Dan Poynter

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Podcast update

Progress on the upcoming podcast is moving forward, albeit slowly. I have had to order a USB headset, as my Mac is one of the few models to ship since 1984 without a microphone jack. I have also setup the feed and gotten it listed on iTunes. However, I quickly found out that The MadCast …

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“Sorry to burst your pig bladder!”

The best possible closer to an already interesting article at NPR on the surprising success of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s autobiography, published last year.

Supercalawhatever

“Supercalafragilisticexpialidocious, even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious” It takes a bold lyricist to admit when his song is obnoxious in the very lyrics of said song.

Quotable: John Piper on William Mackenzie

“…a lover of books and a lover of people. That’s an unusual combination, you know. Most people who are bookish don’t like people–they just tolerate them.”

Quotable: Gavin Ortlund

“Promise is empty without fulfillment; but fulfillment is meaningless without promise.” From his excellent article on the Bible here via Challies.com

Quotable: Edmund Clowney

“Certainly Satan does not find it necessary to offer all the kingdoms of the world to the average sinner. He can buy most sinners for small change.”

Quotable: Edward “Mick” Mannock

“Flamerinoes – four! Sizzle sizzle wonk!”

One More Ride: Chapter 6: Keys

Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Velma drove Norville back to his car parked at the cemetery. The rain had largely abated and was nothing more than a heavy mist. Norville prepared to retrieve his spare key from beneath the car. “Can you hold this a minute,” Velma asked, practically shoving the pizza box …

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Quotable: C.S. Lewis on Bultmann et al

“These men ask me to believe they can read between the lines of the old texts; the evidence is their obvious inability to read (in any sense worth discussing) the lines themselves. They claim to see fern-seed and can’t see an elephant ten yards away in broad daylight.” –from Lewis’s Modern Theology and Biblical Criticism

There’s Things You Don’t Know

A hilarious excerpt from M.D. McMullin’s visit to Walmart: Recently, I had the privilege of overhearing a conversation in the shoe aisles.  I was looking at flip flops and couldn’t help but catch the conversation in the next aisle over. Woman A:    We done talked about this before we got here and I said “NO.” …

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