credo vs. paedo-baptism

I'm gettin' all theological this Thursday morning. For the record, I'm a credo-baptist (believer's baptism, the side that MacArthur takes).

Recently on the Renewing Your Mind radio program, R. C. Sproul and John MacArthur debated the cases for infant and believer's baptism over a few broadcasts - and amazingly, they remain congenial friends even though they have a major theological difference. See Friends? It can be done!

ingrid just asked THE QUESTION OF QUESTIONS...

I'm not making this up. Ingrid just asked this question 5 minutes ago. Remember, she's 5 1/2. I put down my dinner plate, ran into the office to type it into Blogger after we answered the question, of course. This is one for the memory book:

"Can God make everyone believe in Him? Why doesn't He make everyone believe in Him?"

Has she been listening in at the door during Tuesday morning women's Bible study? I wonder if she can rattle off TULIP, too:

Total Depravity (also known as Total Inability and Original Sin)
Unconditional Election
Limited Atonement (also known as Particular Atonement)
Irresistible Grace
Perseverance of the Saints (also known as Once Saved Always Saved)

it's starting to feel like I'm on an episode of "house"

Moms, do you ever thing you have "Munchhausen by Proxy"? You know, that weird disease where a parent gets some pschological satisfaction from seeing their children being treated at the doctor, so they either invent disease or heaven forbid, get their kids sick so that they'll be given special attention. I know I don't have it, I'm just venting....trying to lighten the mood around here.

Ingy is just not getting better, and I had to "grow a backbone" with the Tricare appointment line to get seen ON BASE and not get shuttled off to the off-base-no-continuity-of-care urgent care clinic again. So off to the Clinic AGAIN this morning. Does "scream therapy" help? (a report on NPR's Morning Edition this morning says, "no" by the way).

Oh by the way, I'm not the only Christian who likes to settle back for an episode of snarky "House" once in a while. Read this opinion piece over at World on the Web. I guess you could say the writers are Calvinistic in their outlook...House sure does have one thing right, he just hasn't recognized the remedy:

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick;
who can understand it? - Jeremiah 17:9