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Your vote is in the mail and for sale.
Vote Your Conscience, the latest Basement Tape, was shipped to our monthly supporters today, September 5. Those supporters who like getting
MP3s got theirs by download a few days earlier. The CD, as well as the MP3, is now available for sale at our Online Store. Click the image to
the left to take you there.
If you are a monthly supporter and would like to get your monthly Basement Tape by MP3, email or call us and we'll put you down for it. If
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Kingdom Notes
Pride Before a Fall
Most of us, at least I hope, don't act this way when it comes to immorality. We don't think so highly of our spiritual purity that we
think it safe to spend our time in brothels. Why, I wonder, are we so persuaded that we will be able to stand when it comes to
ideological assaults against all that is good and right? I find this attitude most often as it touches on education, at every level
from the local government school up to the highest institutions of higher learning.
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R.C. Sproul Jr. returned on September 1st from yet another trip preaching for our friends in Billings, Montana at
Christ Covenant Reformed Church. This was R.C.'s sixth trip out there to fill their pulpit, and likely his last.
You see, that church has exhibited great wisdom in calling our own Jay Barfield to come and lead their flock.
Jay has wisely accepted. Christ Covenant is a delightful body of like-minded families, and further evidence that
one need not move to southwest Virginia to find an outstanding church. We will miss Jay and his family terribly,
but are confident that he will lead that flock well.
Happy 11th Birthday Shannon Sproul!
On August 19th the Sprouls celebrated the eleventh birthday of their special little girl, Shannon. We're just not
sure who was more eager to get at the cupcakes.
Sorry for the disappointment.
So we tried out this new content management system. It even came with RSS feed. But the program kept breaking
down and the support forums were not helpful at all. So we quit using it. We apologize for adding posts, taking
them down, and getting you excited about an RSS feed. Maybe one day we can try it again. Now, we are half a
dozen posts and several days behind. And we have a lot to share with you.
Coming Soon.
The Basement Tapes #79, Vote Your Conscience
Should we vote by principle, or by pragmatism? Or, is pragmatism the principle? The broader culture virtually commands that we vote,
but then insists we leave our Bible's behind. Does God's Word have anything to say about how we cast our ballots? We will consider
the claim that we ought to choose the lesser of two evils, the notion that there is no perfect candidate, and what issues, if any,
should be make or break issues for the Christian. Join us for an important conversation on a neglected theme — God with us,
even in the voting booth.
Expect this CD for sale at the beginning of September.
Kingdom Notes
When the Well Runs Dry
Suppose that some poor benighted scholar in the twenty-third century, in a desperate attempt at finding something new to research,
determines to write his dissertation on the influence of R.C. Sproul on his much less intelligent, his much less wise son. And
suppose said scholar were to pour over the sundry things I have written over the past several years, looking to find a theme, or
a pattern. Now to get really wiggy, suppose he just discovered this little piece, and is dancing in the library aisles at such
a Eureka type of blessing.
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Fall 2008 Couples Camp. Now taking registrations.
Only 2 months before the Fall Couples Camp starts. Spots are filling up. Register now.
Highlands Academy location located.
We have found a location for our Highlands Academy classes, more convenient for our students than Mendota. We are
meeting at the Pleasant View United Methodist Church in Abingdon off exit 13. Visit their website
here to find the church. We will be meeting in room 200.
You can still sign up for these classes. Visit our Other Events page, under Wednesday,
for more details.
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