August 2009
3 posts
Mission Trips
At every “Acquire the Fire” event that I have ever been to, the focus has been on going on mission trips. The people who lead these events use the Great Commission as the basis of their argument about why mission trips are important, however, they focus on the wrong aspect. The way they tell it, the primary verb in the GC, is “go”, however, the GC, as translated directly from the Greek says “As...
Fear
Why is it that when our fear is proven to be groundless, we still cling to it? Is it because fear will always be there and is more familiar than faith? Or is it because fear allows us to look at the world around us and see all of the things that we cannot do ourselves instead of looking at all God can do? The Bible says that “Nothing will be impossible with God”. Other translations say, “With God...
My Rant In Support of Rob Bell
I was looking for Nooma “Trees” on YouTube, and while I was looking, I saw several videos parodying Rob Bell. Some of them even went so far as to call Rob a heretic. Most of them were “Christian” videos. I thought about what was on the back cover of Rob Bell’s Velvet Elvis, “I thank God for anybody anywhere who is pointing people to the mysteries of God”. But, if those people are hostile to other...