Peace on Earth
January 8, 2011 at 2:11 am | Posted in Christianity | Leave a commentTags: abortion, agenda, America, angel, answer, ateasetees, attitude, bells, best life now, Bible, bold, Bono, carbon, Catholic, chimes, Christian, Christmas, church, clique, comfort, compromise, Congress, darkness, death, Do They Know It's Christmastime At All, doom, double standard, dread, drugs, ESV, faith, false, family, fear, feed the world, food, George Michael, gift, glass, God, goodwill, gospel, gossip, grace, hell, help, holiday, holy, hope, image, Israel, Jehovah's Witness, Jesus, jet, joy, judgment, kindness, KJV, law, life, light, love, lyrics, marriage, material, memo, mercy, mission trip, money, moral, Mormon, murder, NASB, nation, need, Obama, office, pastor, peace, peace on earth, play, positive, prayer, preach, premise, problem, rain, rebel, reincarnation, repent, river, ruin, sale, salvation, scripture, sermon, sex, shade, sin, smile, socks, song, sovereign, squalor, sun, switch, tears, ten commandments, Textus Receptus, theology, thinking, toys, truth, U2, well-pleased, work, works, world, wretch
The Christmas season is winding down (for me it really isn’t over til after the new year) and, in an effort to keep from completely ruining your Christmas joy, I’ve held onto this until after the holiday was over. I also wanted to see what everyone said during the week leading up to Christmas. I have been thinking more (wait! don’t go yet…) and there have been a few loose threads that I’ve been following. Oddly enough, when I began to think about the threads, they all seem to be interconnected. I’m going to go through them and would love to hear your thoughts on these different topics.
One of the things that I’ve been thinking about comes from the songs that I’ve heard played over the Christmas holiday season. Things that talk about goodwill, peace on earth, and kindness. One that I heard very often throughout the weeks leading up to Christmas was the song Do They Know It’s Christmas Time At All. In case you haven’t heard it (although there are a number of remakes on Youtube), here is the original:
What is the church?
June 28, 2010 at 6:30 am | Posted in Christianity | Leave a commentTags: action, agenda, America, ateasetees, band, believer, Bible, blockbuster, body, bride, burden, called out, character, Christian, church, clique, compromise, control, convict, death, definition, discipline, ekklesia, elder, ethnicity, evangelism, facade, faith, flock, forgiven, funds, goal, goat, God, gospel, grace, grounded, group, hair, hell, holy, Holy Spirit, hope, income, Jesus, judgment, law, life, line, logic, lost, love, lure, maturity, mercy, ministry, money, movie, murder, numbers, nurture, past, pastor, peace, prayer, Precept, prestige, prize, promise, repent, responsibility, roles, rooted, sacrifice, salvation, scripture, secular, sermon, service, sheep, shepherd, sin, skin color, souls, suicide, summer, ten commandments, tithe, trust, truth, unforgiven, unity
It seems like such an innocent question doesn’t it? Logic would say that there should be a simple definition for what the church is and that should be that. Unfortunately, there isn’t. Well, I take that back. There is a simple definition of what the church is. A large number of those who profess Christ even seem to know what this definition is. What’s odd is that, while they know the definition, it doesn’t match up with what they are living out. Taken to the next level, this same oddity seems to be true for local churches. Attendees can give the Sunday school answer for the question but, looking at the church/individual, there’s a discrepancy. Before I go where I’m going, it would be helpful to have the definition of what the church is according to the Bible: Continue Reading What is the church?…
One Blood
December 7, 2009 at 5:21 pm | Posted in Christianity | Leave a commentTags: 1960s, Acts 17, Adam, Al Sharpton, America, American, Areopagus, ateasetees, Athens, black, Christian, Christmas, church, clique, co-Redemptrix, color, creed, denomination, discrimination, dogma, ELCA, ethnicity, evangelical, evangelism, Eve, founding fathers, freedom, God, hatred, heresy, heretical, heritage, hope, I Have A Dream, In Jesus Name, Irish, Italian, Jamie Foxx, Japanese, Jehovah's Witness, Jesse Jackson, Jesus, love, Lutheran, Martin Luther King Jr., Mary, melting pot, Michael Jackson, Mormon, Native American, one baptism, one body, one faith, one God, one hope, one Lord, one man, one Spirit, Paul, PCUSA, Polish, prayer, Presbyterian, president, prosper, race, racism, rejoice, Roman Catholic, sacrifice, safety, salvation, Savior, sin, skin color, slavery, truth, UMC, United Methodist, value, white
I’ve been pondering something that I’ve seen happen a lot since I’ve been alive and it’s increased lately with the new president and administration. When America was founded, it was founded as a haven for Christians. Because of its Christian roots, as it grew, it became known as a melting pot. It was a place where anyone, regardless of color, race, creed, etc. could have the opportunity to excel and prosper. They could have the opportunity to build the life they dreamed of in freedom and safety.
Get the Word out! 