Apr

10

Does God use our guilt as a proper motivation?

April 10, 2008 | 1 Comment

Posted by Daniel Eaton · Filed Under General Discussion, Ministry, Random thoughts 

I know that God, through the Holy Spirit, uses our conscience to guide us to repent, but I’m talking about something else. My daughter is headed to the Dominican Republic for a month-long mission trip. She has sent out support letters trying to raise the necessary funds. Sending them out though is […]

Apr

8

Why Do Good Things Happen to Bad People

April 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Posted by michaelp · Filed Under Christian Philosophy 

Interesting blog post by Alex Pruss at Problogion (great name!):
A traditional formulation of the problem of evil is to ask: “Why do bad things happen to good people and good things to bad people?” An interesting feature of our discourse–both academic and popular–about the problem of evil is that the second part is not much […]

Apr

6

Scot McKnight’s “Keys to the Kingdom” online

April 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Posted by joanied · Filed Under Christian Philosophy, Eschatology 

Scot had done a series of blog entries on the relationship of the kingdom of God to the Church and now it is online in one pdf document if you want to read it.  I haven’t read it all, but skimmed it, and it looks good.  Check it out if you want at:
http://www.vanguardchurch.com/mcknight_kingdom.pdf
Joanie D. 

Apr

5

Another Reason I Don’t Like Christian Music

April 5, 2008 | 1 Comment

Posted by michaelp · Filed Under Uncategorized 

Maybe this is the answer to all my questions.

Apr

2

“A Spirituality of Waiting”

April 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Posted by joanied · Filed Under Christian Philosophy 

 http://benwitherington.blogspot.com/
Ben Witherington III gives a link on his blog to an article by priest/author Henri Nouwen called A Spirituality of Waiting

You can read it at:
http://www.ciu.edu/resources/displaypdf.php?25
I like how he talks about some of the people in the Bible actively waiting.
Some of my favorite things from it are:
“So waiting is never a movement from nothing […]

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