religion - Part 8

What happens when there’s a failure in church leadership?

What happens when there’s a failure in church leadership? Actually, the better question is what should happen when there’s a failure in church leadership? The example we’ll look at is real. It happened. And it’s sure tempting to blame the Bishop. In fact, that’s pretty much what the New York Times article does. But there are deeper issues. Larger questions. One of them – how did this situation ever get to the point where $2.3 million dollars was spent on a home for a retiring Bishop?

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The Great Omission from The Great Commission

Grown-again Christian

If we are going to do something about the Great Disparity between Christianity as promised in the Bible versus Christianity as experienced in life today, we really must perform The Great Commission, not The Great Omission.

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The problem of Coexist – and – Love your enemy.

Barriers to Belief, The problem of ...

Coexist. Love your enemy. One is from man. The other from God. Can the two concepts actually “coexist”? What about hatred? Where does it fit in?

Coexist. OK – you had to know it wasn’t going to be as simple as just getting along with each other. True – even that is hard enough. But look at the image to the right. I haven’t seen it hardly at all lately, but it used to be a popular bumper sticker.

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Our Father

The Lord's Prayer

This then is how you should pray: Our Father…
But what does the word “Father” really mean? It’s a common enough word. But does it have the “common” meaning in this context?

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Is liberal Christianity signing its own death warrant?

Something from the news

Is liberal Christianity signing its own death warrant? That question was from 2012. Maybe a better question for today is whether Christianity is signing its own death warrant – liberal or otherwise. However, I think the best question is can Christianity sign its own death warrant.

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Confidence in organized religion hits all-time low in Gallup Poll

A look at ourselves

But let’s look beyond just confidence in organized religion. If you have little to no confidence in your church, you probably won’t be involved there. And for sure – if your not involved in your church – you will be saving Nobody’s soul in that church.

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Search me, know my heart, test me

A look at ourselves

Search me, know my heart, test me. Who would ever say these things? Do you say them? Maybe you should. Ps 139:23 Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. That’s from Psalms. So if you’re a Christian, you should be asking this question. Asking no less than

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We can only help the broken world around us if …

A look at ourselves

We can all be that someone who helps the broken world around us. Someone that maybe we didn’t have when we needed them. We can be that someone for one of God’s children today. But we can only do that if we’re willing to be vulnerable ourselves – and share what we’ve been through.

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Where Are You?

A look at ourselves

Where Are You?

You probably think “Where Are You” is a person asking God where He is. Wrong!
Well – sort of wrong.

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Stephen Hawking - paraphrase - even believers in predestiny look before crossing the street.

The problem of predestiny

Faith That Thinks, Predestiny versus Free Will, The problem of ...

While proponents of predestiny would say the difference between offered to all and accepted by some is because God predetermined who would accept – does that not mean God / Jesus lied when they said the offer was for all?

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