Linkathon!
For those who love Jesus, death is a temporary separation…
Jesus, the strong and the weak…
Why liberal Christians should read Eugene Peterson…
The Bible’s biggest unsolved mysteries…
Will there be a Christian halftime show for the Super Bowl?
What the church can learn from Taylor Swift…
A Catholic theologian tells Trump how to get to heaven…
Springsteens lost gospel album…
Grifter Sean Feucht says government planning “revival “meetings…
Halloween is the perfect time to share the Gospel…
Will AI save us or destroy us?
N.T. Wright on why Christians should care about improving the world…
For the Bible’s biggest mysteries article, everybody knows the Ark of the Covenant is in a warehouse at Area 51, right next to the freezer where they keep the aliens from the Roswell crash.
“A Catholic theologian tells Trump how to get to heaven…“
– being fed that general message my whole life in the RCC never brought me to Christ… it estranged me from him. I was born again after hearing the cross preached, the free grace of God offered in the gospel. Then the works came.
One of my worst nightmares is that Sean Feucht will one day think he has divine direction and that hw will try to run for public office. Maybe the power will ooze out of his life if someone gives him a good haircut (sorry, couldn’t resist!). This guy is totally in love with himself and his illusion of his own power.
I’m convinced that AI and robotics are being pushed hard by our billionaire tech overlords because with these technologies they will have no need of other human beings for the world to run in the optimal way that they intend. As for me, I find the idea that an AI vicar could serve me Communion only a little less absurd than that an AI Jesus could offer me salvation.
@ Robert F,
Ask Sarah Connor how well AI worked out for her.
@ Linn,
Maybe Feucht will burn down the Capitol building and blame it on the Jews.
Football? Here I go with what many here in my football obsessed, and high-school football obsessed, county in Central PA would consider a form of heresy: football is an unworthy entertainment and sport for Christians to watch and participate in. The intentional violence in football, which we now know for certain is terribly damaging to human brains, done for the sake of sport is something that is not commensurate with the teaching of Jesus. I don’t care about halftime shows, it’s the main attraction that I find appalling. I can’t believe how much passion so many Christians are putting into contesting the appropriateness of a scheduled halftime performer, while not having the least problem with watching and cheering as men bash each others heads innumerable times during the rest of the event. By comparison, almost any halftime show would be more wholesome than the game itself.
Robert F,
I know that you have a point…but I’m also a rabid Minnesota Vikings fan.
If I’m not wearing Viking gear, I’m either in the shower or wearing hockey gear.
My conscience does occasionally bother me…
Michael,
In the area where I live even Mennonites have Super Bowl parties.
I’ve been watching the World Series, and I have to say I’m finding it more enjoyable than the Super Bowl. So much less hype/buildup. It’s truly about the game and not much else.
“For those who love Jesus, death is a temporary separation…”
I understand the scriptural warrant for such a statement; at the same time it unsettles me profoundly, because it seems to make my salvation, and salvation in general, dependent on my ability to love Jesus, and the ability to love in general. Knowing myself, I know that my love of Jesus, or anyone and anything else, to the degree that I have it, is a very impure, ambivalent, and inconstant thing; and I wonder if I will have it at the moment I need it most to insure salvation, and whether there will be enough love in it, and not too much of the other impure stuff that makes it a very unpleasant cocktail.
Robert F
“I understand the scriptural warrant for such a statement; at the same time it unsettles me profoundly,…”
You are correct and your statement has been debated and doctrinized (my made up word) into dogmas and statements of faith for centuries.
I believe the truth is stated after the flood story by God and in “for all have sinned…”
The question then comes down to this in my mind, “why would someone claim faith in Jesus?” Then it has to be followed up with, “If Jesus is one’s Lord then how should one live in this life (knowing they fall short)?”
Robert F,
Lots to unpack here…
The verbiage makes me feel uncomfortable as well…because it seems to equate loving God with loving family, friends, or cats.
The Scriptures tend to speak more in terms of obedience or desire to be obedient…which also becomes a problem.
There are times when I feel that emotional connection to Jesus…but it’s as complex as my other relationships.
Having said all that, I don’t worry much about personal salvation.
Jesus came to save and I need saving…so that works out real well for me.
Grace makes up for all my lack and frees me to focus on those Spirit filled attempts to obey…
Michael,
Then I think I must view it this way: “For those who Jesus loves, death is a temporary separation, and Jesus loves everyone.”
Robert F,
I would have no quarrel with that statement. In fact, I would argue for it.
Micheal,
“And all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well…”
Robert F,
That would be the conclusion of my argument… 🙂