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• Worship Wars: Is the Worst Fight in Your Church Over the Style of Music?

  November 28, 2011 at 12:24pm

  If you walk in to worship and suddenly declare that whatever song is being used to worship God does not fit your ‘style’ or ‘expectations’ of what kind of song should be sung you have declared what you want is more important than worshiping God. Plain and simple. Going to worship is not about having the service meet your expectations but it is simply to worship and learn.

• Richard Dawkins to Release Kids’ Book About Evolution & the ‘Judeo-Christian Myth’

  September 22, 2011 at 1:20pm

  Simply put, Science points more directly at the idea that there is an outside source that it points to the idea of random chaotic life creations. First off, Darwin did not write his hypothesis with the explanation of how life began. His ideas pick up much longer after life has already started. Secondly, science cannot deal with the fact that in order to take in organic material such as carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen and phosphorus and turn it into a living organism you need an external input of information. If that wasn’t the case why can we not take those same elements and find the information within them that create a 3billion letter word that is the human dna. The source of information is the ultimate end to life starting randomly as a single cell. It is also interesting to note that mathmeticians have recently calculated that an additional 500 billion years would be needed just for the complexity of the human eye to have developed. The fossil record also overwhelmingly shows that one moment something isn’t there, then it is…no inbetween evolutionary period. It’s also important to note that the disagreement lies in Macro-evolution, not micro-evolution. The former which is completely lacking in scientific evidenct.

• Storage Company Launches Ad Campaigns Blasting Bachmann, Palin, Bush, Cheney & Tea Party

  September 16, 2011 at 5:47pm

  wow…that Heffe character is retarded.

• Pastor Fired After Backing New Rob Bell Book Questioning Hell

  March 24, 2011 at 6:07pm

  In reply to liljune.

  I think we are of the same mind here. I do draw a line between the judgement we are supposed to have concerning ourselves and the judgement of others. Judging, in regards to others, is for the most part strictly warned against. But, being in the image of God, we do have the capability. When in fact we do judge others we replace God with ourselves, exhibiting the one thing that drives us to judge: Pride. Jesus’ words, ‘judge not lest you be judge, for what measure you use to judge will be used for you’ acknowledges our capacity to judge, the pride of it and serves as a warning that your judgement may not be that righteous so be careful if you care to venture into that realm. Even trying to judge righteous and unrighteous behavior becomes an issue because Jesus said you will know them by their fruits: However, i want to point out that when you know something you are relieved of the responsibility of judging. If someone is a murderer, then you know he is a murderer. However, i recall a murderer being called a man after God’s own heart. So even when it is evident, or made plain that someone is or has been unrighteous our commandment is still just one thing: to love. Church without love is legalism. Legalism saves no man. Telling a man he‘s wrong is no man’s place. The teaching of foundational principles is our charge because we are relieved of the responsibility of convicting a person because God wonderfully gave that charge to the Holy Spirit. I find it to be a wonderful thought that we don’t have to try and convict man, because his Spirit will…we are then to love love love

• Pastor Fired After Backing New Rob Bell Book Questioning Hell

  March 24, 2011 at 5:05pm

  In reply to liljune.

  Liljune, i think we can answer that in a definite way. We are not to judge [period]. Secondly did paul not discuss the topic when he said, ‘is God not a just God? Is he not going to judge accordingly the one who knows the law but does not follow it just as he will judge accordingly the one who has never heard the law but follows it in their heart’

  the point: God judges, we don’t. We are commissioned to love…to define love 1 corinthians 13. which also leads us to the last point, God is just and how things go only he knows and it’s not for us to fret about.

• Pastor Fired After Backing New Rob Bell Book Questioning Hell

  March 24, 2011 at 5:00pm

  In reply to FosterGrant.

  Genesis was written in poetic form, something most christians don’t take into account, and you’re going to argue that God created something in 7 days when day and night had not yet been created? The meaning that your brain assigns to the black letters on a white page sometimes do not mean exactly what you think they mean.

• Pastor Fired After Backing New Rob Bell Book Questioning Hell

  March 24, 2011 at 3:57pm

  In reply to thespiritwithin.

  The ‘thirst’ you speak of and described in that passage is the thirst all have that can only be filled with God’s presence. Being in a place in the absence of God’s spirit would indeed create an unquenchable thirst.

  and to kmichaels: most christians gloss over this but paul talks about that very topic when he said, ‘is God not going to judge accordingly those who know the law and do not keep it in their heart as well as those who have never heard the law and do keep it in their heart’.

  quite simply we were called to love, not judge.

• Pastor Fired After Backing New Rob Bell Book Questioning Hell

  March 24, 2011 at 2:40pm

  In reply to Sagrim.

  sagrim i touched on this on page 1 of the comments

• Pastor Fired After Backing New Rob Bell Book Questioning Hell

  March 24, 2011 at 2:17pm

  To those condeming Rob Bell because he is “perverting the Gospels” I have the following questions. Is not the Gospel the good news of the birth, crucifiction and resurrection of Jesus Christ? Does your eternal spirit actually depend upon your belief in what happens in the afterlife? Does not the bible and Jesus use imagery and parables to describe things that we don‘t or won’t be able to fully understand. Hell, no matter how it is described, will be the removal from God’s presence…if Jesus describes it as a lake of fire I think we can understand that he‘s trying to send the message that being removed from God’s presence is the last thing you would ever want to happen to you or someone you know or anyone else for that matter. If, in fact, they believe in the gospel message, repent and try to live according to THEIR convictions then who are we to judge Rob, or the emergent church?

• Pastor Fired After Backing New Rob Bell Book Questioning Hell

  March 24, 2011 at 1:53pm

  In reply to jedi.kep.

  @Jim and his conclusion of: ” If God does not save everyone, then either He can‘t or He won’t. If he can‘t then He is not omnipotent and if He won’t, then the monster label seems appropriate.”
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  hey jim, i have wrestled with that same idea. I understand the conundrum you put forth, but it fails when the situation is looked at in the context of God’s love. We would agree we were made in God‘s image i’m assuming. I think we would also agree that God is love…to define love i would turn to I corinthians 13. Now maybe you’re married, if not just imagine with me that you are. Is it love to put a collar on your wife to keep her from going astray? Is it love to distrust your partner and want to use your hand to force compliance of your Will to satisfy your internal fear? Or….is it love to say, ‘honey, i trust you…go hang out with your friends and have fun, i will be here’. One set of actions is derived from fear. The other is derived from trust. Now, knowing that we are made in his image, we are literally little gods that can control our outlook, the condition of our heart, our emotional response and our decisions. Now would it be loving for God to put us on a leash so that we could not stray? If that were the case we were not made in his image then. If that were the case God would fear the awesomeness of his being that we all have need to experience. Would it be Love that would compel God to use his heavy hand of guidance to treat us as puppets simply satisfy his own fears of us leaving him? Or…is it love for him to show patience, trust, hope and belief that we make our own decisions allowing us to make our own way in either seeking or denying him in every action and thought we take part in? The point is that it would be a violation of His Love exhibited by the fact we were made in His image to be controlling of us. For example, is it love to have a baby and carry it around without ever setting it down for fear of it falling? How is the child going to learn to walk? Or is it love to set the baby down and let it fall down…so that it may learn to get up? So tackling the idea that God ‘wont’ doesn’t fit because He has provided us with the capability to learn, love and grow and God’s love is allowing us to be like Him in that sense…the ability to choose. The idea that he can’t is indefensible in the sense that if God really did create everything, then how could he not save everyone? But what he can do is show his love by becoming man, creating a bridge through His crucifiction and resurrection that traverses the cavern of seperation created by our decisions, actions and deceitful heart. In providing evidence of who he is, his purpose while still allowing us to choose he exhibits the highest form of Love in my opinion.