Fictional dialogue.
A: Some preachers are only capable and insist only of preaching presuppositional sermons geared towards believers and not non-believers. But the audience of presuppositional apologetics is universal.
B: But I am preaching to a church congregation. They are all believers.
A: Then you do not know your congregation well and therefore your sermon is not gospel centered.
This will be an ongoing work. Perhaps I need to take the Ethics course in philosophy.
The basis of my thesis is this:
A (male-only?) gay marriage family world inevitably expects some mothers to give up their babies.
A heterosexual marriage family world accepts but do not requires any mothers to give up their babies.
Any ethical system that cannot balance the utility of the society is worse than the systems that can balance such common utility better.
Therefore, a gay marriage worldview is worse than a heterosexual marriage worldview.
Apparently, a futuristic technology will be used by proponent of gay marriage to argue against this thesis in order to make a male-only gay marriage family be of no distinction from a female-only marriage family. Nonetheless, much could be argue from a maternal love perspective on labor, etc. This will go hand in hand with a paternal involvement as well. Debunking the use of futuristic technology, which is not even fully realized today.
If a teacher's answer to a relevant question is: "Don't bother with that, it will not be on the test", then the teacher is not qualified to teach.
Common Evangelicals problem:
“Mere improvement is not redemption, though redemption always improves people” -C.S. Lewis
I haven't watched it but it has incredibly bad reviews already.
By experience, I could only comment that a film is an art that involves more than just talk. A mistake many evangelicals commit.
Someone once said "Why do you like to ask why?" as if it is virtually a taboo.
Here's the importance of it: "It is not what a man does that determines whether his work is sacred or secular, it is why he does it." ~ A.W. Tozer
I postulate that it can cause attention deficit. The lack of sleep reduces the number of dreams. In this case, I call it required dreams.
I believe that dreams are required to help filter and adjust our thought processes so that we do not wonder about irrelevant matters while acknowledging them.
If we skip necessary dreams, we end up with lots of garbage thoughts that have no way out of our mind and thus, distracting us from concentration.
John 7:28 - Then cried Jesus in the temple as he taught, saying, Ye both know me, and ye know whence I am: and I am not come of myself, but he that sent me is true, whom ye know not.
Not referring to God is true, I've found that JFB had it best in saying "He that sent Me is the only real Sender of any one."
I don't know why Tante Lyna did not study this clearly, causing much confusion. As for whether they knew Jesus (v.28) or not (v.27), the answer was already in v.17. There is no need for more sayings. No need to think of v. 28 as a question (as Poole did as well), which would be a form of rebuke because it is less rebuke more revelatory teaching here, and the Jews weren't offended by the rebuke but by the divine claim. The same answer goes for v.24, where Lyna put more questions than answers on what is "outward appearance" vs. "just" judgment, causing N2 to conclude a devastating explanation that it is between human judgment and God judgment (then nobody knows which one is God's, since everyone can claim that). Again, answer in v.17 would be sufficient.
One good thing out of this is that I can learn what not to do and what to do in teaching a Bible study.
The reason I don't eagerly respond this time: I want to see how it is with them. Some don't care to know, some is just plain ignorant, some don't seek after the righteousness eagerly. If that is the case, I should just keep quiet and answer only occasionally. If it is about "in season, out of season", then I am in season, doing my very best - silence is a virtue, that is what I am preaching. Secondly, the Lord did say something about not giving the dogs and swines that which is precious.
Pray for Jeniffer and her family.
It appeared to be a marketing plot, not in a negative sense.
I was contacted via email by Joseph Creech (junior, the father is a pastor, if I heard correctly), Third Mill's development officer. I treated them (him and his wife Seydi) to Malaysian Grill while on my break between classes.
We exchanged some info. Creech asked me to look for someone who might be interested to "donate" to Third Mill's cause. I didn't promise that except that I plan to use Third Mill's material in New York City ministry. It should be understood that I am not a fan of those fund raising type of movements in church or otherwise, and those moved by God will give for sure, as seen in Redeemer, which we talked more about.
Note of interest is they even have a microfilm of the Bible in Russian. Though it says "The Holy Bible" very clearly with larger fonts. It is perhaps the first time I've seen a microfilm. I've always wanted to use one of those things. Perhaps I should buy one from him as collection, if it is not expensive.
I think it is a matter of integrity for a cover designer to match creativity with content. If a lot of graphic effects are used to design a cover while the content is simply a stand up lecture without any visual aid, I believe it is dishonest and lazy if not ignorant of the cover artist to not honestly study the content of the material.
