Holiness, Love, and McDonalds
Perry over at Life In a Shoe has addressed my post on the McDonald’s boycott, so I thought that it would be only fitting to address some of his concerns in a related post.
I think many of the difference between the two of us remains a difference of definitions. Because of my background I’m both strangely precise and guarded at the same time.
So, when I made the statement regarding being in the “holiness” camp over the “love” camp, I was not making a reference to who I think God is, but rather how Christians have chosen to align themselves.
To explain this, I need a short digression.
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Is This Modest?
I invite you to come check out the launch of a new website that we’ve started called:
Is This Modest?
The point of this site is to help people answer questions of modesty from both a guy’s and girl’s perspective.
We have a group of writers lined up, but the key feature of this new site will be our outfit reviews.
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Boycott McDonalds?
If you’ve read here for any length of time, you will know that I have many different opinions on boycotts. Sometimes I have promoted them. Sometimes I’ve explored it Biblically in context that there is always something sinful being promoted. Sometimes I’ve used it as a springboard to talk about different topics. And recently I waded into comments talking about the Boycott on McDonalds.
But should a Christian boycott something sinful?
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How Long Should I Be Engaged?
I once heard someone say that you should spend a year dating, and then a year engaged before getting married. The problem with this is that in our current culture all that is different between engagement and marriage it the amount of stress you’re having planning the wedding.
Well, that and the physical consummation of the wedding night.
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Caring for One Another in the Age of Affluence
Over this weekend tragedy struck a family in our church. It happened right at the end of my garage sale—or at least that’s when I saw it.
I was on my way back to the church to return some tables that I had borrowed when I saw smoke billowing across the main artery I was on. I figured it was a house on fire based on the amount of smoke and the number of fire engines in the area.
It didn’t even occur to me that it could be someone I knew.
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Wine is a Mocker
Nothing carries with it more strong emotions than the topic of alcohol. At one time this nation banned its sale and consumption at a Constitutional level, before changing its mind.
This was in part due to the strong evangelistic teaching of the time that linked drinking alcohol to Satan himself, and still today many congregations have alcohol prohibitions in their membership documents.
As for the country, there’s a prohibition on when you can start drinking (that many find ways around), and so the jury is still out as to the morality of alcohol.
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Is the Government a Better Parent?
Bill Clinton has done parents all over the United States a favor. You see, parents everywhere were unable to control their child’s nutrition, especially when it came to what they ate in school.
He saw the need—some kids were buying snacks that were high in fat with their lunch or snack money, and since we know that teaching kids discipline or self control is out of the question, the only way to get them to eat healthier (more healthy? more healthily?) was to only give them healthy options.
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The Death of Chivalry
Today we mourn the passing of Chivalry. He had a long and lustrous career—placing women in an exalted place and generally being an all around good guy.
He served until a ripe old age, and is survived by his step brothers, Cohabit and Lazy.
Mourning his passing are the very people that caused his passing—the Feminists.
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