May 24, 2013
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R. C. wrote, “I have often been tempted to write a book by the title, The sensuous Christian.”

What is the sensuous Christian?

“The sensuous Christian is one who lives by his feelings rather than through his understanding of the Word of God. The sensuous Christian cannot be moved to service, prayer or study unless he ‘feels like it.’ His Christian life is only as effective as the intensity of present feelings. When he experiences spiritual euphoria, he is a whirlwind of Godly activity; when he is depressed, he is a spiritual incompetent. He constantly seeks new and fresh spiritual experiences and uses them to determine the Word of God. His ‘inner feelings’ become the ultimate test of truth.”

“The sensuous Christian goes his merry way until he encounters the pain of life that is not so merry and he folds. He usually ends up embracing a kind of ‘relational theology’ (that most dreadful curse on modern Christianity) where personal relationships and experience take precedence over the Word of God. If the scripture calls us to action that may jeopardize a personal relationship, then the scripture must be compromised. The highest law of the sensuous Christian is that bad feelings must be avoided at all cost.”

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R. C. Sproul, Knowing Scripture, pp. 26-27 

http://thinkpoint.wordpress.com/2013/05/22/the-sensuous-christian/

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May 20, 2013
"Till men have faith in Christ, their best services are but glorious sins."

— Thomas Brooks

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May 3, 2013

Bill O’Reilly “Biffs It” Again…

Did Jesus die because of taxes?

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Filed under: God Jesus Christ Easter Oreilly Bashir 
April 26, 2013
4 Warning Signs You May Be Wandering from the Truth | Unlocking the Bible

Some have wandered away… 1 Timothy 1:6

It’s very rare that anyone ever decides to abandon the truth. What happens much more often is that people wander. It happens gradually.  It happens when you do not have any particular goal. You lose your moorings and you drift.

You don’t want to be that person. So, you need to be alert to the danger. You may know someone who is wandering and God may use you to bring a wanderer back and help them get rooted in the truth.    Read more…

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April 11, 2013

Suffering without sinning

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April 3, 2013

How to Answer the Fool - Promo

http://youtu.be/MM1AWO92Crc

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Filed under: atheism atheist God Jesus Christ apologetics Sye video 
March 27, 2013

 Penn Jillette converts Piers Morgan into a Lutheran.

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February 22, 2013
God Does Not Give a “Fresh Revelation”

Spurgeon

Now there are some persons who make a great mistake about the influence of the Holy Spirit. A foolish man, who had fancy to preach in a certain pulpit, though in truth he was quite incapable of the duty, called upon the minister, and assured him solemnly that it had been revealed to him by the Holy Ghost, that he was to preach in his pulpit.

“Very well,” said the minister, “I suppose I must not doubt your assertion, but as it has not been revealed to me that I am to let you preach, you must go your way until it is.”

I have heard many fanatical persons say the Holy Spirit revealed this and that to them. Now that is very generally revealed nonsense. The Holy Ghost does not reveal anything fresh now. He brings old things to our remembrance. “He shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance whatsoever I have told you.” The canon of revelation is closed; there is no more to be added. God does not give a fresh revelation, but he rivets the old one. When it has been forgotten, and laid in the dusty chamber of our memory, he fetches it out and cleans the picture, but does not paint a new one.

There are no new doctrines, but the old ones are often revived. It is not, I say, by any new revelation that the Spirit comforts. He does so by telling us old things over again; he brings a fresh lamp to manifest the treasures hidden in Scripture; he unlocks the strong chests in which the truth had long lain, and he points to secret chambers filled with untold riches; but he comes no more, for enough is done.

Believer! there is enough in the Bible for thee to live upon for ever. If thou shouldst outnumber the years of Methusaleh, there would be no need for a fresh revelation; if thou shouldst live till Christ should come upon the earth, there would be no necessity for the addition of a single word; if thou shouldst go down as deep as Jonah, or even descend as David said he did, into the belly of hell, still there would be enough in the Bible to comfort thee without a supplementary sentence.

But Christ says, “He shall take of mine and shall show it unto you.” [1]

[1] Charles H. Spurgeon, Spurgeon’s Sermons: Volume 1,“The Comforter,” a sermon delivered on Sunday evening, January 21, 1855. 

From Reformed Baptist Fellowship: http://reformedbaptistfellowship.org/2013/02/21/god-does-not-give-a-fresh-revelation/

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February 15, 2013

timemagetim asked: I really want to know why you believe in god can you explain why? im not going to argue or troll or anything id like to know

Hi, thanks for your question!

Honestly, I can’t not believe in God.  In fact, I believe that everyone believes there is a God.  But people have so deceived themselves to reject the obvious…that God is there and He is not silent.

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February 15, 2013

Paul Washer: America’s preachers are Gospel ignorant.

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January 28, 2013
"To be biblically evangelistic, we must be certain that what we do leads men to faith, not just to decisions."

— Jim Ehrhard

(Source: challies.com)

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January 23, 2013
Our messy individualism

 By David Ould

“Now, here’s the crunch. It has often been observed that many of those campaigning most strongly for “gay rights” (not least in the area of adoption) are also those who are campaigning for “reproductive rights”, i.e. the right to abort. It seems to me there’s a basic disconnect here: on the one hand the push for adoption is couched in the language of providing loving parents for unwanted children; on the other hand the push for abortion is all about the disposal of unwanted children.”  Read more…

HT: Challies.com

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January 23, 2013
Why Not Be Engulfed in Technology?

“I would suggest that modern technology and entertainment have done great damage to young people’s sense of vision and purpose–especially among young men. I’m not anti-technology. But never before in the history of the world has triviality and mind-numbing shallowness been so tantalizingly seductive and so pervasively omnipresent. Never before has it been so easy to check out of real life and live in the realm of the hypertrivial.”  Read more…

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Filed under: Tech God Faith life lifestyle tumblr 
January 18, 2013
"The vast majority of abortions occur at this time, between the tenth and twelfth weeks of pregnancy and are thus clearly destroying a human baby. I won’t even speak of the horror of second and third trimester abortions, 150,000 of which occur annually in the U.S. alone, or of partial birth abortions in which a baby is actually partially delivered before it is brutally killed. Make no mistake about it: abortion is killing babies. The only way this can go on is because these unlucky little ones are normally hidden from view. As my former pastor once said, “If wombs had windows, there would be no abortions."

— William Lane Craig (via floaccount)

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January 17, 2013
Interesting….

I posted this quote:

“All the heresies which have arisen in the Christian Church have had a decided tendency to dishonor God and to flatter man.”

—C.H. Spurgeon

…and it appears some LDS people re-blogged it.  But, C. H. Spurgeon is talking about (among others) the blatant heresy that is the Mormon Church.  What flatters man more than him becoming a god, as Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, and all of their “prophets” have taught?  

This goes to show, the LDS church is no longer teaching their own doctrine, but attempting to slide into mainstream Christianity.  If you’re LDS, start to research the claims made against your church.  Watch testimonies of former LDS.  Ask the hard questions to your elders and leaders.    

The truth is, the LDS church is actively opposed to Jesus Christ, his work on the cross, and our Creator’s plan to save those whom he loves….   

http://mormoninfo.org/

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