Category: Christianity

Tradition

 You had to know this was coming…  A few thoughts on yesterday’s message:  How much of the clapping phenomenon is really a demonstration of spontaneous, spirit-led worship?  Or were your first instincts the right ones — that clapping is a reflection of widespread bad manners and more evidence of worship-as-entertainment and further infiltration of fringe-sect antics based …

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The millennium

 To my pastor: I find the most unusual things on the Internet.  Take a look at this:  http://books.google.com/books?id=2OIRAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA453&lpg=PA453 The doctrine of the millennium does not properly belong in eschatology, but is rather a part of Christology, coming under the head of “Government by Christ.”  Putting it into its proper place, we shall find that not a …

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Camel method?

 While I still cringe at the insensitivity of the Camel Method’s name (or perhaps at my own hyper-sensitivity), I am finding some positive comments:  From a missionary’s blog: The Camel method sure is a hot topic right now! I am amazed at how much heat it is generating in the blogosphere.  In the training we …

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In the beginning

 Thanks for reminding me that we miss the real point of Genesis when we try to make it “play” by the rules of atheistic science.  Having said that, I’ve always (well, maybe not always) had a lot of skepticism for a universe and especially an Earth apparently billions and billions of years old according to …

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Horse beaters

 Did anyone watch Glenn Beck on CNN last night?  I did not, but someone who did was able to recite its premise almost verbatim today.  In short, Muslim extremists are among us and planning a “Perfect Storm” that will make the Beslan school attack (near Chechnya) from a couple of years ago seem mild by comparison.  Beck …

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A Moment of Silence

A poem for 9-11 By Emmanuel Ortiz, September 11, 2002   Before I begin this poem, I’d like to ask you to join me in a moment of silence in honor of those who died in the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11th, 2001. I would also like to ask you to …

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Lebanon’s future

 YaLibnanTV (websites www.yalibnan.com/ and www.iloubnan.info/-English) has this disturbing bit: If you would like to know if you are Phoenician and interested in knowing your lineage, then please visit The Genographic Projects’ website to contribute DNA… As an American mongrel with mixtures of English, German, Irish, Cherokee, Pawnee, and God-only-knows what else, when I read/hear about …

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