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Kim Fabricus recently offered twelve ripostes for ‘militant atheists’, one of which was about prayer. —Prayer plainly doesn’t work. —Thank God!1 On a spectrum of immature to mature, understandings of Christian prayer will range from the anthropocentric and mechanistic2 notion that prayer is about us invoking God to do something we want for our world, to the more theocentric and . . . → Read More: praying with jesus Done. I really enjoyed the research on this one. My continual struggle is starting early enough on an assignment so that I have time to drown myself in research and actually write the essay. There are 34 items in the bibliography (dictionaries, commentaries, journal articles and some topical monographs), and I really only dipped into things. Pretty late in the . . . → Read More: original sin essay Here. Interesting stuff…  4 comments - (Comments are closed)  bible, christianity, philosophy, science, theology, www  astronomy, atheism, church, creation, culture, current event, debate, ethics, evil, evolution, faith, god, heaven, Holy Spirit, hope, humanity, intelligent design, interpretation, learning, life, morals, order, philosophy, religion, science, spirituality, theism, theology, truth, web These guys are up to it again… Comments are closed ethics, www change, church, community, creation, current event, dignity, ethics, evangelism, god, humanity, imagination, incarnational, porn, random, religion, temptation, web By the way, this is NOT me… And they’re (hopefully) kidding… Issues of culture, religion, politics and the like are of much interest to me. This Friday, quite an interesting complex of issues will be focused in one event in which I’ll be taking part. As a pastor of one of the churches in the Northcote area, I’ve been asked to take part in the ANZAC Day Commemorative Service, where we . . . → Read More: public service: worship and prayer included 3 comments - (Comments are closed) christianity, politics belief, christianity, church, community, conflict, culture, current event, faith, general, god, humanity, life, peace, politics, relationships, religion, theism If only people in general –and Christians in particular– could grasp just a few key things that makes Jesus who He is… then I’m convinced not only that Christianity would have a better reputation, but –even further– those who aren’t Christians might be far less against the growth of Christianity… People are scared about the growth of Christianity because they . . . → Read More: good news for all the people 9 comments - (Comments are closed) bible, christianity, theology belief, christianity, church, conflict, discernment, discipleship, faith, god, gospel, heaven, interpretation, Israel, jesus, Jewish, kingdom of god, politics, prayer, religion, spirituality, suffering, theology I think my church just may be perfect… Seriously! Well, of course, not ‘perfect’ in the sense that many mean! Two things, quickly… First, the pastors and deacons (who make up the church ‘council’) recently went on a prayer retreat together. We had times of discussion, corporate prayer, private prayer, walking, talking and singing during the day. Toward the end . . . → Read More: a perfect church I won’t embarrass myself, but just know that I could share many stories of times I’ve done things ‘for’ someone and found myself eventually having to apologise and say, “Sorry, I was just trying to help!” However well-intentioned our actions may be, they can be un-helpful or even harmful. Even sincere people can be sincerely wrong.From age 11-18, I spent . . . → Read More: building for god’s kingdom The phrases ‘christian life’, ‘spiritual life’, ‘family life’, ‘work life’, ‘prayer life’, ‘devotional life’ and many others are very common. What I’m talking about is our tendency to divide up our lives into bits that don’t blend together or overflow into one another. It’s when the various ‘parts’ of your life have little or no effect on the other ‘parts.’I’d . . . → Read More: come part mental eyes 2 comments - (Comments are closed) bible, christianity church, compartmentalisation, life, spirituality |
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