I’ve had a couple slows days only selling 1 book per day, but I just sold 2 textbooks today so that made me happy. Plus they were to the same person, so I was able to bundle them and save on shipping some. On Monday I felt like I wasn’t building my inventory fast enough
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Overwhelmed, sitting in his office, the pastor is at a loss for an answer. His parishioners come to him one by one and two by two asking difficult questions. He studied for many years and thought he knew the answers. But the people are not coming to Christ. What has he done wrong, he asked?
The Pastor who tries hard and the one who doesn't. Read More »
Not even a week ago I got the idea to start a business selling used books online. Since then, with a few minor investments, I’ve acquired a library of 131 different titles and about 800 books total. In the first week I sold 17 books totaling $200. It has been averaging 2 or 3 books
I’ve been looking for a contract engineering job for the offseason from Seminary. Most job posts, rather than explaining what the job is give a bunch of nonsense. Here’s a compilation of all the cringe-worthy stuff I’ve had to read all put into one: Oh the possibilities… Don’t aim for success if you want it;
Note 1: Akkadian I’m studying the ancient Akkadian language. This is not a course in Seminary, but an interest of mine. Akkadian, named after the city of Akkad in ancient Mesopotamia, is a Semitic language (along with Hebrew, Ugaritic, and others). For over a thousand years the Sumerian language was in its ascendency in the
Two varying philosophies or worldviews will by nature discount or reject the alternative views. Thus, for example, Christianity denies naturalism and naturalism denies Christianity. From either perspective, either that of the Christian or that of the Naturalist, the alternative view is rejected. Thus it is not possible based on one view’s denial of another, to
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The philosophical attempts to prove the existence of God are all failures. The cosmological, teleological, moral, ontological, and transcendental arguments for the existence of God all rely on logical fallacies, are thus false, and are nowhere to be found in the Bible. Rather, God’s existence is NOWHERE PROVEN, but EVERYWHERE ASSUMED in the scriptures. Although
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If any of my readers would like to support a Seminary student (a.k.a ME) here is a list of books I’d like to study. Please buy them for me! Send them to (Doug Douma, 6160 Country Rd #130, Westcliffe CO, 81252) and I will be massively in your debt. I consider myself a “free-agent” theologically
This coming Wednesday will be my first sermon. I’m fortunate that my seminary has even first year students doing sermons. I think it would have not been until the 3rd year at other seminaries. The following, more or less, is the sermon I’ve written for Oct 16, 2013. I’m planing on not using any notes,
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There is a problem in epistemology that unless all things are known then nothing can be known. Now, this seems strange because we think of building up knowledge from the bits and pieces and into a larger picture. But consider this problem: we say that a swinging baseball bat is the CAUSE of the baseball
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Here is an interesting letter from Gordon H. Clark to a Humanist in 1967 from his library. A common poor critique of Calvinism is that it prevents evangelism. Here, on the end of Clark’s letter he writes: “What you so deeply desire can be had only through the Lord Jesus Christ who rose from the
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