tortured Genius?

Yep, I know that feeling!
 

If anyone would like to see the full version of this, documentary then please email me privately: No promises, but it could  perhaps be done.  CrazyCalvinist@googlemail.com 

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Giving the name Calvinism the nobility it deserves

If you are a Christian, if you understand with your head, the doctrines of Grace, then please don’t declare oneself a Calvinist until you live those same doctrines with your heart. To do so, does anything BUT glorify God, and shames the Reformed cause and does it  much harm because of it.
A Few common MisperceptionsSometimes [...]

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Do exactly as you like on the Sabbath

I posted this a year or two ago, on another blog space, but are reposting it now as sports, recreation, pleasing ourselves can become much the by-word. Putting ourselves and our needs before obedience and God’s glory.
This is an article from the Standard Bearer."When Ball Becomes Baal"

The above heading is within quotation marks. I [...]

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Gizmo's and Gadgets

I have always liked gizmo’s and gadgets. And for a few years now, have been into video editing on my computer.  And figured I would A) Get a bridge that would enable me to turn my VHS video’s into DVD discs, and so conserve space that videos take up, that DVD’s don’t. And that also would [...]

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Don't despise the "little man"

The girl to whom Mozart was first engaged to be married became discontented with her choice when she saw more of the world, and gave up the composer. She thought him too diminutive. "I knew nothing of the greatness of his genius," she afterwards explained; "I saw him only a little man." How many of [...]

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The most annoying woman on TV

The most annoying woman on British TV in my opinion, is the "Perfect housewife" Anthea Turner.  I remember I used to see her years ago in something, but no longer recall what it was, but I found her highly annoying then, and even more annoying now. And to make matters worse, not bad enough her [...]

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Easily bored

I got bored with my weblog template, so at least for now (on this site) are switching it. I’m sure some things need to be modififed to get it all functional but are leaving it for tonight. Nate, if you come by, I recall you had a problem seeing the font on this template when [...]

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Anecdote of Thomas Carlyle

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) loved his wife. She loved to help her husband in his writing career. But she became ill with cancer and was confined to bed. Though he loved her dearly, Carlyle was so busy writing that he rarely found time to stay at her bedside.
The day of her burial it rained and the [...]

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End of an era?

Maybe, maybe not. But Tony Blair officially stepped down as Prime Minister of England today.  The words of Oliver Cromwell addressing a different parliament before discharging them come to mind:Full story

“Numerous dangers threaten the nation,” he said, “and you have
done nothing to prevent them. The Cavalier party have been
designing and preparing to put this nation [...]

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Trust me, I'm a doctor

Lots of things as we go through life very rarely seem to be what it says on the packet. In other words doesn’t fit the description of what the name or descriptive word should connotate in our minds. I sometimes look at mothers and see this. Those that are as common as muck, a rough [...]

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