Joel Osteen: Mitt Romney is a Christian Just Like Me
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My Commentary:
This may be true. Joel, are you a believer in the Jesus of “the Bible” or the Jesus of “Mormonism”… or the Jesus of “whatever anybody believes him to be”?
Jesus of Nazareth says about Himself, “I am the Way the Truth and the Life… No One Comes to the Father but through me.” And Paul the Apostle told us that if we or anyone or even an angel preaches to you a different Gospel than the One that the apostles preached… he is accursed.
Did Joseph Smith receive another Gospel other than the one that Paul and the Disciples received?
You be the Judge!
Video below made by former Mormons
And the Gospel of Joel Osteen… is it different from the Gospel that was preached by Jesus of Nazareth and His apostles?
You be the Judge!
Joel says, “I don’t know…” Jesus says “I am…” and then tells us to proclaim it! (Matthew 28.18-20)
The True Gospel vs False Gospel on Our Sinfulness:
Men like to be eseemed and exalted… not told the truth about ourselves…
But God, while we were still sinners (wicked, evil and His enemy), died for us… this is AMAZING GRACE!
Matt Chandler on David, Goliath, and the Gospel
Denny Burk: Students Boo Santorum’s Remarks about Gay Marriage
Bach: Cello Song
Nearer My God to Thee
Dennis Swanberg: Bengy and the Zipper
Immanuel: The Real Meaning of Christmas
The Story of Christmas
Paul Washer: It’s The Truth
Debating The Date of Revelation
Charles Wesley
Michael Horton: Does Calvinism Make God a “Moral Monster”?
Any view that makes God the author of sin does indeed turn the object of our worship into a moral monster. However, any deity who merely stands around reluctantly permitting horrible things for which he has no greater purpose in view, is equally reprehensible. In the one, God is sovereign but not good; in the latter, God is neither. Once you acknowledge that God foreknows a sinful act and chooses to allow it (however reluctantly) when he could have chosen not to, the only consolation is that God never would have allowed it unless he had already determined why he would permit it and how he has decided to overcome it for his glory and our good. Mercifully, Scripture does reveal that God does exactly that. Roger agrees that God “chose to allow” suffering and sin (72). The Calvinist says that God chose to allow them for a reason. It’s permitting rather than creating, but it’s permission with a purpose. Permission without purpose makes God a “moral monster” indeed.
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Paul Washer: The Gospel, The Most Terrifying Truth of Scripture
Earth from the International Space Station
Timothy Dalrymple: The Young Christian’s Guide to Sex at Seminary
Interesting read on a former Conservative Evangelical Princeton Grad from the heart of Liberal Theology…
My Outsider status became clear to me — if not for the first time, at least in a new way — when I sat with friends on the seminary field, stretching before a game of ultimate frisbee. It was still my first semester, and I was getting to know the people and the place. We were talking about the sins that were emphasized in the churches that brought us up. I said that pre- or extra-marital sex was the grave sin against which we, in my youth group and Sunday School classes, were most gravely and constantly warned. And, I said, I appreciated that, as it had helped me maintain my commitment to abstain from sex until marriage.
I might as well have said that I believe in eating toddlers with chipotle sauce and a side order of puppies. My friends’ and fellow seminarians’ expressions had gone, suddenly, from benign conversational interest to something that looked like rats and skunks had deposited themselves deep in their nostrils, where they were scratching and relieving themselves and spreading their odors. This, I saw, was the last thing my friends wanted to talk about. And such a “backwards” and “judgmental” attitude (as it would later be described to me) really had no place at an enlightened seminary.
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David Powlison: I Feel Distant from God
Tim and Kathy Keller: Marriage Webinar
John Piper and Collin Hansen: Cannot Afford to be Colorblind
Tim Keller: Gospel Polemics, Part 3
Another rule for polemics related to Murray’s Rule against misrepresentation comes from the 17th century Scottish divine George Gillespie. In his forward to “The Candid Reader” in The Presbyterian’s Armoury, vol 2, George Gillespie says the he is quite willing to take criticism. “If any man shall, by unanswerable contrary reasons or evidences, discover error or mistake in any of my principles, let truth have the victory, let God have the glory.”
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