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About Me

"religion is 'if you obey, then you will be accepted'. But the Gospel is, 'if you are absolutely accepted, and sure youre accepted, only then will you ever begin to obey'. Those are two utterly different things. Every page of the Bible shows the difference." -- Tim Keller.I was born in New Jersey, grew up in Pennsylvania. I love music, i love food (cooking/eating/viewing on tv), and i love theology/philosophy. I was diagnosed with Lymphoma in September '05, and I'm still fighting it. I have a lot of people I consider close friends, but I love my sister and brother more than anyone. I have really been thinking about how, what i spend money on, is what i support, and so I try and stay away from anything factory farmed, as well as things made in china for 2 cents an hour, or large corporations who are outsourcing jobs to other countries so they can pay them 2 cents an hour. God is, more than anything, the reason I'm alive (In him we live and move and have our being!), and the only thing I can place my trust in fully. I want to change people's lives... I want to change america (post-modernism can suck it). i am also very much nothing, though i think i try too hard to look cool and smart, and ironically, even humble. we need to live for others.
What's your theological worldview?
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You scored as Reformed Evangelical

You are a Reformed Evangelical. You take the Bible very seriously because it is God's Word. You most likely hold to TULIP and are sceptical about the possibilities of universal atonement or resistible grace. The most important thing the Church can do is make sure people hear how they can go to heaven when they die.

Reformed Evangelical

86%

Neo orthodox

75%

Emergent/Postmodern

64%

Fundamentalist

61%

Evangelical Holiness/Wesleyan

61%

Roman Catholic

46%

Classical Liberal

46%

Charismatic/Pentecostal

25%

Modern Liberal

11%

My Interests

Reformed Theology, Charismata, Philosophy, frisbee, cooking and eating, reading and writing,

I'd like to meet:

Dead: C.S. Lewis, Jonathan Edwards, John Calvin, and Martin Luther. Living: Tim Keller, John Piper, Wayne Grudem. R.C. Sproul. I'd probably like to meet lots of people in all actuality, but the truth is I never have the courage to say hello.

Music:

the appleseed cast, denison witmer, the decemberists, brand new, modest mouse, hot hot heat, belle & sebastian,brandtson, chris staples in all his manifestations, death cab for cutie, the working title, the snake the cross the crown, the faint, hey mercedes, iron & wine, james taylor, lovedrug, maritime, mewithoutYou, neil young, pedro the lion, rilo kiley, sufjan stevens, unwed sailor, the weakerthans.

Movies:

clint eastwood westerns

Television:

gilmore girls and conan o'brien, and let's never forget... DEGRASSI

Books:

c.s.lewis' signature classics, lorraine boettner's reformed doctrine of predestination, j.p. moreland's love God with all your mind, r.c. sproul's chosen by God, The Bible is a wealth of knowledge.

Heroes:

martin luther, john calvin, jonathan edwards, tim keller, j.p. moreland, c.s.lewis (especially), elijah, and michael oldham.

My Blog

life as of late...

I don't do a very good job of keeping people updated on my life, so here is an attempt.If you didn't know, this summer I was feeling pretty good, and my cancer was at a level where it was manageable, ...
Posted by crabs on Sat, 26 Jan 2008 11:38:00 PST

forget bulletins

so i probably wouldn't have ever seen this, if it wasn't for ellie's bulletin, but I'm going to post mine as a blog, that way, one day I can look back on it and laugh or something.Finish the sentence....
Posted by crabs on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 10:15:00 PST

with a little help from my friends...

I met with my doctor today, and I still have cancer.not much more I can really say about that. I will be undergoing some new and exciting (no really, they seem pretty exciting) treatments in the month...
Posted by crabs on Wed, 03 Jan 2007 08:59:00 PST

God is not dead, nor doth he sleep...

The night before Christmas eve I broke out with a low-grade fever. So in hopes of making sure I wouldn't break out in sickness for Christmas day, I went off to find some air-borne, and a jug of orange...
Posted by crabs on Tue, 26 Dec 2006 05:32:00 PST

what have we become?

I was reading the internetmonk again...he's really got some good things to say. Not to say I agree with everything he says (I think doing that with anyone would be unhealthy...) but I found this blog ...
Posted by crabs on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 09:45:00 PST

SEE and WHY...

home again, and it feels okay. the trip was long and i had to nap. but it wasn't too bad. my ipod is broke so i had to listen to cd's the entire time, and if you know me, you know i hate when cd's ski...
Posted by crabs on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 03:23:00 PST

Call his name Not My People, for you are not my people, and I am not your God.

....Hear another parable. There was a master of a house who planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a winepress in it and built a tower and leased it to tenants, and went into another cou...
Posted by crabs on Wed, 01 Nov 2006 11:33:00 PST

reading reading reading

So I've basically spent most of my day today in thought and reading about the work of the Holy Spirit. I've read Grudem's first chapter on the gifts, and listened to two sermons by Piper on the subjec...
Posted by crabs on Fri, 22 Sep 2006 03:37:00 PST

christianity

I've been thinking about so much stuff lately, just being locked up here in a hospital room, and I think I'm gonna vent.Have you heard of this Erwin Mcmanus guy? My friend Troy used to have a quote up...
Posted by crabs on Mon, 18 Sep 2006 10:32:00 PST

the muslim world...

well here I go...So apparently, the Pope is getting in trouble for calling the Muslim religion violent. Gee, I mean, I don't know why he'd even think that!?! I mean, after all, once he said it, Muslim...
Posted by crabs on Sun, 17 Sep 2006 09:11:00 PST