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> Interesting links I've found lately
The Goal, From the Beginning: Single Payer, Universal Healthcare
Posted On Thursday, 28 Jun 2012 By David Westerfield. Under Politics, Society, Video Tags: 2004, AFL-CIO, Healthcare, Illinois, Obama, Payer, Senator, Single, Single Payer, State, Universal, Universal Healthcare, Video
In light of the healthcare ruling, I thought this might be a good reminder. The goal, from the beginning (and it's coming, when the weight of the current system can no longer be sustained, by design): single payer, universal healthcare. I present to you Illinois state Senator Barack Obama from ... Read More
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Magento 1.7 Upgrade Issue Resolved – Products Display Zero When Selecting Product Options
Posted On Saturday, 16 Jun 2012 By David Westerfield. Under Technology Tags: 0, 1.4.1, 1.7, Base, Fix, Issue, Item, Magento, options.html, Problem, Product, Resolution, Resolved, Select, solution, Template, Upgrade, Zero
I have now gone through a production upgrade of Magento from version 1.4.1 to 1.7. As expected, since I did a test run in my own environment, I encountered quite a few issues along the way, not merely limited to database upgrade issues which were a big enough of a ... Read More
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Cold War Redux http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iIgesHH9fg (New Russian ICBM test-fired) ... I mean there are more spies in this country now than at the height of the Cold War after all http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-57431837/more-spies-in-u.s-than-ever-says-ex-cia-officer/ ... sending a message to the US/European/NATO alliance? Still makes me wonder if the real geo-political chess battle is merely East versus ... Read More
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God is Sovereign Over Blindness That His Glory Might Be Displayed
Posted On Thursday, 07 Jun 2012 By David Westerfield. Under Theology Tags: Blindness, Design, Healing, Intention, John 9, Purpose, Sovereignty
"And his disciples asked him, 'Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?' Jesus answered, 'It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him."
(John 9:2-3 ESV) ... in other words, "he was born ... Read More
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Turns Out “A Statement of Traditional Southern Baptist Understanding of God’s Plan of Salvation” Isn’t so Traditional After All
Posted On Tuesday, 05 Jun 2012 By David Westerfield. Under Christian Culture, Church History, Theology Tags: Adam Harwood, Anti-Calvinism, Arminianism, Augustine, Calvinism, David Allen, Emir Caner, Eric Hankins, free will, historical, Jerry Vines, Jimmy Draper, Malcolm Yarnell, Mark Howell, Paige Patterson, Pelagius, Roger Olsen, salvation, SBC, semi-pelagianism, Soteriology, Southern Baptist, Southern Baptist Convention, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Statement of the Traditional Southern Baptist Understanding of God's Plan of Salvation, Traditional, Versus
A recent formal doctrinal statement on the nature of salvation (or in technical theological terms, soteriology, or the study of salvation) signed on to by none other than Paige Patterson, president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (as one example), amongst others, like Emir Caner, is making quite the stir, even ... Read More
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Where Does Jesus Claim to be God?
Posted On Monday, 04 Jun 2012 By David Westerfield. Under Theology Tags: Claim, Divine, God, hypostatic union, I AM, jesus, YHWH
OT background text: "God said to Moses, 'I AM WHO I AM.' And he said, 'Say this to the people of Israel, "I AM has sent me to you."'" (Exodus 3:14 ESV) ... and then, "Jesus said to them, 'Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.' ... Read More
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