1. Randomness and chaos of evolution would not allow for one person to fulfill so many prophecies....it is is impossible for Jesus to be such a coincidence, it had to be planned by a God!
2. Jesus' sinlessness - the moral issue would be irrelevant.I was thinking of some other things but I forget now...
3/22/2009
If evolution were true than Jesus would be impossible:
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3/18/2009
Teach Truth in love
My pastor and I were having a conversation about teaching. It is great to teach truth from the Bible, that is essential, but if you teach truth without love, without agonizing in love with and for the flock then your teaching breaches legalism. We must teach in love. We must not teach love only without the Bible and truth, that leads to liberalism. (And a bunch of other way off base cults, post-modern relativism, etc...)
There is a balance. You must teach truth, but we must teach with love.
It got me thinking, I am passionate about truth and the Word of God, I love God, but am I being legalistic? Am I agonizing over my learners and students? I love my church and my students but am I putting the two together? Am I agonizing for my students? Am I teaching them only because it is truth and it is right? Or am I teaching them because I love them and know that this truth is what is best for them?
A lot of great stuff to ponder today
There is a balance. You must teach truth, but we must teach with love.
It got me thinking, I am passionate about truth and the Word of God, I love God, but am I being legalistic? Am I agonizing over my learners and students? I love my church and my students but am I putting the two together? Am I agonizing for my students? Am I teaching them only because it is truth and it is right? Or am I teaching them because I love them and know that this truth is what is best for them?
A lot of great stuff to ponder today
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3/13/2009
AWOL
This week was my "Spring Break," I took a class that still had me do some work this week though.
Anyways, next week starts 2 more classes so I will be doing three classes online and I am used to only doing 1 or 2, it will be a lot of work!
Anyways, this week I've been reading lot of religious articles:
Most religious groups in USA have lost ground, survey finds.
This is the most secular culture of America ever. Most humanistic, relativistic, and post-modern.
More Americans say they have no religion
But I have read non-religious articles as well:
Ultra-High-Power Lithium-Ion Batteries - future batteries could charge in ten seconds
NBC Stars Whimper About Jon Stewart's Skewering of CNBC
This is a funny website, but the discussion continued as Cramer joined Stewart on the Daily Show last night. Go to comedycentral.com and see the full interview. i give Stewart props on this one.
Wolfram Alpha Computes Answers To Factual Questions. This Is Going To Be Big.
This should be intriguing, if it is not very accurate it will still be very funny to see the wrong answers this website may or may not produce.
Anyways, next week starts 2 more classes so I will be doing three classes online and I am used to only doing 1 or 2, it will be a lot of work!
Anyways, this week I've been reading lot of religious articles:
Most religious groups in USA have lost ground, survey finds.
This is the most secular culture of America ever. Most humanistic, relativistic, and post-modern.
Belief and the brain's 'God spot'
This one is an interesting one. One one hand no man is without excuse, but on the other hand, no one is righteous, not one.One World, Under God
This is true!God Will Provide -- Unless the Government Gets There First
It is sad but true, the Government is America's "Savior" in a lot of ways.More Americans say they have no religion
But I have read non-religious articles as well:
Ultra-High-Power Lithium-Ion Batteries - future batteries could charge in ten seconds
Slight Cut in Salt Intake Would Mean Fewer Heart Attacks, Deaths
I need to tell my step-dad this! He eats way too much salt on everything!NBC Stars Whimper About Jon Stewart's Skewering of CNBC
This is a funny website, but the discussion continued as Cramer joined Stewart on the Daily Show last night. Go to comedycentral.com and see the full interview. i give Stewart props on this one.
Wolfram Alpha Computes Answers To Factual Questions. This Is Going To Be Big.
This should be intriguing, if it is not very accurate it will still be very funny to see the wrong answers this website may or may not produce.
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3/11/2009
one of the toughest things about the state of discipleship in America right now:
Time:
Discipleship is a process, it takes time. It is not meant to be transformation quickly. (2 years, 40 days, 12 weeks, etc)
Our Spiritual formation and relationship with God is on-going and matures slowly. We are to be investing our lives into learning more about God.
Churches that are becoming more effective in discipleship have 2 or 3 year processes of learning the general worldview of Christianity, they also encourage and hold other classes for more mature Christians who want more training...(which all this is fine and great)
On one hand, it is difficult to but all of the Christian worldview in a 2 or 3 year program.
On the other hand, American Christians today need some sort of structure:
because we (as Christians) are losing out in discipleship and in spiritual formation and our Christian worldview. Americans have prioritized everything else in conquering their American dreams and have lost their worldview. They have lost their faith to secular world.
So I am encouraging these two-year processes but I am also saying that is not the end! Do not stop when the program is over because our faith is a process. It is a relationship of maturity. We continue learning more and more about God and being transformed more and more every day.
But even these "weak" and shallow structured programs are not enough. Because Christians will not make time for them The problem is no the program, this is a starting block.
The problem is in priorities. Christians say they have a time problem, but I beg to differ. They have a love problem and are not making time for their first love. :(
Discipleship is a process, it takes time. It is not meant to be transformation quickly. (2 years, 40 days, 12 weeks, etc)
Our Spiritual formation and relationship with God is on-going and matures slowly. We are to be investing our lives into learning more about God.
Churches that are becoming more effective in discipleship have 2 or 3 year processes of learning the general worldview of Christianity, they also encourage and hold other classes for more mature Christians who want more training...(which all this is fine and great)
On one hand, it is difficult to but all of the Christian worldview in a 2 or 3 year program.
On the other hand, American Christians today need some sort of structure:
because we (as Christians) are losing out in discipleship and in spiritual formation and our Christian worldview. Americans have prioritized everything else in conquering their American dreams and have lost their worldview. They have lost their faith to secular world.
So I am encouraging these two-year processes but I am also saying that is not the end! Do not stop when the program is over because our faith is a process. It is a relationship of maturity. We continue learning more and more about God and being transformed more and more every day.
But even these "weak" and shallow structured programs are not enough. Because Christians will not make time for them The problem is no the program, this is a starting block.
The problem is in priorities. Christians say they have a time problem, but I beg to differ. They have a love problem and are not making time for their first love. :(
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2.) Pastoral Counseling,
3) Blogging,
4.) Public Speaking, and
5.) Preaching at scheduled events. Find me at AlexanderDolin.com
3/08/2009
Macro-evolutionits will...
1. claim that there are millions of transitional forms
2. admit there are absolutely no transitional fossils available for proof
3. discover that evidence concurs, there really are not any transitional fossils
4. say that this "evolution" happens so slowly that we will never see it...(this makes some of them feel better)
5. others claim that billions of years have past
6. and yet still they cannot find the transitional fossils from say, the last million years...(realizing this they...)
a. some will say erosion...sure erosion is a decent excuse, but they also say evolution is always happening so eventually one should find a no-eroded fossil or perhaps a living creature whom is in the process of "evolution"
b. others dis-claim everything they have already claimed and place all their emphasis on punctuated evolution...but to do this one must discredit everything they just learned (with something else that has no evidence)....
2. admit there are absolutely no transitional fossils available for proof
3. discover that evidence concurs, there really are not any transitional fossils
4. say that this "evolution" happens so slowly that we will never see it...(this makes some of them feel better)
5. others claim that billions of years have past
6. and yet still they cannot find the transitional fossils from say, the last million years...(realizing this they...)
a. some will say erosion...sure erosion is a decent excuse, but they also say evolution is always happening so eventually one should find a no-eroded fossil or perhaps a living creature whom is in the process of "evolution"
b. others dis-claim everything they have already claimed and place all their emphasis on punctuated evolution...but to do this one must discredit everything they just learned (with something else that has no evidence)....
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3/07/2009
AWOL
A Week Of Links
So one of my friends randomly does this about once a month...he posts cool, relevant (to his life), weird, interesting, or just random websites that he has visited recently.
I am going to try doing this once a week or ever so often, especially if I do not have much other content. Because 1. I do not blog as much as I would like to and this is an easy weekly post and 2. I am already visiting cool, weird, relevant, interesting, and random websites on a regular basis, but I usually post them on Facebook. Now I will also post them here...(like I said this will be easy):
1. My main source of Facebook link post is POP URLs. Pop Urls is a really cool website. Simply put it is a genuine aggregator. It takes all the buzz from all of the top news websites (like Digg, delicious, reddit, yahoo, metafilter, technorati, youtube, google, newsvine, nytimes, and much much more) all on one updated page!
THis week:
So one of my friends randomly does this about once a month...he posts cool, relevant (to his life), weird, interesting, or just random websites that he has visited recently.
I am going to try doing this once a week or ever so often, especially if I do not have much other content. Because 1. I do not blog as much as I would like to and this is an easy weekly post and 2. I am already visiting cool, weird, relevant, interesting, and random websites on a regular basis, but I usually post them on Facebook. Now I will also post them here...(like I said this will be easy):
1. My main source of Facebook link post is POP URLs. Pop Urls is a really cool website. Simply put it is a genuine aggregator. It takes all the buzz from all of the top news websites (like Digg, delicious, reddit, yahoo, metafilter, technorati, youtube, google, newsvine, nytimes, and much much more) all on one updated page!
THis week:
Source: www.christianpost.co...
This event is planned to start at 6:00 pm on Mar 21, 2009 at Cross Pointe FWB Church.
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4.) Public Speaking, and
5.) Preaching at scheduled events. Find me at AlexanderDolin.com
2/28/2009
How new people come to church for the first time
How new people come to church for the first time
Now Crandall’s original study was done in the 10 years ago, when church growth scholarship was really studying the impact of such advertising. From research done some time ago and still in print from Amazon (Source:The Inviting Church, 1987 p. 44), here is what was found:
- 2% by Advertisement
- 6% by the Pastoral Invitation
- 6% by organized evangelism campaign
- 86% by friends or relatives
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2/25/2009
Practicing His Presence
Ok
so you probably have heard this term before, "practicing His Presence"
But I had not heard of it until today when my pastor mentioned it to me....
It is a good process of thinking. Basically, you practice God's presence in your life when you
acknowledge that He is present and there in your life.
Once you acknowledge that God is present in your life
you inevitably would live differently. Imagine God is watching your every move...
This way of thinking is an interesting one and a good one.
It should change sinful behavior.
Anyways, just a thought.
so you probably have heard this term before, "practicing His Presence"
But I had not heard of it until today when my pastor mentioned it to me....
It is a good process of thinking. Basically, you practice God's presence in your life when you
acknowledge that He is present and there in your life.
Once you acknowledge that God is present in your life
you inevitably would live differently. Imagine God is watching your every move...
This way of thinking is an interesting one and a good one.
It should change sinful behavior.
Anyways, just a thought.
Thank you for visiting. My name is Alex Dolin. I am a Christian Life Coach, a Professor of Biblical Studies, a future professionally licensed counselor and an ordained minister.
I help people set realistically higher expectations, achieve more results and a better lifestyle. I offer many approaches to this, a few being:
1.) Professional Coaching,
2.) Pastoral Counseling,
3) Blogging,
4.) Public Speaking, and
5.) Preaching at scheduled events. Find me at AlexanderDolin.com
2/24/2009
Another Experiencing God moment
God is not glorified by making our plans succeed. He receives glory when His will is done in His way.
Understanding what God is about to do where I am is more important than telling God what I want to do for Him.
This part of submission is hard for me. I get these cool, big dreams and I want to do them for God, but that is not how it works. God will come to me. I need to relax and submit to God.
If the dreams are God's dreams and He wants to work through me to do something I could never do than that is what is suppose to Happen. That is how God will work. He has His own wa and His own agenda! God will not adjust to me. I must adjust to Him.
Understanding what God is about to do where I am is more important than telling God what I want to do for Him.
This part of submission is hard for me. I get these cool, big dreams and I want to do them for God, but that is not how it works. God will come to me. I need to relax and submit to God.
If the dreams are God's dreams and He wants to work through me to do something I could never do than that is what is suppose to Happen. That is how God will work. He has His own wa and His own agenda! God will not adjust to me. I must adjust to Him.
Thank you for visiting. My name is Alex Dolin. I am a Christian Life Coach, a Professor of Biblical Studies, a future professionally licensed counselor and an ordained minister.
I help people set realistically higher expectations, achieve more results and a better lifestyle. I offer many approaches to this, a few being:
1.) Professional Coaching,
2.) Pastoral Counseling,
3) Blogging,
4.) Public Speaking, and
5.) Preaching at scheduled events. Find me at AlexanderDolin.com
2/23/2009
Experiencing God moment
"We do not sit down and dream what we want to do for God and then call God in to help us accomplish it." (From Experiencing God: Blackaby and King)
"It's not a question of what you can do for me...what can I do for you, My King?" (Tree63)
I am guilty of these things. I will sometimes find myself dreaming of what I think God wants and then I will ask God for help doing it....
But it does not work that way. We must die to ourself and submit to God and what He is doing. We must die to ourself and let God do what He is going to do (not what we want to do or what we thing He is going to do) and then we must join Him in HIS work!
"It's not a question of what you can do for me...what can I do for you, My King?" (Tree63)
I am guilty of these things. I will sometimes find myself dreaming of what I think God wants and then I will ask God for help doing it....
But it does not work that way. We must die to ourself and submit to God and what He is doing. We must die to ourself and let God do what He is going to do (not what we want to do or what we thing He is going to do) and then we must join Him in HIS work!
Thank you for visiting. My name is Alex Dolin. I am a Christian Life Coach, a Professor of Biblical Studies, a future professionally licensed counselor and an ordained minister.
I help people set realistically higher expectations, achieve more results and a better lifestyle. I offer many approaches to this, a few being:
1.) Professional Coaching,
2.) Pastoral Counseling,
3) Blogging,
4.) Public Speaking, and
5.) Preaching at scheduled events. Find me at AlexanderDolin.com
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