Such were some of You - Dr Rosaria Butterfield

Above are a few selected samples of a jaw-dropping presentation from former radical Lesbian feminist activist turned Reformed Pastor's wife homeschooling mom [yeah ... another one of those!].  I encourage you to listen to her full talk here and then the entirety of her Q&A here.  I have been studying this issue for several years and this is the best - the most faithful expression of the true Christian/Biblical answer to the questions of homosexuality I have found in both  what she says and how she says it [the latter often being where we fail miserably].

Why it's a "Baby", not a "fetus" ...

Here is a clip of Michael Coren, one of my favorite media personalities.  I have enjoyed his talk show since I discovered it a few years ago.
Caveat - he is Canadian, Roman Catholic, and not all of his views are as  rigorously Biblical as I think they should be.  Having said all that, he is an outspoken, articulate Christian striving to be faithful and consistent under the spotlight within a culture where that is quite difficult.  
Enjoy!

Form and Content in Film and Liturgy

"Film affects us by marrying form and content and then style influences their meanings ... the meanings we get from film really come through the cinematics of the picture.  Really good films use cinema, more than just words, to convey ideas to us."

- Raphael Shargel, Understanding Movies: the art and history of film

Book List [what I've been reading lately] ...

You are what your mind eats ...

Put "God" at the head of the list and you're practically quoting Qoheleth

"The 4 best words in the English language are love, wife, home, and work.  The fifth one is friend."

-Stephen Ambrose, Comrades

Our Indulgent Father in Heaven ... [!]

I trust I have now sufficiently shown how man’s only resource for escaping from the curse of the law, and recovering salvation, lies in faith; ... The whole may be thus summed up: 

Christ given to us by the kindness of God is apprehended and possessed by faith, by means of which we obtain in particular a twofold benefit; first, being reconciled by the righteousness of Christ, God becomes, instead of a judge, an indulgent Father; and, secondly, being sanctified by his Spirit, we aspire to integrity and purity of life.

- John Calvin

Preaching like Augustine

The 3 Goals of Augustinian Preaching are to:

1. Teach
2. Delight
3. Persuade

St. Augustine quotes Cicero as saying, “to teach is a necessity, to delight is a beauty, to persuade is a triumph.”