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If I am simul iustus et peccator, the church, not least the church as the...
– N.T. Wright - “New Perspectives”
Island of Incest!
Palmerston Island: An atoll located in the Cook Islands, it was discovered by explorer James Cook in 1774. The Island was first settled in 1863 by Englishman William Marsters; but here is where things get weird…
William Marsters settled the island with “multiple Polynesian wives” (three) and sired a large family of some 23 children! His youngest daughter died in 1973, at which...
Victory... it's within reach...
If you think victory is unattainable you will not pray to the Spirit for help. Why would you if victory cannot be attained?
But if you change the way you think… if you realize that victory is actually within reach, then you will pray for the Spirit to help… and he will!
I’m here to tell you that victory is not only within reach… it has been had! But you cannot attain it...
Quit praying about yourself and spend your life for the sake of others as the...
– Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest (via bluejeans)
Cast all your anxiety on Him for He cares for you.
– 1 Peter 5:7 (via babylightmyway)
Are You Born Again (Part 2)
Thank you for coming back after my last post. (If you have not read Part 1 then I suggest you go back and do so because it lays the ground work for what follows.) One of the four or five key features of Evangelicalism is the belief of a born again experience, and so it can be frightening or offensive if anyone hints at the possibility that perhaps we have not spoken correctly when we use this...
In keeping with my Born Again theme…
- Derek
Heaven and Back - Show Me The Money
I’ve been to heaven. Now I am going to write a book about my experience. I hear it’s a lucrative business.
Are you going to find God in the movies? No, not a chance.
But he just might...
– Grant Horner
Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass… it’s about...
– Anonymous
If you could go to heaven, if you could spend eternity with your loved ones,...
– Me
Are You Born Again? (Part 1)
Belief
Repentance
Baptism
Spirit-filling
It has become popular in the past century to teach that when someone says a “Sinner’s Prayer” that they “receive” Jesus and the “Spirit” comes and lives in them at that moment.
But this teaching provides, first, a false affirmation and second, it seems to go against the order of the born again experience as...