August 2010
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Weekly Post: God made music.
Music has been important to humanity for as long as we have recorded history. From King David to Bob Dylan, music has affected the lives of the performer and the audience in deeply spiritual ways. But why? It almost seems impossible to explain why music is important and diverse. The United States itself has produced everything from ragtime, blues, jazz, rock, folk, soul, pop, rap, hip-hop, gospel...
July 2010
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A conversation on the nature of a just and loving...
This is a conversation written by Scott Fields. Hopefully this will bring more clarity to weekly post topic and strengthen your own apologetics.
Question: Why is there a hell? Answer: Hell is a consequence of our evil. The primary function of hell is to separate us from God, who cannot be in the presence of evil.
Q: What do you mean “our evil”? I’m not evil. A: All human...
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Weekly Post: The nature of a just and loving God
One of the common arguments against God is:”how can a loving God allow disease, poverty, hunger, death, or send good people to a place like hell? I can’t believe in that God.” “Good people” is the basis and mistake of this entire argument. The truth is that “good people” are about as real as fairytales. We lost the ability to “be good” and walk with our creator at the beginning of time. He gave...
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“This is where the springs on the trampoline come in. When we jump, we begin to...”
– A quote from Velvet Elvis by Rob Bell
Reading List - A Generous Orthodoxy →
If you are interested in more thoughts and views dealing with the subject of denominational differences, you should take the time to check out Brian McLaren’s book A Generous Orthodoxy. You can get it for around $10 on amazon, which is a great deal for the amount of information captured in the book.
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Weekly Post: Major vs. Minor Doctrine
Lately we have both had the continual pleasure of meeting people that we don’t have a lot in common with, leading to some really fantastic conversations. As these conversations grow deeper, it seems that most of the time the subject of faith is brought up and personal preferences are discussed. Sometimes they are common to our own and sometimes they are not. Sometimes they strengthen...
Timed Messages
This is part one of a series of posts on issues of the church relating to entertainment:
The pastor of my church said “I apologize” regarding his lengthy sermon today. I glanced at my watch and the sermon ended minutes after the 12 o’clock hour with all the wind down announcements and such of the service still left to go. I object to the idea that my pastor should feel the...
Generation Gap
TRUE STORY. A local church was having a youth service and a Wednesday evening prayer service at the same time. This was later discovered…
Youth Pastor: “It’s better to be somewhere in a dangerous place serving God than safe in America in a church sucking up the AC!”
Pastor: Opened prayer service by mentioning how cool it was in the sanctuary
