What hope do you have? If you are to believe many, your life is a but a fleeting moment, and when you die, you are gone. Even Tolle and Oprah, with all their nice talk about higher consciousness do not offer you any hope for the eternity to come. And even if they did, it [...]
Archive for May, 2008
Your only hope
Posted in General Christian on May 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Is Oprah’s church a cult?
Posted in Apologetics, General Christian on May 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I saw one of the gossip papers run a headline: “Oprah brainwashed by cult”. While I usually consider these papers about as reliable as a Micheal Moore movie, it did get me thinking about the whole topic again. Having read Tolle’s book, and listened to a couple of the lectures that came from it, it [...]
Reflections on Memorial Day
Posted in General Christian on May 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Of all the holidays on the calender, Memorial Day really hits home with me. I think it is a great tradition to honor not only those that have fallen to protect our freedom, values and rights, but also those that had the courage to put on the uniform to do so.
I spent 6 years in [...]
Where do we start?
Posted in Theology on May 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
3 key issues, or questions, on finding the deeper meaning of life…being, knowing and behavior, or in the language of the philosopher: Ontology, Epistemology and Morality.
Can we look at all three inclusively? At a certain level, yes. That level is the starting point, the origin of being or existence, how we come to know things [...]
The real New Earth
Posted in General Christian on May 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It is curious, though not unexpected in our post-modern society, that a book would have the title of “A New Earth”, and it then contains a description of man making a “new earth”. What is even more curious is that not unlike the insipid seeker-sensitive “preaching” we see in some churches, there is some off-hand [...]
Oprah’s cult dissected
Posted in Uncategorized on May 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Tolle’s book “A New Earth” is being analyzed page-by-page here:
Book Study: A New Earth
It is a 10 week effort now in week 1, so check back there regularly for updates to this worthy effort.
