Ten Arguments Against Modern Worship Tunes

A Christian writer argues against singing old songs to new tunes.

1. It is a new way, an unknown tongue.
2. It is not so melodious as the usual way.
3. There are so many new tunes, we shall never have done learning them.
4. The practice creates disturbances and causes people to behave indecently and disorderly.
5. It is Quakerish and Popish and introductive of instrumental music.
6. The names given to the notes are bawdy, even blasphemous.
7. It is a needless way, since our fathers got to heaven without it.
8. It is a contrivance to get money.
9. People spend too much time learning it, they tarry out nights’ disorderly.
10. They are a company of young upstarts that fall in with this way, and some of them are lewd and loose persons.”

--Thomas Symmes, 1723 A.D. 

Here Because of You

"Nobody can reach God by his own wisdom or his own morality. Only at the cross can God be known. And this is doubly offensive to men and women of culture. They resent the exclusiveness of the Christian claim, and even more the humiliation implicit in it. Christ from the cross seems to say to us, "I am here because of you. If it were not for your sin and pride, I would not be here. And if you could have saved yourself, I would not be here either.' The Christian pilgrimage begins with bowed head and bent knee; there is no way into he kingdom of God except  by the exaltation of those who have humbled themselves."

 --John Stott, Between Two Worlds (1982 A.D.)

Two Feet of Snow!

These wouldn't last thirty seconds in Tennessee right now.

Why Chickens Will Never Go Extinct

"Leaving property rights undefined is even more disastrous than imperfectly defining them. Wild animals are often hunted to extinction precisely because they do not belong to anyone. They can by fiat or by metaphor be said to belong to 'the people,' but unless it is feasible to apply force to exclude poachers, there is no property right in reality. It is precisely those things which belong to 'the people' which have historically been despoiled--wild creatures, the air, and waterways being notable examples. This goes to the heart of why property rights are socially important in the first place. Property rights means self-interested monitors. No owned creatures are in danger of extinction. No owned forests are in danger of being leveled. No one kills the goose that lays the golden eggs when it is his goose. Even chickens who lay ordinary eggs are in no danger of being killed before their replacements have been provided. No logging company is going to let its own forest become a mass of stumps, though it may do that on 'public' land."

--Thomas Sowell, Knowledge and Decisions