Archive for May, 2006
Why I Am Not an Altar Boy (Part 3): Mary–Just Who Is She Any Way?
Je vous salue, Marie, pleine de grâce, Le Seigneur est avec vous. Vous êtes bénie entre toutes les femmes, et Jésus, le fruit de vos entrailles, est béni. Sainte Marie, Mère de Dieu, priez pour nous, pauvres pécheurs, maintenant et àl’heure de notre mort. Au nom du Père et du Fils et Saint-Esprit. I [...]
Why I Am Not an Altar Boy (Part 2): Justification by Faith ALONE
The first reason I am not an altar boy is because I disagree with Roman Catholic understanding on the doctrine of justification, a central tenet in our understanding of our salvation. Roman Catholicism teaches what is known as ‘infused justification.’ R. C. Sproul in his book Faith Alone and also in his address on the [...]
Why I Am Not an Altar Boy (Part 1): An Introduction
I attended a Catholic school for the first 13 years of my life (K-12th grade). During that time I must have taken more Catholic religion classes (Catholic theology for kids) and attended mass more than some Catholics have in their lifetime. Since all of my friends were Catholic, I too wanted to be Catholic. Religion [...]
‘Doing Church’, an Oxymoron
I received a post card in the mail that stated, “How to ‘Do Church.’” It seems that ‘doing church’ is ‘in’ these days, and it couldn’t be more out of a phrase. Admittedly, I have never gone to a ‘doing church’ seminar or conference, but the title scares me terribly. Can there be a phrase [...]
10 Ways to Hinder a Church
This was a post that Doug Eaton wrote that I had to repeat here. His site is great and he has some really good stuff on the ECM (Emergent Church Movement) that you might want to check out. But here are the 10 ways to hinder the church: 1. Show up only when it is [...]
Free Will Shackled and Enslaved!
Read Charles Spurgeon’s messages on the bondage of the will (a will not as free as people think it is, you can also read Luther’s Bondage of the Will and Jonathan Edwards’ Freedom of the Will for much more detail on the subject). It will be good for your soul! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this [...]
John MacArthur, the Calvinist
I think most people assume that beucase John MacArthur is a Dispensationalist, he is at odds with John Calvin’s view of soteriology. But this is quite untrue. In fact, at a church recently, he said, “Jesus was a Calvinist.” I happened to believe a faithful reading of the NT will show this to be true. [...]
The Cliches of Atheists and Agnostics
It seems the world is praising Misquoting Jesus as this ground-breaking book that pulls apart the Bible and all who believe in its veracity. The Washington Post story writes: Bart Ehrman is a sermon, a parable, but of what? He’s a best-selling author, a New Testament expert and perhaps a cautionary tale: the fundamentalist scholar [...]
Child First, Fellow Believer Second, Husband Third, Father Fourth, Pastor Fifth…Asian, somewhere lower…
I was reading this article about Asian-American college students who are filling more of the Christian campus groups. It disturbed me because sadly what often dominates Asians and Asian-American thinking is that culture somehow takes first precedence over faith. We might not want to believe that it does, but it does. For those of us [...]
Idiot Prayers
Louie Giglio, according to this article, said that many Christians pray like idiots. While this might sound a bit over the top, I don’t know if it really is. I know I have been an idiot pray-er before. Dictionary.com defines “idiot” as a “foolish or stupid person.” Foolish people speak words without realizing what they [...]
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