When they ask why I changed I tell them it's because I wanted to
be a more faithful Christian--NOT because I wanted to be conservative.

But in the process of becoming a more Biblical Christian, I discovered
that the Biblical perspective resonates more with the conservative
world-view than the liberal, therefore the latter eventually had to
go.

I foundered in both areas, which made me feel like garbage.

Mom tried to help by explaining that "girls mature sooner
than guys...and that's why they do better in school at earlier
ages"...which now sounds like an all to convienient "explaination".

The only thing I could do better than anyone in my class was
draw, but most of the stuff I drew then (mostly masculine and
military themes) would not be tolerated in today's classroom.

By late middleschool/early highschool I FINALLY got my academic
act together, but even this was problematic since my hormones
tended to rage at the very sight of women in my classes, making
it very difficult to concentrate, much less learn or even excel
in the subjects being taught.

If so, he was clearly engaging in something called synchrotism--
but mostly (if not exclusively) for social-political purposes.

On the other hand, this poor gal sounds like she really means what
she says.

But he didn't. All 12 of the apostles were men. He could've
appointed his own mother, a VERY devout believer in her own
right, but he didn't.

One must either "Endure till the end" (Matt 10:22) or
eventually repent as the Prodigal son did.

Repentance is the proper response to true conviction of
sin in ones life. If a person dies without repentance,
it means that person died with no conviction or acknowlegement
(or "confession") of his sins and therefore never recieves
Christ's promise in 1 John 1:9.

Faith without works is dead.

So far it looks like about 75% of you all agree with me.

"CHILLING EFFECT"?

As if watching those two planes slam into the World Trade Centers, and
knowing that the same perpetrators would love nothing more than to hit
us again isn't "chilling" enough!

I used to be angry with my female co-workers for
leaving their kids at home or in daycare so they
could persue a career and make money in addition
to their husbands' already ample incomes, but have
since found out (in many cases) that it was their
HUSBANDS who pushed them into the workforce in
order to obtain an even bigger house, nicer car,
and more sumptuous lifestyle for their families.

Only His (Jesus) righeousness saves!

Thou shall have no other gods before Me!

This is a weird statement. Is he saying that people should be prepared to violate
their own personal convictions in order to accommodate his view of "reality"?

No suprise here. Ungodly people often refer to spiritual discernment
as "bigotry" and "intolerance" because they assume that they can "see"
what we can't and that what we think we see is not really there, when
exactly the opposite is true.

Since the first paragraph states that Keller was adressing "followers",
rather than the public as a whole, there should be no court case to
persue...but I'm not a lawyer so maybe I'm missing something here.

Jimmy Carter's recent claim that Mormons are Christians indicates that
he himself most likely is not one. Otherwise he'd surely be able to
differentiate between the two faiths.

Interesting to note that Christ was buried following his
crucifixion when most others suffering such a fate were
cast into Gehenna (the burning trash dump) after such
a cursed demise as the one He suffered.

Cremation is becoming an increasingly economical way of
dealing with those who've passed on.

Our church (OPC) recently aquired a small, Mandarin-speaking reformed
congregation as tennants, leading me to the assurance that we had an
outreach to ALL Chinese people in our community. I didn't realize
the former Hong-Kongers might stay away because it's not their language.

Though I would love to see Iraq become a "democracy",
I'd hate to see it become similarly degraded as our
own culture is regarding the wide-spread acceptance of
sexual role-diffusion of men & women, proliferation of
homosexuality, abortion, high-divorce, porno, drugs, etc.

I can't help but wonder if more than a few of the
Iraqi insurgents we're fighting over there have similar
concerns.