Bible Fight
2020-10-07 00:00:00 A fighting tournament between the various bible characters like jesus, satan, eve, moses etc!
By: Nation of Games
Bob?s Book Blurbs: Hebrews (Life Application Bible Studies, NLT)
2009-12-05 21:53:00 Tyndale House has expanded the reach of its excellent Life Application Study Bible through its line of Life Application Bible Studies. These study books offer the text from the Life Application Study Bible for a specific book of the Bible, and add a study guide and workbook. The result is a perfect Bible Study booklet ...
Afghani College Students -Slash- Protesters In Kabul Burn Obama Effigies Du
2009-10-26 04:37:00 U.S. Military Officials And U.S. Muslim Military Troops Deny Allegations; Call “Rumor” A “Taliban Hoax” font face=”palatino linotype”>Hey, folks — if any of you were considering attending an institution of higher learning somwhere in Afghanistan, you MIGHT... This is only a comment summary. Visit http://guntotingliberal.com to view the lastest content complete with some of the most outrageous original photoshops in the political blogosphere!
I'm in an Open Relationship with Jesus
2009-09-20 23:07:00 Someone close to me was telling me this morning about her struggle to accept her rabbi's teaching that she should love God more than anything or anyone. "I can't help it," she said, "I love my daughter more!"In the past I might have given a neat response, paraphrasing Tim Keller, to the effect that idolizing any created thing puts unbearable pressure on yourself (because you can lose it through failure or mischance) and on the one idolized (who feels compelled to be impossibly perfect). C.S. Lewis illustrates this distortion in The Great Divorce, his fantasy of damned souls on a field trip to heaven, through the character of an old woman who mourned her dead son so obsessively that she neglected the surviving members of her family. Lewis suggests that over time, the object of her passion became her own identity as a mourner, rather than the real person she had lost. To love someone properly, on the other hand, is to recognize that you are not the author of the universe, which soon...
By: Reiter's Block
Speaking Justice Versus Living It
2009-09-11 23:07:00 One of my challenges as an activist, and as a Christian, is finding the proper balance between speaking about my values and living them out. Too much discussion keeps me unhealthily engaged with self-justification against opponents, while too little can be a form of selfish quietism in the face of widespread misinformation about what the Bible says.The Epistle of James has a lot to say about closing the gap between hearing and doing God's word. This recent installment of the Human Rights Campaign's Out in Scripture lectionary e-newsletter includes some fruitful reflections on that text (boldface emphasis mine):Our conversation about this week?s lectionary Bible passages began with James 1:17-27. What is the way of God?s wisdom? The book of James suggests that it is the ?law of liberty? (James 2:12). And that law starts with doing. Doers of the law?s basic justice requirements place themselves in risky outreach settings in which we are inevitably challenged to know who we really...
By: Reiter's Block
The Theology of Abuse (Part One)
2009-09-10 23:29:00 Hugo, via Facebook, pointed me to today's Washington Post story about a new study on clergy sexual abuse from Baylor University's School of Social Work: One in every 33 women who attend worship services regularly has been the target of sexual advances by a religious leader, a survey released Wednesday says.The study, by Baylor University researchers, found that the problem is so pervasive that it almost certainly involves a wide range of denominations, religious traditions and leaders."It certainly is prevalent, and clearly the problem is more than simply a few charismatic leaders preying on vulnerable followers," said Diana Garland, dean of Baylor's School of Social Work, who co-authored the study.It found that more than two-thirds of the offenders were married to someone else at the time of the advance.... For its study, Baylor used the 2008 General Social Survey, a nationally representative sample of 3,559 respondents, to estimate the prevalence of clergy sexual misconduct. Wo...
By: Reiter's Block
Stop Twisting the Bible Liberals, Jesus was NOT a Socialist!
2009-09-09 19:35:00 I have seen a growing number of liberal articles being printed which attempt to paint conservative Christians as hippocrites for opposing the healthcare reform bill. Let me first say that I am overjoyed that modern day liberals could take the time out of their busy day to find and crack open a bible, but am ...
Goodbye TNIV, Hello 2011 Updated NIV
2009-09-02 19:44:00 Yesterday, Zondervan Publishing House and Biblica (formerly the International Bible Society) announced plans to revise the NIV in 2011 and discontinue the controversial TNIV. Many conservative evangelicals, and groups like the Council for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (CBMW) openly opposed the gender neutral translation choices of the TNIV. So to hear this coming from Zondervan ...
The X-Rated Bible: An Irreverent Survey of Sex in the Scriptures
2009-08-29 14:26:00 Product DescriptionIncest, rape, adultery, exhibitionism, prostitution, homosexuality, abortion, mate swapping, bestiality -- it's all there in the book held sacred by three of the world's major religions. Originally published to reveal the hypocrisy of fundamentalists' attempts to censor and suppress the kind of material found throughout their own scriptures, The X-Rated Bible quickly became the
Those Five New Points of Calvinism
2009-08-26 18:23:00 Almost everyone reading my blog is familiar with the acrostic TULIP as standing for the five points of Calvinism. Probably most of you know what each point stands for: Total Depravity, Unconditional Election, Limited Atonement, Irresistible Grace, Perseverance of the Saints. Then the number goes down as to who knows what each point means. I ...
Great Review of ESV Study Bible
2009-08-10 20:01:00 I’ve recommended this study Bible before. I just want to highlight a great review by Andy Naselli, in the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society. You can read the review here. Once again, I’ve seen many study Bibles, and a few sit unused on my shelf. The ESV Study Bible is different. It’s eminenly useful and ...
Part 2: Crossan on the Meaning of Christ?s Sacrifice
2009-08-06 18:16:00 The following is excerpted from John Domonic Crossan?s book, ?God and Empire?: “THE MEANING OF SACRIFICE” Apart from narrativity, let alone historicity, there is the deeper question of the theology within which Jesus’s execution is understood then and now by Christian believers. For The Passion of the Christ and millions of Christians, it was a theology of ...
By: Sharp Iron
A Red Line study in contrasts: Bible reader and imbibers enroute to Sox Par
2009-08-03 20:40:00 On the super-crowded, delayed Red Line train en route to the Sox game Saturday, we saw a study in contrasts. A 40-year-old guy studies the book of Leviticus in the Bible. While a few feet away, two 20-somethings imbibe Miller Lite tall boys encased in brown paper bags. Next to them, a mom and teenage daughter clutch their Williams Sonoma shopping bags while sniffing their disapproval. And not about the Leviticus reader.Meanwhile, the affable operator keeps announcing: "No room, no worries. There's an immediate follower behind us. If you don't fit, don't force it."Good times. That was the 14-4 Saturday victory over the Yankees....
WorldNetDaily (?WND?) Birthers Outdo Themselves ? They?ve Now Discovered Je
2009-08-01 03:40:00 WND Lets The Cat Out Of The Bag: President Barack Hussein Obama Is INDEED The Antichrist” Never mind Snopes‘ complete (so-called) “debunking” of the rumor of President Antichrist Obama, our wacky but lovable buddies over at WorldNetDaily have uncovered a “secret... This is only a comment summary. Visit http://guntotingliberal.com to view the lastest content complete with some of the most outrageous original photoshops in the political blogosphere!
?The More I Read the Bible the Less Dispensational I Become?
2009-07-29 19:29:00 These words were posted in an article written by John Davis (B.A. , M.Div., Th.M., D.Min.) for Sharper Iron, describing his journey out of dispensationalism. His description of becoming less and less dispensational, fits my story. I’ve taken a similar journey out of dispensationalism. His article is a good read, and the discussion to follow may ...
The Bible as bathroom stall
2009-07-27 18:52:00 Outrage over an art exhibit which invites users to deface the Bible has put a negative spin on what would otherwise be dubbed an inspired curatorial program.
Shameful Revelation
2009-07-23 15:36:00 Thank God, I will get a view of the Battle of Armageddon from the grand stand seats of the heavens. All who are born again will see the battle of Armageddon, but it will be from the skies (Carl McIntire, 1965) What then should be the believer’s attitude to the destruction of the world by fire? ...
By: Sharp Iron
Soaked with Blood and Singed with Fire
2009-07-22 22:31:00 That is my longing for our day—and for you. That God would raise up thousands of broken-hearted, Bible-saturated preachers who are dominated by a sense of the greatness and the majesty and the holiness of God, revealed in the gospel of Christ crucified and risen, and reigning with absolute authority over every nation and ...
By: ThingsHopedFor
The Gospels and Anti-Semitism
2009-07-21 00:15:00 In his book, ?God and Empire?, John Dominic Crossan makes a good case for the claims that the popular portrayals of Jesus’ passion is at the root of anti-Semitism: The residents of the Bavarian village of Oberammergau have staged a Passion Play every decade on the decade and also on special anniversaries in gratitude for protection ...
By: Sharp Iron
Oldest Bible (Codex Sinaiticus) Now Online
2009-07-19 20:28:00 Although in physical form it is in 4 separate locations around the world, the oldest known copy of the Bible is now completely online. The document dates back to Constantine I and is considered one of the world’s greatest written treasures. Now, thanks to the internet, everyone has equal access to this historical heritage. To find out more about why this document is so important, you can read more about it here. Interestingly enough, there are many discrepancies between the contents of the Codex and what we consider as the Bible today. For example, it has no mention of a resurrected Jesus – a pivotal component of modern Christian doctrine. I took the image you see above while playing around with the controls at the Codex Sinaiticus website. As the image shows, you can zoom in to see quiet a lot of detail. Even you are not a librarian or a photographer or an archivist, it isn’t difficult to imagine the daunting task of digitizing a 1,600-year old manuscript that i...
Jesus? Radical View of Divorce
2009-07-17 19:10:00 Next to homosexuality the issue that seems to be most contentious for the Christian church is that of divorce. I?ve heard people say, when arguing for Christian tolerance of gays, that in the Bible Jesus never spoke out against homosexuality but he did specifically condemn divorce, a practice widely accepted within (if not a prime ...
By: Sharp Iron
101 Portraits of Jesus in the Hebrew Scriptures by Bob Beasley ? A Review
2009-07-15 16:07:00 Author: Bob Beasley Publisher: Living Stone Books Format: Softcover Pages: 208 ISBN: 9780979973147 Stars: 3 of 5 My thanks go out to author Bob Beasley and Livingstone Books for providing me a review copy of this book. Many Christians are bewildered by the Old Testament. They start reading in Genesis and give up by the time Leviticus comes around. They ...
Did Pat Quinn lie with his hand on the Bible?
2009-07-13 11:45:00 There he is, Governor Pat Quinn, promising to support and defend the Constitutions of the United States and of the State of Illinois, back on January 29th, with his hand on the Bible. Now, it's not even six months later, and Pat is about to sign the Capital Bill, which includes literally hundreds of unconstitutional donations to politically connected houses of worship, ministries, parochial schools and other religious organizations. Pat knows that those provisions are unconstitutional, because he told me so....
Galatians 3: Living by Faith
2009-07-09 22:41:00 A pivotal element in a healthy understanding of the Scriptures is a willingness to allow the word “faith” to be consistently defined and harmoniously described by the Spirit of God who inspired the New Testament writings. Throughout Galatians 3, Paul speaks of “hearing with faith.” 3:2 — Let me ask you only this: Did you receive ...
By: ThingsHopedFor
Select Biblical Translations From The Deep-Deep Discount Bible
2009-07-07 00:00:00 1 Corinthians 16:13Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be men of courage; be string.Psalms 143:8I have put my crust in you. Show me the way I should go, for to you I lift up my roll.Matthew 18:3Except ye become as little children, ye will not enter the Kingdom of Kevin. Proverbs 16:3Commit to the larder whatever you do, and your plants will suck seed.John 4:18There is no beer in love; but perfect love casteth out beer.Gretzky 8:94100% of the shots you don’t fake don’t go in.In the manner of The Holy Bibel.©2009 P.L. Frederick. Some rights reserved. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License. All other copyrights owned by their respective owners.
By: Small and Big
Tired of Waiting for the Beginning of the End Times?
2009-07-01 23:13:00 If you ever get one of these letters then..uh-oh? Dear Floyd; This message has been sent to you by a friend or a relative who has recently disappeared along with millions and millions of people around the world. The reason they chose to send you this letter is because they cared about you and would like ...
By: Sharp Iron
Where A Man Belongs
2009-06-23 21:18:00 Do not let the rhetoric of unbiblical feminism cow you into thinking that Christlike leadership from husbands is bad. It is what our homes need more than anything. For all your meekness and all your servanthood and all your submission to your wife’s deep desires and needs, you are still the head, the leader. What ...
By: ThingsHopedFor
Darkcloud wrote a new blog post: read the Bible with the goal of being spir
2009-06-19 15:31:00 Darkcloud wrote a new blog post: read the Bible with the goal of being spiritually transformed It is 10 o’clock AM Friday morning in the flow of being. I have been up since 6 o’clock AM. Carol and I did not get much sleep last due to a very loud severe thunderstorm rolling through during the night. I never heard such loud thunder claps last night! As I laid in bed ...
By: BackBeat
Darkcloud wrote a new blog post: tools to study the Bible
2009-06-18 22:57:00 Darkcloud wrote a new blog post: tools to study the Bible The day keeps going by normal, which is a divine blessing. I am down in the basement looking at my books. Today while I was at Lemonjello’s getting a mocha I exchanged some words with the woman serving me-she just graduated from Western Theological Seminary located here in Holland, Mich.. I asked the woman had ...
By: BackBeat
Sitting Where Angels Stand
2009-06-03 01:57:00 Good thoughts from David Mathis… What?s more impressive than standing in God?s presence? Sitting?and doing so at the right hand. An angel said to John the Baptist?s father: “I am Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God” (Luke 1:19). That?s noteworthy. But more so is what Hebrews says about Jesus: “After making purification for sins, he sat ...
By: ThingsHopedFor
In Case of Rapture, Check I.D.
2009-06-02 19:20:00 In Isaiah 46 the author talks of two of the ancient Babylonian Gods, Bel and Nebo: 1 Bel bows down, Nebo stoops low; their idols are borne by beasts of burden. The images that are carried about are burdensome, a burden for the weary. 2 They stoop and bow down together; unable to rescue the burden, they themselves go off into captivity. I ...
By: Sharp Iron
Carl Verheyen: guitar bible
2009-05-30 01:34:00 Kudos to the Stratoblogster: Congrats to the blogster for making the 500,000 hits mark... the Blogster says: Wow! I just looked at the hit counter in my footer and discovered I went over 500K hits today! This blog began in July '06 and currently has just over 1300 posts. It's been fun, I've learned a lot and made some friends too! Most importantly, I also make good beer money from the... This is a content summary only. Visit Truth In Shredding to find out more!
The Bible on Hair Care
2009-05-08 13:49:00 No, I haven’t yet found a Biblical defense for using Pert’s Plus. I’m talking about what the Bible says about hair length. This may be a surprise to you, but listen to what Paul says in 1 Cor. 11:14-15. Does not nature itself teach you that if a man wears long hair it is a disgrace for ...
Free ESV Study Bible, with Subscription to World Magazine
2009-04-30 05:59:00 I thought this was a pretty good deal. Subscribe to World magazine for 1 year ($49.95) and get a free hardcover copy of the new ESV Study Bible (retail price $49.95 / $31.49 on Amazon). I subscribed to World for a couple years or more, and really enjoyed their magazine. It’s a Christian news magazine similar ...
?Well, At Least I Had A Good Time??
2009-04-25 20:19:00 Good thoughts on some similarities between Judgment and pop culture from Trevin Wax: Whenever Simon Cowell gives a brutally honest assessment of an American Idol performance, all of America watches the response of the contestant. What will they say? Will they take the criticism in stride? Will they incorporate the truth and become better? Or will they lash out against ...
By: ThingsHopedFor
Unicorns in the Bible
2009-04-24 06:00:00 Is the word "unicorn" an erroneous translation in the King James Bible? The English word unicorn occurs nine times in the KJB, and is found in Numbers 23:22; 24:8; Deut. 33:17; Job 39:9,10; Psalms 22:21; 29:6; 92:10; and Isaiah 34:7. It is translated from the Hebrew word reem, which comes from a verb used only once, and found in Zechariah 14:10 "Jerusalem, and ?it shall be lifted up' and inhabited in her place." This animal is characterized by something lifted up or high and in a prominent position. It is very strong - "God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn." Num. 23:22. It is also used in a symbolic way in our Lord's prophetic prayer as recorded in Psalms 22:21 "Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns." There was no literal lion present when Christ died, but Satan, as a roaring lion, was present, for it was his hour and the power of darkness. There were no literal unicorns present either, but the...
By: The Watchman
The Big Picture of the Bible
2009-04-15 19:30:00 On March 1, 2009, I preached three lessons at Laurel Canyon based on Ken Craig’s excellent booklet, The Big Picture of the Bible. This 45-page booklet has full-color graphics throughout to complement Ken’s thought-provoking material and is perfect for evangelistic outreaches. At Laurel Canyon, we make copies freely available to all of our visitors. I highly ...
By: ThingsHopedFor
Hong Kong Christens an Ark of Biblical Proportions
2009-04-15 15:04:00 This city’s three billionaire Kwok brothers have just the answer for the rising waters threatening the global economy: the world’s first life-size replica of Noah’s ark, built to biblical specifications off the coast of this recession-struck Chinese financial center. Read the full article.
By: ThingsHopedFor
Contemplating the Cross: Christ Our Passover Lamb
2009-04-10 15:00:00 For the next few days, I’ll be posting excerpts from Nancy Guthrie’s Jesus, Keep Me Near the Cross: Experiencing the Passion and Power of Easter (Crossway). Join me as I aim to contemplate the cross this passion week. Today’s meditation is by John Calvin, from chapter 17 “Blood and Water” (pg. 103-104 of Jesus, Keep ...
Passover Sacrifice In Jerusalem
2009-04-09 18:07:00 You’ve read the Bible passages before: Isaiah 53.7 — He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he opened not his mouth. John 1.29 — “Behold, the Lamb of God who takes ...
By: ThingsHopedFor
More on the ESV Study Bible
2009-03-25 17:49:00 I just learned that in honor of the ESV Study Bible being named the 2008 ECPA Book of the Year, Crossway is offering a 35% discount on all editions, now through April 8th. They are also selling access to the online edition as a separate product for $19.95 (this comes free with the purchase of ...
ECPA Book of the Year: The ESV Study Bible
2009-03-25 03:32:00 Congratulations to the ESV Study Bible, and Crossway, who produced it. They won the 2008 Book of the Year award from the Evangelical Christian Publishers’ Association. I am enjoying my copy immensely. (I got the brown trutone version, that you see to your right.) My pastor, John Piper, also won top honors in the Christian Life ...
Hey, Paul; You Talkin? to Me?
2009-03-24 05:38:00 What I mean, brothers, is that the time is short. From now on those who have wives should live as if they had none; those who mourn, as if they did not; those who are happy, as if they were not; those who buy something, as if it were not theirs to keep; those who ...
By: Sharp Iron
Bob?s Book Blurbs: What He Must Be ..If He Wants to Marry My Daughter by Vo
2009-03-12 04:32:00 In What He Must Be …If He Wants to Marry My Daughter Voddie Baucham Jr. does Christian dads a favor. He challenges them with a biblical vision of Christian courtship; and he cushions his challenge with a clear cut, easy to read, guide for how to think and plan about their daughter’s future marriage. Baucham realizes ...
The Bible and the Paranormal
2009-03-10 23:33:00 Warning: If you do not wish to read about religious views and God, please skip reading this post.I love the show Ghost Hunters, Ghost Hunters International and Paranormal State just to name a few. But I am a little worried if being a Baptist and believing in the paranormal is just not right.My parents are not particularly thrilled that I am so enthralled with the Paranormal, so I did some investigating and happened to run into someone online that really got me thinking.Below is part of our conversation along with some scriptures that really got my brain going. I would really love some feedback from those of you who chose to read this post without passing any judgements.Me: Are all ghosts of demonic or evil nature?Answer: I don't think so, Biblically from the reason I put forth in this article about the Apostles on the water and their response to thinking Jesus was a "ghost". But many entities seem to be a residual phenomena much like a film being played over and over. Now many enti...
Romeo, Juliet, and a Biblical Courtship Model
2009-03-10 18:54:00 Voddie Baucham Jr. has just written a fascinating and somewhat provocative new book: What He Must Be …If He Wants to Marry My Daughter (Crossway). Crossway was kind enough to give me a preview of the book, and my wife and I were quite pleased as we skimmed through it last night. Baucham is saying ...
Why Memorize Scripture?
2009-03-10 17:40:00 “Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, not sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night” (Psalm 1:1-2). Memorizing Scripture makes meditation possible at times ...
By: ThingsHopedFor
Darkcloud wrote a new blog post: the Church reads the Bible
2009-03-08 17:34:00 Darkcloud wrote a new blog post: the Church reads the Bible It is 10:46 AM Sunday morning March the 8th 2009 in the flow of West Michigan history. I am down in the basement writing on my lap top drinking coffee and singing a old railroad working song or is the song a traditional american folk song? Anyway here I am once again with no one ...
Building a Work Crew
2009-03-06 00:06:00 A sermon I preached in the P.M. assembly of January 18, 2008 at Laurel Canyon. This is Part 3 of a series of lessons entitled Under Construction, with practical points of application taken from the book of Nehemiah. This sermon is based on Nehemiah 3. SERMON OUTLINE : Interactive PDF SERMON AUDIO : Download the mp3 file Click the PLAY ...
By: ThingsHopedFor
ClearlyU: A Personalized Bible for Kids
2009-03-01 11:30:00  For believers, a Bible is a coveted and very personal item for many adults and children. Now children can personalize their Bible just the way they want with ClearlyU. |
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