Thursday, September 23, 2004
God's economy
Many people think that Christians should be poor. The wealth and health Christians preach that Christians should be rich. My opinion of what Jesus taught is that the poor should become "rich" and the rich should become poor. Why? Jesus came to preach good news to the poor. The poor are ignored,...
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Wednesday, September 22, 2004
Servant Leadership
Many Christians write and speak about servant leadership, but things haven't changed. However, God designed the church to be lead by servants. Pastors, teachers and elders serve the congregation who reaches out to the rest of the world. Institutions demand hierarchies. God speaks the last word....
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Tuesday, September 21, 2004
Community
Somehow in the western world, individuality replaced community. Individuality provides a condition for change. Communities tend to suppress individual expression and creativity. At the same time that the Western world greatly advanced in science, arts, and wealth, community became less influential....
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Monday, September 20, 2004
The Divine Community
The Godhead consists of Father, son and Holy Spirit. They experience perfect community and love. They invite those who trust in God and accept Jesus Christ as their savior, to enter into the divine community. We, however, have a different place in the community. We serve as ambassadors for God,...
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Sunday, September 19, 2004
God is Love
God loves beyond any human love. He is love. Could you also say, love is God? In a way yes. Not in the sense of worshipping love rather than God, but whenever we love another person without a personal agenda, we love was God loves.. Any act of love, any feeling of love any state of love, all are...
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Wednesday, September 15, 2004
God's Love
All of this discussion started with Love and Wrath. But I only wrote about wrath. God loves us with a love that is beyond our understanding. I can't understand God let alone his love. What I can do is experience it. The place where I witness God's love is not in church but in Narcotics Anonymous...
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Why Hell?
Isn't God supposed to be forgiving and not vengeful? Posted by jollyjeff on September 15, 2004 at 4:17 PM (permalink) God drives a hell of a hard bargain, I guess. Posted by aardvark on September 15, 2004 at 4:00 PM (permalink) I know that what I've been writing about is the dark side of God and the...
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Hell
Most people don't want to believe that there is a hell. Hell is not correction nor is it rehabilitation, it is eternal punishment. We would like to believe that everyone goes to heaven, or those who don't belong in heaven, die and never wake up. If you believe that the Bible is a book of myths then...
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Tuesday, September 14, 2004
Two sides of a coin
I did not purposely set out to write about God's anger in this column and human anger in the Encouragment for those in recovery column. Maybe it was unconsious or maybe it was the Spirit guiding me. I have been saying that God's anger is pure and human anger is dangerous if you are an addict or...
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Old Testament and New Testament God
Many people think that God changed between the old and new testaments. He did not. What changed was that Israel was no longer God's target, but the whole world. His original plan was to bring salvation to all humanity. He began with Israel. Now that Israel had proven that humanity cannot obey God's...
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