A big problem with the “hot button” social issues that get debated endlessly is that you often have people on both sides of the debate who misunderstand, oversimplify, or in some cases even misrepresent the opposing view. The video I have linked here (I couldn’t get it to embed) gives a good, common sense, look at the abortion issue.
Probably the best line in it was, “If your views on abortion can fit on a bumper sticker, you haven’t thought it through hard enough.” I think this can also be said for all of the “hot button” social issues. When I took a course on Ethics in college, the biggest thing I learned was that there are no simple answers.
Last week, a number of us produced the following video. Thanks to Matt and Blake of Plasma Productions, and Nathan for his last-minute willingness to jump in and read the script, this eight minute video is now on youtube and gathering steam. Please link to it or embed it on your own website. It lays out in plain language five big reasons why the Trinity doesn’t make sense.
Will you ask these five questions of your pastor or trusted Christian expert? Most people just believe in the Trinity because that is how they were raised. Tradition has been passed down from generation to generation and no one seems to be asking whether or not this doctrine is biblical. If you care about this subject, if this is important to you, if you want to know who God really is, then you owe it to yourself to wrestle with these questions.
I found the following six-part video by the noted Baptist author Warren Prestidge. Pastor Prestidge is the one who wrote Life, Death, and Destiny: one of the best books on conditional immortality around. Click here to check it out.
On this Christmas morn, whether you celebrate the holiday with all its traditions of lights, trees and gifts, or not, we all share in common as followers and believers in Jesus, the Christ, the belief that he was miraculously born by the power of the Spirit of God, and because of this divine, supernatural birth, the second or “last Adam” was born. Jesus was born without a sinful nature (like we are), and was able to live a life of obedience to His God, to the point of giving up his own life to die on the cross for our sins. Jesus became that sacrificial Lamb of God, without stain or blemish or sin, so that through his cleansing blood, we might be forgiven of our sins. With that forgiveness, we have the hope of inheriting eternal life in the kingdom of God, in the age to come. It is indeed something to celebrate and shout from the mountain tops, not only in the month of December, but year round.
Parenting. It’s not easy. We may have Norman Rockwell images floating in our heads and have grandiose ideas of what kind of mom or dad we will be when we become parents…but reality might be a little different! I remember when Tony and I bought our first house, there was green marker scribbled on the hardwood floor, and I thought, “that will NEVER happen when I’m a Mom. I’ll watch my kids better than that!”
And then I had kids.
Watch this amazing video featuring Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan from 1930:
Anne Sullivan must have been quite a woman of love, compassion & patience. How long must it have taken to teach and work with Helen Keller, a woman born blind and deaf?! Yet Anne Sullivan did not see someone disposable, but rather someone who had value and was worth spending her time and life with to teach and care for. Amazing!
Watching this video again brought to mind some things I have been thinking about recently. Discipleship takes time. Have you ever been working with someone to bring them along in their faith? This isn’t a one-time momentary thing is it? If you are the mature believer in a relationship with someone coming along in their walk with the Lord you have to be ready to committ your time and love to this person. Teaching someone to observe all the Jesus commanded (Matthew 28:19-20) doesn’t just happen on Sundays either.
I found the following six-part video by the noted Baptist author Warren Prestidge. Pastor Prestidge is the one who wrote