We Can't Afford to Have the Wrong Picture of Who God Is and What He's Like...

This is probably the most amazing seven minute sermon I've ever heard. This pastor is now on my list to follow and listen to. This sermon is the example of the kind of real teaching about God that I didn't get until recently--even Kenneth Copeland didn't put it quite like this. Joseph Prince is another one I'm following. I've listened to him long enough to have discovered things he says I don't agree with. Well, that's to be expected. We're not going to agree with anybody all the time. The other person I'm following is Lance Wallnau. These men have such a vastly different picture of who God is, what He's like, His objectives for my life--your life, anybody's life--that is so inconceivably different from anything I learned growing up that I suspect the people who taught me would find these fellows to be heretics. One thing Joseph Prince pointed out was that the Apostle Paul was so radical in his teachings on Jesus that people thought he was a heretic!

We've all heard the version of God where God is sitting in Heaven on His throne clutching His great, cosmic ray gun just waiting to zap the next sinner--but that's not the version of God Jesus portrayed when He was here! When Jesus says, "If you've seen Me you've seen the Father," we hear it and nod, but it doesn't even occur to us that Jesus never acted like a cosmic Mafia Don itching for an opportunity to punish a sinner.

It's a shame when we think the Bible becomes so familiar that we don't read it anymore. Or if we do read it we don't actually think about what it says. We just plug in the meaning someone taught us. Lance Wallnau talks about how we can get into being religious and make things that are astonishing and amazing into the most boring crap ever. We do it with the Bible and we do it with God. We assume we know, but we don't even have an inkling.

To get a taste of what I'm talking about watch the video:

Do Humans Have Free Will?

Former atheist who played pro-baseball was challenged by his team mates to prove the Bible wrong and God doesn't exist. This challenge led him down some interesting roads into some deep thought. Here's one:

What Makes the Republicans Evil?

Fully Functional in Your Divine Purpose and Destiny with Lance Wallnau

I've followed Lance Wallnau off and on for years and years. He has a unique focus and outlook on the Christian life--different from the churchy look. For him, the primary goal is to be effective and prosperous in the "secular" world--to find your destiny and fulfill it. Everything he talks about is toward that goal. He's become world renown, though you won't hear much about him in the media--we all know the media is totally juvenile, sensational and lacking in attention span and depth. Anything that isn't totally trivial escapes the media's attention. When the pastor of the church finally finishes talking, Lance Wallnau speaks in this video and it's really good. The video is over an hour.

The ___ Begins Feeding on Itself

What are they called? Some people call them "the Left," others call them "Liberals," I don't know what to call them--they're nuts! Recently a university decided that "Women's Studies" was sexist (well, yes, it is, it always has been), but they don't know what to call it now--the name gets so long trying to list all the possible genders (male will not be included, by the way) that it won't fit on the signboard outside the building. Concepts that didn't have logic behind them to start with (or at least very little logic, but loads of feelings) don't hold up very well, even when emotional thinkers revisit them. We've got a lot of emotional thinkers these days. It's the way a baby thinks, you know, with his emotions--every feeling on display to the max with no moderation. Here's an article in the same vein:

Being Nice to Women is Sexist

Men, face it, you're just damned--unless you're a protected group, like gay or of the proper color (white is not a proper color).

Magical Thinking

Andrew Klavan is a writer of fiction  as well as commentary and makes these often hilarious videos, usually satire regarding American politics and culture. This one's pretty good. He talks about something that I've noticed quite a lot recently. For instance, the War on Poverty hasn't done much but make it worse and the Affordable Care Act isn't affordable and doesn't have much care in it...