Hello, anyone. I was just curious to know if there were any readers that would like to throw a questions at me. I'd love to get some conversation going, so if anyone has a question that they have been pondering for a while, let me know, and we can together see what the Bible has to say about it.
It can be about absolutely anything (almost anything, we'll keep it civil right?). Social, political, religious, philosophical, etc.
Come on, don't be bashful. Just leave me a question under this post and I shall try my best to answer it. (I enjoy the REALLY hard ones that many others might try to avoid).
What did you think of Tony?
ReplyDeleteHello, brother Ryan. I hope all is well and God bless you and your family!
ReplyDeleteEcc 12:6-8
Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.
7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
KJV
Hey Mike thanks for the blessing.
ReplyDeleteTo reply to the first comment, which was left (I believe) by a I friend I met recently, named Bob(sorry Bob I don't remember your last name);
"What did you think of Tony?"
On Monday March 8, My friends, Kelly, Teresa, Bob, and I attended a free speech held at the Church of the Rock, by a man named Tony Campolo.
Tony Campolo is a well known author and proponent of the "emergent church" movement.
I won't go into great detail right now, but the speech was not actually a theological musing (otherwise I'm sure it certainly wouldn't have been free, especially not from the people who tell everyone else to sacrifice all they have while they charge $35 for one of their books, Brian MacLaren). Rather it was a 'advertisement' (for lack of a better word)for World Vision to encourage the sponsoring of Children.
There were some very typical little remarks, which I can't even share with anyone right now, because as I write this I just found out that the recorder that I used to record the presentation was ERASED, so now I have nothing to go on!! Aaarrgghh!! Technology.
Sorry Bob, I know I was supposed to send you a copy of the recording. You did take notes though, perhaps you might be able to help us out on some the not so Biblically correct comments Mr. Campolo made.
Ps 139:13-16
ReplyDeleteYou made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother's womb.
14 Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it.
15 You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion, as I was woven together in the dark of the womb.
16 You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed.
P.S.
ReplyDeleteActually, anonymous comment on Mar. 9 2010
was also Brother K.
Hey Brother K, thanks for the verse. But you've still got me stumped as to your secret identity. As for Tony, I remember that during the conference, he really belittled the sovereignty of God concerning the earthquake in Haiti. I remember that he said something like God would've been the first one to cry about it.
ReplyDeleteWell, considering God knows, as stated in the verse you quoted, the beginning of our lives to the end, as He is the very One who ordains every moment of our lives, I'm sure He wasn't taken by surprise.
I've actually been in conversation with my wonderful mother about this very subject. I'm working on a post about God's involvement in the Haiti earthquake, and by greater implication, in every natural disaster.