James Leo Garrett and Sola Scriptura
One day, wandering through the old Paraguayan Baptist Theological Seminary library, I picked a copy of a book almost in mint-condition: Systematic Theology: Bib...
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A New Website
I’m extremely tired and about to shut down the system. I’ve been working tirelessly and without pause, but at least I am beginning to see the fruit ...
On Web designers
There is a very peculiar kind of cyber-animal: The Web Designer, Frontpagetherion dreamwaveflashatus Nielsen 1998. This furry creature usually dwells the labora...
Daylight savings…
Yesterday at 00.00 the clock was put forward one hour by a decree of our Government. This is Paraguayan Daylight Savings Time. As a result, I slept one hour les...
Setting up a new blog
I was busy all day long, but I am glad I did. I put a new WordPress blog, fiddled with the template a little bit, and lo! I came with a full-featured website fo...
Stop the Presses: Slackware considers dropping support for GNOME
Slashdot is reporting that Patrick Volkerding, the lead (and most times the only) developer of the Slackware Linux distribution, is considering whether to drop ...
Oh well… (and thank you, Lord!)
This is Friday evening, and I am extremely tired. But I am happy; a longtime issue of my wife (and therefore my own) is on its way to getting solved. Please pra...
Catez: Inside the Quran
You might have noticed that in a previous post I linked to Catez’s excellent post, Illumination and Instability in the Soul. This is, in case you haven...
Ed Gets Ugly
Update: Some corrections and clarifications added. In an excellent article, Ed denounces Islam as a threat to Christianity and Western Civilization. Note that E...
Devotional – October 6, 2004
Thus says the Word of God: Trust in the LORD forever, for the LORD GOD is an everlasting rock. (Isaiah 26:4, ESV) Isaiah the prophet gives us a joyous invitatio...
OfB Choice Awards
I saw this morning that Tim posted on Open for Business the OfB Choice Awards 2004. Tim is to be commended for doing such a hard job of researching countless ca...
On Deliberate Obfuscation
Update Oct-06: Some clarifications and corrections added. A new example was added as well. This post from Challies.com got me thinking. The post is well-argued ...
New Blogs on the Block
I would like to introduce two new wonderful blogs: Vaughn has a very good theological blog at ICHTUS Theoblog. Right now he is going over The Purpose Driven Lif...
Masterpieces of Mexican Polyphony
You might assume that when I was in America, I was as cash-strapped as any student was; and, if you do so, you are right. More so because I was sent by a Paragu...
A Great Cloud of Blogs
It is my pleasure to introduce you to some great bloggers: Jared at Exultate Justi is a fellow Christian who offers a lucid analysis of current political events...
Christian Carnival 37
The Christian Carnival #37 is up at Intolerant Elle. I chimed in with a devotional on Romans 15:7. The quality of the posts is very good, and I encourage you to...
A National Holiday
Yesterday we had a national holiday, so I did not post. I checked the blog and my mail from home using dialup. On September 29, 1932, the Bolivian forces statio...
Rain, at last!
Today I woke up to the sound of thunder. It was raining heavily, with some lightning and thunder for good measure. Thank God! We alread had some rain yesterday,...
The Bible, English Standard Version
As an Hispanic Christian, my spiritual life was and is still being shaped by the beauty and accuracy of the Spanish Reina-Valera 1960 version of the Holy Bible....
Blind Herd Instinct
As one would come to expect of him, Ed has a talent to write clearly, in an almost brutal way, about touchy subjects. In his latest writing, Blind Herd Instinct...
A New Dog and Beyond
The weekend went along rather well. I tried to rest, and for the most part I was able to. My wife, as usual, cooked the best dishes in the whole world, and I ju...
Happy (belated) Birthday Tim!
Well, I was unable to post this on the weekend since I was on dialup and way too busy. Last Saturday (Sept. 25) was Tim‘s birthday. He is a true Christian...
The League of Reformed Bloggers
You might have noticed in my column at the right a blogroll identified as The League of Reformed Bloggers. This is a basically composed of an aggregator and a b...
Hunting Dinosaurs
Exultate Justi has a very good post on why the established press and the intelligence community are totally out of focus with our times: Hunting Dinosaurs. Howe...
PenguinBoy
While reading Jolly Blogger, I found a link named Penguin Boy. To my utter amazement, I discovered a fellow Christian (he’s an ELCA Lutheran) who likes to...
A Little Art
Renaissance Master. You prefer representationalart – what you see is what you get, and looksamazing! Whether you go with Da Vinci orRaphael, you are reali...
Another abduction
When I arrived home I learned about the news. Miss Cecilia Cubas, 31, was abducted and is now reportedly being held hostage for a $1 million ransom. You can see...
Site update
You may already have noticed that I fiddled a little bit with the template file ;). What I did is add some information about myself for the casual visitor, and ...