Saturday, October 9, 2004
Where Pro life and Pro choice meet.
While I've been gone, you have made a lot of comments on my last blog. I didn't intend this, but of course, abortion gets a lot of controversy. This topic may also. What I intend by these comments to force me to think. I have thought a lot about abortion. Very few people think that abortion is a...
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Monday, October 4, 2004
What's wrong with abortion?
Many Christians argue that abortion cheapens life. Although early Christians avoided abortions, the Bible does not say anything against abortion. The law punishes someone injuring a pregnant woman and causing a miscarriage by fining them. The law doesn't consider it murder. Adequately raising a...
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Saturday, October 2, 2004
Response To Aardvark
"Faith is empty. I need more to motivate me." I started writing this response last night and then I lost what I'd written. So hopefully I can write as well tonight. When I wrote that Faith itself is evidence, I realized how strange it sounded. It is like saying that you know that you will love your...
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Thursday, September 30, 2004
Faith is the Evidence
The complete sentence is faith if the evidence for things not seen. This sentence sounds ludicrous. Faith an attitude is evidence? We need dates, facts, and rational proof. We can't see these things, so we need and eyewitness report, a pile of circumstantial evidence, or physical proof. But we don't...
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Wednesday, September 29, 2004
Reality versus the Ideal
Very few times in my lifetime have I experienced true community. I believe that true community rarely occurs and generally exists partially. But the yearning for a place where you can be yourself and be accepted, where you can use your gifts for the benefit of others and where one person doesn't do...
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Monday, September 27, 2004
Is community like this possible?
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Sunday, September 26, 2004
What does a Christian community look like?
First let me define community. The dictionary definition includes cities as well as monasteries. M.Scott Peck defines community in a narrower sense. I want to narrow it down even more, to a Christian community. This does not mean that there are no communities outside of Christian ones. According to...
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Saturday, September 25, 2004
Personal rather than Instituional
I do not believe that everyone should be without means, what I do believe is that we should use our means to help those without them. I fully expect that the two men living in my house will soon be able to have their own place, own a decent car and be able to help others. Already they give as much...
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Wesleyian Economics
John Wesley lived during times of economic upheavel. The industrial revolution disrupted the lives of many people. Some believe that without the revivals, that England would have had a bloody revolution like those in Europe. Wesley made a lot of money from his tracts, yet he died without any wealth....
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Thursday, September 23, 2004
What's so great about poverty?
Nothing. But for those whose lives are bloated with things, a dose of poverty is a good thing. It is too easy to depend on riches if you have a lot of money. But if you are poor, you have to depend on something else. It may not necessarily be Christ, but if you gave away your money so that you could...
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