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Aiki's Blog: Ruminations and Ramblings.
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I have heard now for decades the oft-repeated mantra, "Follow your heart." Hollywood, in particular, seems badly infatuated with this idea. I can't count the number of times movies that I've watched (and, being a movie buff, I have watched a great many) have been happily resolved by the adoption...
I was watching "Infinity Wars" with my wife the other day and was struck, once again, by how weak the "gods" that Hollywood erects (only to destroy) really are. Now, Thanos wasn't weak relative to everyone else in the film. He easily thumped the Hulk and dealt handily with all of the Avengers...
I. Do works have anything to do with how we are saved?
Titus 3:5-7 (NKJV)
5 not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit,
6 whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ...
"Preach the Gospel and if necessary use words."
I've heard this rather foolish remark too many times to count. Often from "Christians" who have never shared the Good News of salvation with anyone. They typically follow up the quotation of this entirely unbiblical notion of evangelism with a...
If you ask the average person on the street what their fundamental goal in life is, they will frequently say, "Oh, to be happy. I just want to be as happy as possible." Even most Christians think happiness is the primary goal of life and that knowing God is just an avenue to achieving this goal...
"I would do anything for you. I love you."
So says the young woman to her boyfriend, tears streaming down her cheeks. He looks deep into her eyes and with trembling mouth and laboured breath replies: "I would do anything for you, too. Kiss me."
They smooch a bit and then the boyfriend dies...
I've been reading through a recent thread on this site in which the OP-er contended strenuously with a group of mocking and dismissive detractors. The OP-er (opening poster) had pointed to what he believed was an evil that some professing to be disciples of Christ have embraced. The Christians...
If you're falling from the sky in a burning plane, then a prayer for God's help is quite in order; if you've been bitten by a poisonous snake miles from medical assistance, then asking God to help is perfectly sensible; if you've just catapulted through the windshield of your car in a head-on...
We're all of us sensual beings. We see, hear, taste, touch and smell our world (and each other). It's just the way we are as beings of flesh and blood. What happens, then, when we are confronted with the supernatural, spiritual, incorporeal reality of the Christian faith that is not as readily...
Increasingly these days I am encountering people who profess to be disciples of Christ - Christians - who deny the doctrine of Hell. More specifically, they deny the teaching of Scripture that the unrepentant wicked will suffer eternal conscious torment in Gehenna (as opposed to Hades or Sheol)...
Colossians 3:3
3 For you are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
On the face of it, this is a very odd statement. If I am dead, what life do I have to be "hid with Christ in God"? And if Paul is writing to dead people, why write to them at all? Dead people don't...
The following statement was made in a thread in which I recently posted:
"Tolerance does not mean tolerating intolerance."
Apparently, this is a popular 'net meme at the moment. Which rather concerns me. Because it's really stupid. Here's why:
"As it stands, this is a nonsense statement. As...
"When you're done washing those mason jars, take them to the cold cellar," my mother said as she exited the kitchen. There were six large jars to transport but I was determined not to make two trips to convey them to the cellar. In classic fourteen-year-old fashion I thought to myself, Why do in...
I was watching a rising star in the New Apostolic Reformation movement preaching. He was working the sincerity thing pretty hard, frequently feigning the rise of tearful emotion, and trying his best to "speak from the heart." It was difficult to watch his performance. So much of it was so...
Do you know what the New Apostolic Reformation is? Some of you doubtless do; for others, though, it may be something quite unknown. If I could, I would ignore the NAR movement as just another modern addition to the mountain of false teaching that has assailed the Church over the centuries...
"Now you pass this end over and then under this section of the rope. Do it six or seven times. Pull it tight! You don't want to fall out of your harness!" With a look of terrified resignation on his colorless, chubby face, Jamie S. yanked, and twisted, and tied his rope into the shape of the...
The Sunday evening sermon was well under way. Dad was at the pulpit expounding the finer points of arcane Christian doctrine and I was doodling on the borders of the church bulletin. I ran out of room for more artwork on the bulletin and began to look about for a spare one. My brother, David...
It was nearly time. Dad had been preaching for a good ten minutes. Long enough for the elderly Noel R. to begin, once again, to tilt very distinctly to his left (and always to his left, for some reason). Sitting only a few seats down the row from Noel, I had watched his head, like the fishing...
It was time for the annual Missions Dinner at the Dragon Palace. Most of the congregation of Trinity Baptist had gathered in the basement hall of the Chinese restaurant to eat and listen to a "special speaker" urge us to keep world evangelism a priority in our thinking and giving. Several long...
Not everyone likes chicken. Colonel Sanders might bristle at the assertion, but it's true. I know of at least one person who quite literally could not stomach barn fowl. I was sixteen when I met him. His name was Petra L., a Romanian opera singer who provided the "special music" for my...