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Finding Joy in Serving Children - Caroly McCulley shares a guest post by Emily Rimshaw. Carolyn says, “Her story of sacrificial investment as a 21-year-old caring for someone else’s children really struck me. So I asked her to send her testimony to me so I could share it with you all. My point in doing so is to help us all think outside of our expectations and cultural norms in order to offer creative and compassionate James 1:27-inspired solutions when such needs arise.”
Generous Justice - Generous Justice is the title of Tim Keller’s next book, available now for pre-order, shipping in a couple of months. In it “Keller explores a life of justice empowered by an experience of grace: a generous, gracious justice. Here is a book for believers who find the Bible a trustworthy guide as well as those who suspect that Christianity is a regressive influence in the world.”
Breaking Up via Facebook - This is an interesting glimpse at a new reality—the role of social media in relationships. "’Facebook official’ has emerged as a new stage in a relationship, Gershon says, but the meaning can differ from one person to the next. Gershon says that some people will claim that a breakup isn't official until it is Facebook official, while others point out that changes in Facebook status may just be a sign of trouble; in many cases it's unclear whether the breakup will take.”
Six Hundred - Ali shares another poignant moment from her hospital ship in West Africa. “Six hundred pink sheets. They were the ones we turned away. The ones who were too sick or not sick enough. The ones who missed their surgery dates and couldn’t be rescheduled because there were hundreds more to take their places. The ones we tried to call but couldn’t reach.”
It’s Prophesied - A song that will make clear the End Times and Barack Obama’s role in it. (HT:Z)
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Catchy song - think I might introduce it to our congregation this Sunday. LOL
Listen closely to the song and you will hear both “Oh, Christmas Tree” and “Da-duh da duh duh-da. CHARGE!” (the baseball song) lol
Tim, you need to run a poll:
“Agree or disagree: This video/song represents the Bible’s clear teaching on prophecy and end-times.”
The results might be somewhat frightening, given that a whole generation of evangelicals was raised on Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins…
LOL! That’s hilarious!
And hardcore dispensationalists wonder why they don’t get much respect in the theological community. I find it ironic that the folks who lament the excesses of the charismatic community have folks like this guy in theirs.
LOL!
The antichrist is not your friend…
You can’t find this type of teaching just anywhere!
Four and a half minutes that offer a glimpse of what eternal torment must be like…minus clever camera changes, of course.
Hey Tim, I bet you are glad you are Canadian, eh?
It’s prophesied, it’s prophesied.That made me laugh until I cried.The most important thing it taught,Was don’t write songs for every thought.
Reminds me of some of the ditties that were played on Perry F. Rockwoods’ radio program to accompany his dispensational preaching. Looks like this fella has a great location, a nice keyboard, a beatiful day and a horrible song.
Sweet, sweet action. It’s prophesied!!
Too bad he failed to employ the requisite “dog barks” & “hand claps” on his Casio…
Bad music, bad theology, bad scenery, bad production quality, makes for a good laugh.
I went to Youtube and watched the video there and looked at some of the other ones he has uploaded. That guy is a Catholic. He says a lot of super strange things even calling himself “Third Eagle of the Apocalypse”. The people who comment on his page are off their rockers too. Amazing how people can be so deceived and concoct things like this. As humorous as that video is, it is also very disturbing that the Church has at times fueled such craziness.
And the beauty of it is that he can claim that those who are critical of him are unsaved and should be ignored. That’s the great thing about cultish behavior.
Good ol’ Third Eagle. I watched a few of his videos (critically) a while back. He kept saying: “God doesn’t say these things to scare us, but to prepare us.”
He doesn’t tell us how to prepare, just that we need to prepare. What a fruitcake; hopefully God will reveal the truth to him and he will repent.
Just when you thought premillennial dispensationalism couldn’t get any more kooky.
I admit it, I know not enough about the Reformed Church to assume much, but based on the many posts I’ve read, I have an honest question.
Do any from the Reformed theology believe that crazy people and those easily deceived are nutsoid and gullible purely for any reasons other than a spiritual influence, i.e. Prince of the Air-Ephesians 2:1-3? And what’s to be made of Christ’ “attitude” toward similar people in His day - is that something of the past and not applicable to Christians today?
The reason why I bring it up is because I grew up surrounded by people who mocked others for their differences in theology. I was supposedly of the “right” theology so I was spared the mockery. But even as a young teen, I always thought that the spirit behind the mockery was …well, actually evil.
But maybe you don’t believe in spiritual influences?
Renee — I think you make a valid point. It’s much easier to make fun of this guy than to obey Ephesians 4:29.
There are two sides to this though. When someone is this unhinged he does serve as a great illustration. For example, I don’t want to paint all Dispensationalists this way, but this guy is a great example of where it can go. He serves as an object lesson of “don’t go there” as in not to have the Book of Revelation open next to your newspaper. So in that sense I think some degree of mockery/warning is justified.
But you are right that many comments here (mine included) have gone beyond helpful warning signs to downright sinful mockery. It comes down to a spirit of “we’re right, and look at how foolish he is for being wrong, so doesn’t that make us feel better about being right.” At least I know that there is some of that in my heart.
Thank you for the admonition and warning.
Blessings,Jason
I’m sorry, I can’t take this guy seriously. I mean really, Comic Sans?
Jason,
Thanks for the explanation. Here’s where I struggle a little - this crazy person I myself feel an urge to mock, do I have any responsibility toward him and for his welfare? Am I called to pray for him or can I assume that God has either saved him or not and that my prayers for him will amount to very little?
Again, I may have a very weak understanding of the Reformation theology, but based on what I know, I can’t seem to reconcile Limited Atonment with a call for Christians to pray without ceasing. What are we praying for if the elect’s calling is a done deal? The whole concept, were I to embrace it, would breed a little (if not a lot) of laziness and complacency in me.
Renee —
I think that God uses means to accomplish His will and one of those means is the prayers of His saints. I don’t claim to have a full understanding of how it works.
I do know that praying for this man would be more appropriate than mocking him. Changing his mind would certainly be a supernatural work because unless I’m very much mistaken, he has steeled himself against outside influences. That’s why he wrote the song as a public service for those of us who are not as knowledgable about prophecy to change our minds.
If you really want to get into an excellent treatment of the philosophical and theological issues with Limited Atonement (or particular redemption as it is better called), I highly recommend you read John Piper’s “Are There Two Wills in God?” http://www.desiringgod.org/ResourceLibrary/Articles/ByDate/1995/1580_Are…
I hope that this helps.
Blessings,Jason
Thanks again, Jason. I’ll make a point of getting the book. I have a lot of respect for Piper’s preaching.
This may not be good eschatology, but you gotta love any song that includes the lyrics, “When Babylon the whore gets fried.”