Monthly Archive for March, 2006

Share the Journey

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Ernie
on March 31, 2006
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I know I am being changed: have been, and pray it will continue because I am so far from BEING who I was called and created to be. But aren’t we all?

Why is that?

N.T. Wright makes a lot of sense when he said in his most recent book, The Last Word, “People usually do not want to hear anything they don’t already believe so that they can go on thinking what they have always thought.” I agree, but I shake my head in wonderment as to WHY we would want to do that if we consciously comprehend it; especially if in so doing, the results are bad for us. I guess it all goes back to the ego: that false self that so wants to control our lives.
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Rediscover the Truth

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Ernie
on March 29, 2006
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If somehow, and I know this is a poor analogy, Jesus were to come back to earth this year, and run for office, would anybody vote for Him?

I seriously doubt it.

I’m an American and will always so be, so the context of my messages must remain here as with so many other commentaries. What’s happening in America, isn’t in much of the rest of the world. Good thing too. Christianity is seeing revival in many parts of the world and signs and wonders are marching right along side. In America, Christianity has lost is luster, saltiness if you will. Church attendance is going downhill fast. So, enough of the distinctions, I’m feeling bad.

America is in to BIG, POWERFUL and GRANDIOISE. Jesus is not!
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The Scary Truth

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Ernie
on March 27, 2006
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So much of what we see, think, hear, and “think we know” is because of the culture we were reared in: and the soup we are still marinating in- otherwise known as our lifestyles. I wear glasses, you wear glasses, and as Bart Ehrman so profoundly points out, “When a person just READS a Scripture, they are changing and interpreting it.”

Think about it: it’s a scary TRUTH!
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Microscopes

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Ernie
on March 26, 2006
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Every now and then you hit a nerve, a vein of gold, pay dirt, a motherload, or whatever. Yesterday’s commentary seemed to hit home with a lot of people. Suffice it to say that I received more positive emails from it than any other recent commentary. We live to journey on yet another day!

The questions don’t get any easier though.

Let me ask you if you’ve been troubled by a verse that resonated within me today. It rolled around like like a loose cannon within my spirit, and finally made its way to my brain with enough clarity that I think I can express it to you. The verse is John 3:2. Like with so many things that Jesus said, it’s what Nicodemus implies here and not what’s stated.
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Jesus: A Wisdom Teacher

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Shawn
on March 26, 2006
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March 26, 2006 - Jesus was a subversive sage who taught unlike any before Him or since. One cannot wrap their mind around the Bible or the teachings of Jesus by using conventional thinking or logic. The call to repent means to go beyond your current level of thinking, to move into the realm of the Spirit, where scandalous concepts challenge us to take life a notch higher… every day!

 
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The Truth Will Set You Free

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Ernie
on March 25, 2006
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Frustration, and maybe a little anger, is better than apathy!

Did you really think that being a Christian was going to be as easy as making a one minute public confession, possibly getting dunked, dropping a few coins in the offering tray, and attending church when all your systems were go (50% of the time)?

Surprise!
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