I know this is a few months old, (which is an eternity on the interwebs) but i felt like posting it on my blog
Amazing Grace Baptist Church in Canton, North Carolina planned to burn books by Christian authors that distort the truth. Guess the first book on their burn list…. The Bible. Amazing Grace Baptist church is an Independent Baptist church that only follows the KJV and all other versions are “satanic.”
I put this on here for fun because local law enforcement……. eh, enforced the law and the church was unable to obtain a burning permit, so they resorted to this.
A few things to notice.
The first thing he destroys is the NKJV THEN a Tim Lahey book. I would have totally started with Lehay.
They also have to start playing music a few minutes in…. Give it a more “gospelesque” feeling.
On a fairly random note, they distroy a ZZ Top album
Where does the evangelical intersect with the poor?
Do mercy ministries evolve into social gospel?
For some reason the video is not working but it’s still a great resource.
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Drama of Scripture, The: Finding Our Place in the Biblical Story
it (the bible) functions as the authoritative Word of God for us when it becomes the one basic story through which we understand our own experience and thought, and the foundation upon which we base our decisions and our actions.
In other words, the Bible provides us with the basic story that we need in order to understand our world and to live in it as God’s people. We know that it is one thing to confess the Bible to be the Word of God, but often quite another thing to know how to read the Bible in a way that lets it influence the whole of our lives.
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Ravi Zacharias is the author of “Can man live without God” and other foundational christian apologetic works.
Os Guinness’ ministry
Ravi’s ministry http://www.rzim.org/
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Subjects
Tonight’s topic is “The Mystery of Evil, the Sovereignty of Good”
- Ravi Zacharias and Os Guinness discuss who defines what is good and what is evil. This should be good
Update: Os takes the stage.
-The day after 911 – where was God when the towers fell?
-Evil is the greatest challenge we as people face.
How does suffering or evil enter the world
1. bodies
2. nature
3. fellow human beings
Is God there and is he good? – We know there is a God and we know he is good because of Jesus
PS i know my notes are sporadic- i’m sorry:( I had to leave for a minute.
Ravi takes the stage – he will be discussing what “good” is
-if we don’t understand good we don’t understand God.
-he’s now talking about tiger wood’s apology and weariness of pleasure
-(sidenote he has a new book “has christianity failed you“)
-biggest national tragedy Males 18-25
-Evil= violation of purpose, the purpose of your creator and mine
-Ravi is discussing Auschwitz. He didn’t know how to process the tragedy. He mentions Bonhoeffer and quotes him at length
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The great masquerade of evil has wrought havoc with all our ethical preconceptions. This appearance of evil in the guise of light, beneficence and historical necessity is uttetrly bewildering to anyone nurtured in our traditional ethical systems. But for the Christian who frames his life on the Bible it simply confirms the radical evilness of evil.The failure of rationalism is evident. With the best of intentions, but with a naive lack of realism, the rationalist imagines that a small dose of reason will be enough to put the world right. In his short-sightedness he wants to do justice to all sides, but in the mele of conflicting forces he gets trampled upon without having achieved the slightest effect. Disappointed by the irrationality of the world, he realizes at last his futility, retires from the fray, and weakly surrenders to the winning side.
Worse still is the total collapse of moral fanaticism. The fanatic imagines that his moral purity will prove a match for the power of evil, but like a bull he goes for the red rag instead of the man who carries it, grows weary and succumbs. He becomes entangled with non-essentials and falls into the trap set by the superior ingenuity of his adversary.
Then there is the man with a conscience. He fights single- handed against overwhelming odds in situations which demand a decision. But there are so many conflicts going on, all of which demand some vital choice with no advice or support save that of his own conscience that he is torn to pieces. Evil approaches him in so many specious and deceptive guises that his conscience becomes nervous and vacillating. In the end he contents himself with a salved instead of a clear conscience, and starts lying to his conscience as a means of avoiding despair. If a man relies exclusively on his conscience he fails to see how a bad conscience is sometimes more wholesome and strong than a deluded one.
When men are confronted by a bewildering variety of alternatives, the path of duty seems to offer a sure way out. They grasp at the imperative as the one certainty. The responsibility for the imperative rests upon its author, not upon its executor. But when men are confined to the limits of duty, they never risk a daring deed on their own responsibility, which is the only way to score a bull’s eye against evil and defeat it. The man of duty will in the end be forced to give the devil his due.
What then of the man of freedom? He is the man who aspires to stand his ground in the world, who values the necessary deed more highly than a clear conscience or the duties of his calling, who is ready to sacrifice a barren principle for a fruitful compromise or a barren mediocrity for a fruitful radicalism. What then of him? He must beware lest his freedom should become his own undoing. For in choosing the lesser of two evils he may fail to see that the greater evil he seeks to avoid may prove the lesser. Here we have the raw material of tragedy.
Some seek refuge from the rough-and-tumble of public life in the sanctuary of their own private virtue. Such men how- ever are compelled to seal their lips and shut their eyes to the injustice around them. Only at the cost of self-deception can they keep themselves pure from the defilements incurred by responsible action. For all that they achieve, that which they leave undone will still torment their peace of mind. They will either go to pieces in face of this disquiet, or develop into the most hypocritical of all Pharisees.
Who stands his ground? Only the man whose ultimate criterion is not in his reason, his principles, his conscience, his freedom or his virtue, but who is ready to sacrifice all these things when he is called to obedient and responsible action in faith and exclusive allegiance to God. The responsible man seeks to make his whole life a response to the question and call of God.
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C.S. Lewis – You don’t have a Soul. You are a Soul. You have a body
- Ok – I hate to miss this but i have to go. adios!
Persecution in India: Francis’ Response from Cornerstone Church on Vimeo.
Orissa has one of the worst records for violence against Christians, due in part to the activities of a religious fundamentalist group. Many churches have been destroyed and Christian workers continue to be attacked. There is a law prohibiting conversion and, since 2000, baptism requires the permission of the government. About a year ago, Hindu radicals went on a “bloody rampage that left 50,000 Christians fleeing for their lives into the state’s forests.” (GFA, 2009).
Music by The Champion and His Burning Flame: http://www.myspace.com/thechampionandhisburningflame
Justin Taylor has commented on his blog as well.
Justin Taylor has taken the videos down but i’ll keep them up.
I know valentine’s day is over….. but this is still worth watching
Yeah.
You could lose something very valuable – your innocence. Chatroulette.com plays roulette with video chat participants by randomly pairing you with other video chatters; once you press play the interweb chamber spins and there you are, in all your stupidity, staring at someone else dumb enough to use the service.
I have to admit something.
I did it.
I came face to face with a wookie look-a-like wearing a ski mask (i think it’s wookie mating season). As soon as i saw he had a mask – concealing his identity, I did a hand stand to impress him. He laughed and I pressed the stop button.