www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbg0ZYoXdyU

The first of the list of seven requirements is that a prospective missionary “must be totally, absolutely, and completely convinced of the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.”

Evangelical young people have been systematically indoctrinated with the notion that being cool is infinitely more important than being doctrinally sound or morally upright. Relevant Magazine is one of the chief culprits in that campaign.

Johnson raises some great points in his blog article, not the least of which is it’s article’s title, “Chasing Cool and Becoming Lukewarm.”

I’m listening R.W. (Bob) Glenn’s five-part sermon series on the cultural mandate of the Bible called What is a Biblical Christian? It’s such a fat subject I am going to need to listen to them again (explained away, to some extent, by my fat head).  There is so much in Glenn’s series that could help explain “the chase” Phil Johnson describes that so many professed Christians, lost in the world and of it, are living in a land of legalism.

If you’d like to also like to hear Phil Johnson’s amazingly gifted preaching of God’s Word, please check out this link at GraceLife Pupit.

The battle is on between religious freedom and land use laws around the country. The Oklahoman reports in NewsOK that here in Vermont a couple of Roman Catholics wish to maintain an illuminated cross of substantial size, twenty four feet, at a chapel they built for their very large family and the general public.  State and local authorities say “no.”

Vermont is a state that is replete with tested paradoxes that illuminate the following:

• a liberalism that can be anything but tolerant if provoked
• a natural beauty that trumps property rights any day of the week
• a minimalist set of gun laws defyingly amidst very low crime, and
• a tolerance for every possible belief except those considered to be Christian.

This restriction on religious expression in Vermont is not an isolated story in the news ether.  A Greek Orthodox church, destroyed by terrorism on 9/11 at Ground Zero, remains unbuilt, buried under governmental red tape.  Meanwhile, a battle rages in that same neighborhood regarding a governmentally fast-tracked victory mosque.

My Biblical Christian view is one that clearly departs from that of the Vermont plaintiffs’ pertaining to that of “divinely inspired Dozule crosses.”  My viewpoint difference does nothing to diminish my interest in fairness, even within the paradox called Vermont.

Dear Mr. Costello:

Adult materials associated with SEARS.com? Are you kidding me?

Every single appliance in our kitchen is SEARS since 2000. Plus washer, dryer, two lawn tractors, two snowblowers, tools. Never again if you do not avert this path and make it clear to the public that that is your intention.

Yes, I support American Family Association (AFA) but I am not sending you a pre-written letter, but my own.

Please stop it, Mr. Costello and man-up. Exercise your authority and your conscience.

Sincerely,

Bill O’Neill

Perhaps a name change is in order at SEARS?  How about Sears & ‘Woe-buck’?  World Net Daily is reporting that SEARS’ online catalog has definitely ‘flipped the switch’ and has decidedly shifted to it’s anticipated and purposefully raw direction in marketing.

The poster images are graphic: four couples with arms and legs intertwined who appear to be wearing nothing but each other and some foamy waves lapping at their ankles.

The poster image is highlighted by the theme: “Safe sex is hot sex.”

Another reveals two topless women embracing, wearing only the skimpiest of shorts, a model who appears to be wearing some water and a small sponge, and a group of women wearing revealing lingerie.