Tuesday 9 June 2015

Finding our identity in serving God

Questioning who we are, who we want to meet, who we want to spend days with, how we want to go through life, in the back of our head we always have to be sure that we shall have to try to live according to the Will of the most High.

A pastor with Biblical Worldviews reminds us on WordPress it is common knowledge that a large percentage of our short lives is invested in our workplaces.
This means that there will be plenty of worldly temptations vying for our attention intended to gradually pull us away from a healthy and intimate relationship with God. These worldly temptations may include: climbing the corporate ladder at the expense of relationships; seeking career promotions for the love of money(root of all evil); relying on work as a source for approval and recognition; allowing yourself to be defined by your work(identity); or even allowing work to become a replacement for God through idolatry.
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From a larger scope, as Christians we can always find our answer in the Truth from the Gospel in that Christ has already paid the price. We no longer need to prove ourselves, and/or ever perform to be accepted. We are already proven and made secure through His atoning sacrifice for all our sins.

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Work’s Place in the Christian Life


Tony Campolo Calls for Full Inclusion of LGBT Into the Church

What is moving in the United States? Are churches looking at their income decreasing because people saying they prefer to have an other sex or loving the same sex as they have?

Matthew Vines considered it a victory just to get into a room at a conservative Christian university with four influential evangelicals who disagreed with him over what the Bible says about homosexuality. He ended up in a polite, heartfelt three-hour debate last month over Scripture passages about topics like celibacy, eunuchs, slavery — and the connections between sex and marriage.

The founder of Red Letter Christians and Emergent Church leader Tony Campolo has called for full inclusion of gay and lesbian “Christians” into the church.  Campolo is a “Progressive Christian” (read: liberal) so it comes as no surprise that he would go against the clear teaching of Scripture on the sin of homosexuality.

Tony Campolo, one of the country’s leading progressive evangelicals, announced that he had changed his mind and now believed that churches should fully accept committed same-sex couples:
Rest assured that I have already heard – and in some cases made – every kind of biblical argument against gay marriage, including those of Dr. Ronald Sider, my esteemed friend and colleague at Eastern University. Obviously, people of good will can and do read the scriptures very differently when it comes to controversial issues, and I am painfully aware that there are ways I could be wrong about this one.
However, I am old enough to remember when we in the Church made strong biblical cases for keeping women out of teaching roles in the Church, and when divorced and remarried people often were excluded from fellowship altogether on the basis of scripture. Not long before that, some Christians even made biblical cases supporting slavery. Many of those people were sincere believers, but most of us now agree that they were wrong. I am afraid we are making the same kind of mistake again, which is why I am speaking out.




Tony Campolo Calls for Full Inclusion of LGBT Into the Church

Debating Bible Verses on Homosexuality

Two evangelical authors offer conflicting interpretations about the Bible’s well-known passages about homosexuality.
 



Driscoll not wished as a guest at 2015 Hillsong Conference

Former pastor of Seattle’s Mars Hill Church, Mark Driscol his attendance had the potential to divert attention from the real purpose of Hillsong Conference, which is to see people leave encouraged in their own spiritual journey.

Brian Houston told Channel Seven he would be speaking with the former head of Seattle’s Mars Hill church, Mark Driscoll, later on Sunday to “work out where to go from here”.
“I am going to be talking to him later on today and we’ll talk about the different possibilities,”
Houston said.

Nearly 3,000 people have signed an online petition against Hillsong’s plans to host Driscoll at its Australian conference in Sydney this month, which is expected to attract around 30,000 people.

Wanting to be yourself

How much is a person himself or herself?

Today several people are trying to find themselves and do find it a good way to change themselves totally. At first there where just the face lifting than changing of the colour of the skin and now the change of gender seems to be very popular in certain regions.

The media are helping a lot to make a hipe of new trends. Tabloids earn their money by looking for weird stories and for shocking news. Big story the last few days was the transformation of Bruce Jenner, decathlon gold medalist and reality TV star, into Caitlyn Jenner.

When the new Jenner, with flowing brunette locks, an ample bust and a corset, appeared on the cover of Vanity Fair, social media went mad. Within hours, the Twitter account of Caitlyn Jenner went from 0 to 1.1 million followers (BioEdge has about 5,000).

It looked like the sports performance got him/her less fans.

Looking at the papers it seemed strange that so many people said those sporters who had gained medals and later changed sex had to deliver their medals. That I would not find right because at the time of the Olympic Games they were accepted as that person they presented at that moment and contested under that gender which was accreted at that time. So in my eyes they should keep their medal and should stay notated as winner of that game. Though I would agree in the annals could be stated that they changed gender and when they became who.

What about the parents facing the changes of their kids. In a Louis Turoux documentary about sex changes by young kids in the U.S.A. it seemed so natural for most of the parent, though the grand parents having more difficulties with it. Or parents divorcing and having kids finding it normal to be a boy in fathers house and a girl in mothers house.

A question to be raised: when going into the matter of sex-questions.

Also, people should not confuse with gay issues. Though the the "National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association (NLGJA)" and several gay groups want to make use of it or say those gender changing persons are playing treason.

For the NLGJA Bruce Jenner can call himself anything he/she wants to, and the media are obligated to go along with whatever or whoever he says he wants to be.

There is no evidence that Jenner has changed his male DNA or even that his name has been legally changed to Caitlyn. Nevertheless, the NLGJA declared that
 “Now that Jenner has publicly announced a gender identity, the best practice is to refer to Caitlyn Jenner by the name she announced.”
And is that not what we all should do when people have changed their identity and have taken on an other name, should we not accept them as they want to be recognised as such or such?

Russian President Vladimir Putin meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican

Maps of the Roman Empire in Rome.
Maps of the Roman Empire in Rome. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
 In Bible terms the Pope and Putin are massively important players in prophecy. Daniel 7 tells us about the Pope and Daniel 8 about Putin. Daniel 7 tracks the little horn (a horn is a ruler) who comes out of the Roman Empire who speaks great things against God and changes the times and seasons. The ruler described is the religious power of Rome headed by the Pope who claimed he was the Holy Father – they even changed our calendar! The little horn of Daniel 8 is different. This is NOT Rome. This horn comes out of Greece – he was Antiochus Epiphanes. But a latter day king of the north exists – this time in Russia.

Tomorrow(on June 10) Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet with Pope Francis at the Vatican, with conflicts in Syria and Ukraine likely to top the Holy See's agenda.
Putin last called on Francis on November 25, 2013. The Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, said Thursday the meeting would take place in the afternoon of June 10; Putin is expected to visit Russia's pavilion at the Expo world's fair in Milan, where June 10 has been slated as Russia's national day.


After nearly a half-century of hostility between the Vatican and the Kremlin during the Cold War, a major breakthrough came just after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 when the Soviet president, Mikhail Gorbachev, met the Polish-born pontiff, John Paul II.
After a 2009 visit by then-President Dmitry Medvedev, Russia and the Holy See upgraded their diplomatic relations to full-fledged ties, with ambassadors..

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Silence of the world about rocket attacks on Israel

Can it be that there is an internal feud with Hamas?
The  jihadist Salafi group, the "Omar Brigades," who sympathizes with Islamic State, claimed responsibility for firing a rocket from Gaza which hit Israel's south on Saturday. It also claimed the previous recent firings at Israel.


At the start of the weekly cabinet meeting, Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that he hasn't heard a word of condemnation from the world about three rocket attacks from Gaza over the past two weeks. Netanyahu says it will be "interesting to see if this silence continues when we use all our strength in exercising our right to defend ourselves."
He vowed that the 

"hypocrisy that is spreading around the world will not restrain us from defending the citizens of Israel. That is how we have operated and that is how we will continue to operate."
 > Read: Netanyahu: World is silent in face of rocket attacks on Israel