Public Broadcasting Cuts. Both organizations are chock full of liberals and serve to indoctrinate kids. Too bad they didn't get defunded.
The Snee
I thought this was neat and thought I would pass it along.
http://pspruett.blogspot.com/2005/05/how-snee-came-to-be.html
Time travel, God, and the Resurrection
I hadn't fired up Sage in a while, so I did this morning. The Christian CADRE site had this article showing up in my feed. Here is an excerpt
I think we can learn a lot about ourselves by asking that question. Just what would we want to go back and history and witness?
It then goes on to talk about a book: The Didymus Contingency. I don't know anything about the book right now, so if you want to read it, make up your own mind. I think it looks interesting though.
Why believe the Bible
Well, as usually happens, I heard a sermon on this topic last year and forgot about it. If you want to listen to the sermon, it is available as an mp3 here.
Here is why you should believe the Bible:
It is a reliable collection of historical documents written by eyewitnesses during the lifetime of other eyewitnesses who report supernatual events that took place in fullfilment of specific prohpecies. They claim their writings are divine rather than human in origin.
Don't believe me? Look up 2 peter 1:16-21.
NiSource
From what I have heard, today is the day that everyone at NiSource will hear what will happen to them. Pray for everyone there that they will either rest in Christ (if they are saved) or come to know Him (if they are not saved). Because God knows what will happen to those who are His. He promises to take care of us. He promises to provide for us. If you do not have a personal relationship with Christ, click here to find out how you can know Him.
GTMO or GITMO
Ok everyone. Once and for all. GTMO is spelled GTMO. Not GITMO. Not G'ITMO. Just GTMO. My dad was stationed in GTMO in the mid 80's and that was how we all abbreviated it. I don't know why…that is just how it was.
Don't believe me? Visit NAVSTA GTMO homepage.
Royal Priesthood
But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light
How about it Christian? Are we walking like we are a royal priesthood? Are we walking around going "Oh woe is me. God can never use me." Not with an attitude like that!
Have you seen the movie El Mariachi? The content of the move isn't important here, but it was written, directed, shot, etc… by Robert Rodriguez. He later went on to write a book about film making. He even did a video short called the 10 Minute Filmakers School. In both of those places, he makes the following point: (Matt's paraphrase here)
Don't just think about being a filmmaker someday. Call yourself a film maker today. Go out and shoot some film.
That has an application in our Christian life too. Don't just think "Oh, someday God will use me. God will make me right with Him someday." Carpe Diem. Seize the day. Go out and act like God will use you. Ask Him to show you where He is working. Go out and find it. As the Nike slogan says: "Just Do It."
Oswold Chambers has the following to say:
How long is it going to take God to free us from the morbid habit of thinking about ourselves? We must get sick unto death of ourselves, until there is no longer any surprise at anything God can tell us about ourselves. We cannot touch the depths of meanness in ourselves. There is only one place where we are right, and that is in Christ Jesus. When we are there, then we have to pour out for all we are worth in this ministry of the interior.
What are you?
I came across this tonight while surfing the net. It is a What's your theological worldview quiz. To those who know me, I came out fundamentalist–like there was any surprise. However, things like this are hard to take. You know the way you need to answer to have the goofy quiz think you what you are. On the other hand, you have to figure out how to balance that with what you really think. For example:
"God says it. I believe it. That settles it." — Actually, I believe "God says it. That settles it." However, if I had answered that question in the negative, it would have swayed my answers more to the liberal side when I'm not liberal
Homosexuality is one of the worst sins — Well…really sin is sin so this isn't true. All sin is equally bad. But again, if I were to answer this how I really think, the quiz would think me liberal
So, I'd say take this quiz for fun and see where you stand. In general, it is probably right only if you are at the far end of one of the scales.
Cyndi and I
Please pray for Cyndi and I. I'll call it an unspoken request for right now. More details may follow. God knows. Isn't that one of the good things about God.
How To Act When God Speaks
Saturday's My Utmost for His Highest talks about how to act when God speaks. The text is Peter walking on Water: Matthew 14:22-33. Here is what Oswold Chambers had to say about that:
The wind was actually boisterous, the waves were actually high, but Peter did not see them at first. He did not reckon with them, he simply recognized his Lord and stepped out in recognition of Him, and walked on the water. Then he began to reckon with the actual things, and down he went instantly. Why could not our Lord have enabled him to walk at the bottom of the waves as well as on the top of them? Neither could be done saving by recognition of the Lord Jesus.
We step right out on God over some things, then self-consideration enters in and down we go. If you are recognizing your Lord, you have no business with where He engineers your circumstances. The actual things are, but immediately you look at them you are overwhelmed, you cannot recognize Jesus, and the rebuke comes: "Wherefore didst thou doubt?" Let actual circumstances be what they may, keep recognizing Jesus, maintain complete reliance on Him.
if you debate for a second when God has spoken, it is all up. Never begin to say – "Well, I wonder if He did speak?" Be reckless immediately, fling it all out on Him. You do not know when His voice will come, but whenever the realization of God comes in the faintest way imaginable, recklessly abandon. It is only by abandon that you recognize Him. You will only realize His voice more clearly by recklessness.
How many times to we sit and wonder if God is speaking? How many times do we sit and ask God over and over to speak to us when he already has spoken. We are quick to judge Gideon for "throwing out the fleece" (Judges 6:36-40) when we do essentially the same thing.