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For The Generations [sermon audio]
Hullo, I was once again privileged to speak at Harbour Community Church this Sunday just passed. There were a lot of props and visual aids but I don’t think its too frustrating to hear it only in audio… Its all … Continue reading
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The Fear Of Language
Apparently there’s some election campaigning going on in America. Unsurprisingly for a country like the US all the candidates are claiming to be God fearing, sent of God, and anything but God-awful. This has lead to a number of posts … Continue reading
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Tagged America, bible, blog, blogging, christian, Christianity, church, election, faith, fear, fear of god, God, jesus, jim lockey, language, notes, postaday, presidential, religion, spirituality, theology, writing, yahweh
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The book of Enoch in Jude
Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about them: “See, the Lord is coming with thousands upon thousands of his holy ones to judge everyone, and to convict all of them of all the ungodly acts they have committed in their ungodliness, … Continue reading
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Tagged analysis, apocrypha, bible, blog, blogging, christian, Christianity, church, enoch, faith, genesis, God, jesus, jim lockey, jude, new testament, notes, old testament, postaday, religion, spirituality, the book of enoch, theology, writing, yahweh
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The Story To End All Stories
Here it is, the audio of the much discussed preach I did yesterday. I used a big wheel thing as a prop (pictured below) and often pointed to sections on it and just said ‘here’ or ‘this bit’ which can … Continue reading
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Tagged bible, blog, blogging, christian, Christianity, church, faith, genesis, God, jesus, jim lockey, new testament, noah, notes, old testament, paul, postaday, preaching, public speaking, religion, Romans, sermon, spirituality, theology, writing, yahweh
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Film: Song of Songs
Song of Songs is an independent film from the the director of The Infidel. I decided to watch the thing on the back of having seen The Infidel, but the experience of watching it was not nearly as satisfying. I … Continue reading
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The Principle of Analogy
So a little while ago I read some of Thomas Aquinas’ theological writing. I’ve heard things about the fella that are pretty problematic, but the essays and extracts I read were not really bad as such but rather they just … Continue reading
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Tagged analogy, christian, Christianity, criticism, God, jesus, jim lockey, theology, thomas aquinas
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Gaunilo heaps more criticism on Anselm.
Hello reader. I do hope you are getting something out of this discussion of Anselm because it continues yet again in this post. I then hope to spend a post discussing Thomas Aquinas on Proofs (which I’ve yet to read) … Continue reading
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Tagged Anselm, does god exist, gaunilo, jim lockey, Kant, proof, proof for god, The existence of god, theolology
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Anselm & Kant Update
This is an update on this post Anselm & Kant & The Existence Of God. Knowing that there must be a precident for my argument against Anselm I did some digging, though I cant find the piece in which he does it … Continue reading
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Anselm & Kant & The Existence Of God
So I my last post discussed the existence of God a little and I based a lot of that on Lugwig Wittgenstein’s writing. That was written in the middle of the 20th Century and as I thought about it today … Continue reading
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Tagged Anselm, does god exist, jim lockey, Kant, proof, proof for god, The existence of god, theolology
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Script For A Film
Hullo, You may have noticed I occasionally mention mr. Emmanuel Swedenborg on this blog, and that is because I am currently undertaking a residency at Swedenborg house. He was a Scientist, philosopher and mystic- but what really interests me about … Continue reading
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