My Twittering Week for 2009-07-31
- #CSLewis on the vulnerabilities of #love yet why it is worth the risk of being hurt anyway: http://is.gd/1U1Ee #
- RT @vesselproject: Making bad choices today will create skeletons in your closet tomorrow. ~ and they'll have a full set of teeth, too! #
- We do not become #Christians apart from #God’s grace and mercy extended to us through the substitutionary death of #Jesus #Christ. #
- » The husband that resolves marital conflict » #Marriage Works Magazine http://bit.ly/qljuV (via @zrichards) #
- To deny the doctrine of #Hell is to accuse #God that he is not Just. #eternity #christianity #
- Is #God cruel for sacrificing his own Son?
Quote: God’s omniscience and man’s freewill
What we call ‘tomorrow’ is visible to Him in just the same way as what we call ‘today’. All the days are ‘Now’ for Him. He does not remember you doing things yesterday, he simply sees you doing them, because, though you have lost yesterday, He has not. He does not ‘foresee’ you doing things tomorrow; He simply sees you doing them: because, though tomorrow is not yet there for you, it is for Him. You never supposed that your actions at this moment were any less free because God knows what you are doing.
CS Lewis, Mere Christianity
Church attendee != a Christian
[This is a repost, word for word, of an earlier article. I've deleted the original because, over the last several weeks, it has consistently attracted several spam comments per day ... and I've had enough of clearing them from my auto-spam queue. Needless to say, going by the links the spammers want you to visit, there's a lot of sick puppies out there! Why they chose this one post and none others is beyond me. Hopefully, they don't start tagging other articles!]
In computer science the relational expression != is code for not equal to. So the meaning of the title of this post essentially reads: church attendee is not equal to being a Christian. In more layman’s language, just because you religiously attend church does not mean that… Continue reading ...
Free condoms increase teen pregnancy
The British Government spent a whopping £5.9m to “educate” over 2360 teenagers in a new program to primarily teach them the proper usage of contraceptives and of safe-sex practices. That equates to £2,500 per teen. A large part of the program involved the handing out of free condoms to the program’s participants who also received detailed ‘tips’ on how to engage in sexual intercourse.
Surprisingly – at least it came as a surprise to the Government, whose common sense does not appear that common – the program was deemed a spectacular failure when compared to other previously existing sex-ed programs that did not hand out free condoms or provide sexual tips. According to an article in the Dailymail1, 16% of participants in this program – that was… Continue reading ...
Mummy? Isn’t your friend Julie really my mummy?
An interesting question from mercatornet.com caught my eye in my RSS Reader the other day: what explanation do parents of surrogate children offer when their children ask the inevitable questions akin to “where-do-I-come-from” or “how-are-babies-made”?
Surrogacy (whether gestational or not), for those not in the know, is that process by which a host mother-to-be is brought onto the scene to carry a child to term on behalf of another couple, whereby they surrender any parental rights to the birthed child to the adoptive parents.
The reasons for entering into such arrangements can be varied – ie. couples may not be able to conceive a child naturally, or for cosmetic reasons the female may not wish to spoil her figure / ‘endure’ child-bearing, and then again there are alternate… Continue reading ...
My Twittering Week for 2009-07-16
- thanks to: @ArthurFontes @vesselproject @77dale @aliveinme @TomMangone @OcNichO @faithgoddess7 @HisFriendlyWay @gettinlefty #followfriday #
- I believe Christianity to be a reasonable faith – do you? http://bit.ly/I9QvA #apologetics #christianity #logic #
- #followfriday faves: @twhtan @margiemiguel @pba2012 @ODNews @FU4ChildRights @CleanMan @chisaikame ~ these guys share great content #
- nu frndz: @Wanpeirui @ChristAtWork @ccoalition @MatthewWarner @herpregnancy @garrymullen @MomOfMercy @sermonfire @Torchlight99 #followfriday #
- Dismantling the relativist's fable of the Rajah – this fable does not trouble #religion: http://bit.ly/198Fmv #apologetics #christianity #
- Church issues today: Why #Christians Suck: http://bit.ly/DiIWA
My Twittering Week for 2009-07-09
- Prolifer attempts to run down pro-abort. No msm coverage. Oh wait..I got that 1st pt wrong: http://tinyurl.com/nlt74q #prolife #abortion #
- #AP omit this sex offender is gay & that he molested his Afr-Amrcn adopted son. Hmmm, PC much? http://tinyurl.com/lmtg9d #tcot #
- But society has no 2x-standard when it comes to #abortion, right? Baby killer goes shopping: http://bit.ly/9Oq4n #prolife #tcot #
- here's @scrowder's latest vid: #Obama and #kimjongil: http://bit.ly/11c7f1 #tcot #
- new #followfriday friends: @TheBereanCall @dougwead1234 @FullCustodyDad @JesusGivesLife @StevenErtelt @followers4Jesus @iwalkwithChrist #
- new #followfriday friends: @ODNews @TDconference @ParentingHelp09 @edonn84 @ClaytonCalhoon @JesusSister @
How you can reasonably believe that the sky is green (and why Christianity is reasonable)
The objections to belief in God in general, and to Christianity and its God in particular, are many and varied. It’s important to note, however, that the quantity and variety of objections have no bearing on the truth claims that Christianity makes – you really only need one solid objection that can withstand scrutiny and refutation to pull Christianity down. So quality, not quantity is what is required here.
Recently I found a forum thread* that was seeking responses from non-Christians about the “dealbreakers” that prevent them from believing in/exploring Christianity. That is, what are the lynch-pin reasons that prevent them from taking Christianity seriously. This query, put forward on an otherwise very liberally-minded, left-leaning technology site, has flung up some tired-old objections that seasoned Christians… Continue reading ...
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