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A July 1st Update

Hi folks,

Thought I should update you on recent life. I've just finished another 8-week session at Regent. I was taking one course on ancient Church history and another on pneumatology, the study of the Holy Spirit. Both were interesting and challenging. I wrote a research paper for pneumatology that took quite a bit of my time and effort, so that's why I haven't been able to post anything on the website recently. Someday I'd like to share that paper with you, but first I want to add to it and make it less formal and (hopefully) more interesting and user-friendly.

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The Reformation of Islam?

Many people on the news talk about how Islam needs to be reformed like Christianity, and we need to work with moderate Muslims to encourage them to do that.

I watched a YouTube clip of some Arab guy named Hashim Almadani. I’ve never heard of him, not sure of his background or beliefs, but the two clips I saw, I liked. He spoke about Linda Sarsour, who’s a really dangerous and phony representative of Islam the left seems to like right now, and about moderate Muslims and their efforts to reform Islam. Regarding the latter, he basically said, “Good luck with that!” But he stimulated this blog, because I’ve gotta respond to this whole idea, so commonly spoken about on TV.

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Why God Became Man

Last week my writing project was to read Cur Deus Homo, Why God Became Man, by Anselm of Canterbury. This man was a trend-setting thinker of the early 12th century, affecting our theology until this present day. Though my short paper doesn’t give much detail about him, I thought I’d share it with those who might be interested. If you want to know more, you can find the whole little two-part book here. Christian Classics Ethereal Library: http://www.ccel.org/a/anselm/?show=worksBy Also, be sure to email any questions or comments you might have by scrolling down. Why God Became Man

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The Lord Makes a Distinction

Exodus 11:7b

When Pharaoh hardened his heart and refused to submit to God, He brought crushing plagues upon Egypt. The final plague was the death of all of Egypt’s firstborn. As Moses announced this plague to Pharaoh, he did so with great anger. We’re not told why, but I suspect it was because Moses was frustrated with Pharaoh’s stubbornness and saddened that things had to come to this. For a person of normal psychological makeup, it would not be pleasant to announce that every single family in a nation was about to lose its firstborn child.

But as Moses announced what was coming, he made sure Pharaoh understood that God would make a distinction between Israel and Egypt. This terrible plague would not come upon the Israelites as it would on the Egyptians. It occurs to me this little verse has much for us to consider in our day.

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And they wonder why we don’t believe them anymore?!

So I was watching the news as I do every day, and I hear that mobs are protesting the president’s crack-down on immigrants. The media told them that troops (presumably the National Guard) are going to be making “sweeps” through neighborhoods to arrest illegals. So people are protesting in the streets, saying the usual stuff, “This isn’t America! No human being is illegal!”  (The usual unbelievably ridiculous nonsense!)

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Borders

President Trump signed an Executive Order limiting immigration, as we all know. Those of us who voted for him were very pleased, because he was fulfilling a campaign promise. Millions on the other side see it as an outrage, a denial of our American identity as a refuge for people of the world, contrary to the very slogan written on the Statue of Liberty. We see them protesting with their placards calling for us to welcome all who wish to come to our shores. While watching the Super Bowl, we see an advertisement urging us to accept everyone, because it will make us better. Another shows a sad Mexican mother with her child being turned away by an ugly, imposing wall. What a curious turn of events, that many Christians, who claim to serve the God of love, should be demanding legal action to turn away immigrants, while those who generally oppose or ignore biblical teaching are now the ones who seem most loving and accepting! It’s quite a turnaround!          

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Willful Blindness

So many stories in the Book of Acts read just like news stories today! Take the story of Paul’s arrest in Jerusalem (Acts 21), as an example. Paul felt a strong desire to go to Jerusalem (Acts 20:22). He was even in a hurry to get there before Pentecost (20:16). On the journey there, Christian people at several places urged him not to go to Jerusalem. For his part, Paul felt “compelled by the Spirit” to go (Acts 20:22), yet the believers in the city of Tyre urged him “by the Spirit,” not to go! (21:4b) When he reached Caesarea, God actually sent the prophet Agabus to warn him that he was going to be taken prisoner, bound, and turned over to the Gentiles (21:10, 11) All the believers who heard this pleaded with him not to go (21:12), but he would not be dissuaded. Should he have listened to them and to Agabus? Or was he right in believing the Spirit wanted him to go anyway?

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