Sexuality of a Single Person – Joshua Harris

I just saw this video on Alex Chediak’s blog. It speaks so much wisdom in painting a picture of biblical manhood in a culture that wastes its sexuality.

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Paradoxes of the Universe

After reading through two books by well respected theologians I noticed a trend. The books were “The Holiness of God” by RC Sproul and “Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God” by JI Packer. I have found it fascinating that both authors have resorted to physics to use examples that correlate to God. RC Sproul used the creation account and JI Packer used modern physics by illustrating the dual nature of light. Light is both a particle and a wave at the same time. Both are observed and seem irreconcilable but it is fact light is both at the same time. A wave being a sound wave or vibration, and a particle being something like an atom. Light is referred to as a photon. The way JI Packer used this is in relation to evangelism and God’s sovereignty. The apparent dilemma deals with God’s sovereignty and human free will. To say that God is sovereign means he is in absolute control of everything. He is the one who converts sinners, brings people to himself, even causes man to sin, remember pharaoh, yet he also commands us to evangelism. In evangelism God holds the individual accountable to their own actions and decisions yet God is in control and holds them accountable. What the book is about is that both of these sides are completely true, the Bible affirms them. It would be foolish to deny either aspect. What JI Packer points out is that this is a strikingly similar to the dual nature of light paradox.

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The Porpoise Driven Life

Following is a hillarious satire of the Purpose Driven Life. Don’t miss original fin and coming up for air. This film does a good job of showing some of the errors of today’s christian culture.

Also check out what MacArthur has said on the topic.

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Regeneration and Justification

This should have been posted a week or two ago but I got distracted with school. When driving home for Thanksgiving I had the opportunity to listen to two amazing sermons. One by MacArthur and the other by Paul Washer. The topic of both of them, as highlighted by the title, was regeneration and justification. These are not sermons that are dry and boring, as many think when theological terms come up, but two of the best sermons I have heard in awhile. They both rank pretty high on sermonaudio.com. The essence of both of these sermons is what does it mean to be saved and what then does it look like? How is it that a man who is totally depraved and can do nothing to come to God or save himself be remade into a new man by the power of the holy spirit? How is it that this happens? Is it simply a little prayer or a decision made once during an alter call or something much more? These sermons show that it is something much more, something I had not realized until this last year or two.

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Reading the Bible

I think like most people, I find it hard sometimes to find time to read my Bible. It is not that I don’t want to read it or learn from its pages, I do and long for that knowledge, I just seem to get distracted. Growing up going to church, I always heard that it was imperative that you read your Bible. You must be in the Bible everyday in a quiet time or something to grow in Christ. I agree, we will love, serve, honor, ect. Christ more the more we know about him. So reading for me unconsciously and consciously at times has been a task to do. Something to check off of a list. If I can read through the Bible in a year, then I’ll be better for it. I’ve tried this method of study for some time. I do learn, but I feel like I forget it after a couple of days. I read the Bible but I’m not really learning that much. The word of God is not being that impressed upon my heart.

As I have been listening to different men of God, namely Paul Washer and John MacArthur I noticed that their method of study differs to what I’m used to. It is that of repetition. They a book of the Bible over and over again many times. I am going to try to adopt MacArthur’s recommended method of study. He recommends taking a small book or seven chapters of a book from the New Testament and reading it everyday for a month. While it may seem tedious after the tenth time by the thirtieth read you will have practically memorized it. I can’t say that I’ve ever done this before, but my roommate has done so with James and he knows that book inside and out. I think I’m  going to start with 1 John or Ephesians and then move onto John.

You can read more in detail about what MacArthur recommends or listen a short audio clip describing what I just laid out.

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The Rocks Cry Out – part 1

So I have had the name of my blog for many months now and I have yet to describe what it means or why I picked it. So here it goes. After initially settling on this name after a long road trip, I realized that this name can mean many things. Hopefully this will be a four part post.

The verse that this phrase comes out of is  Luke 19:37-40:

As he was drawing near – already on the way down the Mount of Olives – the whole multitude of his disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen, saying, “Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!” And some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, rebuke your disciples.” He answered, “I tell you, if these were silent, the very stones would cry out.”

Now before I go into the meaning of this text in its context, I am going to take it from its context, Something that I usually can’t stand. I’ll get to the primary meaning later.

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Deception is terrifying

I didn’t realize how deception is terrifying until I understood that I had been deceived. First before I make my point I am going to do so by using creationism. That is not my point so don’t get lost in my example, particularly if you don’t agree with the example. It is merely to illustrate a greater reality. Here it goes.

Growing up, and into college I had an elementary view of evolution. On one hand I believed in God and on the other I usually took science as fact. I was enthralled with science. I loved it in class and always wanted to learn more, especially the way things work. I did not really have a stance on evolution and particularly took it as false because that is what most of the christian people I respected said. Though I always thought that there must be some sort of truth to it. In college I began to search out the matter for myself.

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