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I finished a re-read of G.K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy last week. It was better than the first time I read it. It's definitely on my list to read again (a very short list). I said when I finished it, holding the book in my hand, "It doesn't give you any new information, you don't learn by reading it... but it is one of the very few books that makes you smarter when you read it."

“Ah Lord GOD! Behold, You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and by Your outstretched arm!
Nothing is too difficult for You, who shows lovingkindness to thousands, but repays the iniquity of fathers into the bosom of their children after them.

What is wrong with a society that would rather foster a lie, than admit they were wrong? Don't you just hate it? But, do you do it too?
For some reason we, as a society, have come to the conclusion than it is better to be right than correct! Let me explain, I am a teacher of the Scriptures. That is my Spiritual gift and I enjoy doing it - it makes me happy. One of the things I have had to do is beat up my EGO because I was wrong about some of the teachings I accepted before I learned how to read the Bible with understanding.

Someone once said, if you want to know the way a society is heading look at their popular culture. That kind of scares me when I look at what and where our country is going.

I just realized that although Facebook is picking up the feed from this site, it's not displaying the media player for the podcast, and it's not displaying links to download the podcast, AND it's not giving people a link to the post or the site here.

Here's the link to last week's MP3 for the podcast: http://www.opendiscipleship.org/audio/download/287/Theology_...

Here's a link to OpenDiscipleship.org.

I'll have to add that info to my template, I guess.

I had already listened to a lecture series which Dr. Nash gave with this book as the text for the course. I'm glad I read the book. I'm actually considering re-listening to the lectures now.

I've seen notes for Mere Christianity where the whole book was covered in four weeks. I've done a study with one group in which we took one chapter per week (which means it takes almost an entire year to get through the book once you figure in Holidays and other interruptions). I thought we could force the book through at a run in 8 weeks....

Oh, my... I'm still thinking about what to think about this. I know people (lots of people) who believe this, but have not formalized it like the Abecedarians, and taken it to it's logical conclussion:

Abecedarians

Let me say this about growing up, I was a happy kid for the first eight years!!!! I remember there being a lot of love in our house. I was a very shy but happy little boy. I do have a couple of specific memories of that time.

Let’s sum “My Story” up, so far:
• I had one grandmother who was a bi-racial/feuding Hatfield.
• I had one grandmother who everyone considered a saint but married ‘bad boys’.
• I had one grandfather who was a doctor, feuder and killed by the KKK.
• I had one grandfather who was a convicted murderer & a state of Kentucky Marshall.
• I had a scrappy hillbilly alcoholic feuding/murderer for a Momma.
• I had a passive-aggressive moonshiner for a Daddy.
• I have a retarded brother who is one of the smartest guys I know.