December 12th, 2006 at 4:02 am (Teaching)
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December 11th, 2006 at 3:43 pm (Teaching)
In July on our way home from the NEA outreach we stopped by to spend a few days in Amish country, PA. We went to the Mennonite Information Center to tour their life size replica of the Biblical Tabernacle. It was very neat. We picked up a small ‘build it yourself’ model and one day the children and I put it all together. It was a great experience. Here are some pictures of another family putting together the same model. Bible Tabernacle Model
We also used the iLumina Bible study software (excellent product which deserves its own blog post later) 
to reinforce how it was all made and why. It was great going over how many aspects of the tabernacle are a type of Christ and foreshadowing the gospel. The most exciting part was seeing how God was using this teaching, particularly in Stephen’s life. This was the first time that Stephen truly got very interested in the things of the Lord. He was enthralled with the tabernacle and everything about it.
We watched a video about it as well.
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December 11th, 2006 at 4:00 am (Psychobabble)
Here’s an article I wrote up called “The Sufficiency of God and His Word”. Click HERE to view the article. May the Lord bless you and keep you as you stand steadfast in Christ. Thanks for stopping by. Please leave a comment if you have any thoughts.
December 11th, 2006 at 3:08 am (False Religions)
This is one of my favorite testimonies. I had this on VHS years ago, then let someone borrow it and never got it back. I’ve missed it for years, until I found it on Google Video. This is a powerful 16 minute testimony. Many of the families in our church watched this on Reformation Day after we had a cookout over a bonfire and threw the Roman Catholic ‘papal bull’ into the fire just like Martin Luther did generations ago.
He has a ton of other longer videos online as well. If you’re interested, visit www.BereanBeacon.org
December 11th, 2006 at 2:59 am (False Religions)
This is a great testimony from a Christian woman who lived in Lebanon before and during the Islamic takeover. Watching this will give you a good sense of the real Islam. It is not a ‘religion of peace’.
December 11th, 2006 at 1:59 am (Church)
We had a wonderful time with the church again today. It is such a blessing to have sweet fellowship with believers who love the Lord with all their hearts and seek to do what is pleasing to Him. We are currently in Romans 14 and we had a great teaching time from Pastor Holt. Afterwards we discussed the issues more in depth for a few hours and had a great time wrestling with the application of Scripture.
There were a number of helpful thoughts. One was that we need to be careful about going beyond the Scripture. In other words, calling something a sin that the Bible does not or not calling sin what the Bible declares is sin. I think the main admonition of our text is that we accept one another because God has accepted each of us. We are not to judge/condemn one another because God is the judge, not us.
In our fellowship time we talked a lot about smoking, drinking and different foods. I do not believe that it is inherently sin to smoke a cigarette or drink alcohol. In light of the message and passage we looked at, my main thought is that those who do consider those things to be sinful are still my brethren and I fully accept them and not for the purpose of passing judgment on their opinions. Those who drink and smoke in their liberty as Christians I also do not judge (i.e. regard with contempt). Personally I do not smoke nor drink, but again do not believe it to be inherently evil. There may come a certain time or situation where I would do one or the other for the glory of God (i.e. to not be a stumbling block to a brother).
For example if I were a missionary to a remote tribal village in a third world country and they had many customs of which I was willing to be a part of (because they were not sinful, they were simply tribal traditions) in order to reach the people for Christ. Suppose one of those was that as the leaders of the tribe sat around the fire discussing the direction for the tribe, they passed a pipe around of tobacco. If I were to deny the request to take a puff, it could totally turn them off to me or my message. Since I believe that the Bible does not make smoking an inherently sinful action, I could with a clean conscience take a puff.
To be clear if the same tribe swapped wives, I could not take part in that no matter how much it would offend them because I believe the Scripture makes it clear that is inherently sinful. Anyways, just some thoughts. Hope it helps. Feel free to leave comments. May the Lord be glorified in our thoughts and lives as we seek to please Him in all things.
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Idetrorce said,
December 15, 2007 at 5:53 pm
very interesting, but I don’t agree with you
Idetrorce