Two more churches in Malaysia were firebombed Sunday, bringing the total to six since a court ruled that non-Muslims can use the word “Allah” as a term for God.(article)
The highest court in Malaysia has ruled that Christians can use “Allah” as a term for God. This move by the courts provoked Muslims to react violently against Christian Churches in Malaysia. Most of the contraversy centers around bible translations that use the term Allah for God within the bible. Some muslims see this as trickery to convert muslims to the christian faith, while indigenous Christian- Malaysians see this just as saying “God” in their own language.
Christian Churches have been firebombed and bibles have been burned to protest the “christinizing” of Allah.
I personally dont have any problems with Malaysian Christians using Allah, but there is a point of hesitation. Should we examine the amount of baggage a word carries? Does the muslim accusation of “trickery” carry any weight?
what do you think?
Passion is over.
Passion is Now
The conference is over but Passion continues; 268 Generation has a challenge.
Is Jesus more valuable than life? this is a question that takes a lifetime to answer, but consist of gut-wrenching, moment by moment, strategic decision making that only God can work to completion.
The passion is for Jesus’ fame. Do we sacrafice our story for his Story? – the sacrifice is really an exchange
(random reflections on passion)
I just received my Passion 2010 Tickets and i’m stoked.
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From the beginning Passion has been rooted in the confession of Isaiah 26:8: “Yes Lord, walking in the way of Your truth we wait eagerly for You, for Your name and renown are the desire of our souls.”*
As a result, Passion seeks to gather college and university students across the nation and around the world to seek the face of God, asking Him to ignite in our souls a passionate pursuit of Jesus Christ and a desire to spread His fame to everyone on earth.
We believe God is calling out a generation of college students committed to the glory of His name in all things. God longs to bring awakening to every campus, mobilizing the students of today to finish the task of global evangelization in this generation. God is calling us out for this purpose, in this moment, for His renown.
*This version of Isaiah 26:8 is a combination of the NIV and NASB translations.
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Far too often I’m guilty of only reading popular authors. So I’m trying to establish some consistency in reading puritan works, hopping to fall in love with a few of them. That’s why I picked up “the doctrine of justification” by John Owen. It’s a terrifying book. It frightens me a little. The language and spelling are not contemporary; long and complex sentences subdue the inattentive reader; but the treasure, the painstaking clarity of careful exposition with a mind and heart devoted to the person of Jesus, makes this book a necessary read for anyone studying the doctrine of justification. Here are a two quotes.
for the doctrine of justification is directive of christian practice, and in no other evangelical truth is the whole of our obedience more concerned; for the foundation, reasons, and motives, of all our duty towards God, are contained therein.
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Whether it be anything in ourselves, as our faith and repentance, the renovation of our natures, inheret habits of grace, and actual of righteousness, which we have done, or may do; or whether it be the obedience, righteousness, satisfaction and merit of the Son of God, our mediator and surety of the covenant, imputed to us. One of these it must be, namely something that is our own, which, whatever may be the influence of the grace of God in it, or causality of it, because wroght in and by us, is inherently our own in a proper sense; or something, which being not our own, not inherent in us, not wrought by us, is yet imputed unto us, for the pardon of our sins, and the acceptation of our persons as righteousness; or the making of us righteous in the sight of God.
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This is a direct post from a friend of mine who goes to liberty university. It’s on facebook and it reminds me of North Greenville University so very much.
His name is Josh Walker; he’s a friend of mine from Roanoke VA. I taught him well.
I have come to the point in my Liberty University career where I simply do not care about the irrational hair and dress code. I have been told by RAs and even a professor numerous times this semester to get a haircut. I must concede and confess this is simply not going to happen. I have been okay with these petty rules for the last three years, but now I am just to the point where I cannot stand it any longer. The leadership seems to care more about the trivial matter of the length of my hair and the type of shirt that I am wearing than they do about my spiritual condition. I hear more about getting a haircut from the “spiritual leaders” of the campus than I do about spiritual things. There simply seems to be a disconnect here. I concede that there are probably some helpful things contained in the Liberty Way, although I struggle to think of any, but by-and-large it seems that the Liberty Way only propagates long-held dogmatism that is based upon crappy exegesis and even worse critical reflection. We are told we must wear collared shirts to look more professional. If this were only true… If they are going for professionalism then why are jeans allowed? Why can we have our shirts untucked? Flipflops? How are flipflops professional? Now I am definitely not advocated we move to a more professional dress code, but let us simply act with a shred of rationality. When it comes to the hair code I have never actually ever heard a compelling reason in favor of it. It seems to me that it simply boils down to the dogmatism that ruled the 1970’s when the University was founded. The hippies and stoners had long hair, so Christian men shouldn’t. When you ask an RA why there is a hair code the normal answer is that they don’t know, but we must obey just because it is a rule. Duty for duty’s sake. Give me a break. The Principle of Sufficient Reason anyone? The truth is that there is no sufficient reason for the rule. I pay out thousands of dollars per year only to have RAs badger me about my hairstyle. There’s my two cents.
I am constructing a deductive argument in my mind that will hopefully prove positively that the standard of dress and hair at Liberty University is irrational. Wonder if this will work?
Oh well. Looks like I will suck it up until I graduate. But I will not back down. I will not get a haircut until AFTER this semester is over. I will get a haircut on my own terms and not some power hungry RAs.
I reminded him that though his school has wax statues of Jerry Falwell around campus, NGU had graven images of Christ in random spots. I think the “graven image” thing might be a bit worse
I feel that anyone who went to a christian school may find some common place here!
Introducing CADIE
Research group switches on world’s first “artificial intelligence” tasked-array system.For several years now a small research group has been working on some challenging problems in the areas of neural networking, natural language and autonomous problem-solving. Last fall this group achieved a significant breakthrough: a powerful new technique for solving reinforcement learning problems, resulting in the first functional global-scale neuro-evolutionary learning cluster.
They’ve had better, but the autopilot email is funny
Who is Tim Killer?
Luckily he has his own wiki. I need my own wiki.
