"'Worldwide, more people abstain than drink (alcohol)," principal researcher Jurgen Rehm, a senior scientist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto, said Thursday."
Source: "1 in 25 deaths linked to alcohol, study finds" Toronto Star. 25 June 2009.
http://www.healthzone.ca/health/article/656893
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Psalm 79:9
Help us O God of our salvation, for the glory of your name; deliever us, ,and atone for our sins for your name's sake. - Psalm 79:9.
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Psalm 73:21-28
When my soul was embittered when I was pricked in heart I was brutish and ignorant; I was like a beast toward you. Nevertheless, I am continually with you; you hold my right hand. You guide me with your counsel, and afterward you will receive me to glory. Whom have I in heaven but you? And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you. My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. For behold, those who are far from you shall perish; you put an end fo everyone who is unfaithful to you. But for me it is good to be near God; I have made the Lord God my refuge, that I may tell of all your works.
Psalm 73:21-28 (ESV)
Psalm 73:21-28 (ESV)
Saturday, June 06, 2009
English Reformation Myth
There is a myth about the English Reformation, and the myth is that it never happened. Many Anglicans would once have had you believe that it consistent of little more than a few moderate and sensible adjustments to a Church of England that had no need of the ructions happening on something The Continent and which was exceptionally conscious of its continuity with the past.
Source: Patrick Collinson, The Reformation A History. New York: A Modern Library Chronicles Book, 2003.
Source: Patrick Collinson, The Reformation A History. New York: A Modern Library Chronicles Book, 2003.
Saturday, May 30, 2009
Horatius Bonar on sin
As sin is too great an evil for any but God to deal with, so is righteousness too high for man to reach; to high for any but God to bring down and place at our disposal. God has brought down, and brought nigh, the righteousness. Thus the guilt which we have contracted is met by the righteousness which God has provided; and the exclusion from the divine fellowship, which the guilt produced, is more than reversed by the new introduction which the righteousness places at our disposal.
The history of six thousand years of evil has been lost on man. He refuses to read its awful lesson regarding sin, and God's displeasure against the sinner, which that history records. The flood of evil that has issued forth from one single sin he has forgotten. The death, the darkness, the sorrow, the sickness, the tears, the weariness, the madness, the confusion, the bloodshed, the furious hatred between man and man, making earth a suburb of hell, all this is overlooked or
misread; and man repels the thought that sin is crime, which God hates with an infinite hate, and which He, in His righteousness, must condemn and avenge.
Does mans aching head, and empty heart, and burdened spirit, and shaded brow, and weary brain, and tottering limbs, not utter, in a voice articulate beyond mistake, that sin is GUILT, that that guilt must be punished,punished by the Judge of all, not as a mere "violation of natural laws," but as a breach of the eternal law, which admits of no reversal.
Source: Horatius Bonar, The Everlasting Righteousness, London: James Nisbet And Co. 1873, pp. 7,8.
The history of six thousand years of evil has been lost on man. He refuses to read its awful lesson regarding sin, and God's displeasure against the sinner, which that history records. The flood of evil that has issued forth from one single sin he has forgotten. The death, the darkness, the sorrow, the sickness, the tears, the weariness, the madness, the confusion, the bloodshed, the furious hatred between man and man, making earth a suburb of hell, all this is overlooked or
misread; and man repels the thought that sin is crime, which God hates with an infinite hate, and which He, in His righteousness, must condemn and avenge.
Does mans aching head, and empty heart, and burdened spirit, and shaded brow, and weary brain, and tottering limbs, not utter, in a voice articulate beyond mistake, that sin is GUILT, that that guilt must be punished,punished by the Judge of all, not as a mere "violation of natural laws," but as a breach of the eternal law, which admits of no reversal.
Source: Horatius Bonar, The Everlasting Righteousness, London: James Nisbet And Co. 1873, pp. 7,8.
Saturday, May 02, 2009
Quote of the Day
To spruce up the lawns of foreclosed, one Southern California town has hired a company to spraypaint the dormat grass.
"The transformation was immediate. Inch by inch, foot by foot, brown scrub gave way to emerald-green grass. The lawn was still dead, but vibrantly so."
Source: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-spray-painted-grass2-2009may02,0,179640,print.story
"The transformation was immediate. Inch by inch, foot by foot, brown scrub gave way to emerald-green grass. The lawn was still dead, but vibrantly so."
Source: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-spray-painted-grass2-2009may02,0,179640,print.story
Monday, April 13, 2009
Documenting Reality
Last week, I decided to check-in with Reginald Bibby. He produces interesting work, and I hadn't heard from him his recently, so I decided to see if he had anything coming down the pipeline.
He certainly does.
And, in fact, since I checked last week, his research has exploded into the Canadian media scence. Mr. Bibby has been conducting surveys since the 1980s.
I'm most interested in the 'faith' component of his survey. His findings are unsurprising, but chilling.
Since Project Teen began its surveys in 1984, the percentage of teens who identify as Roman Catholic has declined by one third, and the percentage who identify as Protestant is down by almost two-thirds.
Only 13 % of teens identified themselves as Protestant in 2008. What a discouraging survey!
He certainly does.
And, in fact, since I checked last week, his research has exploded into the Canadian media scence. Mr. Bibby has been conducting surveys since the 1980s.
I'm most interested in the 'faith' component of his survey. His findings are unsurprising, but chilling.
Since Project Teen began its surveys in 1984, the percentage of teens who identify as Roman Catholic has declined by one third, and the percentage who identify as Protestant is down by almost two-thirds.
Only 13 % of teens identified themselves as Protestant in 2008. What a discouraging survey!
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