To be risen with Christ means not only that one has a choice and that one may live by a higher law – the law of grace and love – but that one must do so. The first obligation of the Christian is to maintain their freedom from all superstitions, all blind taboos and religious formalities, indeed from all empty … Continue reading
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God will not hold us responsible to understand the mysteries of election, predestination, and the divine sovereignty. The best and safest way to deal with these truths is to raise our eyes to God and in deepest reverence say, " O Lord, Thou knowest." Those things belong to the deep and mysterious Profound of God's omniscience. Prying into them may … Continue reading
The image of the Lord had been replaced by a mirror.” Jorge Luis Borges Dee visiting Alaska (Deb, your turn!) What is wrong with this picture? A few years ago, prior to the advent of this blog, Deb and I began to discuss our concerns about the rather bizarre nature of some of the leaders in what is called … Continue reading
This is a rare weekend update. Sun's Corona-NASA Ed Young Jr's Bed-In Ends in Failure? Ed and Lisa Young, according to some sources, had to stop their bed-in early last evening due to serious "ocular blindness" reportedly caused by the sun and the television cameras. Why does the phrase "blind guides, blind fools" come to mind? Mark … Continue reading
"When you invite a middle-aged moralist to address you, I suppose I must conclude…that you have a taste for middle-aged moralizing." – CS Lewis I am about to say something that will cause angst among those Calvinistas who read this blog. (We know they do). … Continue reading
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair. CS Lewis We are still visiting in lovely Enid, Oklahoma, with Wade and Rachelle Burleson. We are having a wonderful … Continue reading
We are to be re-made. All the rabbit in us is to disappear-and then, surprisingly, we shall find underneath it all a thing we have never yet imagined: a real Man, an ageless god, a son of God, strong, radiant, wise, beautiful, and drenched in joy. CS Lewis Twisters in the Lagoon Nebula-Hubble TWW apologizes for … Continue reading
Maybe this is why…. "He (Driscoll) claims to have prepared his sermon in 2 hours! Not only that, he noted that he did so while watching a Mariners Game on television!"(TWW) Closeup of the sun's surface-NASA Today, with permission of both Wenatchee the Hatchet as well as the blog, From Bitter Waters To Sweet, here,we present, the Introduction, … Continue reading
"(I learned) to love Jesus without feeling like we had a thinly veiled homosexual relationship." Mark Driscoll Corona of Sun-NASA Some of our readers have read comments posted at our site by "Wenatchee the Hatchet." (Now to be referred to s WH). WH spent a number of years at Seattle's Mars Hill Church, the home to controversial … Continue reading
Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human. Desiderius Erasmus Dee's bluebird's babies minutes after birth, ready to eat! The Bizarre Sixth Sense of Mark Driscoll We will continue with our series on psychology and the church next … Continue reading
“(I learned) ‘to love Jesus without feeling like we had a thinly veiled homosexual relationship.’" Mark Driscoll So, there I was, valiantly trying to write a post about history, when some guy wants to discuss oral sex on my blog in response to my thinly veiled disdain for Driscoll's exegesis. And then he called me, Dee, of the … Continue reading
“When you give a lesson in meanness to a critter or a person, don't be surprised if they learn their lesson” Will Rogers How a real man should look! When I am stymied about what to write about, I can always mosey on over to the subject of Mark Driscoll and he never lets us down. Two years ago, … Continue reading
"These people do not know that while Barak trembled, Deborah saved Israel, that Esther delivered from supreme peril the children of God … Is it not to women that our Lord appeared after His Resurrection? Yes, and the men could then blush for not having sought what the women had found." –Jerome, after criticism for dedicating his books to women … Continue reading
Last night, I had trouble sleeping as I reviewed this part of yesterday's post "Without blushing, Paul is simply stating that when it comes to leading in the church, women are unfit because they are more gullible and easier to deceive than men. Before you get all emotional like a woman in hearing this, please consider the content of … Continue reading
“Our church services started to stink a whole lot less. We scraped together enough money to buy some big honking speakers, and I stole an unused sound console from my old church along with a projection screen, which were sins that Jesus thankfully died to forgive.” (Confessions, p.62) Mark Driscoll showing men how to dress like a real man. … Continue reading
We never paid for electricity in our office apartment because the building was illegally hooked up to the power grid and all our power was stolen.” Driscoll "Confessions of a Reformission Rev" Mark Driscoll "Keeping himself up for his woman" joshsabo.blogspot.com As I sit here, contemplating this post, sipping my Earl Grey-hot (inside Trekkie joke), I … Continue reading
Criticism of Mark Driscoll by Christian leaders
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