Peace

"Peace is having confidence in God's wisdom and control of our lives, versus thinking that we know better than he does what is best for us. Peace is trusting in God's character and promises more than we trust our own feelings, our own ideas, or what our culture says. Peace is counterfeited when we feel thankful and happy only when our plans, agendas and wants are working out like we want them to."  - Scott Sauls

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Introvert Cartoons

http://introvertdear.com/news/cartoons-introvert-infj-infjoe/

Finding God in the Waves-Mike McHargue

How I lost my faith and found it again through science. I really wanted to like this book, and had high hopes for it. I tried to get past the introduction by Rob Bell, someone who I disagree with on so many levels. Mike is known as science Mike and the Liturgist podcasts and writes for Relevant magazine. Also has a website findinggodinthewaves.com. The author describes a conference with Rob Bell and it seems that he had a part in Mike's conversion. Also through his parent's divorce and friend's conversation he came back to the faith that he had as a youth. The problem that I have is this is what liberal Christianity has come to in America today.
He denies the inerrancy of scripture and believes that stories like the flood of Noah's time was not a literal flood.
On page 233 he describes "When I let go of the Bible as an inerrant document and embraced it as a multi-party discussion about God, all of a sudden, I began to see a book I could appreciate on it's own terms."
This is a dangerous statement to make and sounds like a watered down Christianity.
He described his church as "multiracial, multicultural, and affirming of people of every race, gender, and sexual orientation."
He describes his church as "the pastor and most of the staff were women."
It is hard for me to understand how someone can place their trust in a document that a person does not accept as inerrant and unchangeable.
Many will accept this book as a good example of someone coming to faith, but it is hard for me to understand what the author calls Christianity.
Overall, I can not recommend this book because of my disagreements with the author.
I have been provided with a complimentary copy of this book in exchange for this review.

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Monday, December 19, 2016

Bob Dylan - Big Yellow Taxi

http://www.needsomefun.net/bob-dylan-big-yellow-taxi/

Thursday, December 15, 2016

Am I Called?

http://amicalled.com/2016/12/super-exciting-announcement-new-called/

Tuesday, December 13, 2016

REM- Losing My Religion

http://www.inthestudio.net/live-tracks/r-e-m-losing-religion-4-28-92/

God is sovereign

Because God is absolutely sovereign, nothing that happens is out of his control or at odds to his ultimate purposes. Nothing. Even that which we can rightly call morally evil (for which the one who does the evil is morally responsible) has been historically used by God to achieve great good.

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Building and Pride

"There's nothing wrong with building. There's nothing wrong with sowing and reaping. Those are the tasks that God gave to us in creation, but they're to be done under the authority of God. They're to be done coram Deo, before the face of God, under the authority of God, and unto the glory of God."
         - R.C. Sproul

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Reading books quote from the Wall Street Journal today

I'm on a search—and have been, I now realize, all my life—to find books to help me make sense of the world, to help me become a better person, to help me get my head around the big questions that I have and answer some of the small ones while I'm at it.

I know I'm not alone in my hunger for books to help me find the right questions to ask, and find answers to the ones that I have. I am now in my mid-50s, a classic time for introspection. But any age is a good age for examining your life. Readers from their teens to their 90s have shared with me their desire for a list of books to help guide them.

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Phil Johnson resources

http://www.thegracelifepulpit.com/PhilJohnson.aspx

Tuesday, December 6, 2016

The Gift of Sleep

http://www.alliancenet.org/christward/the-gift-of-sleep-capturing-the-biblical-vision-of-rest#.WEeBSbIrLIU

John MacArthur on Worship

"Let me explain worship in a simple way. The deeper your understanding of the truth of God, the deeper your understanding of God Himself, the higher your worship goes. Worship is directly correlated to understanding. The richer your theology, the more full your grasp of biblical truth, the more elevated your worship becomes. You don't have to turn the music on for me to worship. Low understanding of God—superficial, shallow, understanding of God—leads to shallow, superficial, content-less hysteria. You can whip that up, you can create that kind of frenzy. It has nothing to do with worship; it isn't worship; it's not connected to worship; it is sheer hysteria in a mindless expression. You've been singing hymns this week. Why? Because there's rich theology in hymns. We don't have to go hysterical; we want your mind fully engaged. . . . I don't need 7-11 choruses, seven words eleven times over. I need to advance the doctrine. I need to advance the richness. I need to deepen the truth and broaden the truth. And hymns have verses, not just five words repeated and repeated and repeated and repeated and repeated but never really with the nuances of theology. So, yeah . . . that's not worship, that's not even Christian. That's no different than a rock concert. There's a lot of ways to manipulate people's minds, and they have figured out how do that."
         - John MacArthur

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Quote from Tim Challies

Ambition is good, but it needs to be strengthened by at least two other crucial traits: character and self-discipline.

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Interesting quote from "Spurgeon Gems"

Hi – I'm reading "Spurgeon Gems" by Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892) and wanted to share this quote with you.

""The great destroyer of man is the will of man. I do not believe that man's free will has ever saved a soul, but man's free will has been the ruin of multitudes. 'Ye would not' is still the solemn accusation of Christ against guilty men (Mat 23:37; Luk 13:34). Did He not say at another time, 'And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life' (Joh 5:24)? The human will is desperately set against God and is the great devourer and destroyer of thousands of good intentions and emotions which never come to anything permanent because the will is acting in opposition to that which is right and true."–1894, Sermon 2381"

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Regulative Principle of Worship

http://www.ligonier.org/learn/articles/regulative-principle-worship/

Being judgemental

http://www.ligonier.org/blog/difference-between-being-judgmental-and-exercising-discernment/