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I tried something a little different. Having been a Christian for 11 years, I have never prayed for the process of sanctification to speed up. The Lord has really been doing a number on me, and now I am hating the sin in my life with a new passion. The world tells us not to hate anything about us. We've been given the tag, "good people". We need to love ourselves and accept our mistakes and shortcomings, or so the therapist will tell us.

While we shouldn't hate ourselves, we also shouldn't grow comfortable with sin in our lives. We should hate sin in our lives, for God can't stand it. I don't like myself when I hate a brother in Christ who I severly disagree with in certain life issues. I just don't like being that guy; the one whose love for enemies falls WAY short of the prescribed one from the Sermon on the Mount.

So my prayer is that the Lord would transform me more and more into the image of His Son, for sometimes I'm not to fond of this version of myself.

R.I.P. Skip

The Wake Forest Demon Deacons lost their head basketball coach yesterday when he went for a jog. He was in great shape before that. This is just another example of man not being promised tommorow. He was a good coach and a better human being, judging from all the comments of students at WF. My dad went to WF and we both follow WF basketball pretty closely.

On a better note, I'm playing golf today with dad, bro and pastor...somewhere there's a joke in that scenario-I guess we need a rabbi to make it complete.

And to make this blog complete...we need a pick me up...I got it, how about a pic of the best breed of dog ever?


Much better!

Negative Friday

Ok, two negs in a row, it's okay-this stuff is worthy of writing about. I had the radio tuned to NPR for some odd reason and heard an interfaith conversation going on. Hmmm...maybe the Christian guy will have the guts to actualy quote Scripture, "There is no other name under heaven which saves (Jesus)" We need backbone, we need fearlessness in the pulpit, we need un pc dialogue for the gospel to thrive, it WILL draw people. So the dj ask the question....tnesion in the air....what will the pastor say???

The LADY preacher said, "We welcome all faiths and are directly involved in finding unity with other faiths." Hmmm....What was it that God told Joshua before entering the promised land? Something about not bieng like the people from other nations, something about serving Him only and throwing out the false gods. Muhhamed, Bhudda, a tire iron, they are all dead, dumb, and mute and won't save people. To the LADY preacher who was on the show, I pray that her eyes will be opened about her role in the church, God's view of salvation, His offer, and what happens to people when they compromise. I wanted to yack in my mouth becasue of all the pc, lets hold hands and sing kumba ya-ness. It really was sickening.

Bumper sticker

I saw this bumper sticker at a Wal Mart parking lot that read, "If you obey, God will pay." I wish I were kidding, but I'm not. The thought behind this theology is that God is indebted to us in some fashion because we have earned something through our actions, namely our obedience. It makes me shiver out of disgust. He bieng Holy and untouchable in every way possible owes us something? Is that what the gospel means? Acting good and getting stuff? Sure, there's that propitiation thing and yes, forgiveness through the ransom paid by Jesus blood....but I want my stuff! I pray the driver of that car wil have thier eyes opened and that the maker of that horrible sticker would learn of his folly and repent for showcasing a false gospel....there's some pretty strong language for people who did that in the text.

James 1:6

"But let him ask in faith, with NO doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind." Ouch! That's a little below the belt, also it says in the next verse that the man who doubts should expect to receieve....nothing from God! Don't you hate it when the Bible steps on your toes? C'mon word of God, you should have more tact (kidding, of course).

This has nothing to do with the verse, but there is a mega church in my area. While speaking to a friend about that church, she had many 'heard it through the grapevine' moments about why people are starting to rumble around there. I didn't want to hear it, but I did want to hear it at the same time. It was all gossip, most of it from a reliable source about why certain changes were bieng made. I will pray that those people's eyes will be opened and that the Holy Spirit would grab a hold of all them with power. While I differ in an enormous manner, theologically, with these people, I don't want to see that ship go down. Yes, they hype Joel Osteen on many occassions, I still don't want them to nosedive into oblivion.



That's me right after reading the James passage mentioned earlier, by the way.

Been a minute

Back in the blogsphere and it feels good. (Insert Aerosmith's 'Back in the Saddle Again' here) What's going on you may ask? Not a lot, just counting my lucky STARS to be here writing to who might ever be reading this.
So I got to preach at my father's church and it went great. The Lord softened hearts and somehow was able to communiicate through my stammering lips. We're having VBS right now. Other than that, it's the same since the last blog from April. Hope everyone has the best day ever.