Stephen Baldwin Dons 'Boxing Gloves' for Christ

Quecat »

Mon Sep 15, 2008 1:46 pm Agree: 0   Disagree: 0

I AM liking this! :)

Perhaps one day Stephen can get through the thick skull of his dunderheaded brother Alec. Alec's politics and hyper left wing nutjob-edness has so turned me off that I refuse to watch anything he performs in any longer.

I won't be called to account as a faithful steward for spending the money that the Lord has entrusted to me, supporting inane hollywood lifestyles and funding these folks ability to stand on their soapbox and tell us how wrong is right and right is narrowminded.

Churches and Lottery Winnings: A Losing Proposition

Quecat »

Fri Sep 12, 2008 12:59 pm Agree: 0   Disagree: 0

"How do you know that everyone who gambles is motivated by worldly or fleshy greed".

Get real! I suppose your imagination can conjure some honestly altruisitic reason for playing the lottery?

Shall we consider the biblical admonition that we are to be good stewards of what God has entrusted to our care?

I would like to see a valid argument for how throwing away money on gambling is being a "good steward".

And please don't bore me with some song and dance about "I have $100 to give to a charitable cause, but if I go to the dog track and win I could increase my funds fivefold and be able to give $500 to charity - so this is a good thing!" Uh huh, and I have some beachfront property in Arizona to offer for sale, cheap.

Mat 6:21 "...Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."

Brian McLaren Challenges Anglicans on Emerging Culture

Quecat »

Thu Jul 24, 2008 10:29 am Agree: 2   Disagree: 10

My day would be so much brighter if Mr Lyin' McLaren would just go away - or better yet, actually get saved.

It's a fearful thing to imagine the firey indignation that he will face at the judgment seat of Christ when he has to answer for all the souls that he has led astray.

Study: Who Really Are the 'Unchurched'?

Quecat »

Mon Jul 21, 2008 12:47 pm Agree: 0   Disagree: 0

RE: Lina

It's been interesting to watch the changes in her. When I last spoke with her at length in May of this year, she identified herself as being Eastern or Greek Orthodox (I don't recall exactly which) and we went round and round about her assertion that the Bible is just a collection of allegorical stories and that there is nothing in the Bible that should be understood literally.

It would seem that since then, her beliefs have shifted further left into apostasy - so much so that she now displays unbridled contempt of both scripture and Christians in general. She needs prayer.

Conservative Anglicans Avoid Split, Launch Fight against Liberalism

Quecat »

Mon Jun 30, 2008 3:14 pm Agree: 2   Disagree: 0

PRAISE THE LORD!

After all the thoroughly rotten stories about numerous fellowships clamoring for "open and affirming" atmospheres and giving a nod to moral relativism, it's nice to finally see some other fellowships bravely taking a stand for biblical truth.

Religious Americans: My Faith Isn't the Only Way

Quecat »

Fri Jun 27, 2008 1:51 pm Agree: 0   Disagree: 0

Thought I'd share for those who may be interested.

"What Hath God Wrought
The Transformation of America, 1815-1848"
by Daniel Walker Howe - Sep 2007

"Historian Daniel Walker Howe illuminates the period from the battle of New Orleans to the end of the Mexican-American War, an era when the United States expanded to the Pacific and won control over the richest part of the North American continent....
(In it) he reveals the power of religion to shape many aspects of American life during this period, including slavery and antislavery, women's rights and other reform movements, politics, education, and literature."

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History
Winner of the New-York Historical Society American History Book Prize
Finalist, 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction
Winner, SHEAR's Best Book Prize
Winner of the Silver Medal for Non-Fiction, California Book Awards

Excerpt from review:

"I was particularly impressed by his close and respectful attention to the history of American religion. Frankly, I expect a professor to be anti-religion and to sneer at the bohunks who believe in such things. Howe does not take that tone at all. Rather, his approach is to view 19th century American religion, like an anthropologist coming to a foreign nation. Which is to say, he does not assume that you know anything about it, and he explains in great detail where the different Protestant movements came from, what issues they disagreed, the contributions they made to different aspects of American life and so forth. Very informative, and not biased one way or the other. "

Religious Americans: My Faith Isn't the Only Way

Quecat »

Thu Jun 26, 2008 4:45 pm Agree: 2   Disagree: 0

(from an earlier post)

"Are you trying to say that something that has a *beginning* doesn't have a cause? Name one."

"No, I'm not, I'm saying that there is no reason to assume that everything has a beginning. Perhaps the universe (and the time dimension within it) are circular. Consequently there could be no beginning or end."

"Perhaps", "perhaps". Hmmm, such an unprecedented display of faith from him. Because he cannot logically discredit either the existence nor nonexistence of God, he resorts to a fanciful and equally unprovable third alternative; that all of reality is a giant doughnut (there's a quip for the front of your t-shirt). How clever that he would posit a theory so in keeping with his cutesy name. Of course, that is, only if he actually views all of existence as a torus as opposed to planar. That being the case, and taking that theory to it's not-so-logical conclusion, he must also believe in reincarnation and that we'll all have this very same conversation again some day.

"Perhaps" you'll stick to your far reaching (and untested) imaginations...the self and eternally existent doughnut.
As for me, I'll link arms with those who see God as the Unmoved Mover as a more logical solution.

Religious Americans: My Faith Isn't the Only Way

Quecat »

Thu Jun 26, 2008 4:17 pm Agree: 2   Disagree: 0

The pejorative and purposefully offensive terms that Torus uses in place of the word "God" communicates, not even subtly, his disdain for the very notion of an omnipotent being and his general distaste for anyone who believes in such a thing. Tacit in his snide remarks is a complete and stubborn unwillingness to honestly discuss the matter, instead resorting to circular and pointless arguments.
Truth be told, there is no amount of evidence or logic that could be given by men, that would sway his opinion on the matter.
It would seem that he simply gets his jollies believing that he is leading "simple minded superstitious folks" around by the nose with his with not so clever ruses.

Dallas Abortion Facilities Close after 18 Years of Prayer

Quecat »

Thu Jun 26, 2008 2:39 pm Agree: 0   Disagree: 0

1Jo 5:14-15 "Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him."

Jhn 9:31 Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth His will, him He heareth.

To Chicago24 - A vending machine? No, however, answer to prayer also depends on who is doing the praying!
:)

Maranatha!

Religious Americans: My Faith Isn't the Only Way

Quecat »

Mon Jun 23, 2008 4:26 pm Agree: 1   Disagree: 0

70% of 35,000 = religious tolerance = C-L-U-E-L-E-S-S

Christ did NOT say that "I am ONE of the ways" or "I am the BEST way" or "I am the NEWEST way".

Cultural christianity ~ a useless and deadly delusion that far too many are suffering from.

Religious Americans: My Faith Isn't the Only Way

Quecat »

Mon Jun 23, 2008 4:22 pm Agree: 2   Disagree: 1

funny.
I was just thinking the exact same thing in regards to you.
Jesus said "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6

Christ IS the truth.

Over 800,000 Christians Hurdle Divisions to be 'One' Church

Quecat »

Fri Jun 20, 2008 3:56 pm Agree: 5   Disagree: 0

You really should read some histories that are written by other-than-Catholic writers. You have been sadly misinformed. The Coptic Church, itself, claims descent from the first Christian converts in Egypt who received the gospel news from the disciple, Mark in about the year 48 AD... and the formal beginning of the Coptic church as a separate entity pursuant to the Council of Chalcedon in 451 AD.

Once again, it's the religious equivalant of cultural and imperialistic arrogance to assert that one's native (or adopted) branch of civilization, much less branch of Christendom is superior to all others and the one and only true inheritor and defender of the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.

Egypt Church with Jesus Footprint Damaged in Fire

Quecat »

Fri Jun 20, 2008 3:12 pm Agree: 3   Disagree: 0

I don't have a "problem" with catholics per se. I do take issue with the arrogant RCC adherents (and their leadership) that have the nerve to tell me and anyone else who claims a Protestant based faith tradition, that essentially, because my church fellowship isn't named after some obscure historical saint, we don't observe some archaic liturgy, and we most certainly don't answer to some man living in Italy, that we're not "real" Christians and that we're destined for either damnation or some imaginary purgatory unless we return to the "Mother Church".

The Wal-Mart analogy was a poor choice. Being merely the biggest and cheapest deal in town, doesn't make you the best, the most conscientious, the most beneficial or even the most responsible and actually makes you tend more towards abuse of power and being presumptuous about the continued custom of your clientele.

(and btw I'm not a "denominational" anything - but having "been around" can attest that there are many types of fellowships that do not baptize babies.)

Over 800,000 Christians Hurdle Divisions to be 'One' Church

Quecat »

Fri Jun 20, 2008 2:32 pm Agree: 1   Disagree: 0

Once again I find myself baffled as to why some modern day Christians argue that their forms of worship are more authentic than others, by appealing to and co-opting for themselves the identity and supposed habits of 1st century christians as if those ancient peoples somehow practiced a more holy and "authentic" version of the faith simply by virtue of their proximity in history to the earthly lifetime of Christ.

Strangely enough these same self-aggrandizing folks seem to have blinders on that only allow them to view the world through the latin mindset. They continually muddle through their historical revisionism while turning a blind eye to the equally ancient and well documented portions of Christ's church that are known to us as the Coptic and the Eastern Orthodox faith traditions.

As with so many other misguided efforts, they stem from an incomplete view of the nature and power of our God as He has given it to us to comprehend.

God is omnipotent, omnipresent and omniscient. His purposes and designs are not frustrated by finite man. Nothing we do takes Him by surprise. Certainly we very often fail to walk according to His perfect will for us, but to say that we have somehow stymied His plans and altered His pre-known narrative of eternal history; past, present and future, is to grossly overestimate the effect of man's freewill in the face of God's all-powerfulness.

As such, to accuse parts of the modern Christian church of somehow having departed in centuries past, from the true faith, seems to also imply that our Father God has been incapable of holding Christ's church in the oneness that He instituted for it, presumably because man interjected his more powerful will and "screwed things up".

I patently reject this worldview.

Our God reigns!

Over 800,000 Christians Hurdle Divisions to be 'One' Church

Quecat »

Fri Jun 20, 2008 12:23 pm Agree: 1   Disagree: 0

This is classically rich.
No matter your faith background, if you disagree with or point out the errors in rcc theology, you're accused of "hatred".
It sounds as if those that refer to the politically correct "Webster's RE-Defined" have garnered more supporters.

Egypt Church with Jesus Footprint Damaged in Fire

Quecat »

Fri Jun 20, 2008 12:11 pm Agree: 1   Disagree: 0

Msnchris
Now you're just being stubborn. The uniformed assumptions that you make betray your limited worldview (and the speed with which you reply evidences your bias).

I try making a point about the propensity of folks to grasp at the mystical in the material, while ignoring spirit and truth and you see it as an attack on your denomination.

For the record, the lady in question with the St. Christopher medal? She also has a ring on her finger of an Indian chief in full headdress regalia. She rubs it "for luck" and claims that an old Indian woman on the side of the road, in Arizona, gave it to her decades ago. This sad little ring has been buffed to a brilliant shine, although most of the chief's facial features have been rubbed off through years of her compulsiveness.
Her wearing a St. Christopher medal doesn't make her any more a catholic, than her wearing this Indian ring means that she's an adherent of Native American earth religions.
In all my conversations with her, any references that she made regarding once upon a time having gone to a church, the comments referred to "the pastor", "his wife", etc.

Last I checked, "priests" don't marry.

I know what the source of your confusion may be. Since catholics practice infant baptism, you assumed that since the lady referred to being "baptized as a babe" that she must have been baptized in a Catholic church and that somehow mystically makes her a catholic for life regardless of what she professes.
FYI - other congregations also misguidedly practice infant baptism, not just the RCC.

If you'd slow down, take a few deep breaths, discard your preconceived notions and think about what you say and the ramifications of saying it, you'd find that conversations can be much more amiable.

Yes, God gives gifts and God takes them away because mankind is so stubborn and foolish.
It's little wonder that the Ark of the Covenant was lost in antiquity. If it were still available for public viewing, no doubt there'd be lines of folks wrapping around the block waiting to prostrate themselves before it seeking some favor from God as if the better the venerated relic, the better the chance of a heavenly slot machine paying out a coveted prize.

Egypt Church with Jesus Footprint Damaged in Fire

Quecat »

Fri Jun 20, 2008 10:56 am Agree: 2   Disagree: 0

msnchris
You sure do stick your foot in your mouth when you get yourself all worked up!
You're railing on about supposed catholic bashing and use a tired old caricature of "southerners" to attempt to make some sort of comparison?
I'm sure our brothers and sisters living in TN, AL, KY, WV, etc appreciate your candor.

Now before you continue to rant on about my "potshots" let's clarify a couple of things.
The lady with the St. Christopher medal? She's NOT Catholic, never was and most certainly is not now. Where did she get the thing and form her beliefs about it? I don't know.
What I do know is that the existence of the medal and the commonly held beliefs for why one would wear such an item of jewelry plays right into the superstitious beliefs of this woman and leads her astray from a true Godly relationship.
The first thing that comes to my mind is Romans 14:13-23 where we are admonished to refrain from, by our actions, placing a stumbling block to the faith of weaker brothers.
If the purpose of my jewelry is going to be misconstrued by those less faith-filled, then it is better for me to refrain from wearing it.
Now for the other neighbors I mentioned. Yes, they evidently attend a catholic church, but it is equally evident that their church has done a very poor job of teaching them the genuine basis of faith.
Where, if not primarily the church, can one be "strengthened as a disciple and encouraged to remain true to the faith" as spoken of in Acts 14?

What I wish to point out by my post is not catholic bashing, but rather - that unnecessarily embracing the use of material items as some sort of "reminder" of the glory of God and His saints, leads some astray.
Considering Jesus' warning about "offending little ones" - it would be prudent if we disposed with this detrimental tradition.
Christ instituted the Lord's Supper as a reminder of His sacrifice.
He did NOT instruct us to make statues of what we suppose Him to have looked like, to remind us of His existence and glory.

Nehushtan
Meaning: of copper; a brazen thing
a name of contempt given to the serpent Moses had made in the wilderness (Num. 21:8), and which Hezekiah destroyed because the children of Israel began to regard it as an idol and "burn incense to it"
The lapse of hundreds of years had invested the "brazen serpent" with a mysterious sanctity; and in order to deliver the people from their infatuation, and impress them with the idea of its worthlessness, Hezekiah called it, in contempt, "Nehushtan," a brazen thing, a mere piece of brass (2 Kings 18:4).

Break down your "Nehushtans" that your brother be not stumbled.

Egypt Church with Jesus Footprint Damaged in Fire

Quecat »

Thu Jun 19, 2008 11:50 am Agree: 4   Disagree: 1

It's been my experience that icons, relics and "blessed" anything caters to the least faith-filled the superstitious and the carnal among us.
My "christian-born" but completely worldly non-church-going elderly next door neighbor clings pitifully to a St. Christopher medal around her neck and proudly crows that it keeps her safe.
When I attempt to share the gospel with her, I get the standard answer: "You don't need to tell me all that, honey. I was baptized as a baby and I love Jesus and yes I'm going to heaven, because I think I'm a good enough person" although her life shows no evidence of a relationship with the Lord.
Meanwhile the folks down the street have a Virgin of Guadalupe statue in front of their house that they believe brings "blessings" upon their home and it's occupants. (and let's not forget the window sized sticker of the virgin plastered on the back of their SUV for the same reason.) Strangely enough they'll also frequent the palm reader/curandara on the corner to gain insight for living from their dead relatives. I'll leave it to you to deduce which house of worship they attend.

Little wonder that the second of the Ten Commandments spoke of "graven images".
It is plain that man's paltry depictions of even portions of God's glory not only diminish the true awesomeness and indescribability of our God, but also lead us to less reverence and considering God a "common thing" and a good-luck charm.

Egypt Church with Jesus Footprint Damaged in Fire

Quecat »

Thu Jun 19, 2008 11:29 am Agree: 1   Disagree: 2

For those of you who might be curious to see these supposed "footprints" ...
http://www.egyptvoyager.com/features_holyfamily_route_pg1.htm
http://www.sacred-destinations.com/israel/jerusalem-chapel-of-ascension.htm

I think these images speak for themselves.

Egypt Church with Jesus Footprint Damaged in Fire

Quecat »

Wed Jun 18, 2008 1:13 pm Agree: 2   Disagree: 0

superstitious tomfoolery!
I suppose the "faithful" make pilgramage to come and "venerate" a footprint.

It's entirely mind-blowing that Christians who should know that we worship in Spirit and in Truth and that we aren't to be carnally minded - get so fixated on worldly, material icons, relics, etc - and what's more, taken in by such silly fakery.