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Ten Reasons Not to Accept Jesus
http://www.youtube.com/v/UHR-MuZfne4&rel=1&border=1 The video above is an excellent brief summary of the problems with typical evangelism that fails to present the gospel, in favor of getting people to “make a decision.” It’s not long, it’s not complicated. The “10 reasons not to accept Jesus” may make you scratch your head when you hear the title, but…
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Baptismal Salvation
I recently received this peice of fan mail: You’re a sock puppet of Satan. That’s why you baptize babies to send them to hell to burn for all eternity. They grow up duped into thinking they’re already Christians and already saved just because Satan’s minister sprinkled his putrid devil water on them. You’re going to…
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Parable of the Bag of Donuts
As I was walking through the grocery store, I encountered a man about to buy a big bag of fresh baked donuts. But I noticed in his other hand a book: “Dealing with Diabetes,” and then I noticed he had a medical necklace that had come over his collar, which indicated him as having a…
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Amstrong Predicts
“And be sure to watch how this very post is responded to. It’ll be very informative, for sure. There will be mockery and more insults. It’s almost like a law of the universe with these guys. We can have some fun with it in a certain “warped humor” sense, I suppose: one last bombardment from…
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Whosoever Will
Whosoever Will Recently (i.e. about the beginning of May, 2007), an Anonymous commenter on this blog asked about the Bible’s “Whosoever Will” verses. These are the verses that, in the KJV, use the phrase: “whosoever will.” They generally fall into two main categories (categories 1 and 3) while a few fall in a hybrid category…
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Remembering September 11, 2001
In a more timely article (than this one) remembering September 11, 2001, the authors of one website wrote that the emergency was not due to Muslim terrorists who were out to destroy our freedom but was a far more sinister one. The authors were right, though not in the way they imagined. (Sadly, the otherwise…
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Evangelism – Islam Style
Osama bin Ladin has released a new video. The present author has no plans to link to it, nor to any transcript of it. The summary is: America is bad,Bush is bad,Christians are bad,Capitalism is bad,Corporations are bad,Democracy is bad,Globalisation is bad,Islam is good,Terrorism is justified,Muslims don’t incinerate Jews and Christians,The Qaran and the Gospel…
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>Opening Post – You Need to be Justified!
>Justification is essentially a legal decision, as it is written:Deuteronomy 25:1If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked. And from a negative perspective:Proverbs 17:15He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even…