Head-dibs

Watch this excellent presentation called " The Bible vs. The Book of Mormon " " The Watchtower Society Exposed " is an older documentary, but worth the time. Grek Koukl answers the question, " How do I give a gracious response to someone who tells me he's 'sending white light' my way when I've asked for prayers ?" I can't stand it when people push their opinions on me. I am offended by this public service announcement:

Clement of Alexandria (155 - 220 A.D.) lived during a time of growth for early Christianity. The early Alexandrian church was surrounded by pagan culture, pressed on all sides by either the obscure principles of religious orthodoxy, or outright heresy. [1] The Alexandrian school taught doctrine to early Christians in their preparations for baptism into the Christian faith. Clement (not to be confused with Clement of Rome, but of Alexandria) became the second leader of this school, followed by Origen. The Alexandrian school became more formalized and eventually laid the foundation for what has become the calendar period commonly known as Lent [2] (Lent as currently observed is nothing near what Clement and others taught or intended for the school). “The crucial achievement of Clement and Origen was to put over the gospel in terms which could be understood by people familiar with the highest forms of Greek culture. They established once for all the intellectual respectability of the new ...

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Toads don't go to hell. Humans do . Dr. King shares Coaching and Consulting resources (related to his CIU-Seminary and School of Missions course, "Biblical Foundations of Leadership.") Tired of the old John Piper and Rick Warren debacle? Try Skip Heitzig rolling out the red carpet for Leonard Sweet at Calvary Chapel . One parent + one parent + one parent = one baby . I vote "Eugene" as a name. Ash and lightning above the Iceland volcano. Death comes unexpectedly : "You Say Party! We Say Die!" drummer dies onstage.

As promised in the blogs since Sunday, here are some suggestions for getting the conversation started and how to evangelize animists/New Agers. Note: this is not going to be an “overnight” process, unless the Lord has already been at work and you get to reap what someone else has sown. Otherwise, be prepared to cultivate a relationship that the following may be accomplished: Getting the conversation started with animists/New Agers: 1. Ask questions: a. General (these put the burden of proof back on an objector): i. “What do you mean when you say _____?” ii. “How do you come to that conclusion?” b. Specific [i] i. Ask, “How, if we are divine, could our mere ignorant self so easily override our divine goodness?” ii. Ask if truth contradicts itself. It does not. If we each have our own truth, these different truths can’t ultimately contradict each other—or they wouldn’t be true. c. The New Age Movement (NAM) says that Jesus is only one of many ways to God; but Jesus said He is the only wa...

[This post is a continuation of Sunday's post.] “ having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart .” (Ephesians 4:18) “ Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him .” (Proverbs 26:12) I Googled “Astaria” in the wee-hours of the morning and found next to nothing initially, apart from the name being used as a proper noun: a name for a certain restaurant; a town name (and that not being the town mentioned in scripture) [i] ; also the name of a complex role-playing game. After some searching, I did find one page that connected “Astaria” with a religion of some kind. Here is a link to what may be the most information that is “out there” (pun intended). Don’t spend too much time trying to figure it out (you won’t get those hours back again—besides, some people after 50 years still don’t have it figured it). “Astaria” seems to be a “quiet” form of ...

You really want to watch the video down below . . . but first, some context: Spring Break began Friday, and our evangelism team (being College and Seminary students of Columbia International University) already scattered to the far reaches of wherever-it-is-they-come-from. I’ve been burdened all week for meeting one specific person (some day I would like to devote one entire blog to him) and really did not want to miss going down, even without the team. So my lovely wife, Leslie, accompanied me to the green fountain of Five Points. We made our way to Starbucks for coffee where I spied this older man standing at the counter, doing nothing, actually. I greeted him, and noticing the small bags hanging off his shoulder, thought him to be an out-of-town visitor. Not only was he from out of town, but since he left the Navy (where he’d was “bitten by the travel-bug”) he spent the last 50 years traveling the world. He listed a recent visit to China, Tibet and a few South American countries whe...