The Cross and repentance The Crucifixion was God’s eternal opinion of the seriousness of sin. The sinless Son of God was made sin for us to satisfy God’s Holiness (2 Corinthians 5:21). Jesus bore the weight of everything we were due – the shame, the wrath, the judgment, the tears, the anguish, the agony, the pain, the punishment, and death for sin (Romans 5:6-8)
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The Cross and repentance
SupremeMasterTV.com From the Sacred Confucian Analects 16-18 P2/2 (In Chinese). Episode: 1260, Air Date: 25 February 2010.
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The Sacred Confucian Analects:Chapters 16-18: P2/2
It’s a San Antonio tradition about as well-known as the Easter bunny and possibly more beloved — families camping out over the long holiday weekend at city parks with a barbecue pit smoking nearby and music blasting, all in the company of hundreds of other visitors with the same idea.
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Easter park campouts beginning
UPDATE 04/01/2010 – I just came across this more recent video of Mr. John Piper responding to questions about him inviting Rick Warren to his Desiring GOD conference… Honestly, I don’t even know what to think about this video from Mr
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Videos: Dr. John Piper Thinks Rick Warren Is ‘Theologically Sound’
The following announcement comes to me from Deborah Whitehead, Professor of Religious Studies at CU-Boulder, and is especially directed for blog readers along the Front Range, Denver, Boulder, and northern Colorado. Religion in the 21st Century: Renowned Scholar of Comparative Religion Jonathan Z
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Jonathan Z. Smith at CU Boulder: The Future of the Study of Religion Over the Next 40 Years
Preludium has received a report that General Theological Seminary is facing into major financial difficulties and that there was a closed door meeting of the Board of Trustees today (March 30th) followed by a meeting with members of the seminary community. The report indicates that there are plans for a short term solution but considerable doubts about the future of the Seminary. If this is so, please pray for the Seminary, its students, faculty and staff
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What is happening to General Theological Seminary? (Updated)
Randall Stephens The above was Erasmus’s tongue-in-cheek version of counterfactual scholastic flimflammery. He reduced his angel-dancing-on-pinhead opponents to stuttering monkeys. Certainly, not all counterfactuals are worth their weight in imaginary gold.
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What if Jesus Had Come to Earth as a Cucumber? American Religious History Counterfactuals
Should Pope Benedict XVI be held responsible for the escalating scandals over clerical sexual abuse in Europe? Should he be investigated for cases of abuse that occurred under his watch as archbishop of Munich or as the Vatican’s chief doctrinal enforcer
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Pope Benedict’s response to sex abuse by clergy
Paul Harvey Can science explain the evolution of religion, or why there is religion at all? The somewhat obscure public radio show The Really Big Questions , hosted by Lynn Neary, explores this. Just caught the show this weekend, and it was a terrific hour of radio which summarizes a lot of the contending thought on applying evolution to the study of religion in human societies
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The Evolution of Religion, on The Really Big Questions
Just a short note on the Roman troubles. The Pope is quoted by the Times of London saying that Christ “helps lead us towards courage which does not allow us to be intimidated by the chatter of dominant opinions.” How’s that for autocratic overkill! The headline reads, Pope: I ‘will not be intimidated’ by sex abuse accusations
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"…the chatter of dominant opinions." The Pope as autocrat
With Passover coming up Monday evening, Temple Beth-El set aside a special night beforehand for the people who typically pour themselves into holiday logistics and meal preparation: women. 10th annual Women’s Seder
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Women’s Seder mixes Passover tradition with contemporary
Invariably the reply I receive to my pointing out that God’s eternal law is love and not a laundry list of do’s and don’ts is: “but God’s law teaches us how to love.” Of course, the reference to the law is usually meaning the Ten Commandments specifically (as if they can really be separated from all the rest that Israel said “we will” to).
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Does the Law Teach Us How To Love?
This is a rather interesting story — members of the Share International new age/ecumenical cult have set their sights on a London-born author as the fulfillment of their “prophesied” messiah, Maitreya. Benjamin Creme, the cult’s founder, apparently refuses to confirm or deny what some of his followers believe… I’m pointing this out Related posts: !Alert!: Coming of Maitreya ‘The Christ’ A New, More Believable False Christ To Emerge After Christmas
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Benjamin Creme’s Share International/Maitreya Followers Point To Author As ‘Messiah’
ENS just published an article on the UTO study group that I am chairing. Here it is: UTO study group reorganizes for triennium Group hopes to build on legacy of ‘thankful giving’ By Mary Frances Schjonberg, March 24, 2010 [Episcopal News Service] Mark Harris, the new chair of the Episcopal Church’s United Thank Offering study group , grew up watching his grandmother put coins into the UTO blue box she kept on her dining room table while she said her daily prayers. It’s that legacy of thankful giving that Harris wants to help UTO build on as the organization that has helped the Episcopal Church expand its mission for the last 120 years by making grants to ministries that address human needs faces the 21st century.
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UTO Study Group…an interview with ENS
I don’t get too much into the heretics unless I come across something really disgusting and offensive to the LORD our GOD (I would get dizzy trying to follow them all). The so-called emergent church movement is one heretical movement I try not to pay too much attention to (although I do follow Mr. Ken Related posts: Videos: Dr
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Video: Mr. John Piper On The ‘White, Fading’ Emergent Church
Caminante asks a rhetorical question : Why does Mary Glasspool’s receiving consents garner a comment from the Archbishop of Canterbury almost instantaneously (they must have had the text pre-written for either scenario) whereas when one of the 38 primates of the Anglican Communion nearly loses his life in an assassination attempt that results in his driver being gravely injured we hear nothing? She asked that several days ago and now has gone herself to El Salvador on behalf of Fundación Cristosal, foundation for the support of the Anglican Episcopal Church of El Salvador. May Canon Lee Crawford have a safe trip and be a sign of our care and love for Archbishop Martín Barahona
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What Caminante Said… Where is the Anglican Communion’s focus of unity focused?
What is your vision of heaven? What images – from Scripture, tradition, culture or your personal experience – best describe heaven for you? Read Newsweek religion editor Lisa Miller’s new book: “Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife.”…Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.
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What (or where, or why) is heaven?
As he led Mass at Mission Concepción Sunday, after the Spanish Colonial church had been closed for more than half a year for renovations, Archbishop José Gomez thought of the priests and congregants who’d stood in this same sanctuary 255 years before him.
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After six-month renovation, Mission Concepción rededicated
It’s been a slow news month in the world of ecumenicism. I mean, if it weren’t for Louis Farrakhan shooting off his lip again, Kenneth Copeland’s jet and Ed Young’s palatial “tax-exempt” estate (wink), I would not have enough spray paint on this wall to fill a huffer’s need to get high.
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Resurrection. Shmesurrection. Bring on the Bunnies!
What should pastors do if they no longer hold the defining beliefs of their denomination? Do clergy have a moral obligation not to challenge the sincere faith of their parishioners? If this requires them to dissemble from the pulpit, doesn’t this create systematic hypocrisy at the center of religion?
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Disbelief in the pulpit
I just started a website devoted to astrological jewelry . Though obviously related to my spiritual interests, this is a commercial project: everything that someone buys on that site earns me a percentage. (my disclaimer) One of the things I present there are amulets made of semi-precious gemstones
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Do gemstones correlating to the zodiac offer protection?
In Previous post we read about Tibetan Festival about TIPA performing Arts in Bangkok, Thailand. Again i am going to inform you about a Exhibition AVALOKITEŚVARA: Buddhist Paintings from Nepal, Selections by Robert Beer , This exhibition, organised by Serindia Gallery, Bangkok ( see map for Gallery ).
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AVALOKITEŚVARA: Buddhist Paintings from Nepal
This video can… and does a good job too. In marketing, we call it an “elevator pitch”. Essentially, cut the crap and get to it.
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Cross Eyed: Can you define Christianity in 2 minutes or less?
So, it’s been a few days since I last dawned a bottle of spray paint and got busy on the Wall. Let’s see God… how do I get my mojo back? Sleezy televangelists
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Farrakhan warns Obama about the “White Right”
Yes, that’s tongue in cheek headline. For those not ‘in the know’, Koot Hoomi was one of Blavatsky’s Masters . With his friend Morya he wrote a lot of letters that form some of the earliest theosophical literature.
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KH, Koot Hoomi and Katinka Hesselink
In response to the new gay marriage law in Washington, Catholic Charities closed its adoption and foster care programs and cut spousal benefits to future employees — to avoid providing services to homosexual couples. If a church or other religious charity receives government funding, should it follow all government rules, including those against discrimination based on sexual orientation? Or should government exempt such organizations from requirements that violate particular religious beliefs?…Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.
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Do religious convictions trump government rules?
2/18/10 – On-Cho Ng, Ph.D., professor of history at Pennsylvania State University, presents The Confucian Come-back: Tradition, Modernity, and Ideology in Contemporary China, detailing the revival of Confucianism.
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The Confucian Come Back, presented by On-Cho Ng, Ph.D.