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Sermon Notes: “A Paradigm for Our Earthly Pilgrimage”
This sermon was delivered at Christ’s Family Church Youth in Broken Arrow, OK on Sunday, May 9, 2010. The following is not a sermon manuscript, but my notes that I wrote while preparing for the sermon; this is more of a rough draft. That means that I said some things in the sermon that are not found in the following text, and there I some things in the text that were left unspoken. Finally, because this is a rough draft, it may be lacking prose. However, I hope you will enjoy this as is!
The Holy Scriptures: Anti-Gnostic Origins and Modern Gnostic Tendencies
Some Christian communities, such as independent Charismatics or Evangelicals, hold to a simplistic view of the Scriptures, which is that the Bible is inerrant and infallible. However, when it comes to the actual interpretation of the biblical text, the ministers of these communities use quite complicated techniques in their exegesis. Unfortunately, one can notice some gnostic tendencies in those techniques, especially visible in the sermons of the TV preachers.
Earthquakes in perspective: who is evil after all?
Pat Robertson’s comments concerning earthquake in Haiti stirred many negative responses from the Christians of different backgrounds. Although I tried not to express my emotions to the world, I am one of those who strongly disagree with Robertson.
Jesus is still weeping: the Christian way of thinking about the earthquake in Haiti
Natural disasters always pose a problem for the people of faith, producing even a faith crisis in some. The ultimate question is: Where is God in all of this?
St. Nick’s Tears
Merry Christmas to you all, my friends.
Unfortunately, in our culture we had reversed the meaning of the holiday. In the secular sphere, we went from St. Nicholas to Santa Claus, from an example of a humble, Christian servant to a big old man in a red suit who meets our needs. Even more sadly, we had experienced the same conversion in churches: we went astray from the Lord Jesus, the Suffering Servant, the Redeemer, the ultimate demonstration of love; instead we invented a Jesus who is nothing more than a convenient vending machine, always ready to meet our desires.
In memory of Pastor Billy Joe
Pastor Billy Joe stepped into eternity. He was a very humble man. We may have criticized him in our theological differences. But all of us respected him as a person. He wanted to present the gospel to as many people as possible. He was not the head of the church and Victory will be fine, but the global Church had lost a humble minister of the gospel. Now he is gone and we are saddened. But we do not lose heart because we have the hope of Ressurection. We all look to the place when we will not have our differences, but as one Body of Christ, as His Bride we will be with Christ and see Him as He is! We progress through our earthly journey with that hope!!! May the peace of God and comfort of Resurrection be with the Daugherty family and the Victory Christian Center parish.
N.C. Church Plans Bible Burning
This is sad and horrifying. The Amazing Grace Baptist Church (AGBC) pastor thinks he is doing something great for the kingdom by getting rid of the “heretics,” but, unfortunately, he is unaware of his own heresy. This act will add another peg into the Body of Christ, to divide it even more. The KJV Bible that AGBC holds at high esteem states in Gal. 5:12: “I would they were even cut off which trouble you.” More recent Bible versions give a more specific, and more disturbing (in a good way) translation, but KJV statement fits the situation very well. I wonder if the AGBC pastor has thought of this passage yet? Hmmm…
Unseen Player
Imagine a family of mice who lived all their lives in a large piano. To them in their piano-world came the music of the instrument, filling all the dark spaces with sound and harmony. At first the mice were impressed by it. They drew comfort and wonder from the thought that there was Someone who made the music—though invisible to them—above, yet close to them. They loved to think of the Great Player whom they could not see.
Father Cantalamessa on Baptism in the Spirit and Baptism as Sacrament
Fr. Raniero Cantalamessa is the papal preacher to Pope John II’s pontifical household. He is a Charismatic Catholic, or a Spirit-filled Catholic, if you choose to call him that. In his book Sober Intoxication of the Spirit, he gives a good insight on the sacrament of water baptism and how that relates to the baptism in the Spirit.
Journey to Theosis 