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Archive for September, 2008

America’s National Sin

September 22, 2008

Racism!
As long as you have these facts about our nation, God will continue to raise the Jeremiah Wrights, the James Cones, and other prophetic voices of our times.
Read this article here and get mad, get upset, and strive to raise the next generation on a different path, a path that will lift this country from [...]

Piper on why Calvinists seem like Negative people

September 20, 2008

Check out below Pastor Piper doing a good job at trying to make sense of Christians who pride themselves of teaching the doctrines of grace but often times are ungracious to those they preach to. I respect Piper for his humble spirit at the end ( seemed like the Holy Spirit convicted him as he [...]

A Refresher on the Gospel

September 19, 2008

I occasionally ask Christians, ” What is the Gospel?”  I think you will get different responses depending on the social position you are in because although there is one Gospel, it comes to us engaging our own experiences and situations.
The more popular response is that the Gospel is our sins being forgiven and because of [...]

In Christ, unity, in politics , liberty, but in all things, love!

September 9, 2008

Our brother Tony Stone has left a beautiful reminder about Christians discussing politics with each other. Speaking in context of a message board he posts in, Stone asserts,
“Do we let politics split us? Even within the faith, we are to not have huge beefs and splits over non-essentials, but rather, show love, and bear the [...]

Pentecostal Palin

September 8, 2008

Well, well, well, I wonder what my conservative Christian brothers and sisters are saying now? For some, Obama and Biden will not get any vote because of “support [of] homosexual marriage, provisions for abortion, [and] immigration amnesty.”
Yet, these people also venomously speak against my charismatic Christian brother and sisters for speaking in tongues, prophesying, and [...]

Christians, Palin, and Irony

September 4, 2008

As Palin entered to give her speech (I mean someone else’ speech) at the Republican National Convention, I did not put it pass me that the roaring applause heard would have also been given if a dog came out speaking against Obama. But, Palin is not the issue here.
The issue I will like to address [...]