tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7872868.comments2009-12-22T00:11:11.327-05:00Christopher C. Hootonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01433532335390961667noreply@blogger.comBlogger149125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7872868.post-53874862865110933902009-12-22T00:11:11.327-05:002009-12-22T00:11:11.327-05:00I have mixed feelings on Campolo and Bono. While they are right that God is concerned for the whole person and right religion leads to a true concern for the weak and vulnerable manifested in action they seem to subtly shift focus away from gospel proclamation. <br /><br />I get the feeling from both of them that the greatest gift one can receive is not the gift of being saved and filled with the Holy Spirit but of a receiving a living wage or some other material blessing.<br /><br />And yet when Jesus addressed people about prayer he said if you truly pray you will receive the Spirit. This was the greatest gift he could imagine. I just don&#39;t get the feeling that these guys really believe that. If so, you&#39;d think they&#39;d emphasize it more.<br /><br />The danger of not emphasizing it is that in time all that&#39;s left is the social concern aspect--as in the YMCA and other outreaches that have lost their Christian distinctives.<br /><br />My two cents, anyway. God&#39;s very best to you. Love your generous Pentecostalism!David Petersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01646614446903851077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7872868.post-6581653779509955862009-12-04T11:52:21.398-05:002009-12-04T11:52:21.398-05:00Justice in Hebrew has a slightly different meaning and connotation from the English and remember your context is Anglo-Saxon. Even the Greeks had a different idea of justice than the Jews. [Translating is hard work.] I think there must be some work somewhere that attempts to show the difference. I like your method though, trust in God and let Him do as He will...The Spirit will open our minds and lead us to the truth.ADhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14510202936654110577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7872868.post-81233781188238448572009-11-27T11:42:14.126-05:002009-11-27T11:42:14.126-05:00It will sure be interesting to see how rubber meets road with our vision. I just went to the website (http://www.livingwage.geog.psu.edu/) Waltman mentioned in the notes of his article about living wage. I would love to make a living wage the standard for our employees - based foremost on their need. In our little village a family of four needs $23.24/hour. Even if I assume both parents are working (do I want to?) That is still $11.62/hr. I think it might be a hard sell to get the board to agree to pay the &quot;poverty wage&quot; of $9.83! <br /><br />(I have to remove from my mind that I&#39;m also talking about my own wage here, since for the last 6 years we have been living far below poverty wage. I find it difficult to imagine a living wage and find these numbers surprising. Perhaps I shouldn&#39;t be so shocked and perhaps the board will allow more than I think.)Christopher C. Hootonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01433532335390961667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7872868.post-75156842985403456492009-11-21T21:58:21.943-05:002009-11-21T21:58:21.943-05:00@patience Praise God for that!Christopher C. Hootonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01433532335390961667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7872868.post-5072306644358219092009-11-04T17:01:29.589-05:002009-11-04T17:01:29.589-05:00Psalm 74(73) Ut quid, Deus?<br /><br />1 Why, O God, have you cast us off for ever?<br />Why blaze with anger at the sheep of your pasture?<br />2 Remember your people whom who chose long ago,<br />the tribe you redeemed to be your own possession,<br />the mountain of Zion where you made your dwelling.<br /><br />3 Turn your steps to these places that are utterly ruined!<br />The enemy has laid waste the whole of the sanctuary.<br /><b>4 Your foes have made uproar in your house of prayer:<br />they have set up their emblems, their foreign emblems,<br />5 high above the entrance to the sanctuary.</b><br /><br />/6 Their axes have battered the wood of its doors.<br />They have struck together with hatchet and pickax.<br />7 O God, they have set your sanctuary on fire;<br />they have razed and profaned the place where you dwell.<br />8 They said in their hearts: &quot;Let us utterly crush them;<br />let us burn every shrine of God in the land.&quot;<br />9 There is no sign from God, nor have we a prophet,<br />we have no one to tell us how long it will last.<br /><br />10 How long, O God, is the enemy to scoff?<br />Is the foe to insult your name for ever?<br />11 Why, O Lord, do you hold back your hand?<br />Why do you keep your right hand hidden?<br /><br />12 Yet God is our king from time past,<br />the giver of help through all the land.<br />13 It was you who divided the sea by your might,<br />who shattered the heads of the monsters in the sea.<br /><br />14 It was you who crushed Leviathan&#39;s heads<br />and gave him as food to the untamed beasts.<br />15 It was you opened springs and torrents;<br />it was you who dried up ever-flowing rivers.<br />16<br />Yours is the day and yours is the night.<br />17 It was you who appointed the light and the sun;<br />it was you who fixed the bounds of the earth:<br />you who made both summer and winter.<br /><br />18 Remember this, Lord, and see the enemy scoffing;<br />a senseless people insults your name.<br />19 Do not give Israel, your dove, to the hawk<br />nor forget the life of your poor ones for ever.<br /><br /><b>20 Remember your covenant; every cave in the land<br />is a place where violence makes its home.<br />21 Do not let the oppressed return disappointed;<br />let the poor and the needy bless your name.<br /><br />22 Arise, O God, and defend your cause!<br />Remember how the senseless revile you all the day.<br />23 Do not forget the clamor of your foes,<br />the daily increasing uproar of your foes.</b>Christopher C. Hootonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01433532335390961667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7872868.post-2542695709282693382009-09-09T07:40:59.135-04:002009-09-09T07:40:59.135-04:00you know what,thank you for this message,i have been battling in my head,just to know what else i am expected to do besides prayer requests to God.i have just learnt that i am expected to grow in my knowledge of God!!!patiencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12937608840940774427noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7872868.post-33442383245538294022009-07-28T13:41:49.180-04:002009-07-28T13:41:49.180-04:00Interesting analogy with some intersesting insights -- looks like we are a similar wavelength - see my blog ; - ) <br /><br />Rachel<br />www.stirringthedeep.comstirringthedeephttp://stirringthedeep.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7872868.post-60915892169060625402009-06-23T06:21:07.152-04:002009-06-23T06:21:07.152-04:00I appreciate your honesty and determination to receive inner healing. In my own quest for inner healing, I discovered, that if I will allow myself to feel the pain, that the pain will never get worse, it will only get better. It&#39;s when I try to ignore or stuff the pain, or worse yet fear the pain, that it continues to torment me. And you are right, you will probably have to face this often. I use to ask the Lord, why after all these years of knowing Him; He chose now to reveal my hurts to me. I felt he was saying, &quot;I have many things yet to tell you, but you are not yet ready to bear them.&quot; How patient God is! He will never give us more than we can bear. He prepares us for His revelations of both Himself and ourself. Then He told me &quot;You shall know the truth, and the truth will set you free.&quot; As He shows us the truth about our pain, His truth sets us free from its grip. Praise God!shancherehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14245843020446561585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7872868.post-20463074544294331832009-05-06T22:59:00.000-04:002009-05-06T22:59:00.000-04:00I think there may be something to the worship connection, and it strikes me today that the reason it is so difficult to worship is that my worship stinks.Christopher C. Hootonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01433532335390961667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7872868.post-67547462513303212182009-03-31T21:43:00.000-04:002009-03-31T21:43:00.000-04:00Chris, thanks for the excellent post. God bless you! Dennis ClantonDChttp://dec1.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7872868.post-54406217590633421962009-03-14T17:09:00.000-04:002009-03-14T17:09:00.000-04:00AMERICAN BARBARISM<BR/> <BR/><BR/><BR/>"Dear is in the eyes of the Lord's death his saints." (Psalm 116.15)<BR/><BR/><BR/>In recent days, sad news reached the United States and Germany.<BR/>In an action of barbarism, a man went to a Baptist church in Marevellous, Illinois, and began firing at the pastor who was preaching in the cult, killing him and wounding two people. The murderer was arrested by the parishioners who were able to reduce it. <BR/>Almost a few days later there was another barbarism in Alabama. A man murderer among relatives of 10 people, men, women and children, made a tour of several sites, after being cornered by police, he committed suicide. <BR/>But barbarism also transcend borders. In Germany, a couple of 17 years, emulating other suicide Americans entered the armed institute where I studied and killed 13 students among them teachers, in their flight killed two more people, then engage in shootout with police youth suicide was shot in the head. <BR/>These facts, which are not the only ones that occur in the United States or Europe, seem to indicate that there is a culture of murder among the people of the northern hemisphere.<BR/>On August 12, 2007 in Neosho, Missouri, a man killed a pastor and two worshipers in the cult. There is a history of mass killings of students in Finland in 2008 and Canada in 2006. <BR/>Given these facts, the U.S. government, and evangelical churches have done nothing to achieve reverse this situation, which has been happening since long atrás.<BR/>I am Christian and express my indignation and my anger against the American evangelical churches that are enclosed in their spiritual bubbles do not realize the harsh reality is happening around them. <BR/>How many more must die pastors to the churches just do something to prevent these deaths? How many young students and children have to die to protect the churches decide deranged people? <BR/>The Christian life consists not only make social life, and walks. The Christian life is to do something for our society that is crumbling. <BR/>Work is not only the state and its institutions to ensure the safety of society, work is also of the church. If that does not understand the American church then they are at the bottom of the sea to fish and evangelicen. Genuine Christians, perhaps in another country, take charge of evangelizing American society.<BR/>Why do not intend to make the church a community united in its campaign to disarm the families who have guns? <BR/>Why not start with themselves Christians kept their weapons? For a Christian who wants a gun? To remove the evil spirits? <BR/>Do not be surprised if this church worsen with the passage of days. <BR/>Still time to prevent future massacres. <BR/>Do not make the blood of those holy brethren who gave their lives for the church has been spilled in vainThe Prophethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11882926133105320023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7872868.post-56750615517514080202009-02-27T10:02:00.000-05:002009-02-27T10:02:00.000-05:00Great post. I found your blog on FB by looking up mystic. The title of this blog really drew me to it. Blessings!rehuxleyhttp://rehuxley.livejournal.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7872868.post-50842704345326876112009-02-23T08:10:00.000-05:002009-02-23T08:10:00.000-05:00please check my blog,<BR/><BR/>www.onenessheresy.blogspot.comFaithful Witnesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06281360226653432132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7872868.post-66882620137233404942009-02-23T00:36:00.000-05:002009-02-23T00:36:00.000-05:00Shalom! I'm doing some work with TheGLO, a new Spirit-filled blogger community, and I needed to ask you something privately. Would you mind emailing me at shalommarkwilliams [at] gmail [dot] com?<BR/><BR/>Thanks so much! <BR/><BR/>Shalom<BR/>http://theglorio.usShalomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03917102029725457771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7872868.post-24049967885781884512009-02-08T22:19:00.000-05:002009-02-08T22:19:00.000-05:00Excellent point, we miss the liturgical in the overly generic evangelical church. God is calling us to meet with him and experience him even in the absurd rituals. It helps us to engage everything, heart, soul, mind and strength.Weston Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13257367416070735931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7872868.post-56407319717259028072009-01-29T16:49:00.000-05:002009-01-29T16:49:00.000-05:00I haven't actually tried it yet. It ought to be interesting though. Thanks for stopping by!Christopher C. Hootonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01433532335390961667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7872868.post-67881578293803855862009-01-28T19:59:00.000-05:002009-01-28T19:59:00.000-05:00Ok I'll bite. How did the discussion go. BTW Barbara Lane sent me.The Rev Dr . Duke Vippermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09804896622204646301noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7872868.post-57814322082462295402009-01-13T21:15:00.000-05:002009-01-13T21:15:00.000-05:00*tears up*redheadrevhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16777203062847061439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7872868.post-16322453771536210992008-11-18T17:16:00.000-05:002008-11-18T17:16:00.000-05:00hello everyone, would you please spread this blog?<BR/><BR/>http://isayalittleprayforyou.blogspot.com/<BR/><BR/>thank you and GOD bless you all.Pepehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08501937932336048583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7872868.post-19479322294022974372008-11-18T17:16:00.000-05:002008-11-18T17:16:00.000-05:00hello everyone, would you please spread this blog?<BR/><BR/>http://isayalittleprayforyou.blogspot.com/<BR/><BR/>thank you and GOD bless you all.Pepehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08501937932336048583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7872868.post-55188284089979636072008-11-18T17:16:00.000-05:002008-11-18T17:16:00.000-05:00hello everyone, would you please spread this blog?<BR/><BR/>http://isayalittleprayforyou.blogspot.com/<BR/><BR/>thank you and GOD bless you all.Pepehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08501937932336048583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7872868.post-78219115048432092402008-11-18T17:15:00.000-05:002008-11-18T17:15:00.000-05:00hello everyone, would you please spread this blog?<BR/><BR/>http://isayalittleprayforyou.blogspot.com/<BR/><BR/>thank you and GOD bless you all.Pepehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08501937932336048583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7872868.post-41411958264224546352008-11-03T19:30:00.000-05:002008-11-03T19:30:00.000-05:00Very interesting post. Enjoyed visiting your blog. I'm a coffee nut too, and living in Costa Rica where coffee is the major export sure has its advantages.<BR/>BlessingsKathiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00494236077032300086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7872868.post-7942591916992008302008-10-30T23:29:00.000-04:002008-10-30T23:29:00.000-04:00I think that it is a beautiful idea of marriage ending loneliness, but I must agree that it isn't always the case.Undercover-Princesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12060814774932099429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7872868.post-10308366449274377522008-10-04T14:48:00.000-04:002008-10-04T14:48:00.000-04:00One word of caution: consolations can also be counterfeit. The quad can be helpful in discerning the authenticity of consolation or desolation.Christopher C. Hootonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01433532335390961667noreply@blogger.com