Saturday, December 10, 2011

Jon Cardwell - Unshaven

The following post was chosen from another site:

As the old saying goes, “It’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye.” Well, I suppose we were having a little fun one Sunday afternoon following morning worship service… and it seems we lost an eye on similarity. I think the similarity begins and ends with the bow tie. Yes, some medications and supplements helped me to put on too much weight when I was losing weight far too quickly last year. Couple that with the fact that I’m about a month overdue on my haircut, and it makes my wife and I giddy enough to pose like some of the photos and prints hanging on my office wall.
Not long ago, someone in Talladega asked me, “Have you always had a beard?”
I answered, “No. I grew it right after I got out of the Navy because I have a dimple in my chin and I was getting tired of people confusing me with Tom Hanks.”
He said, “But you don’t look anything like Tom Hanks.”

“I know. The beard works pretty good, doesn’t it.”

Now check out his blog, Justification by Grace, and discover a world of treasures!

Arminian Antics Classic #3

Friday, December 9, 2011

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Corky's


Corky opened his new Bar-B-Q restaurant today.
The first 100 customers were chosen to get their meal free!

Random Word Writing Challenge #31

Write as many paragraphs as you like using the four words above.
Entries may be poetry, prose, fiction, essays or interviews.
(or any other form of creatively written expression.)
Just be funny, clever and theological...

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Facebook Funnies

Saw this on Facebook...couldn't resist.

Fan Photo from Rufus McWheaties

Many thanks to Mr. McWheaties for taking this photo of Benny Finney causing trouble at a "Picket Parade in Picket Park near Pickett, England. We'll be sending Rufus a nice, big, fat check for $7,000 for his trouble.
(Be sure to click on the photo for a better view)

Sunday, December 4, 2011

Rick O'Shay

A blast from the past from a great Christian artist.
(Stan Lynde was featured in Guess Who #20 on July 7, 2010 on this here blog)

Ask Anything



"It will not suffice to quote the text, 'If ye shall ask anything in my Name, I will do it' (John 14:14). If an attempt is made to give an absolutely literal interpretation to that verse apart from its spiritual intent, it will be found to be meaningless.

There are certain things that God will never do, no matter how earnestly one prays.

For example, if a young couple, zealous and devoted, were about to go as missionaries into the jungles of South America, they conceivably might ask a group of friends to join them in prayer that their coming baby should be born without original sin so that they would have an easier time rearing the child and might have more time to devote to their spiritual work. They all could pray until they were dead but the prayer would never be answered.
When the Lord Jesus Christ said that if we would ask anything in His Name He would do it, He expected us to have spiritual discernment enough to understand that this meant, beyond question, if we would ask anything, that it was consistent with the holiness of His being and the divinity of His purposes."

Donald Grey Barnhouse

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Real Deal


What a great gift for Christmas!
I gave mine away to my best friend before leaving for Kuwait.
Tell 'em Eddie Eddings sent ya...Bob and Mike Ross are old friends of mine.
(Mike always reminded me of a blend of Spurgeon and Hoss Cartwright.)

Just for Laughs #189

All right! Reach for a caption...and make it theological!

Sunday, November 27, 2011

An Ounce of Gold

"If you search through the whole Bible, there is not one sin that God has more followed with plagues than idolatry. The Jews have a saying, that in every evil that befalls them, there is an ounce of the golden calf in it."
Thomas Watson

Friday, November 25, 2011

Flying to Abu Dhabi

My wife and I are flying to Abu Dhabi in just a few hours. Just wanted to share a few pictures of some of the incredible architecture there.



Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!


Listen to Corky

Corky also says to enlarge the photo by clicking on it

Up to Parr

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

New Book by Mrs. Rick Warren


Finney Visits Finney

Benny Finney takes some members of his congregation to the Westwood Cemetery in Oberlin, Ohio, to visit Charles Finney's grave site. Benny preached two sermons. One entitled, "Finney Filets the Five Points" and the other, "Over My Dead Body!"
Photo sent to Calvinistic Cartoons by Papa Razzi.  

Caught on Camera

Tony Compolo, seen here, talking to Brian McLaren and Rob Bell about actualizing Roman Catholic mysticism into a user-friendly, non-offensive worship paradigm. Brian and Rob both agreed that they could use a pair of dimes for their church parking meters.

Monday, November 21, 2011

Monday Night Facts


 
Fact: My first professional work was for Jerry B. Jenkins. At that time he was the editor of Freeway Magazine, a large newspaper size supplement for Sunday Schools published by Scripture Press. I submitted a three-page illustrated piece on the doctrine of Kenosis. He wrote back and asked for one extra page to finish it out. I was paid a whopping $100 for four pages of art, comic book style. I could have been paid $10,000 - I was so thrilled to see it in print.

Fact: I used to keep a pocket spiral notebook on me, at all times, to jot down ideas for Calvinistic Cartoons. This was great when my wife and I were shopping. She can stay in a clothing store so long I have to shave again before I leave, so I spent most of my waiting time thinking up new cartoons and features. 
One day, after I washed a load of my clothes, I found hundreds of tiny bits of paper all over the dryer. I had included one of my notebooks (the one that was completely full, of course) in the wash. I will never recover some of those jokes but, at least my ideas were clean.

Fact: Dan Adkins, an inker for DC comics, wanted to hire me as his assistant many years ago. I stayed with him for a week in New York City. He offered for me to stay at his home for 3 or 4 months, rent free - until I earned enough money to rent an apartment and send for my wife and kids. I turned his offer down because I didn't want to be away from my family for that length of time.

Pun for the Hills!

Sunday, November 20, 2011

A Very Common Error Among Preachers, Teachers and Theologians


I see this theological error everywhere. Some of the giants of the faith have made it. Theology books have included this error when discussing the person of Christ. It appears in the ESV Study Bible on a chart on page 2495. I have made this mistake myself in the past. This is a very important distinction in the very words of Scripture.

Jesus is referred to (see 1 Corinthians 15:45) as the "LAST ADAM" (not the second) to show that he is not one of a possible series, but the ONLY alternative to the first Adam.
A few verses later (1 Corinthians 15:47) the word "second" does indeed occur in connection with Christ.

1st man was of the dust of the earth
2nd Man from Heaven


...and here "second Man" (not last) is very appropriate for two reasons:


1. Adam in his innocence was man as God created man, man as God intended him to be, true man. When sin entered the race, man ceased to be man as originally created (for sin always reduces rather than adds. Consequently, Jesus Christ in His sinless humanity was indeed the "second Man", the ONLY figure in history since the fall to stand as fully man in the world!


2. The whole point of His mission as the second Man "from Heaven" was that He might not be the LAST MAN, but rather, the beginning of a new series, the foundation of a new humanity, the "first born" among many brothers. (Romans 8:29)


However, His "success" as "the second Man" depends on His relation to us as "the Last Adam".
(It helps me to think of Noah as the "second Adam" because he was the one God gave the same charge to replenish the earth - note: the Bible never calls Noah the second Adam, it is just to help me remember that Noah fulfilled this role already.)


A full treatment of this is in chapter 14 of "The Glory of Christ" by Peter Lewis. (published by Moody)

Thursday, November 17, 2011

Patchwork Arminian Challenge

Name the 5 Arminians who make up this composite.
I'll post the photo answers when someone gets it right.

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Guess Who #27

at age 16

1. I read and admired Charles Haddon Spurgeon. In fact, I once traveled to England to hear him preach.

2. I became a preacher myself, for a short time.

3. I was able to write simultaneously in Greek with one hand and Latin in the other.

4. I spoke 7 languages.

5. Johnny Cash wrote a song about me.


...while you are waiting for the correct answer
try a delicious krispy kreme donut!

Bonus hint: He did not play Captain Kirk in the last Star Trek movie

Just for Laughs #187

Draw an idea and type out the caption.

Sunday, November 13, 2011

Blood Shed

I have heard many a preacher say that Christ blood was spilled at the cross. This is not so! The Greek is more precise, and so should we be if we want to communicate God's purpose and redemptive plan. The Bible NEVER says Christ spilled his blood on Calvary. It ALWAYS uses the word "shed". 

"And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body. And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it; For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins."
                                                                                       Matthew 26: 26-28

Saturday, November 12, 2011

A Civil Action

To celebrate our third year in blogdom, Corky and I decided to travel back to the Civil War and do a little preaching to both sides. We passed out Spurgeon sermons and Twizzlers. What a day! And we were back in time to watch the 10 O'Clock news.
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