"You say you don't go to Church because it's full of hypocrites there? I say you're right, but come anyway, we've got room for one more." - Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen
June 14, 1995: The Houston Rockets repeat as NBA Champions, sweeping the Orlando Magic with a 113-101 victory in Game 4 of the NBA Finals.
Hakeem Olajuwon 35 PTS/15 REB/6 AST
Mario Elie 22 PTS/4 STL
Robert Horry 21 PTS/13 REB
Clyde Drexler 15 PTS/9 REB/8 AST
Sam Cassell 13 PTS
Only one religion is based on a single, testable, historical event. If you haven’t at least considered the evidence for the resurrection, NOW is the time.
The term "theological liberalism" is thrown around a lot.
When push comes to shove though, it still boils down to Richard Niebuhr's summation of what theological liberalism truly is: "A God without wrath brought men without sin into a kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of a Christ without a cross" (Kingdom of God in America, 193).
Liberal/progressive Christianity is more than that but it is no less than that, and it will always come down to it. Niebuhr's words 89 years ago are just as applicable in 1937 as they are today.
Jack Hughes, who lost a tooth on the ice today, after scoring the gold medal goal in OT, “I love the USA… we’re so proud to be Americans today.” Perfection. If you have the good fortune to rep the greatest country in world history do it like this:
I’m sad for two little kids I don’t even know today.
I’m sad for the country I love.
I’m angry at those who promote, incite, and celebrate violence and death.
We have a Kingdom to Build.
Come quickly, Lord Jesus.
28 Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. 29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31 they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. 32 Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.
(Romans 1:28–32, NIV)
My mind can’t help but go to Romans 1 today…
21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.
(Romans 1:21–23, NIV)
24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.
(Romans 1:24–27, NIV)