"Evangelical" churches way of using Halloween

Speechless:

                   
                   
                   
                   

Is this a fitting hymn, ejem, song, to start your Easter celebrations?

The Museum of Idolatry, once again, has out done themselves reporting how some "churches" are attracting new converts.

Here is opening hymn praise song ummm "number" for Easter 2009 at New Spring Church.
Come on all you Christians...Sing Along with the praise song leader...here are the lyrics. Certainly Christians can sing this song without any guilt on Easter Sunday because this applies to Christians...Right?

The need to mend relationships. Philemon 1:8-22

Your Pastor is Spider Man. No way!! FAILED!!!

I always wanted to be Spider Man. When I married and had children, my family members said that "Spider Man is making little spiders".

Well, I am not going to use my church to fulfil some childhood dream of becoming Spider Man, or the Man of Steel, or the Cape Crusader. Emergent Church people, sometimes feel like they are using Church to do this very thing.

People, don't use church tu fulfil your unfulfilled dreams. If you are not Spider Man, or an actor, don't pretend to be.

This is how somebody reported this crazy act:

Pastor or more accurately wannabe Broadway sensation David Hughes of Church Circus by the Glades, this past Sunday decided that it was time to recreate the famous kiss scene from the Spiderman movie during church.

And  here it's the video to see it:

Haddon Robinson on Preaching

Robinson is spot on.  He is one of the best preachers I've ever heard. His preaching way more than compensates for his looks.

Listen to him, and learn from a master of preaching. I wll post one of his sermons another day.

52 tips about Apologetics

These are not originally mine, rather, they are from Brian Auten, from apologetics315.com

I hope these help you in your apologetics endeavours.

1. Be first a person of prayer with a goal to know the Lord.

2. Be a continual reader.

3. Know both sides of the issues.

4. Listen to as many good lectures as possible.

5. Listen to every debate you can get your hands on.

6. Learn from the best debaters.

7. Learn from the worst debaters. (what not to do)

8. Find a mentor if you can.

9. Apologetics is not a boxing match; it’s walking along side another in dialogue.

10. You’re not in it to win arguments; you are in it to win people.

11. Be mindful of your spiritual life above your apologetics studies.

12. Allow your apologetics studies to be worship unto the Lord.

13. Your wife doesn’t want to hear about your online debates.

14. Don’t talk about apologetics at the dinner table, unless you are with apologetics buddies.

15. Find like-minded friends to fellowship with and reflect on apologetic issues.

16. Get input and feedback from other apologists and mature Christian peers.

17. Pray for the people you are interacting with. If you don’t pray for them, what do you expect to accomplish?

18. Never respond to blog comments in an emotional state. Cool off first and pray.

19. Remember, you don’t have to win the whole world.

20. Study how Jesus interacted and communicated with people.

21. Remember that you have the truth.

22. Pray all the time.

23. Spend time with your family.

24. Enjoy worship at your church.

25. Get away from the apologetics stuff for a while regularly.

26. Avoid taking extreme views and ignoring other options.

27. Study logic and critical thinking; it will help you more than you can imagine.

28. Get into public speaking and learn communication skills. And learn to spell.

29. Always seek first to win the person.

30. You don’t have to respond to every possible objection.

31. Study theology alongside or before you get into apologetics.

32. Study and understand different apologetic methodologies and don’t defend your method to the death.

33. Read Pascal’s Pensées.

34. Read stuff that challenges you to think hard.

35. Be humble; you know so little.

36. Draw from the expertise of others.

37. Specialize if you can.

38. Understand the spiritual condition of those you are interacting with.

39. Understand the psychological reasons people have for holding their views.

40. Admit it when you are wrong.

41. Realize that there is no end to the subject; get in it for the long haul.

42. Don’t rush your studies.

43. Don’t be a hypocrite. Stay pure.

44. Poor character will destroy your apologetics.

45. An apologist is ultimately an evangelist; so first know how to share the Gospel well.

46. In evangelism, start with the Gospel and use apologetics only if the need arises.

47. Realize that not everyone at your church is going to be as excited about apologetics as you are.

48. Apologetics is about loving people; remove the love from your apologetic and you fail.

49. You don’t have to know every answer, just where to go to get the answers.

50. Apologetics can bolster faith and dispel doubt, but it cannot bend the will.

51. The results are up to the Lord.

52. At the end of the day, are you walking with Jesus?

What would you add?

Sermon on Philemon chapter 1:1-7

Another one who couldn't handle fame, and went off the rails

I never liked the guy, always felt that he was using his church to get ahead in life.

Well, now we know, and another one bites the dust.

Chart topper Guy Sebastian has spoken in favour of same-sex marriage.He also revealed he has changed many of his religious beliefs since being painted as the poster boy for church during his Australian Idol days (Herald Sun 11/10/12 p7). Please pray for Guy.

Some thoughts on the Church

Many Christians treat the church not like their mother, but like their mistress.  They visit her only when they want something. 

By Jim West. 

Why I don't follow Dispensationalism