Zgdmdg：除了圣诗以外的音乐都可以定义为淫词艳曲，因为都是人的情欲对人的情欲的堆砌。无神论者把对上帝的赞美都归给人了；当然，也把对魔鬼的憎恨全给了人 ///我基本上赞成这个观点，因为音乐是表达人的思想的，或者说是反映人的世界观的。所以信主以后，世界里面的音乐总体上已经不再吸引我了。但是，有两种音乐还是值得保留的：一是，像《辛德勒名单》、《教父》中的《温柔的倾诉》，甚至阿炳的《二泉映月》、贾鹏芳的带有道家特色的《旅愁》等等这些表达人生的磨难、生命的无奈之情感的音乐，还是有深度的，是瞎子在寻找，到处在叩门——路在何方？二是，赞美或表达大自然的一些轻快柔美的音乐，如《天鹅》、《高山流水》；以及指向朴素情感的音乐，如《雪绒花》、《祝你生日快乐》等等。若有不妥，还请不寐牧者给予指导。
小羊回家：昨晚我给宣道会的一位弟兄分享了这篇讲章。他说这篇讲章击中了要害，如果没有外在的责备，宣道会的恶会众和假师傅都不可能知罪。但他说他们不会悔改，至少暂时不会，反而会大大生气。他还说，这三年来，其实宣道会已经驱逐的牧者或自动被迫放弃教会的牧者，至少有五位了（曾、李、林、潘、杨）。同时，这些牧者和会众大多是各种福音大会的基本群众，自然产生很多会后的革命群众和向往演唱会的名利之徒。
cardinal听说蒙特特尔一间华人教会有一位牧师离开羊群走了。据说，这是这间教会三年来第二位出走的牧者。而这个宗派，三年来，至少有四位牧者被驱赶或出走了。“元芳，你怎么看”？
Lutheran：最近在group上讨论“教会里的邪教徒”现象，我总结不寐和一些弟兄姐妹的观点如下。1、上帝论。我正邪徒认为上帝预定一部分人下地狱并对此负责，同时灵恩小妖靠秀恩爱来吃人自肥。2、圣经论。邪教秀士在应用圣经方面总是把圣经中责备的“你”用到别人身上，而不知道我自己就是圣经说的“你”（“第二人称偏转”）。网络小妖和网络流氓有贴经辩论的恶习。
被悦：随着这个系列学习的结束，突然之间对先生精神思想脉络的演进有了更深的理解，他在坚守什么，或者说他在倔强什么。我想人类精神世界的任何一步真正探索，都与信望爱有关，而真正的爱情是在基督与教会之间的，所以各种名目的现代神学，不过都是面对巴比伦对教会的背叛。换句话说，各种名目的现代神学，我们如何面对？信基督与教会的爱情，并信而顺服至死——当精神成为信仰的奴仆后，这种坚守和倔强更不易理解；但我也更愿意为此感恩，凡能够理解和共鸣的，必是神的工作，而这，是血气、世界和魔鬼都夺不走的。
On account of the rapidity with which mainstream protestant theology ahs departed from traditional Christianity, I’m always tempted to call the 20th c the Age of Apostacy, or perhaps even the post- Christian era.
……we observe that the French revolution and the Napoleonic wars that followed convulsed Europe for a about 25 years, at least from 1789-1815. And when they were over they left a legacy of ideology and reaction that continued to influence Eur thought and society for decades to come. Furthermore, form the end of the 18th to the end of the 19th and even into the first decades of the 20th c, one country after another in Eur, beginning with Great Britain, experienced what we call today the industrial revolution, that means the transformation of Eur’s economic basis from agriculture to manufacturing and its population from rural to urban. This transformation laid the foundations for our modern, industrial prosperous society and also for mass democracy. But that didn’t happen without the Eur people experiencing a tremendous trauma which manifested itself in fantastic institutional change.
Galileo of course was a great scientist in a variety of fields – mechanics, mathematics and optics as well as astronomy. But in this last field, many of his discoveries challenged not only Ptolomy but even Aristotle whose authority in matters scientific was practically absolute esp in the catholic uni world.
Spener was addressing the situation of his church in his own times and offered specific remedies for its problems. Which, if any, of his suggestions would still be a good idea today?
……Please submit a book report on the biography of Martin Luther (Here I Stand). As best you can, evaluate the author’s achievement. For example, you may want to comment on his thoroughness, his sources, his style, or his biases. You may also want to point out something you learned from the book or some point at which you think the author is wrong. Also indicate the author’s opinion of Luther – his character, his theology, his accomplishments, and his significance.