Category Archives: Odds and Ends
Paper Bibles
God doesn’t use an iPhone!!!!!! (Everybody knows He prefers Android)
David Owens gives us 6 reasons that he is completely not making up for why paper Bibles should be used instead of electronic ones. Here they are with my observations
1. We call God’s Word, The Bible; “The Bible” means “The Book.” Should we now call it “The app or the gadget?”
Books cease to be books when you put them on a screen. Everybody knows this2. We say we respect the KJB, but put it on the same level as an app like Fox News, Drudge Report, AccuWeather, the stock market or some game. Where is the fear that we are losing all respect for God’s Word and God’s Book?
Furthermore why should we put the Bible on paper — the very same material which we also use to wipe our butts! Carved stone is the only true respectful material3. The same gadget that has your Bible app displays ungodly advertisements and pictures either by accident or on purpose. Would you feel comfortable with pictures of half-dressed women in your Bible?
We can have rape and murder and incest and genocide in the Bible but we draw the line at half-dressed women unless their name is Jezebel.4. Bible apps make it too easy to access perverted bibles, false versions and liberal commentaries.
I just can’t even.5. Consider this excuse, “I can have the Bible with me all the time, for I always have my phone.” God already addressed that. Psalm 119:11 says, “Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.” No one has ever not sinned because they have a smartphone with them. Bible apps do not encourage memorization or meditation; in fact, they discourage memorization, for why memorize? The words of God on your smartphone can not replace the words of God in your heart.
And when the Communists invade and take away your iPhones you won’t be able to reproduce the entire Bible from memory like your parents were totally prepared to do.6. It becomes too easy to be distracted. While you may have your Bible app open, you also receive notices of texts, updates, your eBay item sold, news and that granny is calling. Doesn’t the Devil provide enough distraction when we read God’s Word why we would make provision for more?
Because before the iPhone nobody ever stared off into space and thought about EVERYTHING ELSE IN THE WORLD except what the yelling man up front was saying. Also google “Airplane Mode.” It’s a thing.
Well there you have it. I’m never taking my iPhone to church again. True story.
“Billy” Sunday: The Man and His Message
A thoughtful reader sent me a copy of Billy Sunday the Man and His Message by William T. Ellis and I was so astounded by how perfectly the the author sums up the negatives about Billy in his first chapter (while touting them as positives) that I wanted to share it with all of you.
To that end, I’ve done an audio recording of the first chapter.
SOL: Classifieds
(via swordofthelord.com)
10 Minutes and you can be in church. 20 minutes and you can be at Disney soulwinning and protesting the gays.
Now that’s a dream vacation for sure.
Tiny Schools
If your college had a graduating class of 2…you may be a fundamentalist.
Oklahoma Baptist College (never one of the power players) appears to have fallen on hard times.