Divorce, Remarriage, Adultery, and Homosexuality

A Very controversial, confrontational, and biblically education post at blog.emergingworshiper.org

Good argument on Christianity

A good argument on Christianity on </Dream.In.Code>.
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DreaminCode.net

For those of you coders, A great Website for Coding help is: http://DreaminCode.net

Commanded to Love

We are commanded to love. Not suggested to love, or asked to love. We are commanded to love. To love God, to love ourselves, and to love other people. Too many people, including some Christians, forget that we have to love people. Too many people make life about themselves. We need to love others as Christ loved his church. We need to love other people so much that we are prepared to die for them if need be. Our Love should flow from Christ, and shine from us that all will see our love simply by our presence. 1 Corinthians 13 gives the best known, and accurate, description of how we should love, and indeed live. Love should not be something that we choose to do once in a while, like reading a book or watching a movie. No, Love should be a defining characteristic of our lives. That everyone we meet, even if we do not like them, we love them. It means letting go of our hate, for hate is the absence of love. It means humbling ourselves, dying daily to ourselves and our selfish desires. Romans says that we must feed our enemies if they are hungry and give him a drink if he is thirsty. We must Love our enemies. Everywhere that you look in the bible, you find proclamations of love, command to love. This the way that true Christian should live and measure their lives by. Love should define you and consume you in its entirety.

"You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself"

~ Leviticus 19:18

"And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'..."

~ Mark 12:31

"A new commandment I give unto you, love one another as I have loved you, that by loving one another, others will know that you are my disciples"

~ John 13:34-35

"Be affectionate with one another in brotherly love, in honor giving preference to one another"

~ Romans 12:10

"If your enemy is hungry, feed him;
If he is thirsty, give him a drink;
For in doing so, you shall heap coals of

burning fire on his head"

~ Romans 12:20

Worthy is The Lamb

"Worthy is the Lamb" is an amazing song written by my friend and mentor Ken Bussel. The following is a link to his blog post on the song:

http://blog.emergingworshiper.org/2009/04/worthy-is-lamb.html

When it is available to listen to online, a link will be posted.

Good Friday

Good Friday. Our Christian celebration of the Crucifixion of Jesus. A day that we remember the day that our sins were paid for. The day that we wereh redeemed. Too often though, we hold this unrealistic image of the crucifixion. Jesus did not hang on the cross clean and composed, with every hair in place. Nay, The Word says that he was battered and bruised. He was betrayed with an unfair trial. Beaten with a rod that held ropes tangled with broken glass and steel hooks. Thorns as long as your fingers shoved on his head. As he was crucified, as he hung on the cross feeling the full weight of your punishment, of the rightful death that is mine as the consequence of my sin, his blood stained the cross, and pooled at the cross. As prophesied, he was barely recognizable as being a man. Too many fail to realize the full measure of their sin and the total that was paid out in full for their ransom. No words we have can come to fully describe the Cross. We have invented the word excruciating specifically to describe it, but it still falls short, and has been overused. Know that your debt was paid in full. Christ has redeemed you by his perfect, divine blood. Your are not your own, but have been bough with a price. Rejoice! Your chains are broken! The Lamb has been slain once for all.

A Great PodCast from Solid Rock Church

A great podcast. I especially love listening to John Mark Comer.

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=84246334