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Showing posts with label Luke. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Luke. Show all posts
Monday, August 10, 2015
Sunday, July 19, 2015
Failure to Choose is a Choice Too
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Labels:
Interpretation
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Luke
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Scripture
Wednesday, April 01, 2015
The Problem with Compassion
Compassion is a fine quality. But an excess of emotion without
appropriate practical follow-up always seems to end very badly indeed.
Now I’m not talking about Leftist social engineering,
professional fundraising or the welfare state when I use the word “compassion”.
Such projects are promoted as compassionate and claim a tender-hearted motive but produce little effect. Professional fundraisers often absorb most of the funds they raise. The welfare system is so administration-heavy and fraud-ridden that handing
stacks of cash to the visibly distressed on the street might well mitigate the
effects of poverty more efficiently.
We may credit Progressives and Redistributionists with good intentions if we are being generous, but those ideologies have never been effective at producing their desired outcome —
the only metric by which we may judge the fruits of compassion.
Labels:
Christ
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Compassion
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Forgiveness
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Luke
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Matthew
Monday, March 09, 2015
That Day and Hour
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Labels:
Foreknowledge
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Luke
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Matthew
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Open Theism
Monday, February 16, 2015
Breaking Your Own Compass
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Labels:
Conscience
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Luke
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Repentance
Sunday, February 15, 2015
Debunking Baptismal Myths #1: Suffer the Children
The scripture is certainly open to interpretation, and just
about every possible interpretation of every possible verse has probably
been advanced by someone or other since the Bible was compiled early in what
is now referred to as the Common Era.
We Can Both Be Wrong,
But …
One thing must be understood about interpretation, and that
is this: It is very possible (though unlikely, given that the Holy Spirit was
given to guide us into all truth) that every extant interpretation of a verse
is wrong, and that believers in general have not yet grasped the meaning of a
particular passage. In other words, we might all be wrong.
Wednesday, January 07, 2015
Bring on the Hired Guns
No, really, that’s the question.
Patrick Traylor poses it in this article. Patrick is an elder to quite literally thousands at Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, D.C., as well as a lawyer by profession. As an elder, the man knows megachurches. As a lawyer, he ought to know all about compensation.
Patrick Traylor poses it in this article. Patrick is an elder to quite literally thousands at Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, D.C., as well as a lawyer by profession. As an elder, the man knows megachurches. As a lawyer, he ought to know all about compensation.
But is he right about what the scripture teaches on the
subject?
Labels:
Apostle Paul
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Corinthians
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Luke
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Pastors
Wednesday, December 03, 2014
Redistributionism and Jubilee
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Labels:
Howard Bess
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Jubilee
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Law
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Luke
Sunday, November 23, 2014
Wednesday, August 13, 2014
Testimony in the Twilight Zone
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Labels:
Christian Testimony
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Luke
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Matthew
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Romans
Saturday, July 12, 2014
Repent or Perish
Most people understand (or intuit) as they read a Bible that
its chapter and verse divisions are a choice made by translators or copyists.
They may be good choices or bad ones, but they are not part of the revelation
of God. They are not ‘inspired’ in the sense the word itself is.
Usually they are pretty decent. However, I probably would’ve
broken up the Lord’s speech in Luke 12 and 13 a little differently.
Just saying.
Labels:
Judgment
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Luke
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Parables
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Repentance
Wednesday, July 09, 2014
Is Your Faith Boring You?
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Labels:
Luke
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Meditation
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Psalms
Monday, July 07, 2014
Thursday, July 03, 2014
How Much Does It Have To Hurt?
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Labels:
Apostle Paul
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Corinthians
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Forgiveness
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Luke
Friday, January 31, 2014
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