Kimmy's Ponderings

"McLaren makes his first point that Christianity needs to change with the culture and times. According to Brian we also apparently need a change of operations manual, the Bible. The Bible is the “map” for true Christianity from the beginning to the end. What McLaren proposes is that over time, like geography, maps change and so our entire perception of reality must change to keep in lock step with the world. The basic fact that Jesus Christ never changes, that the truth of God’s Word never changes and is always applicable no matter what century you come from, and that Christians are to be light and salt to the world working to change worldviews to a biblical one is no longer part of the palate of the New Age, postmodern, “emerging” Christian. This opens the doors wide to new revelation, a new “Breed”, a new paradigm, and very old heresies." Visited the Website of what very much appears and is known to be an Emergent Church ...on their statement of faith/what we believe link, ...

A.W. Tozer: "Among the gifts of the Spirit scarcely one is of greater practical usefulness than the gift of discernment. This gift should be highly valued and frankly sought as being almost indispensable in these critical times. This gift will enable us to distinguish the chaff from the wheat and to divide the manifestations of the flesh from the operations of the Spirit." In the 1500's baths were not part of a daily hygiene routine. They actually only took a few a year. Yuk! The labor intensive process of the drawing and carrying of the water into a large basin, then heating a portion of that water took great effort. As was the custom culturally for that time, The men would bath first then boys, women, young children finally the infants. Following the family bath the water was said to be so filled with dirt that it was cause for concern that the last bathed infant would be unseen and discarded with the draining of the water. That is where the expression 'don't th...

EXCELLENT RESOURCE http://www.letusreason.org/Emergedir.htm

"The spirit of Christ is the 'spirit of missions. The nearer we get to Him' , the more intensely missionary we become."

"I walked a mile with Pleasure, She chattered all the way; But left me none the wiser For all she had to say. "I walked a mile with Sorrow, And ne'er a word said she; But, oh, the things I learned from her When sorrow walked with me."

"Any of it [teaching] that is good is in the Word of God," proclaimed A.W. Tozier, "and any that is not in the Word of God is not good. I am a Bible Christian and if an archangel with a wingspread as broad as a constellation shining like the sun were to come and offer me some new truth, I'd ask him for a reference. If he could not show me where it is found in the Bible, I would bow him out and say, 'I'm awfully sorry, you don't bring any references with you.'"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg-qgmJ7nzA Martin Bashir Interviewed on His Rob Bell Interview....EXCEL LENT! http://www.godandculture.com/blog/msnbcs-martin-bashir-on-the-paul-edwards-program

Missions Conference Weekend at Grace Gospel Church Patchogue, NY Missions Committee Representing Russian Missionaries Anna and Andrei Dubrovsky What a Glorious Weekend....Heart so Full, Provoked and Challenged in a fresh way. He is the Lord of the Nations and May they all bow and say "the Lord He reigns" Pslam 96

"I have a passion, and it is He, He only" - Count Zinzendorf "If God is not going to do it, nothing is going to happen" - Gerhard Du Toit "Everywhere there is apathy. Nobody cares whether that which is preached is true or false. A sermon is a sermon whatever the subject; only, the shorter the better." - Spurgeon "Religion today is not transforming people; rather it is being transformed by the people. It is not raising the moral level of society; it is descending to society's own level, and congratulating itself that it has scored a victory because society is smilingly accepting its surrender." - A.W. Tozer "A man can not lead others where he is not willing to go himself. Therefore, beware of the prayerless church leader who no longer readily admits his own need for more of the person and power of Jesus Christ. Only a seeking, praying heart can truly encourage spiritual HUNGER in others!" - David Smithers

http://beta.crosswalk.com/news/universalism-as-a-lure-the-emerging-case-of-rob-bell.html "The Gospel is too precious and important to be commodified in this manner. The questions he asks are too important to leave so tantalizingly unanswered. Universalism is a heresy, not a lure to use in order to sell books. This much we know, almost a month before the book is to be released."

Be all at rest, my soul, O blessed secret, Of the true life that glorifies thy Lord: Not always doth the busiest soul best serve Him, But he that resteth on His faithful Word. Be all at rest, let not your heart be rippled, For tiny wavelets mar the image fair, Which the still pool reflects of heaven's glory-- And thus the image He would have thee bear. Be all at rest, my soul, for rest is service, To the still heart God doth His secrets tell; Thus shalt thou learn to wait, and watch, and labor, Strengthened to bear, since Christ in thee doth dwell. For what is service but the life of Jesus, Lived through a vessel of earth's fragile clay, Loving and giving and poured forth for others, A living sacrifice from day to day. Be all at rest, so shalt thou be an answer To those who question, "Who is God and where?" For God is rest, and where He dwells is stillness, And they who dwell in Him, His rest shalt share. And what shall meet the deep unrest around thee, But the calm ...