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The two-part article below is a keeper! (That means I agree with 97%+ of it. Of course, you may have a different definition of “keeper”!) I waited a few months to get Part 2 so I could post both of them together here. Part 2 was worth waiting for! Don’t read it until you have [...] God’s will does not always come to pass. Does that sound… wrong… somehow? How many times have we heard, though normally stated in softer, more compassionate terms, “Just get over it! It happened, so it was obviously God’s will; accept it and get on with your life!”? Sometimes it takes the form [...] Grace? Or Faith? Or Works? AND Works? ???
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast. Ephesians 2:8-9 How many times have you listened to a [...] Dear ISI’ers, I saved this back in March from a posting by Jay Guin to put in the blog sometime. I was impressed all over again reading it just now, refreshing my memory as to why I had saved it in my “need to post someday” folder. Have you ever spoken with someone like the [...] Sorry, don’t have much time to expound on this right now, but listen to this sermon (really more of a “talk”) when you get time! Why? Because this “What is…?” talk is from someone with a lot of credibility with the “The Church of Christ IS The Kingdom, inclusively and exclusively” group… and he basically [...] 0139 – Do YOU have DOGMA? (Part 2) Note: Part 1 was posted 7/14/2009. THIS part, Part 2, includes the first posting, for continuity, but then concludes the posting below, i.e., if you read the 7/14/2009 posting when it was published you may think the below is a duplicate, but only the first part below [...] Well, do you? Have DOGMA, that is? What is dogma, anyway? Is it bad or good? Well, I suspect that the answer is: It depends. What is dogma? Merriam-Webster thinks it is: 1 a: something held as an established opinion ; especially : a definite authoritative tenet b: a code of such tenets <pedagogical [...] CENI: Antithetical Thinking Posted: 04 May 2009 05:00 AM PDT by Jay Guin
We humans have a natural tendency to overreact to emotionally traumatic events. We tend toward avoidance behaviors, that is, if one dog bites us, we stay 100 feet away from the next dog we see. And this affects our theology. We [...] I have been tasked (that word sounds onerous, but in this case it is not; in fact, it is a blessing!) to teach the 20s/30s class Sunday morning. In 35 minutes or less (assuming our starting activities, including prayer, take less than 10 minutes!) I am to explain how to “take Christianity to the current [...] When was the last time you were verbally assaulted, told your opinions were worthless, or, to use the modern lingo, completely “dissed”? My next to the last time was in the context of a Bible study. I had been asked to help a few folks understand how I had managed to come to a non-traditional [...] | ||||||
