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A recent discussion with a friend brought me to the attention of Francis Schaeffer, a great theologian I have heard of, but never really paid too much attention.
So here's the reading plan:
1. The God who is there
2. He is there and He is not Silent
3. Escape from Reason
4. How Shall we then Live
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For those evangelists who believe not predestination, believe that a christian could fall from saving grace, such as those who joined the church and gone astray after. As a result, these preachers are able to so confidently assure salvation of others by mere verbal testing. And when they turned from the Gospel, these evangelists would use the irresponsible excuse of affirming their believe that christians could still lose their salvation.
We can neither assure others' salvation nor reprobation. For we know not how others truly think. Our business is to assure our own, individually. For it is our personal relationship with God. It is our duty to share such grace with other christians in servitude of our Lord.
John 6:39...that of all which He has given me I should lose nothing...
God is all powerful, there's nothing God plan that cannot happen. May all glory and honor be returned to God and God alone.
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For some prosperity theology pastors such as Rick Warren, it would be interesting to see how he manages his multi-dimensional motives. As Abraham Lincoln once said, no man has good enough memory to be a perfect liar.[@more@]
There are two ways we can choose to look at those who are better than us.
1. We strive to learn from them, better ourselves with our best efforts.
2. We categorize them, placing ourselves in our own new category.
Unfortunately, the second approach is the fruit of jealousy and pride, masked in hypocrisy. For it assumes first of all, there can be categories, thereby using such to escape the responsibility God bestowed upon us to achieve perfection in Christ.
We should try our best efforts to better ourselves, discipline ourselves, and accept our individual limitations, which vary in measures.
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I have seen irony in those who do not wish to obey this verse.
I have seen full-time servant of God, not willing to submit to husband, but somehow, consistently submitted to toleration of non-biblical doctrines, submitted to worldly praises, submitted to anthropocentric theology, submitted to prosperity theology, submitted to effeminacy, submitted to gossips, to rumors, to things not of God.
There are two kings in this world that people submit to: God and the devil.
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Social Mandate is an important movement the Reformed Church inspired. Nonetheless, Social mandate without gospel commission is a failed theology. With this, comes pride, jealousy and cowardice.
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In XP pro SP2, some client's wallpaper wasn't loading completely, showing only the top 10% of the screen. Occasionally, it was just a plain color with no background picture at all. One would have to manually refresh (F5) the desktop so that the full picture will be complete.
After some research, I find this seems to work:
Enable Turn on Classic Shell:
type gpedit.msc in Start->Run,
Enable "Turn on Classic Shell" in User Configuration=>Administrative Templates=>Windows Components=>Windows Explorer.
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Those who simply refuse or pretend to be humble by denying or despise their own authority, are actually equivalent to those dictatorial barbarians who abuse their authority.
For they pretend to give glory to God. But it is actually not to God the glory flows. Even so, such glory is not glory at all, it is unholy.
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I can't seem to find a satisfactory translation for the Chinese Idiom: 瞒天过海. The closest one seems to be "To Cross the Sea by a Trick", or to practice deception.
Anyhow, this would best describe the approach of today's Evangelical Christian's, conservative or not, view towards God's guidance. Very shallow and very narrow minded.
One must not be surprised however, for different era has its own born every day. As the old saying goes: There's one born every day.
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