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A quote from R.F. Capon:

The Gospel of Grace must not be turned into a ‘bait and switch’ offer. It is not like one of those adverts for $60 airfare to Melbourne, and when you ring up you find that the only 6 seats at that price are already sold, so you must pay full fare. We must not read Jesus as baiting us with Grace, only to clobber us in the head with the book of the law once he has us cornered.
Capon, R.F. The Parables of Judgment (Eerdmans, Michigan: …

Michael Spencer over at the Internet Monk has provided two excellent articles now available entitled Is School Out for Baptists? and How Religious Parents Royally Screw Up Their Children. Check out Michael’s great webpage filled with excellent content.

Anti-Christ of the week ending 5-29-04 is:

This article from a Connecticut online newspaper discusses how the popularity of Left Behind and The Purpose Driven Life has hurt Christian bookstores. Interesting stuff.

I always find it amazing, hypocritical, and bizarre how certain religious groups always love to tell the teenagers such things as:

Anti-Christ of the week ending 5-22-04 is

From the May 17th 2004 section of “Reflections For Ragamuffins” by Brennan Manning:…