If you are currently unemployed you may want to try finding a job the way these folks have. All you have to do is purchase assault rifles, construct a few car bombs, and make other people’s lives miserable. Then the government may offer you a position.

Google Maps has added the option of viewing a satellite image of an address that you specify. If you like that you may want to check out Google’s Keyhole program.

Tim Challies has started a new site that reviews books that are of interest to Christians. It looks to be a very useful resource. Check it out at www.dietofbookworms.com. Also, Tim is having another book giveaway click here to enter.

It always amazes me when men or women assume titles for themselves that belong only to God. No doubt you have heard the title “Holy Father” used much in the last few days. I would guess that it has not once been used to refer to God, but rather to a man.

The title is a biblical one though. A quick check in the English Standard Version of the Bible reveals that the title is used only once in the New Testament by Jesus Himself.

And I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one.
(John 17:11)

Who was Jesus referring to when he uttered the words “Holy Father”? Not Peter. Not one of the other disciples. He was referring to the LORD, the One and Only True God.

From Holy Scripture

For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin. But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it– the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus. Then what becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? By a law of works? No, but by the law of faith. For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law.
(Romans 3:20-28)

But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed. As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed.
(Galatians 1:8-9)

From the Council of Trent Sixth Session:

CANON XI.-If any one saith, that men are justified, either by the sole imputation of the justice of Christ, or by the sole remission of sins, to the exclusion of the grace and the charity which is poured forth in their hearts by the Holy Ghost, and is inherent in them; or even that the grace, whereby we are justified, is only the favour of God; let him be anathema.

Hmmm…