Blogs

My former prof has a recent book on paedocommunion – I don’t have it yet myself, though Doug Wilson and Lane Keister are going at it on their respective blogs.

Yesterday, William Hill of the online Covenant Radio did an interview with Venema on the subject. The audio is available here.

In turn, I’ve written this response. Enjoy.

Another acoustic/vocal recording at timgallant.com – Wanna Be Someone You Love. This is a love song I wrote ages ago. Always liked the melody but never got it recorded in any form, so here’s a start. I plan to have an electric version on my Anthology Love Collection CD.

One of the cutesy things I was messing around with vocally was a bit BeeGee-ish falsetto harmonies. Let me know how it worked.

Here are the lyrics:

Wanna Be Someone You Love

it’s written on every page, written on every line
it don’t matter where you start
you could see it clear as day, I know that you’re not blind
if only you’d read my heart

it’s more than my pride that’s on the line
can’t you see it in my eyes, read it in my mind
hear it in my voice as I call your name
hear it in the wind in the trees and the rain
hear it in my fears and my tears and my shame
hear it in my schemes and my dreams and my pain

I wanna be someone you love
I wanna be the one you need
someone you care about
the one who bleeds when you bleed
I wanna be someone you love

I wouldn’t say this unless I meant every word
I’m not just out in the stars
oh please don’t think I’m foolish, cause I’ve thought this through
so won’t you please read my heart

I wanna be someone you love….

don’t matter what you say to me
as long as it’s “yes”
don’t matter what you give to me
as long as it’s your best

I wanna be someone you love….

It’s more than my pride that’s on the line….

I wanna be someone you love….

© Tim Gallant, written April 16, 1988

Dead Men Don’t Rise is now up at timgallant.com with an electric arrangement.

Just built on top of my earlier scratch/unplugged arrangement I posted earlier. So, it’s far from perfect, but a nice chance to fool around… including the softsynth bagpipes, which are always fun. (Had the drone down though.)

Michael Bird has an interesting post here (dating from January 2008) regarding the relationship between biblical theology and systematic theology. His concern is that in certain circles (especially Reformed), systematic theology is an uncorrectable governor over biblical theology, and thus certain exegetical conclusions are ruled out of bounds even though they may be correct.

Part of the problem with working through this issue clearly is that biblical theology can mean more than one thing. Is it the historical-critical method as developed quite recently, or is it something more organic that in fact the Church has always practiced? Does practicing biblical theology entail that I look at the Scriptures as made up of a bunch of “theologies” of the biblical writers – and if so, is there implicit in that a subtle compromise of the belief in Scripture as God’s own self-revelation?

Then too there is the matter of saying that biblical theology ought to influence and shape systematic theology, rather than the reverse. Are those our real choices?

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Hayek: An Infinite Number of Good Things

Just a note that while I generally draw attention here to new full-blown articles at Change in the Wind, I occasionally make little comments and provide links without comment. If you’re interested in what’s going on over there, be sure to drop by every once in a while, or subscribe to the Change in the Wind blog’s RSS feed.

An unplugged version (i.e. just vox and acoustic guitar) of Dead Men Don’t Rise is now downloadable from my .com domain.

My latest song, written today, April 1, for our Easter program….

Dead Men Don’t Rise

early in the mornin’
they come into the garden
nothin but some women
who don’t expect the livin

don’t call me gullible
it don’t take no science to see
dead men don’t rise   dead men don’t rise
you say you’re sensible
with wisdom of your century
I know what I’ve seen with my eyes
dead men don’t rise
dead men don’t rise

I’ve stood at the gravesides
of beloved faces
I know well what death is
I don’t expect them livin

and I stood on the hillside
a few short days ago
if anyone has looked into death’s eyes
brother, I should know
and dead men don’t rise

so don’t call me gullible
it don’t take no science to see
dead men don’t rise   dead men don’t rise
you say you’re sensible
with wisdom of your century
I know what I’ve seen with my eyes
dead men don’t rise
dead men don’t rise

early in the mornin
Mary comes into the garden
and what does she see with her eyes
ah, but dead men don’t rise….

don’t call me gullible
it don’t take no science to see
dead men don’t rise   dead men don’t rise
you say you’re sensible
with wisdom of your century
I know what I’ve seen with my eyes:
Christ is alive