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Matthew Bedford

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Christian Compulsion

Matthew Bedford posted an article on iPandora - Jan 1, 2012, 2:50 pm
Accordingly, though I am bold enough in Christ to command you to do what is required, yet for love’s sake I prefer to appeal to you—I, Paul, an old man and now a prisoner also for Christ Jesus— but I preferred to do nothing without your consent in order that your goodness might not be by compu...
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Is Modern Christian Music Unoriginal?

Matthew Bedford posted an article on iPandora - Oct 1, 2011, 11:54 pm
Image via Wikipedia Yes*. My wife shared an article with me that asks “Is Christian Music Today ‘Genreless’ and ‘Unoriginal’?” and asked my opinion on the subject. As a musician this aspect of Christian music has bothered me for some time. But it does not bother me so much as some, be...
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Quintessentially American

Matthew Bedford posted an article on iPandora - Sep 22, 2011, 1:25 pm
Originally posted January 24th, 2006. Written while in Italy a few weeks earlier. I’m writing this on a notepad while on a train speeding across Italy. While passing through the Formia station a few Americans got off the train and stood for some moments on the platform before moving off to their ...
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Matthew Bedford posted an article on iPandora - Sep 14, 2011, 10:45 pm
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My People Perish

Matthew Bedford posted an article on iPandora - Sep 3, 2011, 11:36 pm
“They had zeal without full knowledge, hope without understanding, religious practice without clear theology.” ~ J. Julius Scott Jr., Jewish Backgrounds of the New Testament “My people are destroyed” said God. While you could say the small prophet Hosea spoke to a different time and people...
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You Cannot…

Matthew Bedford posted an article on iPandora - Jul 22, 2011, 8:55 am
…bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred. You cannot build character and courage by taking away man’s initiati...
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The Book I Wanted To Write

Matthew Bedford posted an article on iPandora - Jun 7, 2011, 8:30 am
I love books that give the big picture. I also enjoy books that give details and argue over interesting and important minutia. Books that do both tend to be hit or miss, in my experience. The Book That Made Your World does both, and does them pretty well. The book is thick, but don’t let that det...
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Working Well

Matthew Bedford posted an article on iPandora - Apr 15, 2011, 10:10 pm
Is capitalism evil? Many today think it is, or at least believe it is more likely to cause harm than good. Despite the incredible evidence surrounding us in the West in general and the United States in particular, many who have benefited greatly from capitalism still decry it. Theodore Malloch atte...
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Music 'Cuz I Feel Like It

Matthew Bedford posted an article on iPandora - Mar 24, 2011, 10:34 pm
I’ve played this on piano (don’t ask me too right now, I can only play the first couple lines any more), but I think Bumblefoot owns this song.
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Book Review: The Jesus Inquest

Matthew Bedford posted an article on iPandora - Mar 21, 2011, 10:45 pm
The Jesus Inquest by Charles Foster X and Y duke it out in a battle for the minds and hearts of the readers of The Jesus Inquest. If you accept, as X does, that belief in the Christian is belief in a lie, and as both X and Y, that to believe a lie is a terrible thing indeed, you will fight wholehea...
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Loving God, Loving Each Other

Matthew Bedford posted an article on iPandora - Mar 14, 2011, 11:23 pm
Gratuitous Family Picture: My children William and Tatiana In Sunday School we wrapped up a series on knowing God’s will with a session where our teacher asked us for verses that applied what we’d learned to actual practice. The key verses were very quickly reached, the great commandments, as t...
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Protecting Privilege

Matthew Bedford posted an article on iPandora - Feb 4, 2011, 9:08 pm
Image via Wikipedia Some people will do anything to preserve their privileges. For instance, an engineer working for the Department of Transportation of the state of North Carolina recently initiated an investigation of a private citizen after the citizen presented a well researched and documented ...
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Planned Parenthood: The Next ACORN?

Matthew Bedford posted an article on iPandora - Feb 2, 2011, 7:20 pm
This video needs to go viral. Let’s take it there. When you kill babies as a matter of course, it is no further down the pit of immorality to suggest ways to enable the enslavement of young women and girls and all the other debaucheries this employee of Planned Parenthood counseled regarding. UP...
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Global Warming: Can't Have It Both Ways

Matthew Bedford posted an article on iPandora - Feb 2, 2011, 7:09 pm
Watch this video first: It seems the main argument being espoused here by these assorted bloviators and blowhards is that global warming means, backed by the latest “models”, warmer winters with less snow, less ice, less of all that nasty stuff we just got a foot and a half of here in Chicago. ...
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Mea Culpa: Defining God

Matthew Bedford posted an article on iPandora - Jan 28, 2011, 11:33 pm
Image via Wikipedia I have been guilty of a grievous error: I have thought it possible to comprehend God. Reading Knowing God by J. I. Packer I have been convicted of my inability to logically comprehend God. Let us say I compose a piece of music. I put into that music my heart and soul, my passi...
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Shared Experience Or Spoiled Memory?

Matthew Bedford posted an article on iPandora - Jan 14, 2011, 9:09 pm
This video is great fun to watch, and I can only imagine how much fun it would’ve been to be at that wedding and experience it myself. Imagine if wedding had occurred before Youtube. The guests would’ve been thrilled and then they’d've gone home. The stories would’ve spread as people tried ...
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Class Warfare?

Matthew Bedford posted an article on iPandora - Dec 27, 2010, 10:36 pm
Are the rich the enemy? Two articles stuck out to me this morning as I perused all the news and views Google feels fit to display, one about Disneyland and the other more, um, obvious. Frank Rich in the New York Times spends a plethora of paragraphs going on about how the up by the bootstraps ment...
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Book Review: Same Kind Of Different As Me

Matthew Bedford posted an article on iPandora - Dec 16, 2010, 10:42 pm
Same Kind Of Different As Me What do an affluent art dealer and man raised in what was essentially 20th-century slavery have in common? I don’t know either. But God did, and in this true story of two men for whom being from different sides of the railroad tracks didn’t begin to describe the g...
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What Do You Think?

Matthew Bedford posted an article on iPandora - Nov 23, 2010, 10:52 pm
Corruption King Charlie Rangel: Poster boy for term limits? A friend forwarded me a message regarding an act reforming congress containing 8 key provisions. I like most of them, but what do you think? Term Limits. 12 years only, one of the possible options below: Two Six-year Senate terms Six Two-...
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Clinton, Pelosi, Alexi, Obama & Republicans

Matthew Bedford posted an article on iPandora - Nov 9, 2010, 11:05 pm
Image by dbking via Flickr Former President Bill Clinton tried hard to get Democrats elected. He was indeed effective, just not so much in how he planned. And he’s no Godfather. But Clinton’s biggest goof came months before the election. Former Democratic Presidents have made it standard fare...
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MSNBC In Denial

Matthew Bedford posted an article on iPandora - Nov 6, 2010, 10:10 am
Apparently MSNBC thinks it is still an unbaised, balanced news organization. This comes as a surprise to me, and based on the latest evidence, it probably comes as a surprise to some of its more prominent staff. Keith Olbermann has been suspended indefinitely without pay by MSNBC after Politico rep...
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Election Link Roundup

Matthew Bedford posted an article on iPandora - Oct 30, 2010, 12:01 am
Image by St. Murse via Flickr What is at stake this election? Abortion: The health care bill passed by Democrat majorities in congress and signed by President Obama contains provisions supporting increased federal support and engagement in the wholesale infanticide championed by leftists. For this...
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How Could A Christian Vote Democrat, Part 4

Matthew Bedford posted an article on iPandora - Oct 24, 2010, 10:49 pm
Continued from part 3. Professor Drury continues his arguments outlining why he believes Christian ideas support a Democrat ideology. The last several parts of his argument are smaller, secondary points that I do not generally consider as essential to a particular belief system. For the most part t...
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Horowitz On Politics

Matthew Bedford posted an article on iPandora - Oct 19, 2010, 9:15 pm
David Horowitz David Horowitz in Roads Not Taken, answers the question “why”: “Do you ever feel that you are wasting your breath? Do you think that truth will ever matter? No matter what you prove or disprove, in the end the truth will remain in the shadows of what people want to hear and wa...
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How Could A Christian Vote Democrat, Part 3

Matthew Bedford posted an article on iPandora - Oct 15, 2010, 10:47 pm
How much wage is enough? Start with part 1. Then read part 2. In our continuing review of Professor Keith Drury‘s arguments outlining how he as a Christian finds his faith informs his decision to vote Democrat, we now approach the topic of… Minimum Wage What is a Christian argument for why ...
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How Could A Christian Vote Democrat, Part 2

Matthew Bedford posted an article on iPandora - Oct 14, 2010, 11:01 pm
Strong Woman Part 1 is here. In responses to the previous article, comments were made that while Democrats are obviously not a good choice for support by Christians, the Republicans fare little better. Two friends in particular spoke to the fact they could not in good conscience support the Republ...
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How Could A Christian Vote Democrat

Matthew Bedford posted an article on iPandora - Oct 13, 2010, 10:35 pm
Christian Democrat Professor Keith Drury, of Indiana Wesleyan University, penned an article in 2008 explaining his reasons for voting primarily for the Democrat ticket. He has several specific points which he believes show that a traditional Christian belief system will tend to support the Democrat...
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Democrats Are Anti-Free Speech

Matthew Bedford posted an article on iPandora - Oct 11, 2010, 10:00 am
Cover of Karl Marx Let us begin with the caveat that many average Democrats are very pro-free speech and would give their lives as readily as any conservative I know to defend that right for all other Americans. That being said, the average Democrat party leader, official, and elected representati...
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Democrats Want To Continue Failing Our Children

Matthew Bedford posted an article on iPandora - Oct 9, 2010, 8:28 am
President Obama has failed these children President Obama, the man figuratively chosen to lead the Democrat party, and literally chosen to lead the United States of America, wants to maintain the status quo of education in this country and, if anything, bolster the same system that is currently fai...
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The Nationalizer

Matthew Bedford posted an article on iPandora - Oct 6, 2010, 10:09 pm
BenHoweBlog: November or Never Synopsis: Every age seeks visionaries to leave, in the wake of their genius, a changed world – but rarely are they found without a few strikeout also-rans getting a crack first. In 2008, millions of Americans thought they had found the real thing. Over the subs...
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Repost: Adult Stem Cells FTW

Matthew Bedford posted an article on iPandora - Oct 2, 2010, 8:50 pm
Image via Wikipedia This is a repost in light of the recent news that the news media finally picked up on the fact that adult stem cells are cutting the butter and embryonic stem cells are still only a load of hype… er, tripe. Anyway, here’s what we knew 3 years ago: In case you di...
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Discipleship: Bridge Between The Heart And The Hands

Matthew Bedford posted an article on iPandora - Sep 26, 2010, 3:00 pm
Image via Wikipedia Discipleship, says Pastor Todd Wilson, is the bridge between the foundations of the Christian life and the external evidences of that walk. Given the foundations of gospel rootedness and God centeredness and the outward actions of community engagement and missions mindedness, t...
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Media: Can't Be Bothered By Facts

Matthew Bedford posted an article on iPandora - Sep 15, 2010, 8:36 am
Image by Getty Images via @daylife When reporting a story, context is everything. When making a statement, context is everything. When communicating, it is important to include context in your communication if you really want to be understood. There are two reasons context is left out of communica...
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Star Fleck

Matthew Bedford posted an article on iPandora - Sep 5, 2010, 11:42 pm
Image via Wikipedia Apparently there are some people concerned that Star Trek isn’t truly “going where no man has gone before” by having openly homosexual (main) characters in the story line. Set phasers to FABULOUS! The above quote is not mine. It’s just funny. My questi...
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Web Analytics: What Next?

Matthew Bedford posted an article on iPandora - Sep 5, 2010, 8:15 pm
Image by vrypan via Flickr Reinvigorate.net is no longer in beta and they’re now charging for their services. Any recommendations for web analytics packages besides Google Analytics?
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How HP Lost Me

Matthew Bedford posted an article on iPandora - Aug 31, 2010, 10:52 pm
Two years ago my wife and I purchased an HP tx2500cto laptop. tx2500 was the HP touchscreen notebook/tablet pc, cto means I had it customized to my specifications. Heavy and a little awkward looking, it still performed well. Microsoft’s OneNote was a real champ, accepting input when the scree...
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Destruction Compared: Atom Bomb Vs. Government

Matthew Bedford posted an article on iPandora - Aug 24, 2010, 11:34 pm
Seared on the minds of the American psyche like permanent light etchings on metal from the blast of an atomic bomb is the horror that was our annihilation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in an ultimately successful attempt to strike the final death-blow to the god-complex surrounding the Japanese Prime Mi...
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This I Know: Racist Or Racialist

Matthew Bedford posted an article on iPandora - Jul 23, 2010, 9:04 pm
This is an interesting video. It contextualizes the clips that first aired last week starting the whole hullabaloo and getting Ms. Sherrod fired. And yet the first part of the whole cut (it begins about halfway through this particular video) shows what a friend of mine calls a “racialist...
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Government Epic Fail: USPS

Matthew Bedford posted an article on iPandora - Jul 21, 2010, 10:35 pm
Chicago has enjoyed the dubious distinction of having one of the worst United States Postal Service systems. And you wanna know what the Postmaster General had to say about it? US Postmaster General Jack Potter, responding in 2007 to findings that Chicago’s USPS had the worst reliability reco...
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Merely Human: Science Vs. Religion

Matthew Bedford posted an article on iPandora - Jul 13, 2010, 10:55 pm
Elena Kagan in concert with the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists fudges the facts regarding partial birth abortion to support her employer, then President Clinton. Climatologists fear those with differing viewpoints so much they nudge numbers and massage facts, not substantially,...
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Today's Interesting Stuff

Matthew Bedford posted an article on iPandora - Jul 8, 2010, 9:00 pm
Speecy Spiicy, Hotsy Totsy American parents tend to feed their children bland foods to avoid potential allergies or just because that’s what Dr Spock or the latest parenting magazine told them. Easy on the stomach, and the poop ain’t so bad. Parents in other countries tend to feed thei...
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Thoughts On Taste Of Chicago

Matthew Bedford posted an article on iPandora - Jul 6, 2010, 9:12 pm
The wife and son and I attended the Taste of Chicago on Saturday. Beautiful hot day with crowds of people and crappy food. Yes. The Chicago, for all the great food you serve from the myriad restaurants lining your streets, your Taste was garbage. Note to the Vendors: The purpose of the Taste-size ...
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It's The Parent's, Stupid

Matthew Bedford posted an article on iPandora - Jul 5, 2010, 11:53 am
Read this short article first “Shrek and SpongeBob have superpowers over your kid’s food choices”. Given that this article is a summary of articles in three major news outlets, and given the subject matter and tone, how long do you think it’ll be before we’ll hear crie...
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The More I Know…

Matthew Bedford posted an article on iPandora - Jun 20, 2010, 10:48 pm
…the more I know I don’t know. And it seems the same goes for many others. The beautiful thing about this paradoxical realization is that I can right now assume I know very little, and save myself the trouble of having to unlearn things I have learned or will learn which are incorrect ...
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The Blueberry Story: A Failure Of Analogy

Matthew Bedford posted an article on iPandora - Jun 2, 2010, 10:21 pm
I came across the Blueberry Story recently. It didn’t pass the sniff test, but I couldn’t immediately explain why. Jamie Vollmer was the CEO of an ice cream company that made, at one time, what some considered the best ice cream in America. He was also a sharp critic of the public schoo...
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If Jesus Were…

Matthew Bedford posted an article on iPandora - May 31, 2010, 4:26 pm
…accorded even a part of the authority and primacy given to jobs, hobbies, family, social involvement, friends, political causes by those who take His name as their own, this world would be a different place. How much more so if He were given his rightful place, the throne of each of us. In ...
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Jefferson On Limited Government

Matthew Bedford posted an article on iPandora - May 26, 2010, 8:38 am
Thomas Jefferson, Liberals favorite founding father, has this to say about the proper scope of government: “A wise and frugal government,” Thomas Jefferson declared in his first inaugural address in 1801, “which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them othe...
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Doesn't Pass The Sniff Test

Matthew Bedford posted an article on iPandora - May 25, 2010, 11:24 pm
Do you want an example of an ideologue attempting to justify his existence at the government trough? Imagine the tragedy if every day for years on end a crowded jetliner crashed. Then imagine the outrage when the public learned that those tragedies had been preventable, but that the airlines and ...
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The Heresy Of Today…

Matthew Bedford posted an article on iPandora - May 15, 2010, 7:03 pm
…is the freedom to choose whatever idea we please so long as we do not believe it is true.
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Real…

Matthew Bedford posted an article on iPandora - May 15, 2010, 7:01 pm
Real American Motor Trend magazine held a head-to-head between the V6 and V8 engine versions of the Camaro, Challenger, and Mustang, along with the Hyundai Genesis coupe. It is odd enough and perhaps a sign of where we’ve come to in globalization that the Genesis coupe even shows up in this ...
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Iâ€™m a 20-something guy who loves life and all itâ€™s curveballs. My interests are God, People, Music, and Computers. Iâ€™ve lived most of my life on the West Coast in California, and no Iâ€™ve never surfed. Thereâ€™s a lot more to California than just its beaches, though those are quite beautiful.

Chicago is my second home, and so Iâ€™ve moved back there after first living there for over a year a couple years ago. Iâ€™ve traveled to Italy and found I enjoy world travel: it really opens your eyes to seeing history and different world perspectives up close and personal.

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