When Pete Absolon, the Rocky Mountain director of NOLS, set out for a climb in Wyoming’s Wind River Range last summer, life couldn’t have been better. A deadly mistake by another man ended it all in an instant. An sobering story of tragedy, sovereignty, grace and forgiveness.
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The Blossomwood Journey Group is going through the book of Galatians. I decided to go through that book again today. Something stood out to me that I’d not noticed before.
Emails and blogs are not the most conducive communication sources. It is easy to misread a person’s intent or emotion. One internet norm is that CAPITAL LETTERS indicate yelling or anger. With that in consideration, read what Paul wrote at the end of his Galatians letter/blog/email:
continue reading »Michael Patton wonders if God will really allow death bed conversions of murderers and child molesters? He struggles with the apparent difficulty that a postmodern culture has accepting such a radical premise.
Bob
Fides Quaerens Intellectum
Ray Comfort’s article entitled Hell’s Best Kept Secret is pertinent to the recent discussion on this site as to what it really means to love and accept someone as Jesus did.
God is not some wishy-washy, doting grandfather that winks at sin. Yes, He is infinite love. But’s He’s also a God of perfect justice and terrifying wrath. We misunderstand what happened on the cross if we see it only as a magnificent, unmatched demonstration of the love of God. The cross is also a frightening exhibition of God’s holy wrath and judgement.
continue reading »Read it and look in the mirror: http://www.internetmonk.com/articles/B/broken.html
Bob
Fides Quaerens Intellectum
Extract:
“With their constant promises of joy, power, contentment, healing, prosperity, purpose, better relationships, successful parenting and freedom from every kind of oppression and affliction, I wonder why more Christians aren’t either being sued by the rest of humanity for lying or hauled off to a psych ward to be examined for serious delusions.”
“You people with your Bibles. Look something up for me? Isn’t almost everyone in that book screwed up? I mean, don’t the screwed up people- like Abraham, Jacob, Moses, David, Hosea- outnumber the “good Christians” by about ten to one? And isn’t it true that the more we get to look at a Biblical character close up, the more likely it will be that we’ll see a whole nasty collection of things that Christians say they no longer have to deal with because, praise God! I’m fixed? Not just a few temper tantrums or ordinary lies, but stuff like violence. Sex addictions. Abuse. Racism. Depression. It’s all there, yet we still flop our Bibles open on the pulpit and talk about “Ten Ways To Have Joy That Never Goes Away!” Where is the laugh track?”
continue reading »Chew on this today. This is Ephesians 2:3-5 from the paraphrase, The Message:
It wasn’t so long ago that you were mired in that old stagnant life of sin. You let the world, which doesn’t know the first thing about living, tell you how to live. You filled your lungs with polluted unbelief, and then exhaled disobedience. We all did it, all of us doing what we felt like doing, when we felt like doing it, all of us in the same boat. It’s a wonder God didn’t lose his temper and do away with the whole lot of us. Instead, immense in mercy and with an incredible love, he embraced us. He took our sin-dead lives and made us alive in Christ. He did all this on his own, with no help from us! Then he picked us up and set us down in highest heaven in company with Jesus, our Messiah.
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Meet Judy Webb. She says she’s “just an average girl with an amazing God. I was never that brave, never really outgoing, usually was afraid of new situations. I often times would try to hide who I really was in order to fit into a crowd.” Read more about her story and what she thinks about the Sojourn community.
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