Daniel’s Vision in chapters 7-9 gives some critical Old Testament background to the Olivet Discourse that we will begin looking at this Sunday from Luke’s gospel.
Daniel Dennett is the author of “Breaking the Spell,” a book about religion being the result of natural phenomenon. As a result of this premise he desires the “facts” of all religious belief to be a mandatory part of education in America. It is a fascinating video as he critiques Rick Warren’s “Purpose Driven Life”. His final plea is for people to discard the notion that morality is dependent upon the existence of God.
I find some of his observations to be fascinating, especially his observation that humanity is driven by culture which is driven by religion and the connection he makes to the idea of domination. It is important to listen to people like Dennett, they challenge us to examine our “interpretation” of facts. The interpretation of the facts he presents are driven by an anthropocentric world view, and he embraces human “design” in reverse engineering. All the things that theologians want to say about God, atheists want to say about humanity.
More to come later, I have a lot to say, but I am being distracted from sermon preparation…
from www.ted.com posted with vodpod
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Kelly (the wife) and I are launching a new blog called The Parenting Paradigm and she has started a blog focused on home education called Substantive Education. Take a visit - they are in their fledgling forms.
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The Olivet Discourse is Jesus’ last major conversation with his disciples. Often misunderstood and misplaced, we will look at Luke’s version of the discourse starting this Sunday. It is important to see the other gospel writers versions of the Olivet Discourse.
At NCC we supply Scripture reading for the week in preparation for the weekly message on Sunday. Today’s reading:
The Olivet Discourse is Jesus’ last major conversation with his disciples. Often misunderstood and misplaced, we will look at Luke’s version of the discourse starting this Sunday. It is important to see the other gospel writers versions of the Olivet Discourse.
Stephen Colbert makes me laugh…he is irreverent, but funny. Mostly added it to highlight the politicization of the gospel by Fallwell and Robertson…as pointed out by the Michael Spenser article cited below
from www.comedycentral.co posted with vodpod
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Michael Spencer at the Internet Monk has written a provocative and insightful post called “What Do Gays and Lesbians Hear?” on Evangelical challenges in rightly dealing with the issue of homosexuality.
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Thanks to Virgil at Unfinished Christianity who turned me on to these videos about North Korea. They are a sort of unauthorized documentary - quite a story. There is some non-Temple like language in the videos. There are 14 Videos, you can watch them at VBS.TV
A much younger RC talking about a very important subject that is widely misunderstood
from stevebag.vodpod.com posted with vodpod
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Temples using their temples are the new Temple.
The Temple is a prominent Biblical image, which has both literal physical properties and metaphoric and spiritual properties. The New Testament Temple is not a building in Jerusalem, but rather the dwelling of the Holy Spirit, the people of God. Coming to the Temple is gathering in fellowship with His people and His Spirit.
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