“But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life.”
Seeing how much excitement happens on Jonathan Oue’s blog at www.excogitatingengineer.wordpress.com , I have decided to jump in on the action myself.
Also, I decided to step it up a bit and I actually have a video for you all, so now as I plunge in head first at the shallow end of the pool… ENJOY! (This statement will make more sense after you watch the video).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrczyFvkv8Q
Bonus points!!!! Can you name that school?
I have come to realize that I am a poor blogger. Rather, I have always realized that, but my poor blogging skills have just now attested everyone to this fact.
Anyways, this is not a promise to be a better blogger, or to put more material out, or even to put better material out. The point of this blog is just to let you know that “hey, I’m still here, and as long as I keep the standards low then you will be excited when I post a new blog!”
So, be exctited! Then maybe, just maybe, I will step it up with a post…. maybe….
Check out Steve Lawson’s video on his new book Foundations of Grace (one of FIVE in a set that he also talks about) on his website: www.newreformationministries.com (just scroll down a bit on the main page).
Also, check out http://www.ligonier.org/docs/FoundationsWebExcerpt.pdf for a preview of the book.
Take special not of chapter NINE.
Cc.
Must every sin carry a sign with big neon letters shouting: “Look at me, i’m a sin!” Apparently so in today’s culture. I have noticed a trend in many, and especially among the younger generation that goes a little like this: people will cringe, grind their teeth, and their blood will curdle every time they hear the word “Gd,” and they let everyone know of their dissaprovement to everyone. Next thing you know, movie stars are parading around in adultrous relationships on screen and breaking every other of the ten commandments. Apparently only one of the ten commandments applies to our viewing habits. It seems that if sins are not blatantly spelled out with words (such as Gd) then they are ok. I am guilty of this very thing. We are so bombarded with immorality every single day, that we are becoming desensitized and feeling less guilty. We must protect our eyes from this desensitization before it is too late!
Another favorite: sinful songs are listened to all day, but if you name it after the devil, then suddenly you will go to hell if you listen to it.
Oh what a wretched man am I! Who will deliver me from this body of death?!
As I read this Calvin and Hobbes comic strip, I could not help but chuckle and yet be grieved by its truth. Entertainment and media, the “I, me, my” mentality, and much more. American culture seems to thrive on people entertaining themselves every minute of the day. Let me rephrase that for you. American people thrive on being entertained. R. Kent Hughes rightly states that watching television is a passive activity requiring little to no active thought, hmmmm….. and we wonder why so many people today have such short attention spans. They cannot think for themselves, they must have someone or something to think for them. On the other hand, reading is an activity that requires active use of the mind, stimulating the thought process.
Kids today have the benefit, yet great pitfalls of technology. Knowledge can be acquired easier (sermons and other literature online), yet it seems less and less people desire this knowledge because it does not think for them. What a waste of the literature that can be put forth by the thousands through the internet! Jewish children knew the old testament thouroughly before they reached adulthood, yet many adults today can only quote you veggie tales songs. Can a blessing be a curse? A blessing to one, yet a curse to another!
Children are the future of the church, our future ministers and our laymen, yet, if parents do not seek truth, oh how dreadful our future will be! Parents must teach the word diligently to their children(Deut. 6:7), and to do so must know it themselves. They must meditate on it night and day (Ps. 1), talk of it when they lie down, when they rise up, and when they sit (Deut 6:7), they must love and cherish the word for knowledge is wisdom! Lack of knowledge (along with an incorrect soteriology) seems to be one of the biggest problems of the church today, and professing christians (yes, and do note I said “professing” christians) just do not desire to study the word. They get their weekly fill on sunday and leave all the interpreting up to the ministers. They nod their head in agreement to 2 Tim. 3:16, yet their bibles collect yet another layer of dust.
The answer is obvious once you actually see the problem.
Well, I really don’t have alot to say at 1:21 in the morning, this is more of a test run for my new blog so I can see how bland it is, and then spice it up a bit.
Don’t worry, I have lots of new stuff that I will be blogging about hopefully here in the near future, but for now I think I am going to get a little sleep.
CC.
