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Archive for May 27th, 2006

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 [...]

Hymns for Now

Who says hymns are dull?  Red Mountain Music is a church that has reworked old hymns for current day sound.  They lean a bit more on the country side, but definitely worth listening to for arrangements, or simply just to sit tehre with Bible in hand and just meditate and enjoy thinking and basking in [...]

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