Please carry Mathilda in your prayers. She is my wife’s stepmom, who is undergoing treatment for cancer, but had either a heart attack or stroke today, and is in intensive care with doctors giving her little chance of survival.
Mat 19:26 But Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with [...]
Archive for June, 2007
Urgent prayer request
Posted in General Christian on June 26, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Order of Salvation
Posted in Theology on June 25, 2007 | 1 Comment »
So, what came first, the chicken or the egg? Or, alternatively, what comes first, man or God? It seems kinda stupid when one asks it in that fashion, but then again, when translating that into the way that God saves people, some seem to say that man comes first.
Whenever my family meets new people, we [...]
Bible recommendation
Posted in Uncategorized on June 23, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I received my copy of the Spirit of the Reformation Study Bible this week. I am truly impressed. Out of all the study Bibles in my library, this has the best notes by far, very complete, and then it contains a lot of supplementary information too.
I highly recommend it.
Fossil evidence
Posted in Evolution on June 21, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I am having a conversation here in the comment section at Triablogue about the suitability of the fossil record as proof for evolution. Touchstone, the other person in the conversation, seems to be a staunch theistic evolutionist, and we can see some of the difficulties this position faces. I can understand his desire to believe [...]
Bought with blood
Posted in Theology on June 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Over the last few days we discussed the ordination of those who live in unbroken sin, and how that affects the church. How do, or should, we respond to these attacks against the church?
The church is the community of believers established by, and united in, Christ. He wanted those who believed to care for each [...]
Desire and repentance
Posted in Theology on June 10, 2007 | 11 Comments »
My good friend and sister in Christ, Judah, from Judah’s Journal has dropped by and asks a very important question based on my last couple of posts on the ordination of homosexuals:
“What if that celibate homosexual was also repentant? The desires may be there as temptations which are resisted as sinful – just as [...]
The wages of sin….
Posted in General Christian on June 8, 2007 | 2 Comments »
….is death.
Rom 6:1 What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound?
Rom 6:2 By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?
Rom 6:3 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
Rom 6:4 [...]
Called to lead
Posted in Theology on June 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In the church that I grew up in, the Dutch Reformed church, there is currently a debate going on about whether to allow homosexuals as clergy. A list of 500 members, theologians, politicians, psychologists and academics has been sent to the synod leadership of the church, all supporting the ordination of homosexuals. There are some [...]
