yes, indeedy. I've found that when this topic was live before, I would go and read Adrian Warnocks blog and all the different voices across the blogosphere and I would actually get thoroughly disheartened, because actually, it all just seemed to be smugness and drove me bananas.
I'd highly recommend the book Phil quoted 'Satisfied with the promise of the Spirit'. I got it last year, and it really helped to clarify things. Another good one is 'The Charismatic phenomenon' by Dr Peter Masters. These give reasoned, un-hysterionic arguments for the cessationist understanding.
I'm sure you'll have no shortage of options to find out the other view - it's all I seem to find on various blogs 
lol.
It is desperately important to me right now, watching my extended family collapse before my eyes. Believe me, if God has any extra wisdom for me, I will be the first one in the queue. But then I'm english. We like queueing.
Kim (and Libbie),
I would guess that you're not alone in your observation of this.
I commented yesterday to folks in a chat room that the comments would hit 100+ by the end of the day. I was off by a few, but not much.
For me, I just skip over the ones that have made it clear they're only there to huff & puff their position. Life is just easier that way (and to their credit, there have been more than a few commenters calling for RATIONAL, non-emotion-led responses, so my hat is off to them).
Sometimes, usually in fact, when the comments go over 30, or 40, I just skip by all of them.
Anyhoo, there's my 4 cents.
whenever the boys start wrestling around here, my daughter and I roll our eyes and take our civilized selves to another, better-smelling room - where the chocolate is.
life is too short! Run away, have some chocolate (or potato chips) and some more Chopin.
In the world the testosterone gets used physically...in the Christian hemisphere, the testerone goes straight to the brain...thus creating verbal wrestling matches (some with more style than substance).
oh yeah...all sound and fury, signifying nothing. Hope i got the quote right.
candy: yup! You got that quote correct!
I'm not sure what your point is here Kim. That you expect discussions in comment boxes to be like blog posts, or even books?
I can understand some-one not reading a whole lot of comments but am lost as to why some-one would put up a whole post about it.
all sound and fury, signifying nothing
Would that be the comments you did read or the ones you didn't? Or all the comments right here? Or none?
catez...comments over at pyro. the ones that go on. and on. and on. and on. flogging the points to pieces. yes, i have read all comments.
I can understand some-one not reading a whole lot of comments but am lost as to why some-one would put up a whole post about it.
Catez, this is my blog, and I post what I like, as do you on yours
I'm merely thinking out loud. There are a great many things that got posted out there that I don't understand, either!
Kim I didn't say what you can post. I said I was lost as to why you did.
I guess it's a matter of perspective. Some people see it as having a discussion. I haven't commented there much but since he said "feel free to comment" in his post...
I just didn't get where you were coming from since you have often commented on Pyro's posts. Oh well - as you've said you were thinking out loud.
Hi Candy,
Thanks for letting me know you read all the comments - there were over 300 I believe.
There was one I thought was very funny by James Spurgeon - the one that said some-one could always disable the software on her computer that made her compulsorily read all the comments.
(Can't see any smilies on my haloscan box - I'm smiling).
Kim? Kim in ON? From the WTM boards? This is FlockOfSillies. If I'm wrong, and you're a completely different Kim in ON, just chuckle quietly and let me know. I'll go pester someone else at 4 am in CA.
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